74 year old Ralph Allen Parton of Smithville died Tuesday at DeKalb Community Hospital. He was a retired janitor at Smithville Elementary School and a member of the People’s Pentecostal Church. The funeral will be Thursday at 12:30 p.m. at the Chapel of Love-Cantrell Funeral Home. Robert Presley will officiate and burial will be in Forest Lawn Cemetery in Goodlettsville. Visitation will be Wednesday from 10:00 a.m. until 9:00 p.m. and Thursday from 9:00 a.m. until the service at 12:30 p.m. He was preceded in death by his parents, Hall Canady and Willie Florence Hill Parton and two brothers, Sterling and Roscoe Parton. Survivors include his wife, Roberta Parton of Smithville. Two sisters, Florence Marie Waggoner of Murfreesboro and Evelyn Vick of LaVergne. One brother and sister-in-law, Frank and Jo Parton of Smithville. Several nieces and nephews also survive. Love-Cantrell Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.
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