Barbara Eller

Barbara Eller, 73, of Troy passed away Tuesday, March 6, 2018, at Jackson-Madison County General Hospital.
Funeral services will be 1 p.m. Friday at Troy United Methodist Church, with the Rev. Phillip A. Cook, the Rev. Judd Mowery and the Rev. Joe Thorn  officiating. Burial will follow in Terrace Hill Cemetery in Troy.
Visitation will be from 10 a.m. until the hour of services Friday at the church.
White-Ranson is in charge of arrangements.
Pallbearers will be Kain Ferguson, H.A. Malone, Joe Wagner, Jon Kerr, Shaine Stover, Ray Stover, Jeremy Stover and Jessie Stover.
The family requests in lieu of flowers, memorials be made to the youth program or UMW at Troy United Methodist Church, 226 West Westbrook St., Troy, TN 38260; or to a memorial set up in Barbara Eller’s name at the Breast Cancer Research Program at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 3323 Westend Ave., Ste. 900, Nashville, TN 37203.
She was born Aug. 16, 1944, in Obion County, to the late Ealon Avery Stover and the late Oweda Mae Gooch Stover. She married Ed Eller Jr. on June 11, 1977. He survives.
She was a graduate of Bethel University with a degree in elementary education and taught for 39 years in the Dyersburg City School System.
She was a member of  Troy United Methodist Church, the Tennessee Re-tired Teachers Association and the United Methodist Women at Troy United Methodist Church. She was a former member of ADK teachers sorority.
She is also survived by her daughter, Lisa (Brian) Cadle of Louisville, Ky.; three sons, Troy (Sandra) Eller of West Des Moines, Iowa and Mark (Allyson) Eller and Kevin (Damaris) Cook, all of Dyersburg; six grandchildren, Maddie Cadle and Ben Cadle, both of Louisville, Noah Eller of West Des Moines, Keegan Eller of Memphis, and Henley Cook and Hampton Cook, both of Dyersburg; and a sister, Nancy Floyd of Poplarville, Miss.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Ealon Avery Stover and Mae Stover; and a brother, Jerry Stover.
Condolences may be sent to the family at the funeral home website: www.white-ranson.com.