Kent Johnston Day, 61

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 Dale Smith, Jimmy Dallas, Mike Walrond, Jack Haynes, Wayne Murphy and Lowell Hightower served as pallbearers.  Interment followed in the Drury Cemetery with military honors.  Kent was born on Wednesday, September 21, 1949 in Macon County, Tennessee, one of four siblings born to the late Genie and Ila Ray Johnston Day.   At the age of 19, he joined the United States Marine Corps, where he served his country during the Vietnam War where he received the National Defense Service Medal and Rifle Marksman Badge.  He was a member of the Brattontown Missionary Baptist Church.   Kent was a person who could accomplish any task that he wanted.  He was intellectual when he applied himself.  He was a mechanic, could repair anything from cars to air conditioners, could draw, paint, play musical instruments and anything else that came to his mind that he wanted to do.  The most important thing that Kent did during his life was leave his testimony of being saved, around 1962, behind.  In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a brother, Nickey Day.
 
He is survived by, Daughters and son-in-law, Connie and John Schaut, Amy Day Warwick, all of Washington state, Son, Jeffrey Shawn Murray, of Sweetwater, Tennessee, Brothers and sisters-in-law, Troy and Charlotte Day, of the Sycamore Valley Community, Scott and Sharon Day, of Lafayette, 8 grandchildren, and a host of other friends.