Tennessee, U.S., Delayed Birth Records, 1869-1909
Cora Ann Harris Moore
COOKEVILLE -- Funeral services for Cora Anne Harris Moore, 95, of Cookeville, will be held Friday, July 18, at 2 p.m. from the chapel of Whitson Funeral Home in Cookeville. Burial will be in Smith Chapel cemetery.
The family will receive friends from 5-9 p.m. today, Thursday, July 17; and from 10 a.m. until time of services on Friday, at the funeral home.
Mrs. Moore died Tuesday, July 15, 2008.
She was born July 9, 1913, in Macon County to the late Jessie Shaw and Sarah Elizabeth Harris.
Mrs. Moore was a homemaker and an avid seamstress. She was a member of Knight's Chapel Free Will Baptist Church and attended Post Oak Shade Free Will Baptist Church.
Her family includes two daughters and sons-in-law, Barbara and Dow Allen, and Katherine and Anthony Hammock; two sons and daughters-in-law, Ralph and Ann Moore and Arkley and Lillian Moore; five grandchildren, Ralph Moore Jr., Nancy Bohannon and husband David, Leah Milton and husband Andy, Andy Hammock and wife Jennifer, and Aaron Moore; and six great-grandchildren, Abby and Ty Bohannon, Elizabeth and Seth Milton, Austin Kai Moore and Maddux Hammock.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband of 69 years, John Edley Moore; six brothers; and four sisters.
Pallbearers will be Ralph Jr. and Aaron Moore, Andy Hammock, David Bohannon, Andy Milton and Michael Kilpatrick.
Honorary pallbearers will be great-grandchildren Bob Shepherd and Clayton and Ann Lee.
Bros. Dow Allen and Roger Cooper will officiate the services.
James Nelson Jones
COOKEVILLE -- A Funeral Mass for James Nelson Jones, 43, of Cookeville, will be celebrated at 11 a.m. on Saturday, July 19, at St. Thomas Aquinas Roman Catholic Church. Burial will be in Algood City cemetery.
The family will receive friends from 5-8 p.m. on Friday, July 18; and after 10 a.m. on Saturday, at Whitson Funeral Home.
. The rosary will be recited at 7 p.m. on Friday, at the funeral home.
Mr. Jones died Tuesday, July 15, 2008, in Cookeville Regional Medical Center.
He was born Nov. 19, 1964, in Jonesboro, Ark. to Carles M. and Bonnie J. Howard Jones of Cookeville.
In addition to his parents, his family includes his wife, Julia Jones of Cookeville; two sons, Eric and Neil Jones, both of Cookeville; a brother and sister-in-law, Charles and April Jones of Clinton; two sisters and a brother-in-law, Bonnie Jo-an and Guy Bitner of Illinois and Linda Jones of Cookeville; his father-in-law and mother-in-law, Alois and Regina Halfmann Zientek of Brenham, Texas; three brothers-in-law, Oscar Zientek, Patrick Zientek and wife Sandra and Robert Zientek and wife Linda, all of Brenham; two sisters-in-law, Cecilia Schramm and husband Merrill of New Ulm, Texas, and Maxine Parker of Brenham; numerous nieces and nephews; and the Ronnie Martin family of Cookeville.
Mr. Jones was preceded in death by a brother, Gary Jones.
Pallbearers will be Ronnie Martin, Kyle Farley, Phillip Uhles, Barry Sparks, Mark England, Merrill Schramm, Patrick Zientek and Garry Floeter.
Memorial donations may be made to the Mustard Seed Ranch.
Carey H. Carlock
LIVINGSTON -- Funeral services for Carey H. Carlock, 97, of Livingston, were held at 11 a.m. today, Thursday, July 17, at First United Methodist Church in Livingston. Burial was in Good Hope cemetery in Livingston.
Mr. Carlock died Tuesday, July 15, 2008, in Livingston Regional Hospital.
Speck Funeral Home in Livingston in charge of arrangements.
Hilda Watts
COOKEVILLE -- Funeral services for Hilda Jean Watts, 54, of Cookeville, will be held at 3 p.m. on Friday, July 18, from the Cookeville Chapel of Hooper-Huddleston & Horner Funeral Home. Burial will be in Cookeville City cemetery.
The family will receive friends from 5-8 p.m. today, Thursday, July 17, and from noon until time of services on Friday at the funeral home.
Miss Watts died suddenly Tuesday, July 15, 2008, at her home.
