Our 1969 classmate, Jackie Seymour Swayne, passed away on October 8 in Paris. Our deepest sympathy to her family and friends. A memorial has been created for her on the FindAGrave website and linked to the 1969 class Virtual Cemetery.
Services were held by Ridgeway Funeral Home, and her obituary can be found on their website.
This happy young guy is a future descendant of one of our Grove classmates. He wants to be sure all our history is preserved for the future! Just a gentle hint that we still really need someone to volunteer to help ensure this site will continue for a long time into the future.
I’ve put him up today to introduce the new version of the site. It is not 100% complete, so you may see a page or two that doesn’t look right or perhaps get a notice twice, but we are working on that. Normally I would not work on a live site, but for some technical reasons I’m sure you wouldn’t care to be bothered with, it makes sense here.
Once again, my sincerest apologies for the delays while the old site was down. Even the interim site had issues so I was working on 2 at once! I will begin to get caught up with the most recent posts as soon as a few final glitches are ironed out. Thanks for your patience!
Our 1965 classmate, Gayle Johnson, passed away on Sunday, September 17, 2023. Our sympathy to her family and friends. A memorial has been created for her on the FindAGrave website and linked to the 1965 Virtual Cemetery.
Services were held by Meadowlawn Funeral Home & Memorial Gardens in New Port Richey, Florida, and her obituary can be found on their website.
Our 1948 classmate, Miriam Deal Knight passed away Sep 26 in Lakeland, TN. Our sincere condolences to her family and friends. A memorial has been placed on the FindAGrave website for her and linked to the 1948 Class Virtual Cemetery.
Services were conducted by at Memphis Funeral Home and Memorial Gardens, and her obituary can be found on their website.
Our 1968 classmate, Bart Sturdivant, passed away on September 26th in Collierville, TN. Our sincere condolences to his family and friends. A memorial has been placed on the FindAGrave website for him, and linked to the 1968 Class Virtual Cemetery. Arrangements were handled by Ridgeway Funeral Home, and his obituary can be found on their website..
Hi, fellow classmates! You may have noticed we’ve been offline for a while due to a change in some of the underlying software used by the site. I am happy to say that I believe everything is now back in order, and the site should be operating as it was before.
You may see a lot of posts at once now, as I catch up with the ones I missed. Thank you for your patience during this outage, and best wishes to you all,
Our 1950 classmate, Carrie McFadden Villaflor, passed away on Thursday, September 18th, 2025 in Parsons, TN. 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.
Her funeral service will be held Saturday, September 20, 2025, at 3:30 PM at Ridgeway Funeral Home. Her full obituary can be found on the Ridgeway website.
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 1969 classmate, George Daniel Shankle, passed away on Saturday, September 6, 2025, in Springville. Our condolences to his family and friends. A memorial has been placed on the FindAGrave website for him, and linked to the 1969 Class Virtual Cemetery.
Ridgeway Funeral Home is handling the arrangements, and his obituary can be found on their website. Visitation is scheduled for Wednesday, September 10 and again on Thursday, September 11, 2025, followed by a funeral service.
Our 1963 classmate, Carolyn Owen Purvis, passed away Friday, September 5, 2025, in Martin. Our condolences to her family and friends. A memorial has been created for her on the FindAGrave website and linked to the 1963 Class Virtual Cemetery.
Visitation will be held at McEvoy Funeral Home on Saturday, September 13, 2025, and her full obituary can be found on the McEvoy Funeral Home website.