Verna Hargis

Verna Juanita Hargis, age 92 of Wartburg, went home to be with the Lord on Tuesday October 8, 2013. Juanita was born on September 2, 1921 in Vine Ridge, TN to the late I.B. & Fannie Hargis. She was a devoted Christian. She was a loving person and a friend to everyone who knew her; she loved spending time with family and friends. She worked as a welder in the shipyards in Mobile, Alabama during World War II. She also worked for many years as a child care provider for many families in the community. She loved to read, especially her Bible and Zane Grey. She enjoyed spending time with the her senior adult friends and going out to eat. She will be greatly missed by her family & friends.

She was preceded in death by her parents I.B. & Fannie Hargis; brothers: Guy P. Hargis & wife Rose Hargis, Donald & wife Myrtle Hargis, Walter & wife Edna Hargis, Kenneth & wife Fay Hargis, Kelly Ray Hargis Sr. and wife Helen, Warren Hargis, Paul Hargis; sister: Edna Mae Hargis; aunts: Maude Choate, Sarah & husband George Higdon; nephews: Larry Richard Hargis, Sr., Roger Jerome "Jerry" Hargis, Kelly Ray Hargis, Jr. , Randy Hargis; nieces: Sandra Sue Hargis Dionne, & Merley Hargis.

She is survived by her dear friends: Janet Bradshaw, Alan Bradshaw, and their daughters Stephaine Cummings & Melanie Farrell; nephews: Pat Hargis, Steve & wife Lisa Hargis, Leonard Hargis, Neil Hargis, Les Dionne; nieces: Diana Hargis, Barbara Swails, Lucille Hargis, Linda Gail Hargis, Dixie Lee Hargis Hicks, Sara Sue Hargis Johnstone, Nanita Hargis Talampas; great nephews: Larry Hargis, Jr., Rodney & wife Alanna Hargis, Nicholas Hargis, Anthony Hargis, Paul Dionne, Chris & wife Roxanne Dionne, Kevin & wife Tiffany Hargis, Kelly Ray Hargis III; great nieces: Kellee Hargis, Stacy Hargis Lasig, Crystal Hargis, Dinah & husband Joe Grimaldi, Sarah & husband David Starling, Cheryl Hargis Branson, Sharon Hargis, Annie Johnstone, Donna Johnstone; great great nephews: Lukas Lasig, Lesly Wesenberg, Evan Dionne; great great nieces: Fiona Hargis, Gracy Lasig, Jessica Marie Harrin-Hildebrand, Rachel Nichol, Ashley Wilson Maniaci. She is also survived by the children of Larry Hargis, Jr. Dinah Grimaldi, & Sarah Starling, and many other cousins, nieces & nephews.

The family will receive friends Saturday, October 12, 2013 from 1:00-2:30 pm at Schubert Funeral Home, Wartburg, Tennessee. Funeral services will follow at 2:30 pm with Pastor Carolyn Anderson officiating; internment will follow in the Wartburg City Cemetery.