We've just learned that our 1090 classmate, William Samuel “Bill” Harding, passed away in Paris on November 15, 2025. Our sincere condolences 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 1960. Arrangements are being handled by McEvoy Funeral Home, and his obituary can be found on their website. A private family service will be held at a later date. In lieu of...

Our 1950 classmate, Joan Scott Shankle, passed away on Wednesday, September 10, 2025 in Columbia, Tennessee. Our condolences to her family and friends. A memorial has been created for her on the FindAGrave website and linked to the 1950 class Virtual Cemetery. Services will be held at Ridgeway Funeral Home. Details and her obituary can be found on their website.

Our 1960 classmate, Ruby Carol McFadden Askew, passed away on Sunday, July 27, 2025 in Paris. Our condolences to her family and friends. A memorial has been created for her on the FindAGrave website and linked to the Virtual Cemetery for her class. Her obituary can be found on the Ridgeway Funeral Home website. Visitation and services will be on Friday, August 1, 2025.

We recently learned that our 1960 classmate, Lurlye Brown Thompson, passed away Thursday, March 13, 2025, in Paris. 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 1960. Her obituary can be found on the Paris PI website. In lieu of flowers, the family would prefer donations to be made to Lakeside Christian Fellowship Church, 230-B Tyson Ave. 189, Paris.

Our 1960 classmate, Jona Carolyn Tyler, passed away on Wednesday, May 8, 2024, in Paris. Condolences to her family and friends. A memorial has been created for her on the FindAGrave website and linked to the 1960 Class Virtual Cemetery. Ridgeway Funeral Home will be handling the arrangements, and her obituary will be available on their website.  Visitation will be held Saturday, May 11, 2024 with her funeral service to follow at Ridgeway.

Our 1960 classmate, Diane Ross Whipple, passed away on April 28, 2024 in Germantown, Tennessee—our condolences to her family and friends. A memorial has been created for her on the FindAGrave site and linked to the 1960 class virtual cemetery. Services are to be held on Tuesday, May 8th in Memphis. Her obituary can be found on the legacy.com website.

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...

Sandra K. McNutt Mathis, age 79 of Paris, passed away on Friday, December 17, 2021 at AHC of Paris. Her funeral service will be 2:00 P.M. Sunday, December 19, 2021 at McEvoy Funeral Home with Dr. Trent Bullock of First Baptist Church officiating. Burial will follow the service in Maplewood Cemetery. Named as pallbearers are Chad Forrester, Tyler Holt, Sam Hutson, Johnny Foust, Mark Watkins and Timmy Williams. Visitation for Mrs. Mathis is scheduled on Sunday, after 11:00 A.M. until...

Dennis L. Matlock, age 77, died Friday, July 3, 2020 at Christian Care Center. Funeral Services for Mr. Matlock was held Tuesday, July 7, 2020 at 2:00p.m. Brummitt McKenzie Funeral Home. He is buried at Everett’s Chapel Cemetery. Mr. Matlock was born on November 6, 1942 in Paris, TN to O.L. Matlock and Lavinia McFadden Snider. He was a member of the Grove class of 19670 and of Community of Christ Church in Paris. He was  a retired installer/ repairman...