Jackson County Sentinel, Tuesday, January 7, 2020 3

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Social SecurityDisability

Need help with your claim?

Melaney G.Madewell

118 East First St. • Cookeville, TN931-528-6403 • 800-339-2899

Mon-Thurs: 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.Fri: 8 a.m. to noon

Attorney-at-LawPlease call to schedule a free consultation. There is no fee unless you win your case.

Social SecurityDisability

Need help with your claim?

Melaney G.Madewell

118 East First St. • Cookeville, TN931-528-6403 • 800-339-2899

Mon-Thurs: 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.Fri: 8 a.m. to noon

Attorney-at-LawPlease call to schedule a free consultation. There is no fee unless you win your case.

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Bingo And A Meal

Jan. 18 6 p.m.

$20 per person

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Upper Cumberland for Life Meeting

Thursday Jan. 16, 6-8 p.m.Church of

the Harvest Fellowship Hall,

Grimsley, TN

Please join us as we will receive updates on local projects, upcoming life legislation and more.

Our special local speaker will beCallie Carter

Callie is from Jamestown and graduated from high school in 2014. She has an amazing story of choosing life in the

face of pregnancy resulting from rape.

Tacos and drinks will be available. Please respond to event on Facebook.

931-704-8640www.ucforlife.org

Eryn Bell

UT Extension Ag Agent

and County Director

UT Extension Agricultural Update

We are starting this year off with many agri-cultural classes and op-portunities coming up! For starters, we have the

Upper Cumberland Small Ruminant

Conference Are you a goat or

sheep owner that is in-terested in learning more about small ruminant pro-duction? If so, The Upper Cumberland Extension team is conducting the annual Upper Cumber-land Small Ruminant Conference in Overton County Feb. 21-22 at the Gene Medley Rotary Ag

Marie ReeceMarie Reece, 67, of

Cookeville passed away Dec. 27 at NHC Health Care Center. Funeral ser-vices were held Dec. 30 at Anderson-Upper Cum-berland Funeral Home. Interment followed in the Richmond Cemetery in the Flynns Lick commu-nity.

She was born July 17, 1952 in Jackson County. She retired from Nielsen and was a member of the Liberty Church of Christ in Granville.

She was preceded in death by: parents, John D. Jones and Hallie Locke Jones; husband, Joe G. Reece; brothers, Haskel Ray Jones, Houston Clay Jones and James Mark Jones; and sister, Shirley Mathis.

Surviving relatives include: sister, Pat (Jack-ie) Hale of Cookeville; special caregiver, Les-lie Cagle of Cookeville; two nephews; five nieces; several great nieces and nephews; and other rela-tives and friends.

Barbara Scott Hawkins

Barbara Scott Hawk-

ins, 80, of Gainesboro passed away Jan. 2 at Mabry Health Care Cen-ter. Graveside services were held Jan. 3 at the Maple View Cemetery. There was no visitation or services at the funeral home.

She was born Dec. 11, 1939 in Jackson County. She was a homemaker and a member of the McCoinsville Church of Christ.

She was preceded in death by: parents, John E. Scott and Thelma V. Scott; and husband, Wil-liam E. Hawkins.

Surviving relatives include: daughter, Danita Wrenn of Smyrna; grand-children, Jessica Hill and Whitney Neilen; great grandchildren, Harp-er Hill and Rhett Hill; brother, Eddie (Barbara) Scott of Gainesboro; and sisters, Patricia Scott of Gainesboro and Frances (Lloyd) Jones of Nash-ville.

Louise HollandMrs. Louise Holland

age 94, a homemaker of the Bagdad Community, died peacefully Saturday afternoon December 28,

2019 at the Mabry As-sisted Living in Gaines-boro where she had been a resident for only twelve days. She was pro-nounced deceased at 3:11 p.m. by Kindred Hospice of Cookeville.

Funeral services were conducted Tuesday morning December 31st by Edward L. Anderson from the Hackett Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home. Following the 11 a.m. services burial was beside her husband in the Holland Family Cem-etery in the Bagdad Com-munity.

One of four children of the late Samuel Davis “Sam” Bray who died at the age of 77 on February 27, 1979 and Zora Brown Bray who died at the age of 89 on May 12, 1995, she was born Helen Lou-ise Bray in the Wartrace Community on March 4, 1925.

Two brothers pre-ceded her in death, Willie Floyd, “Bill” Bray who died on August 23, 2003 at the age of 76 and James Allison Bray who died on March 14, 2012 at the age of 77.

In Franklin, Kentucky on March 31, 1944, she was united in marriage to Bagdad Community native Aaron Dillard Hol-land who preceded her in death on November 25, 1995 at the age of 70 following over fifty one years of marriage.

