We express sincere comfort and/or speedy healing to the following UTIA employees or retirees:
Tina Williams, the wife of Bob Williams (retired; specializing in the CST variety trials for Tennessee and 4-H agent in Weakley County) passed away March 1, 2017. Please keep Bob and his family in your prayers.
Sympathy is expressed to Alma Pike, who retired in 2000 as administrative assistant to the vice president for agriculture, in the death of her sister, Lois Boyatt, who passed away on Monday, March 6, 2017, at her home in Oneida.
Sympathy is expressed to Janie Pedigo, in the death of her father, Glen Pedigo, age eighty-two, who died Sunday, March 12, 2017, at his home.
Frankie Kathleen Edward Morgan, age ninety-two, of Rockvale, Tennessee, grandmother of Jonathan Johns, UT Extension Franklin County 4-H agent, and Elizabeth (Elizondo) Renfro, FCS agent in Washington County (Eastern Region), passed away Saturday, April 8, 2017.
Ben F. Mays, age sixty-nine, of Greeneville, passed away unexpectedly on April 11, 2017, at Laughlin Memorial Hospital. Ben was George C. Mays’s brother.
Georgia Lee West Allen, ninety-one, left this world on Thursday, April 13, 2017. She was the mother of John Allen.
Rebekah Norman’s mother, Edna Gilmore Norman, passed away on Sunday, April 16, 2017.
Many of us have worked with Hale Moss who passed away April 17, 2017, at the age of sixty-eight. He was a tremendous supporter of the Wilson County Fair and an advocate for our UTIA programs. Moss, who was recently inducted into the Wilson County Agricultural Hall of Fame, was well known for his work with the Wilson County Fair and his business, Moss’ Florist and Garden Center. He taught at Lebanon High School and also served as the Tennessee Department of Agriculture director of fairs and livestock shows.
Spencer Johnson, father of Anna Johnson, Family and Consumer Science/4-H agent in Rhea County, passed away Sunday, April 23. If you would like to send Anna a card, her home address is 2263 Market Street, Dayton, TN 37321.
We were saddened to learn of the passing of Opal Hughes, mother of Maury County Extension Agent Dill Hughes. The Wood Mortuary in Greer, South Carolina, is in charge of arrangements. The funeral was held May 25 at 11:00 a.m. EDT. Dill’s home address is 3002 Williamsport Pike, Columbia, TN 38401.
Sympathy is expressed to Elmer Ashburn, retired professor and leader, Plant and Soil Science, on the passing of his mother, Bernice Ashburn Young, on May 17, 2017. Services were conducted in the chapel of Mundy Funeral Home on May 21 in Clarkrange, Tennessee. You are invited to send cards and notes to Elmer at 7813 Luxmore Drive, Knoxville, TN 37919. Memorials may be made to the Clymersville Baptist Church in Rockwood.