Johnathen "Chubber" DeWayne Alexander, 21 of Bethpage TN, passed away Wednesday, June 27, 2012. Funeral services for Mr. Alexander will be held Sunday, July 01, 2012 at 3:00 PM from Lakeside Church of God with Bro. Leon Graves officiating. Interment will follow in Siloam Cemetery with Military Honors. Pallbearers will be Aaron Mandrell, Jacob Sullivan, Jared Sullivan, Corey White, Dillon White, Shane Trotter and Micheal Alexander. Visitation will be: Friday, June 29, 2012 from 11:00 AM to 9:00 PM at Woodard Funeral Home and Saturday, June 30, 2012 from 10:00 AM to 9:00 PM at Woodard Funeral Home and Sunday, July 01, 2012 from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM at Woodard Funeral Home. Mr. Alexander was an active duty member of the United States National Guard Infantry where he proudly served for the past 2 and 1/2 years. He was a member of Lakeside Church of God Prophecy. Mr. Alexander was preceded in death by Brother - Joshua Alexander, Step-grandfather - Gary Thurman. Mr. Alexander is survived by
Father - Troy Alexander, Bethpage, TN, Mother - Debra Sue Trotter Presley, Ridgetop, TN, Son – Xavier, Jordan Alexander, Lafayette, TN, Child - Expected Unborn Child, Wife - Gabrielle Lee Shriner Alexander, Meridian, ID., Brother - Micheal Alexander, Bethpage, TN, Sister - Amber Alexander, Westmoreland, TN, Grand Mother - Regina Sturm, Lafayette, TN, Grand Father - Bill Alexander, Bethpage, TN, Grand Father - Danny & (Linda) Trotter, Portland, TN, Aunt - Tammy Sullivan, Lafayette, TN, Uncle - Tracy White, Lafayette, TN, Uncle - Shane Trotter, Portland, TN, Aunt - Holly Webb, Portland, TN, Step-Mother -Tammy Alexander, Westmoreland, TN, Best Friend - Aaron Mandrell, Westmoreland, TN, Step-grandparents - Debbie Thurman, Ronnie Gregory and Vicki Johnson, Aunt & Uncle - Kristy & Bubba Gross, Aunt & Uncle - Melanie & James Sherwin, Cousins - Bradley, Dillian, Katelyn and Hunter Gross, Cousins - Erica and Lexi Sherwin, Cousins – Jacob, Jared, and Makayla Sullivan, Cousins – Corey and Dillion White, Nephews – Hayden and Landon Alexander, Blake Hudson.

Hugh Boyd Morrison, I, was born on June 25, 1929, and passed away on June 14, 2012, at Macon County General Hospital at the age of eighty-two years. Funeral services for Hugh Morrison were conducted at Alexander Funeral Home on Saturday, June 16, 2012 at 2 p.m. with Brother Richard Patton and Pastor Nolan Brunson officiating. Hal Morrison, Bruce Morrison, Barry Morrison, Johnathan West, Leslie Swindle, Dennis Swindle, Wallace Gammon, and Jerry Hargrove served as pallbearers.  Members of the local VFW and American Legion served as honorary pallbearers. He was a life-long resident of Macon County and the son of the late Mr. Willie Price Morrison and Mrs. Madeline Carr Morrison. Besides his parents, step-mother, Lallie Morrison, his two brothers—Paul Hilary Morrison and Harold Carr Morrison Sr., and his two sisters—Virginia Helen Morrison Gammon and Laura Jane Morrison Keeling, also preceded him in death. Hugh served in the United States Army, and he was proud to be a Veteran of the United States.  He was a man of few words, but he had a passion for the things that he loved. This included his grandchildren, his old cars, and his Scottish heritage. He is survived by his wife of forty-nine years, Janis Priscilla Lancaster Morrison, and by his children, Priscilla and Glenn Hale and Hugh “Boyd” and Wendy Morrison, II. Also surviving are his four grandchildren that he loved dearly: Kyle Morrison Hale, Hillary Lyrisse Morrison, Kristen Elizabeth Hale, and Nolan Boyd Morrison. 

  Earlene Cothron, age 83 of Lafayette passed away on Monday morning, June 4, 2012 at Macon County General Hospital.  Funeral services for Earlene Cothron were conducted on Wednesday, June 6 at 4 p.m. from the Chapel of Alexander Funeral Home with Joel Plunkett and Andy Alexander officiating.  Jason Cothron, Adam Cothron, James Cothron, John Cothron, April Cothron, and Bill Stephens served as Pallbearers.  Interment followed in the Macon County Memorial Gardens.  

Dorothy Earlene Cothron was born on November 2, 1928 in Macon County, Tennessee to the late John Jackson Dallas and Lydia Ruth Green Dallas.  She was one of eight children born to this union.
On February 2, 1945, she was married to the love of her life, Lewis Gregory Cothron. They made a home and started a family, raising three sons.
Earlene started out as a seamstress and later went to work managing the Macon County Drive-in for a few years. Then Earlene and Lewis decided to start their own business, Cothron’s Grocery working side by side, until retiring in 1990.  After they sold the store, she stayed home and took care of Lewis, whose health had begun to deteriorate.  Lewis passed away on August 27, 1992.  Besides Earlene’s husband and parents; one brother, Donald Dallas also preceded her in death.
Earlene enjoyed working in her vegetable garden each year and putting up her harvest.  
She continued to do some sewing in her retirement years, but what she loved most of all was being a volunteer at the Nursing Home. Earlene loved being with the residents there and helping out.
Earlene was the kind of person you always enjoyed being around.  She was a very caring and dedicated, wife, mother, grandmother, sister, and friend.
She was a member of Walton’s Chapel Church of Christ.
Earlene will be greatly missed by her family, church family, and many friends.
Earlene is survived by; Sons, Steve (Judy) Cothron of Lafayette, TN, Terry (Heather) Cothron of Oak Ridge, TN, and Tim Cothron of Lafayette, TN, Grandchildren, Jason and Vicki Cothron of Lafayette, TN, Adam and Lacey Cothron of Hermitage, TN, James Cothron of Mt. Juliet, TN, John Cothron of Gainesville, GA, April Cothron of Mt. Juliet, TN, Ryan Whitlow of Indian Harbor Beach, FL, Great Grandchildren, Cody & Megan Cothron of Lafayette, TN, Sebastian Cothron of Hermitage, TN, Jonna Cothron of Gainesville, GA, Serena Cothron of Murfreesboro, TN, Great Great-Granddaughter, Mikayla Troutt of Gainesville, GA, Sisters,  Hilda Woods of Lafayette, TN, Maureen Clark of Pegram, TN, & Juanita Lane of Hermitage, TN, Brothers, Kenneth (Evelyn) Dallas of Nashville, TN, Hollis (Betty) Dallas of Hendersonville, TN, Leonard Dallas of Lafayette, TN, Jesse Woodmore of Lafayette, TN, Sister-in-law, Connie Dallas of Raleigh, NC.
Alexander Funeral Home, Directors, in charge of arrangements.