Services For Former Macon Trustee Are Held

Funeral services for Wash C. Patterson, 74, were conducted Saturday at the Smith Chapel Methodist church in Red Boiling Springs by Rev. J. P. Neel, Jr., pastor of Highland Baptist church in Red Boiling Springs. Burial was in the Smith Chapel cemetery. Masonic rites were held by members of the Red Boiling Springs Masonic Lodge. Mr. Patterson died Thursday afternoon in Nashville.

He was a native of Macon county, but for the last twenty years had resided on Canton, Ohio, and Nashville. He was a former trustee of Macon County and a member of the Red Boiling Springs Lodge No. 585, F and AM. Mr. Patterson was the son of the late George W. Patterson and Martha Andrews Patterson. He had ten brothers, three still living, M.L. Patterson, M.P. Patterson and Floyd Patterson, all of Lafayette.

Other survivors include his wife, Bessie Brandon; two sons, Roy F. Patterson, Page, Arizona, and Ray C. Patterson, Franklin, Tenn; four daughters, Mrs. R. W. Knoght, Madison, Mrs. Lawrence Jordon, Chicago, Illinois, Mrs. William B. Green and Miss Georgia C. Patterson of Red Boiling Springs; and eight grandchildren. Phillips-Robinson funeral directors were in charge of arrangements

Source: Macon County Times – Lafayette, TN – Thursday June 13, 1963 – Page 5

Submitted By: Bill Patterson

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