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02/7/14

PATTERSON, Bessie – (d. 1977)

Funeral services for Mrs. Bessie Brandon Patterson, Age 83, of Red Boiling Springs were held Tuesday afternoon at Alexander Funeral Home in Red Boiling Springs by the Rev. Oscar Trainor. Interment was in the Smith Chapel Cemetery. Mrs. Patterson, a native of Macon County, died Sunday morning at Macon County General Hospital. Her parents were the late George Alexander and Clara Dixon Brandon. She was the widow of Wash C. Patterson. She was a member of the Missionary Baptist Church.

She is survived by two sons Roy Patterson of Page, Arizona and Ray Patterson of Slippery Rock, Penn.; 4 daughters Mrs. Agnes Knight of Madison, Mrs. Allie Jordan of Oak Lawn, Ill., Miss Georgia Patterson of Red Boiling Springs and Mrs. Joyce Green; one sister Mrs. Lois McCawley of Madison; 8 grandchildren; 6 great-grandchildren.
Source: Macon County Times – Lafayette, TN – Thursday July 28, 1977 – Page A-3

Submitted By: Bill Patterson

My E-mail is: BplusM@aol.com

01/19/14

PATTERSON, Wash C. – (d. 1963)

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

My E-mail is: BplusM@aol.com