Gideon Spellings Services Sunday
DECATUR VILLE , Tenn. Services for Gideon Haskell
Spellings, 76, will be at Mt. Tabor Pentecostal Church at 2
p m. Sunday with the Rev. R. B. Boyd of Bemis officiating.
Burial will be in the church cemetery with Wylie Funeral
Home in charge. Mr. Spellings died at his home in
Decaturville early Thursday mght. He had been in ill
health. He was born m Carroll County, the son of the late
Gideon and Louise Bower Spellings. He had lived in Decatur
County more than 50 years where he was a sawmill operator
and carpenter until his retirement. Mr. Spellings designed
and helped build the Mt. Tabor Church building in 1918. He
was a regular attendant there with his family. Mr. and Mrs.
Spellings, the former Miss Quincy Taylor, ob served their
50th wedding anniversary on Aug. 20, 1961. Besides his
widow, he leaves one son, George Erastus Spel lings; oi
Florence, Ala.; six daughters, Mrs. Mary Smith of
Decaturville, Mrs. Louis Davis and Mrs. Ola Mae Davis both
of Memphis, Mrs. Grace Quinn of Paris, Mrs. Yuth Yacovelli
of Prescott, Ariz., and Miss Martha Kay Spellings, a
teacher in Parsons Elementary School; 17 grandchildren,
three greatgrandchildren; one brother. D D. Spellings of
Bruceton: one sister, Miss Lula Spellings, of cruceton. His
body will be at his home until services.2
Sources:
- Find A Grave http://www.findagrave.com
- The Jackson Sun, 25 Sep 1964, Fri, Page 7
- Ancestry.com. Tennessee, Marriage Records, 1780-2002