She was born Dec. 4, 1953, in Cookeville to the late James Thurman (J.T.) and Virginia Ray Watts.
Mrs. Watts was a member of Collegeside Church of Christ and a native of the Nameless Community of Jackson County and graduated from Jackson County High School in 1971. She attended Tennessee Tech University and the University of Tennessee.
Miss Watts was employed as a case manager/receptionist at Upper Cumberland Human Resources Agency. She was very active in various community affairs including the VFW Food Drive for Putnam County. She recently received the Character Counts Award from the Putnam County Commission and was a recipient of the employee of the month award at UCHRA.
Her family includes a brother and sister-in-law, James Davis and Lou Ann Watts of Cookeville; a nephew, James Davis Watts Jr. of Cookeville; a niece, Ann Boyd Watts of Knoxville; four aunts, Marilyn Ray Watts, Doris Ray Murphy, Barbara Ray and Edith Ray, all of Cookeville; and an uncle, Charles Leftwich of Nashville.
Pallbearers will be Mark and Phillip Watts, Larry Vinson, Mike Leftwich, Mike Ray and Nicky Ray.
Honorary pallbearers will be coworkers from UCHRA Phyllis Bennett, Johnnie Wheeler, Pat Callahan, Cheryl Davis, Eulanda Goolsby, Becky Harris, Tom O'Brien, Tony Smith, Linda Tramel, Jana Hill, Trish Arnold, Brian Swearengen, Roberta Kaiser and Charles West and the staff of Hooper-Huddleston & Horner Funeral Home.
Memorial donations may be made to Collegeside Church of Christ Pantry Fund, Nameless Community Center and Volunteer Fire Department, by contacting the funeral home.
Bros. Johnny Fox and Kevin White will officiate at the services.
James Robert Neergaard
COOKEVILLE -- Funeral services for James Robert Neergaard, 72, of Cookeville, will be held at 11 a.m. on Friday, July 18, from the Cookeville Chapel of Hooper-Huddleston & Horner Funeral Homes and Cremation Services. Burial will be in Crest Lawn Memorial cemetery.
The family will receive friends from 9:30 a.m. until time of services on Friday at the funeral home.
Mr. Neergaard died Wednesday, July 16, 2008, at Masters Health Care Center, after a brave battle with cancer.
He was born March 27, 1936, in Kingston to the late William Forest and Bertha Minerva Cate Neergaard.
Mr. Neergaard graduated in 1954 from Sequatchie County High School in Dunlap. He graduated from Lincoln Memorial University (LMU) in Harrogate in 1957 and earned a master's in mathematics from Florida State University in Tallahassee in 1959.
While walking on Sunday morning with groups of students from LMU to the First Baptist Church in Harrogate, he met Janis Owens, his future wife, in his senior year. They were married
at First Baptist Church in Harrogate on Aug. 22, 1959.
Mr. Neergaard began his professional life at Oak Ridge National Laboratory where he worked the summer after his graduation from Florida State. He and his wife moved from Oak Ridge to Tallahassee because he was hired as an instructor in the math department at Florida State. While teaching there, he interviewed for jobs at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Mitre Corp. in Montgomery, Ala. and Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, N.M. He received offers at all three places. He favored going west.
In June 1960, he began his new job as a computer programmer at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), where he worked until his retirement in November 1995. His colleagues at LANL knew him as Jim Neergaard. He worked as a computer programmer and software engineer in several different divisions of LANL. He also worked for a few years as systems manager for the lab's Sun computers. He took numerous math and computer courses at the lab and at the University of New Mexico and often attended conferences around the country to further his professional development.
Mr. Neergaard's professionalism at LANL was outstanding. In 1984, he was honored with the Distinguished Performance Award for developing the Geological Database Evaluations System (GEODES), a database management system used at the Nevada Test Site. This award includes cash and is the highest award given by the Los Alamos National Laboratory. In 1985, he was presented the Award of Excellence for his significant contribution to the Underground Test Containment of Nevada Test Site Experiments of the Nuclear Weapons Program. In 1988, he received the Award of Excellence a second time for developing two major databases in support of test containment of Nevada Test Site Experiments. The lab awarded him the Award of Excellence a third time in 1992 for outstanding technical accomplishment associated with Containment of Underground Nuclear Weapons Tests.
After Mr. Neergaard retired from Los Alamos National Laboratory, he and his wife sold their home in Los Alamos and moved to the Memphis area, where he took a computer programming job with International Paper in February 1997. After a heart attack, he decided to retire from International Paper the first part of February 2000 to spend more time exercising for his health and doing things he enjoyed.