They were preceded in death by a son, Charles Ralph Holland who was the first Jackson County soldier to die in Vietnam on December 19, 1967 at the age of 22.

Another son preced-ed her in death, Dillard Wayne Holland who died at the age of 63 on July 26, 2010.

Mrs. Bray confessed her faith in Christ at the age of 12 in 1937 and was saved in baptism at the Bagdad Church of Christ where she had been a dedicated member for over eighty two years.

She was a thirty five year employee at Heavy Duty Manufacturing in Gainesboro from which she retired in 1989.

Surviving are her two children, Kathy Holland of the Bagdad Commu-nity, Randy Holland and

wife Jennifer of Mt. Ju-liet; sister, Sandra Bray Morgan and husband Joe of Hartsville; three grandchildren, Brandon Holland and wife Genia of Gainesboro, Dillon Holland of Mt. Juliet, Ashlee Chance and hus-band Timmy of Lebanon; five great-grandchildren, Abby, Noah and Thomas Chance all of Lebanon, B. J. Vanhooser and wife Lindsay, Zach Womack and wife Andrea all of Cookeville.

The Holland family requested memorials to either the Holland Ceme-tery Mowing Fund or the Charles Ralph Holland Library in Gainesboro.

CalendarTherold’s Little Opry

Therold’s Little Opry will be Jan. 11 beginning at 6 p.m. at the Center Grove Community Cen-ter. Four of A Kind, Cous-in Windy and Browngrass will be performing. Come out and enjoy an evening of family entertainment. No admission charge.

Building located at the fairgrounds. This two-day educational event will cover topics such as reproduction, preda-tion, forages, health and parasites, production and a panel discussion. Also, attendees that attend both days will receive a Master Small Ruminant certifi-cate that enables produc-ers for cost share in the Tennessee Ag Enhance-ment Program. If you are interested and would like to register for the event, please call Jackson Coun-ty Extension at 931-268-9437 or stop by our of-fice located at 757 South Grundy Quarles Hwy. Suite D, Gainesboro, TN. Contact the Extension of-fice for pricing. Meals are provided each day.

Upper Cumberland Hemp Expo

Following the Small Ruminant Conference, the Upper Cumberland

Extension Team will also be hosting an Upper Cumberland Hemp Expo. Whether you are new to hemp or have been in the market for a few years, this is a great educa-tional event for you! We will have experienced hemp producers from all over the country discuss-ing production, diseases and insects, budgeting, marketing, insurance in-formation, legalities and policies and more! A ven-dor fair will also be avail-able with everything from CBD products to hemp harvesting and process-ing equipment. This is an event you don’t want to miss! It will be held on Feb. 28 from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. at the Hyder-Burks Agricultural Pavilion. Contact the Extension of-fice for pricing. Payment can be taken at the local Jackson County Exten-sion office or you can

register online at hemp.tennessee.edu.

TAEP UpdateIf you received a letter

stating that you need to update your BQA to par-ticipate in TAEP, please call our office at 931-268-9437 and schedule a time to come in and get certified. They are ac-cepting BQA updates up until Jan. 15. Approval reports will be coming out soon along with re-imbursement packets, make sure to wait to send in your receipts until you receive your reimburse-ment packet. Please feel free to come by the office if you need help filling out the packet!

The University of Tennessee Extension of-fers its programs to all eligible persons regard-less of race, color, na-tional origin, sex, age or disability and is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

The Tennessee Wild-life Resources Agency is now accepting entries for its 2020-21 photo contest for publication in Ten-nessee Wildlife’s annual calendar issue. All inter-ested photographers are invited to submit up to 10 of their best photos on fishing, hunting, boating and wildlife species na-tive to Tennessee.

The photos will be re-viewed for publication in the annual calendar edi-tion of Tennessee Wild-life, which is the sum-mer issue. If a photo is selected for the calendar edition, the photographer will receive a cash sti-pend of $60.

Photographers must submit their photo entries by the March 21 deadline. Photos must be horizon-tal (landscape), in JPEG format and submitted on a CD. They must be sized to print no smaller that 8-1/2x11 and resolution

Photo Contest For Wildlife Magazine Calendar should be at least 300 pixels/inch.

If photographers wish to submit online, use this link: https://stateoften-nessee.formstack.com/forms/calendar_photos.

If submitting a physi-cal copy, photographers must be sure to provide their name, address, phone number and e-mail address with their disk. Disks cannot be re-

turned. Entries may be mailed

to: Tennessee Wildlife Calendar Issue Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agen-cy 5107 Edmondson Pike Nashville, TN 37211.

Photo Contest – Photographers must be submit March 21, 2020.