Bodie Polsgrove

Bodie Dee Polsgrove, 94, of Murray, Ky., died Friday, June 23, 2017, at Anna Mae Owens Residential Hospice House in Murray.
Services will be held 1 p.m. Wednesday at White-Ranson Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will follow in Obion County Memorial Gardens.
The family will receive visitors 11 a.m. until the hour of services Wednesday at the funeral home.
Family and friends will serve as pallbearers.
The family requests memorials be made to Anna Mae Owens Hospice Center, 1959 Kentucky Highway 94, Murray, KY 42071.
He was born Sept. 8, 1922, in Obion County, son of the late William Fon and Willie (Fowlkes) Polsgrove. He married his wife of 62 years Dorothy Key in 1955. She survives. He was a retired construction foreman for Dement Construction Co. in Jackson, where he worked for 54 years building bridges from Fort Wayne, Ind., to Batesville, Miss. He graduated as valedictorian from South Fulton High School. He was a member of Liberty Baptist Church for most of his life. He was “Paw Paw” to his grandchildren, was an avid gardener and woodworker and a voracious reader.
He is also survived by his daughter and son-in-law, Candace Key and Tim Vance of Murray; his son, William Fredric Polsgrove, and his fiancee, Kristan Campbell, both of Frederick, Md.; two granddaughters, Joy Nolcox of Murfreesboro and Arlo Key Marie Vance of Murray; his grandson, Elijah Dylan Vance of Murray; and his great-granddaughter, Auni Hale of Murfreesboro.
He was preceded in death by two brothers, William Hussel Polsgrove and Almus Polsgrove.
Condolences may be sent to the family at the funeral home website: www.white-ranson.com.
Published 6.26.17