{"id":14414,"date":"2026-01-05T13:50:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T18:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/?p=14414"},"modified":"2026-01-05T13:50:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T18:50:16","slug":"stills-edna-elise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/stills-edna-elise\/","title":{"rendered":"Stills, Edna Elise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">It is always difficult saying goodbye to someone we love and cherish. Family and friends must say goodbye to their beloved Edna Elise Stills of Hohenwald, Tennessee, who passed away at the age of 77, on December 3, 2025. Family and friends can send flowers and\/or light a candle as a loving gesture for their loved one. Leave a sympathy message to the family in the guestbook on this memorial page of Edna Elise Stills to show support.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"image-container w75 storyimage_centeralign\">\n<div class=\"imageDiv\">\n<p class=\"caption\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">As Edna departs from this earthly realm, her essence lingers &#8211; a whisper on the wind, a ripple on the water &#8211; a testament to the enduring power of love to transcend the boundaries of life and death. Though Edna may no longer walk beside us, her spirit lives on in the memories and the legacy Edna leaves behind.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">She was predeceased by: her parents, Ollie E. Cates and Estella McNabb Cates; her husband Roy Wiley Stills, Jr.; and her brothers, Van Franklin Cates and William Cates.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">She is survived by: her son Roy &#8220;Sam&#8221; Wiley Stills, III of Hohenwald; and her siblings, James &#8220;Buddy&#8221; Cates of Hampshire, Dorothy Carroll of Columbia, Amy Betsy Runions of Hampshire, Katie Cates of Hampshire and Francis Runions (Larry) of Mt. Pleasant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Visitation was held on Wednesday, December 10th 2025 from 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. at the Heritage Funeral Home in Columbia. A memorial service followed at 4:00 p.m. at the same location.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is always difficult saying goodbye to someone we love and cherish. Family and friends must say goodbye to their beloved Edna Elise Stills of Hohenwald, Tennessee, who passed away at the age of 77, on December 3, 2025. Family and friends can send flowers and\/or light a candle as a loving gesture for their loved one. Leave a sympathy&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/stills-edna-elise\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[49,1254,378,571,515],"class_list":["post-14414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lewiscountyherald","tag-carroll","tag-cates","tag-mcnabb","tag-runions","tag-stills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}