Wilma Stone
Mrs. Dora Wilma Rice Stone, 99, a resident of Union City, died Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2018, at the Obion County Nursing Home.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday at the White-Ranson Funeral Home Chapel, with the Rev. Judd Mowrey officiating. Burial will follow in Obion County Memorial Gardens.
Visitation will be Friday at the funeral home from 9 a.m. until the hour of service.
Pallbearers will be Nicolas Stone, Butch Stone, Alfred Stribling, Jeff Hamlin, Dustin Hamlin and Roger Pugh.
The family requests memorials be made to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, P.O. Box 1000, Dept. 142, Memphis, TN 38148-0142.
Mrs. Stone was born Aug. 4, 1918, in Obion County to the late George Rice Sr. and Ruth (Norrid) Rice. She married Arthur Garfield Stone Jan. 18, 1947. He passed away March 17, 2005.
Mrs. Stone worked 20 years at the former Brown Shoe Company in Union City. She was a member of Sanders Chapel Methodist Church.
She is survived by her son and daughter-in-law, Jerry and Velina Stone of Hattiesburg, Miss.; granddaughter and spouse, Drs. Joey and Chad Price of Nashville; grandsons, Nicholas Stone of Franklin and Zachary Hagan of Tyler, Texas; great-grandchildren, Lola Price and Hugh Price both of Nashville; and several nieces and nephews.
She was also preceded in death by her sisters, Mary Ruth Pugh, Nell Hamlin, Annie Osborne and Virginia Rice; and brothers, George Rice Jr. and Howard Rice.
Condolences may be sent to the family at the funeral home website: www.white-ranson.com.
Published 1.25.18
Rest in peace sweet aunt Wilma. We deeply regret that we had to learn of your passing by reading The Messenger. Over the past two or three years we have tried repeatedly to reach Jerry and Joey, with no response. Obviously they didn’t realize how much we loved you. When we called the nursing home they would tell us only that you still there. Heaven is made brighter by your presence.