Arlene Keeling
Services will be 11 a.m. Thursday at White-Ranson Funeral Home, with Dr. Vann Kissell officiating. Burial will follow in Obion County Memorial Gardens.
The family will receive friends from 9 a.m. until the hour of services Thursday at the funeral home.
Her great-grandsons will serve as pallbearers and her great-granddaughters will be honorary pallbearers.
The family requests that memorials be made to Obion County Hometown Walk of Hope.
She was born Dec. 6, 1924, in Carthage, Ark., daughter of the late Robert Lee and Virginia (McGriff) Marshall. She married Leonard Jackson Keeling Jr. Aug. 28, 1943. He died Jan. 1, 2011. She was a retired travel agent for the former Keeling Travel and was a homemaker. She was a member of First Baptist Church and had been very involved in local community activities. She was also an avid golfer.
She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Jean and Kenneth Jones of Troy; her son, Jack Keeling of Fairhope, Ala.; six grandchildren and their spouses, Dr. Wright and Samantha Jernigan, Jenny and Todd Guess and Jack and Jennifer Jernigan, all of Union City, Kim Shikle of Memphis, Jessica and Warren Hopper of Fairhope and Jackie and Brian Etz of Collierville; 13 great-grandsons; four great-granddaughters; three step-great-granddaughters; and several nieces and nephews.
She was also preceded in death by her brother, Clifford Marshall; and two sisters, Reba Roscoe and Ethel Atchison.
Condolences may be sent to the family at the funeral home website: www.white-ranson.com.