ARLIS DAVID GARNER
“Mr. Arlis David Garner of Bethel Springs RFD 2, Tenn. Was born March 22, 1890 in Chester County, Tenn. He passed away at his home on April 16, 1978 at the age of 88 years, and 24 days. Services will be conducted by Virgil H. Gean, April 18, 1978 at Cave Springs Baptist Church, with interment in the adjoining cemetery, Casey Funeral Home directing. She was affiliated with the New Home Baptist Church. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Lettie Victoria Rankin Garner; four sons, Haven Garner, Will Garner, Warren Garner, Waldo Garner; one daughter, Mrs. Ethel Hurst, two sisters: Mrs. Jennie Wood and Mrs. Gazelle Langston; 13 grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren.”
Information taken from the clergyman’s records of Virgil H. Gean, Sr. - Contributed by, Mildred Gean Mason

LETTIE VICTORIA (RANKIN) GARNER
Lettie Victoria Rankin Garner, RFD # 2, Bethel Springs was born March 27, 1893 in Chester County, Tennessee , in the Cave Spring Community. Mrs. Garner passed away on January 6, 1988 at the McNairy Co. General Hospital. The funeral will be January 9, 1988 at 2 p.m. at the Cave Springs Baptist Church, with Virgil H. Gean officiating. Interment will be in the adjoining cemetery. Survivors include sons, Haven, Will, Warren, and Waldo Garner; daughter, Mrs. Ethel Hurst; brother, Leonard Rankin; 13 grandchildren, 22 great-grandchildren and 5 great-great-grandchildren.
Information taken from the clergyman’s records of Virgil H. Gean, Sr. complied by Casey Funeral Home. - Contributed by, Mildred Gean Mason

WALTER GOFF , 67, of Henderson died Sept. 10, 2006, at Jackson-Madison County General Hospital. Funeral services were held Sept. 13 from the Chapel of Leon Johnson Funeral Home with Bro. Elmer Cole officiating. Burial followed in Chester County Memory Gardens. He was born in Aliceville, Ala., the son of the late Dewey L. and Mary Lee George Goff. He attended schools in Chester County. He entered the U.S. Army in 1956, serving three years in the regular Army and the next 26 years in the Tennessee National Guard. He retired in 1982 as a Major. He was a member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 474. He traveled all over the country as a master electrician. He was a Mason and a member of the American Legion. He was Baptist in belief. He is survived by a son, Kerry Goff; a brother, Gerald Goff of Henderson; a granddaughter and several nephews.
Chester County Independent