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Genevieve Powers

Ms. Daisy Genevieve Powers, 87, of Troy died Monday, Nov. 16, 2020, at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Union City.
Funeral services will be held 1 p.m. Wednesday at White-Ranson Funeral Home, with the Rev. Charles Southerland and Ken Hogg officiating. Burial will follow in Cobbs Chapel Cemetery near Hornbeak.
Pallbearers will be her grandsons, Shane Hermann, Joseph Cole, Melvin Powers, Allan Younger, Nicholas Hermann and Lee Hayes.
Honorary pallbearers will be Joey VanCleave, Aiden Jackson, Wade Hayes and David Canady.
The family will receive visitors from noon until hour of services Wednesday at the funeral home.
She was born on March 16, 1933, in Hasty, Ark., daughter of the late Charlie and Mary (Farmer) Bratton.
She worked as a machinist for the former Brown Shoe Company.
The family requests memorials be sent to: The Forget-Me-Not Foundation of Northwest Tennessee, 3744 Cleek Echo Drive, Union City, TN 38261.
She is survived by five daughters, Clara Sharp of the Clayton community, Carrie (Ken) Hogg of Samburg, Joy Crick of Union City, Julie (Richard) Petrowski of Milan and Shawna Powers of Union City; a son, Charles William (Susie) Powers of Union City; two sisters, Pauline Semancick of Chaffee, Mo., and Phyllis (Jim) Joseph of the Clayton community; 10 grandchildren; 18 great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren.
She was also preceded in death by her son, Richard Alan Powers; four brothers, Raymond Bratton, Billy Bratton, Joe Carl Bratton and Lonnie Bratton; and three sisters, Ava Jones, Geraldine Morse and Nellie Newman.
Condolences may be sent to the family at the funeral home website: www.white-ranson.com.

Published 11.17.20