Danny Isbell
Charles Daniel “Danny” Isbell, 82, a resident of Union City, died Monday, Jan. 1, 2024, at his home in Union City.
Funeral services will be held 2 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 4, 2024, at First Baptist Church Woodland Mills, with Brother Rick Burton and Brother Shawn White to officiate. Burial will follow in Obion County Memorial Gardens cemetery. The family will receive friends from 10 a.m. until the time of service Thursday at the church.
Pallbearers will be Gerald Scarbrough, Bill Hutchison, Mark Ingrum, Josh Burton, Matthew Webb, Cayden Puckett and Cody Spaulding.
Honorary pallbearers will be Robert Burns, George Burns, Johnny Caudle, Alan Ingrum and the Deacons at First Baptist Church Woodland Mills.
White-Ranson Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Mr. Isbell was born on May 3, 1941, in Union City to the late Charles Albert Isbell and Fannie Ruth (McDaniel) Isbell. He proudly joined the Air Force after graduating from Woodland Mills High School. He spent four years in active duty at Shaw Air Force Base in Sumter, S.C. He married Gloria Faye (Burns) Isbell on May 21, 1961.
After he was discharged, he returned to Obion County and farmed with his dad for a couple of years and then he was offered a civil service job that he was doing while in the Air Force at Shaw Air Force Base. He went back to Sumter, S.C., where he stayed for 12 years. He then returned to Obion County and farmed and was a crop insurance adjuster. He served in the Air Force and the Air National Guard for 32 years. He was a deacon in Sumter, S.C., and 35 years at First Baptist Church Woodland Mills. He was a lifetime member of the Tennessee Division of Sons of Confederate Veterans.
He is survived by his wife of 62 years, Faye Isbell of Union City; two sons, Chuck Isbell and his wife, Melanie, of Union City and Todd Isbell and his wife, Lisa, of Union City; special friend, Tina Isbell of Union City; four grandchildren, Mallory Burton and her husband, Josh, of Clinton, Ky., Hillary Webb and her husband, Matthew, of Clinton, and Kacee Isbell and Kinley Isbell, both of Union City; five great-grandchildren, Abi Burton, Brody Burton, Ava Jane Burton, Tristan Webb and Tripp Webb, all of Clinton; two sisters, Nancy Ingrum of Cayce, Ky., and Dianne Pope and her husband, Bill, of Jacksonville, Fla.; and several nieces and nephews.
Condolences may be sent to the family at the funeral home website: www.white-ranson.com.
Published in The Messenger on 1.3.24