Charley Flowers

Charley Flowers, 91, of Ooltewah, formerly of Obion County, died Thursday, June 27, 2019, at the Hospice Care Center in Chattanooga.
Funeral services will be held 11 am Saturday, July 6, 2019, in the chapel at  White-Ranson Funeral Home. Burial will follow in Obion County Memorial Gardens.
Visitation will be held from 9 a.m. until the hour of services Saturday at the funeral home.
Pallbearers will be Kelly Flowers, Mark Janisse, Jay Janisse, Peter Bavido, Paul Bavido and Ethan Sanford.
The family requests, in lieu of flowers, memorials be made to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital or the charity of the donor’s choice.
He was born Aug. 1, 1927, in Hustburg, son of Elizabeth and Sam Lee Flowers. His wife, Lillie Flowers and his son, Gary Flowers, preceded him in death.
He was a World War II veteran with U.S. Air Force, serving in the Pacific theater as a ground crewman with the Air Transport command in Guam.
He is survived by Pat Davis, his companion of 22 years, his daughter, Veneda (Mark) Janisse of Thousand Oaks, Calif.; three sons, Darell (Juanita) Flowers of Mayfield, Ky., and James Flowers and Kelly Flowers, both of Paducah, Ky.; seven grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren. He is also survived by two brothers, Sam Flowers of South Fulton and Henry Flowers of Union City; and two sisters, Patricia (Joe) Bavido of Sharon and Shirley (Donald) Barzanon of Gainsville, Fla.
Condolences may be sent to the family at the funeral home website: www.white-ranson.com.

Published 7.3.19