Martha O. Bluhm

83 year old Martha O. Bluhm of Smithville died Monday at Cookeville Regional Medical Center. She was a machine operator at Kingston Timer and a member of the Elizabeth Chapel Baptist Church. The funeral will be Wednesday at 1:00 p.m at the Chapel of Love-Cantrell Funeral Home. Bill Robertson will officiate and burial will be in DeKalb Memorial Gardens. Visitation will be Tuesday from 10:00 a.m. until 9:00 p.m. and Wednesday from 9:00 a.m. until the time of the service at 1:00 p.m. She was preceded in death by her husband, Jessie Bluhm; parents, William Overton Hale, Sr. and Martha Ervin Hale; a daughter, Dianna Bluhm; a step-son, Johnny Manford Bluhm; three brothers, Charlie, Howard, and Junior Hale; and six sisters, Hallie Cassity, Prudy Pinegar, Ruby Leduex, Julie Gregory, Barbara Billings, and Ruth Walls. She is survived by two daughters, Carolyn Price of Doyle and Cathy and her husband Ronald Clayton of Smithville. One son, Jerry and his wife Faye Bluhm of Cookeville. Nine grandchildren, Jeremy Haas of Smithville, Stephanie Fagan of Smithville, Jennifer and her husband Burt Silcox of Riverwatch, Christie Bluhm of Indiana, Shelly and her husband Kevin Shively of Kentucky, Derrick and his wife Kristy Hutchings of Sparta, Matthew and his wife Nasha Bluhm of Sevierville, Johnny Bluhm of Nashville, and Jimmy Bluhm of Georgia. Five great grandchildren, Cheyenne Fagan of Smithville, Misty and her husband Scott Walker of Smithville, Jamie and his wife Melissa Bluhm of McMinnville, and Brock and Owen Shively of Kentucky. One sister, Evelyn Taylor of Smithville. One brother-in-law, Austin and his wife Regina Billings of Smyrna. Love-Cantrell Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.