Franklin Cochran

Franklin Delano Cochran, 80, of Nashville passed away on Sunday, Dec. 3, 2017.
Funeral services will be 2 p.m. Sunday at Dyersburg Funeral Home Tiptonville Chapel.
The family will receive friends today from 4 until 8 p.m. in the chapel of Forest Hills Baptist Church, located at 2101 Old Hickory Blvd. in Nashville and from 1 p.m. until time of services Sunday at the funeral home.
Honorary pallbearers will be the caregivers at Belvedere Commons Memory Care Facility of Franklin.
The family requests, in lieu of flowers, memorials be directed to The Pat Summitt Foundation at www.patsummitt.org.
He was born Oct. 20, 1937, in Tiptonville, son of the late Clarence and Essie Cochran.
He was a 1962 graduate of the University of Tennessee College of Law. He served as a city judge, a city and county attorney, a Tennessee State Representative from 1962-1970 and as a public service commissioner for the western half of Tennessee from 1976-1994. He was also a Mason, a member of the Scottish Rite and a Shriner.
He is survived by his wife, Patsy Whitfield Cochran of Nashville; his children, Kent (Amanda) Cochran of Hendersonville and Craig (Keri) Cochran of Franklin; and four grandchildren, Griffin, Carson, Zoe Belle and Sara.
He is preceded in death by his parents; brothers, Hines and Clarence Jr.; and sisters, Margie Davis Corkran and Mary Ellen Grubb.
Condolences may be left at www.dyersburgfuneralhome.net.
Published 12.8.17