Jessie Mae Underwood

99 year old Jessie Mae Underwood of Smithville died Wednesday at NHC of Smithville. She was a homemaker, a charter member of the Short Mountain Church of God, where she taught the Ladies Bible Class until late in her 90’s. She was a correspondent for the Smithville Review for several years. The funeral will be Friday at 2:00 p.m. at the Chapel of Love-Cantrell Funeral Home. Burial will be in the Bethel Cemetery. Visitation will be Thursday from 3:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. and Friday from 11:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. She was preceded in death by her husband, Toy C. Underwood; her parents, John Robert and Lillie Motley; brothers, Comer and Hoyte Motley; and two sisters, Naomi and Mary Elizabeth Motley. Survivors include two sons, Joe Underwood of Smithville and Bob and his wife Althea Underwood of Florida. One daughter, Dorothy and her husband Frank Morrison of Woodbury. Seven grandsons, Max, Mike, Calvin, Albert, David, and Leo Underwood and Larry Daniel. Three granddaughters, Denise Stanton, Tonya Locke, and Joy McKelvey. Thirteen great grandchildren and seven great great grandchildren. One brother, Owen (Med) and Jo Motley of Murfreesboro and a sister, Virginia and her husband Nick Boyko of Michigan. Love-Cantrell Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements. The family requests that donations be made, in lieu of flowers, to the Bethel Cemetery or the Short Mountain Church of God. Love-Cantrell Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.