LOUISE WYATT COLLECTION
James
Ewing Wyatt
Dec 21, 1904 – Oct
17, 1979
James E. Wyatt, 74, died Wednesday at 8
p.m. in Memorial
Hospital after an extended illness. He
was a retired mill foreman, having retired in 1971 after 42 years of
service. He was a resident of 1288
Hillwood Dr. Services will be conducted
at 10 a.m. Saturday at Tarpley’s Chapel by the Rev. Riley James. Burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery. Mr. Wyatt was born in Stewart County Dec.
21, 1904, but had lived in Montgomery County since 1929.
He was the son of the late Isaac Henry Wyatt
and Melissa Darr Wyatt. He was a member
of the First Church of the Nazarene.
Survivors are his widow, Mary Bagwell Wyatt; two sons, Powell
Wyatt, Clarksville;
and Paul Wyatt, Portland, Ore.; one daughter, Carlene Midgley, El Paso,
Texas;
and 15 grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren. Pallbearers
will be Thomas Elliott, Claude Harrison, Earl
Harrison, Wyatt Powell, Angis Harrison, Earl Butts, Buford Elliott, and
Wilton
Wyatt. Honorary pallbearers will be
members of the Thomas Elliott Sunday School Class of the First Church
of the
Nazarene.
(Note:
James Ewing
Wyatt was a grandson Winnie Alice Smith and Mitchell James Wyatt, one
of the
Wyatt twins raised by Rachel Atkins and Charles Roper in Stewart Co.,
TN. He was a great grandson of Bazel and
Martha
Hood Smith.)