Velma Hastings Snead

Mrs. Velma Snead, 94, passed away on Sunday, June 2 at the Baptist Memorial Hospital in Huntingdon. Funeral services will be conducted on Wednesday, June 5 at 2:00 p.m. in the Chase Funeral Home Chapel with Bro. Paul Merwin, Bro. Russ Carlock and Bro. Vance Rushing officiating. Interment will follow in the Shiloh Cemetery in Mansfield.

Mrs. Snead was born October 19, 1907 in Carroll County to the late Robert Lee Hastings and Anna Beulah Wilcox. She was a graduate of Henry High School and attended Bethel College in McKenzie. She retired from the Department of Human Services, serving as Carroll County Director in 1972 and was a member of the Long Rock Methodist Church. Her husband, Mace Snead, who died in 1977 and two sisters, Ruth McCadams and Gladys Davis preceded her in death.

Survivors include a niece, Bessie Ruth Ashby of Mansfield, two nephews, Charles Davis of Hollow Rock and Carl Davis of Mansfield; a foster brother, Vernon Walker of Orange Blossom, Florida; and three great-nieces and six great-nephews.

The family will receive friends in the Cherry Wood room of Chase Funeral Home from 4:00-8:00 p.m. Tuesday.

Published on 5 Jun 2002 in the McKenzie (TN) Banner.

Sharon Kessinger

Sharon Kessinger, 63, of Owensboro died Friday, April 8, 2011 at Owensboro Medical Health Systems. She was born in Mayfield, Kentucky on December 19, 1947 to the late Earl Winsett and Ruby Kathleen Crider Winsett. She loved playing bingo and fishing and was a member of Nickel Ridge Pentecostal Church. In addition to her parents, Sharon was preceded in death by her brother, Edward Earl Winsett, Jr.

Survivors include her husband of 35 years, Ernest Kessinger; six daughters, Elizabeth Kessinger of Owensboro, Jessica Luck of Owensboro, Lisa Groves of Wilmington, North Carolina, Barbara Kessinger of Owensboro, Sherry Martin of Owensboro, and Jennifer Croom of Wilmington, North Carolina; one son, Kevin Kessinger of Florida; twenty-one grandchildren; and her twin sister, Karon Young of Owensboro.

Services will be at 3:00p.m. on Tuesday April 12, 2011 at the Chapel of James H. Davis Funeral Home and Crematory.  Burial will be in Nickel Ridge Cemetery.  Visitation will be on Tuesday after 11:00a.m. until the time of the service at the funeral home.

Expressions of sympathy may be made to the Sharon Kessinger Memorial Fund, 3009 Frederica Street, Owensboro, KY 42301.

Alexander "Doc" Bomar

The funeral service for retired Detroit salt miner and former Henry Countian Alexander "Doc" Bomar of Southgate, Mich., was scheduled at 11 a.m. today at McEvoy Funeral Home.

Fred Shackelford, pastor of Springhill Baptist Church, was to officiate. Burial was to follow in Bevil Cemetery.

Great-nephews were named as pallbearers.

Visitation was Sunday and today.

Bomar, 98, died Saturday, Jan. 1, 2011, at the residence of his niece, Peggy Bennett, in Paris.

Born July 14, 1912, in Henry County, he was a son of John I. and Minnie Davis Bomar, both deceased.

His wife, Lucy Verleen Bevill Bomar, died Feb. 12, 2005.

Bomar was a World War II U.S. Army veteran. He moved to Michigan in November 1943 where he worked as a miner at the Detroit Salt Mine, before retiring in 1977. He was a member of Springhill Baptist Church, and according to a family member was an avid bird hunter and tomato grower.

He also leaves in-laws: Mary Jane (Earl) Shankle, Margaret Bevill and Bobby (Eve) Bevill, all of Paris; several other nieces and nephews; many extended family members; and several special friends he made while living in Southgate for 67 years.

He also was preceded in death by three sisters: Nell Bomar Jones, Lucille Bomar Bowden and Sue Bomar Moore; and three brothers: Tom, Malcolm and William Bomar.

Memorials may be made to the Springhill Baptist Church building fund.