Rebecca Halford

Posted: Thursday, June 13, 2013 5:00 pm

The Messenger, June 13, 2013
Completed arrangements are being announced for Rebecca Nichols Halford, 87, of Union City, who died 5:50 a.m. June 12, 2013, at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Union City.
Services will be 11 a.m. Saturday at Edmaiston-Mosley Funeral Home. The Rev. Jim Glover will officiate. Entombment will follow in Obion County Memorial Gardens.
The family will receive friends at the funeral home 5- 8 p.m. Friday.
Pallbearers will be Karl Johnson, Ted Perry, Bobby Joe Hill, Steve Rice, Derek Raines and Chris Brady.
Mrs. Halford was born April 23, 1926, in Gibson County, daughter of the late Ernest Nichols and Florence (Barnett) Eddlemon. She married Raymond Halford Sr. Oct. 8, 1947. He died September 25, 1998. She had been employed as a sales clerk at the former Williams Fabrics in Union City and was a member of Crosswind Church in Union City.
She is survived by her son and daughter-in-law, Ray and Anita Halford of Union City; two grandchildren and their spouses, Alan and Kellie Halford, serving with the U.S. Air Force in Niceville, Fla., and Keri and Dr. Todd Chappell of Memphis; and three great-grandchildren, Jacob Halford, Kayleigh Halford and Alyssa Halford, all of Niceville.
She was preceded in death by her sister, Virginia Edmaiston.
To view the DVD that is an online tribute, or to leave messages of condolence for the family, visit the funeral home website at www.emfuneralhome.com.