Dovie Cole

Mrs. Dovie Sloane Cole, 81, a resident of Union City, formerly of Springville, Tenn., died Tuesday, June 6, 2017, at Jackson-Madison County General Hospital.
Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday, June 8, 2017, at White-Ranson Funeral Home, with the Rev. Tim Atkins officiating, assisted by Angie Howe.
Burial will follow in West Hill Cemetery.
Pallbearers will be her family and friends.
The family will receive visitors from 11 a.m. until the hour of service Thursday at White-Ranson Funeral Home.
The family requests memorials be sent to First United Methodist Church in Union City.
Mrs. Cole was born February 19, 1936, in Tiptonville, Tenn., to the late James and Nola Pauline (Cotham) Meeks.
She was a homemaker. She married the late Billy Ray Cole on November 25, 1953. He died on November 24, 1994.
She was a member of Point Pleasant Baptist Church in Buchanan, Tenn., and the Red Hat Ladies Society in Paris.
Mrs. Cole is survived by a daughter and son-in-law, Laticia and Jimmy Gray; two granddaughters and their spouses, Stephanie and Morgan Cruce of Little Rock, Ark., and Andrea and Alex Fucci of Reagan, Tenn.; one grandson and his spouse, Shawn and Dia Cole of Reagan, Tenn.; and 18 great-grandchildren.
She is also survived by one sister and brother-in-law, Jolene and Billy Sharp of Hodgkins, Ill.; two brothers and their wives, James and Nancy Meeks of Lombard, Ill., and Gerald and Diane Meeks of Brookfield, Ill.; and several nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; and her son, Michael Cole.
Condolences may be sent to the family at the funeral home website: www.white-ranson.com.
Published 6.7.17