Our 1957 classmate, Jimmie C. Johnson, passed away Wednesday, November 26, 2025, in Paris. Our sympathy to his family and friends. A memorial has been created for him on the FindAGrave website and linked to the Virtual Cemetery for the class of 1957. Jimmie was married to Alice Carol Warmack “Cookie” Johnson, and she preceded in death on July 26, 2005. Ridgeway Funeral Home is handling the arrangements, and his obituary can be found on their website.  

Our  1957 classmate, Jo Anne Manning Carter, passed away on Wednesday, November 5, 2025, in VanDyke. Our sympathy to her family and friends. A memorial has been created for her on the FindAGrave website and linked to the virtual cemetery for the class of 1957. Her obituary and details of her services can be found on the McEvoy Funeral Home website.  

Our 1957 classmate, Thomas Jackson “Jack” LeCroy, passed away Monday, November 4th in Paris. Our sympathy to his family and friends. A memorial has been created for him on the FindAGrave website and linked to the Class of 1957 Virtual Cemetery. Arrangements are being handled by Ridgeway Funeral Home. Details and his obituary can be found on the Ridgeway website.

November is not getting off to a great start. As of today we have 4 Grove deaths: Rebecca Pauline Robinson Conger, Class of 1943 Norma Sue Cooper Gebert, Class of 1956 Jackie LeCroy Class, of 1957 Larry Keith Hatcher, Class of 1965  Due to the delay in auto posting, some of these might not get to you for a couple of days, so I wanted to be sure everyone knew until I can get the individual posts created. I will...

Another 1957 classmate, Dr. D.M. “Mickey” Norman, passed away in Paris on Friday, June 14, 2024. Condolences to his family and friends. A memorial has been created in his name on the FindAGrave website and linked to the Class of 1957 Virtual Cemetery. Dr. Norman had been a physician at Eastwood Clinic in Paris for 36 years. Arrangements are being handled by Ridgeway Funeral Home, and his obituary can be found on their website.

We have learned that our 1957 classmate, Dara Childs, passed away on May 16th. Condolences to his family and friends. A memorial has been placed on the FindAGrave site for him and is linked to the 1957 Class Virtual Cemetery. Dr. Childs led an impressive career and was well known for his groundbreaking work with NASA. His obituary was recently posted in the Paris PI and can be found here...

Our 1957 classmate, Jack B. Walton, passed away on Thursday, May 9, 2024 in Mansfield, TN. Condolences to his family and friends. A memorial has been created in his name on the FindAGrave website and linked to the Class of 1957 Virtual Cemetery. His obituary can be found on the McEvoy Funeral Home website. A celebration of his life will be planned for a later date.

Hello, everyone! Once again I am behind on Grove news, but hopefully today will be the start of a better way to keep up. I enlisted the help of someone far more technical than myself to help me set up a way to send future posts to the mailing list and to Facebook. This is a website post, but a copy is going to our mailing and also to the Grove Facebook page. Fingers crossed! ? ***For our Facebook users,...

Dear readers, I've been a bad webmaster! I have allowed myself to send you the good news, happily letting you know about some of the reunions and other "nice" things that have been going on. But sadly, we have had bad news, class deaths, since the last ones I last posted on the site. I have been placing them on the Grove Facebook page, but I know that many of you are not seeing them. So I apologize for that and...

Latest Update Hello, fellow classmates! I hope this update finds you healthy and happy, looking forward to the coming signs of Spring. It looks as if Covid is finally on the run, and things are getting back to almost normal. Here in Florida the temperature is set to be 88º later this week, and 90º is not far away. We'll be heading to Georgia in a few more weeks to try and squeeze a little more Spring temperatures out before the...

Funeral services for Marcia Ann Compton Fletcher, who passed away on July 17th, will be at 1 p.m. Friday July 23 at the Cookeville Chapel of Hooper Huddleston and Horner Funeral Home. Rev. Bill Stone will officiate. Her family will receive friends Friday from 11 a.m. until service time. Graveside service and interment will be at 12 noon Saturday at Oak Hill Union Church Cemetery in Paris, TN. Marcia was born in Clinton, Missouri on March 29, 1939. She passed...