Frances Leake

Frances Laverne Leake, 74, of Minnick passed away Wednesday, March 21, 2018, at Tennova Healthcare-Regional Jackson.
Services will be 3 p.m. Saturday at Minnick Bible Church, with the Rev. Johnny Chessor and brother Ricky Stover officiating. Burial will follow in Fremont Cemetery near Union City.
The family will receive visitors from noon until 3 p.m. Saturday at the church.
Dyersburg Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.
Pallbearers will be David Faulkner, Shane Faulkner, Jerry Smyth, Kenny Chessor, Glenn Stover and Ricky Pugh.
She was born Nov. 28, 1943, in Dyersburg, to the late Chess Hood and the late Katie Lancaster Hood. On Oct. 10, 1959, she married George Leake.
She was a retired supervisor for Keneric Corporation. She was a member of Minnick Bible Church and loved spending time with her grandchildren and family.
Survivors include her husband, George Leake of Minnick; a son, George Leake II and wife, Shiloh, of Troy; two sisters, Peggy Smyth of Obion and Kay Faulkner of Trimble; a brother, Ray Hood of Elizabethtown, Ky.; and three grandchildren, Kail Leake, Anna Leake and Chess Leake.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by two sisters, Pauline Cook and Catherine Chessor; and a brother, Robert Hood.
Condolences may be left at www.dyersburgfuneralhome.net.
Published 3.23.18