Geneva Higgins

Mrs. Geneva Turnbow Higgins, 84, of Rives died Wednesday morning, June 27, 2018, at the Obion County Nursing Home.
Funeral services will be 1 p.m. Saturday at Pleasant Hill Baptist Church No. 2, with the Rev. Truitt Cockrell officiating. Burial will follow in West Hill Cemetery in Rives.
Pallbearers will be Richard Dutton, Matt Doughton, Harold Bell, Dion McDaniel, B. J. Craig, Justin McDaniel, Chad Bell, Jack Roberson and Joey Meeks.
The family will receive friends from 11 a.m. until the hour of services Saturday at the church.
White-Ranson Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Higgins was born on July 24, 1933, in Tiptonville, daughter of the late Albert and Opal (Lambert) Turn-bow. She was raised by her stepmother, the late Betty Lynn Turnbow. She married Omar Reed Higgins on March 19, 1956. He preceded her on Jan. 24, 1991.
She retired as a linesman from the former Kincaid Industries and was a member of Pleasant Hill Baptist Church No. 2, near Rives.
She is survived by five daughters and sons-in-law, Frances and Harold Bell, Elizabeth and Matt Doughten, Betty and Richard Dutton, Carol and Dion McDaniel, and Teresa and Jack Roberson, all of Union City; 21 grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild; three sisters and the spouses of two, Lois and Frank Hinson, Carolyn and Charles Travis and Debbie Turnbow; two brothers and the spouse of one, Richard and Marilyn Turnbow and Albert Turnbow.
She was also preceded in death by a daughter, Barbara Bryson; a son, Tony Higgins; and a sister, Brenda Powers.
Condolences may be sent to the family at the funeral home website: www.white-ranson.com

Published 6.28.18