{"id":14456,"date":"2026-01-17T18:57:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T23:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/?p=14456"},"modified":"2026-01-17T18:57:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T23:57:39","slug":"spears-mary-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/spears-mary-virginia\/","title":{"rendered":"Spears, Mary Virginia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"obit-and-service__obituary\">\n<div class=\"obit-and-service__obituary__text\">\n<div class=\"obituary edit-container\">\n<div class=\"obituary-text edit\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Mary Virginia Edens Spears was born on May 26, 1929, in Nashville, Tennessee, to the late Elmer and Bessie Anderson Edens. She passed away peacefully on January 14, 2026.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">In addition to her parents, Mary was preceded in death by her beloved husband, Riley Spears; her sons, David and Daniel Spears; her brother, Elmer \u201cJR\u201d Edens; and her grandson, Jeremy Spears.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">She is lovingly survived by her son, Lafayette (Liz) Spears; daughters, Janice (Wayne) Winters, Rebecca (Chester) Wesbrooks, and Nancy (Butch) Sisk. She also leaves behind her cherished grandchildren: Elizabeth Johnson, Christopher and Timothy Wesbrooks, Emily Spears, Susan Spears, Matthew Sisk, Adam Sisk, Daniel Spears, Jr., and Sandra Spears; 22 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild, with another expected.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Mary devoted over 30 years of her life to serving her community as a nurse, a calling that reflected her caring and compassionate spirit. She found great joy in life on her farm, worshiping at New Beginnings Missionary Baptist Church, and spending precious time with her family, whom she loved dearly.\u00a0 Her legacy of love, service, and faith will be remembered always.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">The family is deeply grateful to Cherety Benge for the loving care and kindness shown to Mrs. Spears.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Visitation with the family will be 16 Jan 2026 from 4:00 &#8211; 8:00 PM at McDonald Funeral Home &#8211; Hickman County.\u00a0 Funeral Services will be 17 Jan 2026 at 11:00 AM\u00a0 at McDonald Funeral Home &#8211; Hickman County with burial to follow at Memory Gardens Cemetery, Centerville, TN.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Virginia Edens Spears was born on May 26, 1929, in Nashville, Tennessee, to the late Elmer and Bessie Anderson Edens. She passed away peacefully on January 14, 2026. In addition to her parents, Mary was preceded in death by her beloved husband, Riley Spears; her sons, David and Daniel Spears; her brother, Elmer \u201cJR\u201d Edens; and her grandson, Jeremy&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/spears-mary-virginia\/\"> 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":[247],"tags":[228,5640,5432,57,591,43,2510,1087],"class_list":["post-14456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mcdonaldfuneralhome","tag-anderson","tag-benge","tag-edens","tag-johnson","tag-sisk","tag-spears","tag-wesbrooks","tag-winters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14456","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=14456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}