Completed arrangements are being announced for Bentley Betts of Union City. William Bentley Betts was born July 2, 2010, at the former Volunteer General Hospital in Martin to his loving parents, William Barrett and Laura (Pope) Betts. He entered the beautiful kingdom of heaven March 27, 2017, after a long, brave battle with a genetic…

The Ball family, immediate and extended, lost its Chairman and ballast with the passing of Browning Lamar Ball, Jr. on March 26, 2017 in Denton, Texas. He was surrounded by his wife Barbara and his children, including his dog Jake. Born in the small town of Troy, Tennessee on August 1, 1940, to Browning and…

Mr. Bobby Woody, 82, of Union City died Friday, March 24, 2017, at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Union City. Services will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday at Vine Street Church of Christ. Interment will follow in East View Cemetery. Visitation will be 6-8 p.m. Friday at Rawls Funeral Home chapel in Union City. Pallbearers will be…

Catherine “Mama Cat” Chessor, 76, of Union City died March 28, 2017, at Jackson-Madison County General Hospital. Services will be held Friday at 11 a.m. at White-Ranson Funeral Home, with the Rev. Dale True officiating. Entombment will follow at Fremont Cemetery. The family will receive visitors from 5-8 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home. Pallbearers…

Jim Hicks of South Fulton died Wednesday afternoon, March 29, 2017, at his home. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Hornbeak Funeral Home in Fulton.

Christine (Maddox) Luker Burns Barclay, 96, of Union City died 4:44 a.m. March 24, 2017, at Magnolia Place Assisted Living. Services will be 2 p.m. Sunday at White-Ranson Funeral Home, with the Rev. Rick Burton officiating. Burial will follow in Liberty Baptist Church Cemetery on Middle Road near Fulton. The family will receive friends from…

Doris Ann (McCord) Sugg, 75, of Muscle Shoals, Ala., passed away Monday, March 20, 2017. Mrs. Sugg was the eldest child of the late Irby McCord and the late Helen McCord Cherry of Union City. Services were to be today at Colbert Memorial Chapel in Muscle Shoals at 2 p.m. Burial was to follow there…

Trixie Weaver Heidelberg, 88, of Union City, died at the home of her daughter and son-in-law, Jean and Roger Harris of Union City, at 7:45 a.m. Friday, March 24, 2017. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Edmaiston-Mosley Funeral Home.

Mr. James Ervin “Jimmy” McCoy, 83, of Wingo, Ky., died Tuesday, March 21, 2017. He was a self-employed farmer and had worked for the former Reed Brothers Feed and Seed and at Marine Oil in Fulton. He lived all of his life in this area and was a veteran of the United States Army. Mr.…

Linda Jane (Baker) LaMastus, 71, of Hornbeak passed away on Monday, March 20, 2017, at her residence. She was born May 26, 1945, in Tennessee to the late Robert Baker and the late Lois (Orton) Baker. Linda was the director for the Office on Aging for Lake County and was also the director of Tiptonville…