Mr. Neergaard could look back over his life with a feeling of accomplishment and satisfaction for being an outstanding family man as well as climbing the ladder of professional success. He began as a small farm lad in East Tennessee and ascended step by step, finally standing high up the ladder as a computer scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, honored with their highest award. Three major factors in his success were his brilliant mathematical mind, his demand for explicit and precise documentation in computer programming and his quiet-mannered public relations skills used in teamwork.
In January of 2003, Mr. and Mrs. Neergaard moved to Cookeville for their final retirement home. In Cookeville, they attended First Baptist Church and joined the Fellowship Sunday School Class.
His family includes his wife of 48 years, Janis Neergaard; three sons and daughters-in-law, Lynn and Judy Neergaard of Huntsville, Ala., Daryl and Sherry Neergaard of Brentwood, and Mike and Misty Neergaard of Oak Ridge; grandchildren, Miriam, Ben and Steven of Huntsville, Corey of Brentwood and Maitland and Marcel of Oak Ridge; a brother and sister-in-law, David and Jo Ann of Jackson; and two sisters and a brother-in-law, Vivian and H.D. Youngblood of Roulette, Pa., and Faye Neergaard of Kingsport.
The family wishes to thank Cookeville Regional Cancer Center, Masters Home Health Center, and Lazarus House Hospice for their care and to thank all their friends and neighbors and the people of First Baptist Church who gave vital support and necessary assistance.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a brother, Howard Neergaard.
Pallbearers will be Jim Wilson, Ralph Carl, Bud Gaddy, Wendell Kendrick, (Gus) Rich and Earl Stephens.
Honorary pallbearers will be the members of Fellowship Sunday School Class of First Baptist Church, Tom and Vonda Graham and Robert and Bonnie Ray.
Dr. Randall Adkisson and Rev. Charles Hutchinson will officiate at the services.
Doris Sherrill Williams Bush Essler
SPARTA -- Funeral services for Doris Sherrill Williams Bush Essler, 78, of Sparta, will be held Saturday, July 19, at 10 a.m. at Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Cookeville.
Burial will be in Browns Mill cemetery.
Family will receive friends Friday, July 18, from 5-8 p.m. from the Cookeville chapel of Hooper-Huddleston and Horner Funeral Home and again Saturday, July 19, from 9 a.m. until time of services at the church.
Mrs. Essler died Wednesday, July 16, 2008, in in Cookeville Regional Medical Center after a brief illness.
She was born Sept. 14, 1929, in Milwaukee to the late Charles Lee and Violet Doris Caruthers Williams.
Mrs. Essler was a lifelong member of Cumberland Presbyterian Church.
She graduated from Baxter Seminary in 1946 and was a career educator, receiving her degree of Bachelor of of Science in English in 1951 from Tennessee Polytechnic Institute in Cookeville and later in 1971 her degree of Master of Science in English from Tennessee Technological University.
For most of the first half of her career she taught high school English in Florida and Georgia. In 1963, she became the first white teacher to teach in a black high school in the state of Florida at Dillard High School in Ft. Lauderdale.
She returned to the Putnam County area in 1973 and continued her career in education. In 1987 she received her Doctorate in Educational Science from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, and at the time of her retirement in 1997, was the Director of Special Education for Gifted Students in Putnam County.
She was a member of the Alpha Delta Kappa Teacher's Sorority and of the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society.
Her family includes two sons and a daughter-in-law, Bill and Cathy Bush of Skaneateles, N.Y., and Charlie Bush of Bookeville; a sister and brother-in-law, Alice and Tommy Douberley of Sebastian, Fla.; two grandchildren, Elizabeth and David Bush; an aunt, Hallene Caruthers of Spring City; and several nieces and nephews.
In addition to her parents, Mrs. Essler was preceded in death by her first husband, Carlos Butler Bush; her second husband, Warren Orvel Essler; a brother, James Stephen Williams; three uncles, Claude, Hugh and Clifford Caruthers; and two maternal grandparents, Stephen Burton and Alice Sherrel Caruthers.
Memorial donations may be made to the Warren and Doris Bush-Essler Scholarship Fund for students who desire to prepare to teach academically gifted students at Tennessee Technological University, P.O. Box 5047, Cookeville, TN 38505.
Pallbearers will be family and friends.
Dr. Charles McCaskey will officiate the services.
