Willie Atwood Cantrell

92 year old Willie Atwood Cantrell of Smithville died Tuesday at Mount Juliet Health Care Center. He was a member of the New Union The Baptist Church and a former member of the First Baptist Church in Old Hickory. Cantrell was a World War II U.S. Navy Veteran on the Destroyer USS Mahan, a member of the McWhirtersville Lodge #375 in Hermitage, and he was retired from Dupont in Old Hickory. The funeral will be Friday at 2:00 p.m. at DeKalb Funeral Chapel. Anthony Pelham and Michael Hale will officiate and burial will be in New Union Cemetery. Visitation will be Thursday from noon until 7:00 p.m. and Friday from 10:00 a.m. until the time of the service at 2:00 p.m. He was preceded in death by his wife of 64 years, Elua Chisam Cantrell; parents, Roy Potter and Sarah Annie Lappin Cantrell; a sister, Tressa and her husband Ray Young; brothers, Lee H. Cantrell and his wife Ruby, Cleaburn Cantrell, and Hugh and his wife Ethel Cantrell. Survivors include daughters, Nancy Cantrell and husband Jack Redden of Hermitage, Jeane Carver and husband Rick Norvell of Nashville and Joanie Cantrell and husband Gary Breshears of Mount Juliet. Grandchildren, Ronald Todd Jackson, Cale Paxton Carver, Ellen Kate and husband Brad Dobner, and Leanna and Bailey Jackson. Sister, Helen and husband Herman Roller of Rock Island. Sister-in-law, Gladys Ray Cope of Smithville and Rubye Arnold Cantrell of Jacksonville, Florida. DeKalb Funeral Chapel is in charge of the arrangements.