Virgie Lee Colwell

91 year old Virgie Lee Colwell of Lawrenceburg died Friday at the Maury Regional Hospital in Columbia. She was retired from the Valdor Shirt Factory and a member of the Sanctuary United Pentecostal Church in Hohenwald. The funeral will be Monday at 1:00 p.m. at DeKalb Funeral Chapel. Jack Tidrick and Walter Droke will officiate and burial will be in the Cannady Cemetery. Visitation will be Sunday from 1:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. and Monday from 10:00 a.m. until the time of the service at 1:00 p.m. She was preceded in death by her husband, George Baxter Colwell. Grandchildren, Lonnie Earl Colwell, Jr. and Tori Danielle Stacy; parents, Luther Marvin and Elizabeth Taylor Gay; brothers, Homer and Gentry Gay; sisters, Pauline Murphy, Dorothy Gay, Bertha Clause, and Annie Sparkman. She is survived by children, Lonnie and his wife Joyce Colwell of Lebanon, Geneva and husband Jack Tidrick of Murfreesboro, Maxie and wife Leona Colwell of Liberty, and Fay and husband Tip Melton of Lawrenceburg. Six grandchildren, Christie Tindle, Wendy Casselberry, Tonya Williams, Shawn Colwell, Tammye Grantham, and Blake Melton. Eleven great grandchildren, three great great grandchildren. Two sisters, Cloie Caldwell of Smithville and Ruby West of McMinnville. Two brothers, J.E. Gay of McMinnville and James Gay of Lewisburg. DeKalb Funeral Chapel is in charge of the arrangements.