Tom S. Sewell, 39, comanager of W. T. Sewell and company, a wholesale grocery firm at Baxter, died Monday night at Cookeville General Hospital. He had suffered a stroke about three hours earlier at his home in Baxter.
Funeral services were held Wednesday at the Baxter Methodist church. The services were conducted by the Rev. Fred Hembree and Dr. Harry L. Upperman. Burial was in Odd Fellows cemetery at Baxter.
Mr. Sewell was a member of Cookeville Post 46 of the American Legion and the Methodist church. He held a membership with the Shrine Hospital for Crippled Children.
A native of Baxter, he was graduated from Baxter Seminary and the University of Tennessee.
During 1947 and 1948 Mr. Sewell was a first sergeant in Service Company of the 765th Tank Battalion of the Tennessee National Guard at Cookeville. Mr. Sewell served in the United States Air Force during World War II.
Survivors besides his father, are his mother, Mrs. Winnie Maxwell Sewell; widow, Mrs. Selma Morgan Sewell; one daughter, Tommie Sewell, 9, and a son, Bill Sewell, 7, all of Baxter; two sisters, Mrs. Robert L. Baldwin, Winchester, TN, and Mrs. James Austin, Baxter, paternal grandmother, Mrs. Elizabeth Sewell, Nashville, and his maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. N. S. Maxwell, Baxter.
Funeral services were held Wednesday at the Baxter Methodist church. The services were conducted by the Rev. Fred Hembree and Dr. Harry L. Upperman. Burial was in Odd Fellows cemetery at Baxter.
Mr. Sewell was a member of Cookeville Post 46 of the American Legion and the Methodist church. He held a membership with the Shrine Hospital for Crippled Children.
A native of Baxter, he was graduated from Baxter Seminary and the University of Tennessee.
During 1947 and 1948 Mr. Sewell was a first sergeant in Service Company of the 765th Tank Battalion of the Tennessee National Guard at Cookeville. Mr. Sewell served in the United States Air Force during World War II.
Survivors besides his father, are his mother, Mrs. Winnie Maxwell Sewell; widow, Mrs. Selma Morgan Sewell; one daughter, Tommie Sewell, 9, and a son, Bill Sewell, 7, all of Baxter; two sisters, Mrs. Robert L. Baldwin, Winchester, TN, and Mrs. James Austin, Baxter, paternal grandmother, Mrs. Elizabeth Sewell, Nashville, and his maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. N. S. Maxwell, Baxter.
Tom S. Sewell, 39, comanager of W. T. Sewell and company, a wholesale grocery firm at Baxter, died Monday night at Cookeville General Hospital. He had suffered a stroke about three hours earlier at his home in Baxter.
Funeral services were held Wednesday at the Baxter Methodist church. The services were conducted by the Rev. Fred Hembree and Dr. Harry L. Upperman. Burial was in Odd Fellows cemetery at Baxter.
Mr. Sewell was a member of Cookeville Post 46 of the American Legion and the Methodist church. He held a membership with the Shrine Hospital for Crippled Children.
A native of Baxter, he was graduated from Baxter Seminary and the University of Tennessee.
During 1947 and 1948 Mr. Sewell was a first sergeant in Service Company of the 765th Tank Battalion of the Tennessee National Guard at Cookeville. Mr. Sewell served in the United States Air Force during World War II.
Survivors besides his father, are his mother, Mrs. Winnie Maxwell Sewell; widow, Mrs. Selma Morgan Sewell; one daughter, Tommie Sewell, 9, and a son, Bill Sewell, 7, all of Baxter; two sisters, Mrs. Robert L. Baldwin, Winchester, TN, and Mrs. James Austin, Baxter, paternal grandmother, Mrs. Elizabeth Sewell, Nashville, and his maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. N. S. Maxwell, Baxter.
Funeral services were held Wednesday at the Baxter Methodist church. The services were conducted by the Rev. Fred Hembree and Dr. Harry L. Upperman. Burial was in Odd Fellows cemetery at Baxter.
Mr. Sewell was a member of Cookeville Post 46 of the American Legion and the Methodist church. He held a membership with the Shrine Hospital for Crippled Children.
A native of Baxter, he was graduated from Baxter Seminary and the University of Tennessee.
During 1947 and 1948 Mr. Sewell was a first sergeant in Service Company of the 765th Tank Battalion of the Tennessee National Guard at Cookeville. Mr. Sewell served in the United States Air Force during World War II.
Survivors besides his father, are his mother, Mrs. Winnie Maxwell Sewell; widow, Mrs. Selma Morgan Sewell; one daughter, Tommie Sewell, 9, and a son, Bill Sewell, 7, all of Baxter; two sisters, Mrs. Robert L. Baldwin, Winchester, TN, and Mrs. James Austin, Baxter, paternal grandmother, Mrs. Elizabeth Sewell, Nashville, and his maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. N. S. Maxwell, Baxter.
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