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Rosie Reed

Funeral services for Mrs. Reed will be conducted Saturday at 2 p.m. in the Kenton Chapel of Karnes & Son Funeral Home, with Bro. Philip Pinion and Bro. Andy Rice officiating. Interment will follow in North Union Cemetery near Kenton.
The family will receive friends from 10:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home.
She was born Sept. 9, 1945, in Weakley County, daughter of the late Homer Lee and Beulah Mae (Rambo) Upchurch. She was retired from working as a seamstress at the former Kellwood.
She is survived by her husband, Johnny Reed; her children, Carla (Barry) Yergin and Jimmy “Bubba” (Jennifer) Reed; her siblings, Martha Carroll Primrose of Newbern, Roberta Pharm (Frank) of Dresden, Sammie Upchurch (Lucille) of Rutherford and James Neil Upchurch of Kenton; her grandchildren, Derek Yergin and his fiancée, Kennedy, Austin (Macie) Yergin, Hunter Reed and Kenton Reed.
She was preceded in death by her parents; and her siblings, Bond Upchurch, Harold Upchurch and Edward Upchurch.