Sympathy is extended to families of those who have lost a loved one in the past few months.
Mrs. Shirley (Bowlin) Allison, Class of 1955, passed away October, 2016.
Mr. Charles Henry McWherter, Class of 1949, passed away October of last year. He is survived by a daughter Lisa Carol and a son Vic.
Mrs. Lucille (Grubbs) Rainbolt, one of the older citizens in Weakley County, passed away October 23, 2016 at the age of 104. She is survived by her children Billy Joe, Norma, and Anna. She was preceded in death by her husband Riley and her son Jerry Mack.
Ms. Lucille worked as a custodian at Palmersville School while in her 80s until the school closed. Afterward she worked at McDonald’s when in her 90s and held a second job cleaning a local office building.
Mrs. Jessie Lou (Rickman) Davis, who resided in the Austin Springs community most of her life before moving to Murray, KY, passed away on October 20, 2016 at age 92.
After moving to Murray, she volunteered for 23 years at the Murray-Calloway County Hospital. Mrs. Davis was preceded in death by her husband Cecil Davis; she is survived by her son Danny Davis.
What an inspiration these ladies should be to all of us.
Palmersville Historical Society 
Rebecca “Lucille” Grubbs was born on September 19, 1905, in Weakley County, Tennessee, her father, William, was 29 and her mother, Laura May Bowlin, was 25. At age 5, her family moved from Weakley Co TN to Jackson TN. They traveled by wagon. She married Robert William Graham on July 6, 1925, in Madison County, Tennessee. They had five children during their marriage. She died on September 21, 1990, in Jackson, Tennessee, at the age of 85, and was buried there.
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