in Obion County, Tennessee

Bates Funeral Home
South Fifth Street
Union City, TN 38261
(was in operation 18 months – held only one funeral)

Mrs. Dola Board Funeral Home
730 East Vine Street
Union City, TN 38261

(no longer in existence, information from 1940 death certificate)

Cryer Funeral Home, Obion, TN
206 East Main Avenue
Obion, TN 38240
Phone: 731-536-5389
In business since 1977; Gwyneth J. Cryer, Owner.
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Edmaiston-Mosley Funeral Home (formerly Dunlap Funeral Home)
1200 South Miles Ave
Union City, TN 38261
Phone: 731-885-1033
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Karnes Funeral Home
217 West Church St
Kenton, TN 38233
Now Owned by Leitherland Funeral Home
Phone: 731-749-5893

• Thomas Blaine Karnes and his father-in-law, Clarence Bogle began the business.
• 1934: Mr. Karnes went into business by himself serving Rutherford in Gibson Co TN and Kenton in Obion Co TN.
• 1958: Bought: Brown Funeral Home, Mason Hall
• 1959: Bought: Baird Funeral Home, Dyer
• 1999: Bought by: Brownsville Funeral Home, Brownsville, TN
• 2005 Bought by: Roberts Funeral Home – previous name Karnes Kenton Chapel
• 2010 Bought by: Leitherland Funeral Home

Rawls Funeral Home
1325 East Main Street
PO Box 742
Union City, TN 38281
Phone: 731-885-8110
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Rawls Funeral Home
114 Roach St
South Fulton, TN 38257
Phone: 731-479-2181

Turner Funeral Home
Union City, TN 38261

(no longer in existence – no further information)

White-Ranson Funeral Home
212 West Washington Ave.
Union City, TN 38261
Phone: 731-885-1211
White Ranson & White Mahon Funeral Homes (website)

• Founded 1909 by Gus B. White Sr. and his brother, Willie White
• Formerly White Brothers Furniture and Undertaking Company, First Street, Union City
• 1922: Mr. J. L. Ranson bought out Willie White
• 1924: Moved present location on Washington Avenue

White & Mahon Funeral Home
225 W. Harper
Troy, TN 38260
Phone: 731-536-4666

• 1924: Gus B. White bought one-half interest in McCaw Furniture
• 1926: R. W. Mahon bought interest of J. W. McCaw after his death and the business became McCaw-White Furniture and Undertaking Business.
• 1926: The Obion County Burial Association and Mutual Burial Association serving White-Ranson, White-Mahon and King Funeral Homes organized at Troy. Offices: at White-Mahon. By 1939, over 10,000 members.
• Eventually, the furniture business ended and the funeral home in Troy was run by R. W. Mahon, John Moffatt and Gus B. White, Jr.
• 1949: Death of R.W. Mahon in 1949 and Gus B. White, Jr. purchased the business
• 1977: Mr. White died, son Gus B. White III bought the business from his estate.
• King Funeral Home: 3 Feb. 1999, Dorothy Grisham located the KING Funeral Home records. When White Ranson Funeral Home in Union City, Obion Co., TN bought Kings, they also accrued the records (what few there are). She was told by an employee there that a lot of the records were lost by fire. There is one big, thick, heavy book (alphabetically listed) with records staring in 1935 through 1966 with a lot of years missing.