Kathy Southern
Kathy Ann Southern, 80, of Union City passed away 7 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 26, 2023, at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Union City.
Funeral services will be conducted 2 p.m. Sunday in the chapel of Edmaiston Mosley Funeral Home. Brother Eddie Mallonee will officiate.
Burial will follow in Obion County Memorial Gardens.
Visitation will be held at the funeral home from 11 a.m. until the hour of services Sunday.
Pallbearers will be Ethan Pruett, Sean Lane, Chad Davis, David Foshee, John Eggert and Tony Southern.
Memorial contributions may take the form of donations to Jones Walker Post 4862 Veterans of Foreign Wars, P.O. Box 206, Union City, TN 38281 or Community Bible Church, 1413 South Home St., Union City, TN 38261.
Kathy was born Feb. 13, 1943, in St. Louis, Mo., daughter of the late Everett Lee Childress and the late Fairy “Sally” Evelyn (Eaves) Ellis. She married Ed Southern on Oct. 9, 2018.
Kathy had been employed as a beauty operator at the former Colonial Beauty Salon in Union City and retired from the Tennessee Department of Children’s Services. Kathy had been a member of the Auxiliary of Jones Walker Post 4862 since 1962. She served two terms as president of the Auxiliary of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States for the state of Tennessee. Kathy was then elected to serve on the National Council of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary. She was a member of Community Bible Church in Union City, and had been active in many civic charities through the auxiliary.
She is survived by her husband, Ed Southern of Union City; three daughters, Sharon “Jan” Foshee and husband, David, of Nesbit, Miss., Karen “Jamie” Lane and Jennifer Eggert and husband, John, all of Union City; her stepdaughter, Farrah Tune and husband, Derek, of Caruthersville, Mo.; 8 grandchildren; and 23 great-grandchildren.
She was also preceded in death by her son, John Everett Lane; two grandsons, Tyler Jackson and Cory Lane; one great-granddaughter, Lilly Paugh; her stepson, Ed Southern Jr.; two sisters, Betty Jeanne Grace and Farryce Cook; and one brother, Thomas Childress.
To leave messages of condolence for the family, visit the funeral home website at www.emfuneralhome.com.
Published in The Messenger 12.27.23