Mark H. Luttrell dies, Correction Official
Covington, Tenn. - Mark H. Luttrell, former state commissioner of correction and retired warden of the Memphis Correction Facility, died Wednesday of congestive heart failure at his Nashville home. He was 79.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Kelley’s Chapel Holiness Church in Garland near Covington with burial in Shiloh Cemetery in Covington. Marshall-Donnelly Combs Funeral Directors of Nashville and Maley-Yarbrough Funeral Home of Covington have charge.
Mr. Luttrell was State Correction Commissioner during the administration of governor Winfield Dunn. He presided over the system during stormy times when Brushy Mountain State Prison was closed in the wake of a guard strike and work was discontinued on the Morristown regional prison because of objections by local residents.
Mr. Luttrell was appointed superintendent of the Shelby County Penal Farm in 1962 and became commissioner of correction for Tennessee in early 1971, shortly after Dunn took office.
After leaving the Dunn administration he returned to Memphis and for three years worked with the Shelby County Sheriff’s Department. He was named warden of the Memphis Correctional Facility on Nov. 1, 1976, a position he held until retirement in 1979.
In April 1988, the State General Assembly passed a resolution to rename the West Tennessee Reception Center after Mr. Luttrell. In July 1988, it became the Mark H. Luttrell Reception Center.
Mr. Luttrell began his career as a teacher of vocational agriculture in 1938 in Obion County after graduating from the University of Tennessee. He worked for the Tennessee Agricultural Extension Service from 1939 to 1945 as a 4-H Club agent in Jackson, Tenn., and owned and operated a farm supply and farm equipment retail business from 1945 to 1960.
Mr. Luttrell had moved to Nashville after retirement.
Mr. Luttrell, the widower of Mary Margaret Richardson Luttrell, leaves a daughter, Lydia Luttrell Grubb of Nashville; a son, Mark H. Luttrell Jr. of London, Ky., and six grandchildren.
The family requests any memorials be sent to Reconciliation Prison Ministry, 4710 Charlotte Avenue, Nashville 37209.
Covington, Tenn. - Mark H. Luttrell, former state commissioner of correction and retired warden of the Memphis Correction Facility, died Wednesday of congestive heart failure at his Nashville home. He was 79.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Kelley’s Chapel Holiness Church in Garland near Covington with burial in Shiloh Cemetery in Covington. Marshall-Donnelly Combs Funeral Directors of Nashville and Maley-Yarbrough Funeral Home of Covington have charge.
Mr. Luttrell was State Correction Commissioner during the administration of governor Winfield Dunn. He presided over the system during stormy times when Brushy Mountain State Prison was closed in the wake of a guard strike and work was discontinued on the Morristown regional prison because of objections by local residents.
Mr. Luttrell was appointed superintendent of the Shelby County Penal Farm in 1962 and became commissioner of correction for Tennessee in early 1971, shortly after Dunn took office.
After leaving the Dunn administration he returned to Memphis and for three years worked with the Shelby County Sheriff’s Department. He was named warden of the Memphis Correctional Facility on Nov. 1, 1976, a position he held until retirement in 1979.
In April 1988, the State General Assembly passed a resolution to rename the West Tennessee Reception Center after Mr. Luttrell. In July 1988, it became the Mark H. Luttrell Reception Center.
Mr. Luttrell began his career as a teacher of vocational agriculture in 1938 in Obion County after graduating from the University of Tennessee. He worked for the Tennessee Agricultural Extension Service from 1939 to 1945 as a 4-H Club agent in Jackson, Tenn., and owned and operated a farm supply and farm equipment retail business from 1945 to 1960.
Mr. Luttrell had moved to Nashville after retirement.
Mr. Luttrell, the widower of Mary Margaret Richardson Luttrell, leaves a daughter, Lydia Luttrell Grubb of Nashville; a son, Mark H. Luttrell Jr. of London, Ky., and six grandchildren.
The family requests any memorials be sent to Reconciliation Prison Ministry, 4710 Charlotte Avenue, Nashville 37209.
Mark H. Luttrell dies, Correction Official
Covington, Tenn. - Mark H. Luttrell, former state commissioner of correction and retired warden of the Memphis Correction Facility, died Wednesday of congestive heart failure at his Nashville home. He was 79.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Kelley’s Chapel Holiness Church in Garland near Covington with burial in Shiloh Cemetery in Covington. Marshall-Donnelly Combs Funeral Directors of Nashville and Maley-Yarbrough Funeral Home of Covington have charge.
Mr. Luttrell was State Correction Commissioner during the administration of governor Winfield Dunn. He presided over the system during stormy times when Brushy Mountain State Prison was closed in the wake of a guard strike and work was discontinued on the Morristown regional prison because of objections by local residents.
Mr. Luttrell was appointed superintendent of the Shelby County Penal Farm in 1962 and became commissioner of correction for Tennessee in early 1971, shortly after Dunn took office.
After leaving the Dunn administration he returned to Memphis and for three years worked with the Shelby County Sheriff’s Department. He was named warden of the Memphis Correctional Facility on Nov. 1, 1976, a position he held until retirement in 1979.
In April 1988, the State General Assembly passed a resolution to rename the West Tennessee Reception Center after Mr. Luttrell. In July 1988, it became the Mark H. Luttrell Reception Center.
Mr. Luttrell began his career as a teacher of vocational agriculture in 1938 in Obion County after graduating from the University of Tennessee. He worked for the Tennessee Agricultural Extension Service from 1939 to 1945 as a 4-H Club agent in Jackson, Tenn., and owned and operated a farm supply and farm equipment retail business from 1945 to 1960.
Mr. Luttrell had moved to Nashville after retirement.
Mr. Luttrell, the widower of Mary Margaret Richardson Luttrell, leaves a daughter, Lydia Luttrell Grubb of Nashville; a son, Mark H. Luttrell Jr. of London, Ky., and six grandchildren.
The family requests any memorials be sent to Reconciliation Prison Ministry, 4710 Charlotte Avenue, Nashville 37209.
Covington, Tenn. - Mark H. Luttrell, former state commissioner of correction and retired warden of the Memphis Correction Facility, died Wednesday of congestive heart failure at his Nashville home. He was 79.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Kelley’s Chapel Holiness Church in Garland near Covington with burial in Shiloh Cemetery in Covington. Marshall-Donnelly Combs Funeral Directors of Nashville and Maley-Yarbrough Funeral Home of Covington have charge.
Mr. Luttrell was State Correction Commissioner during the administration of governor Winfield Dunn. He presided over the system during stormy times when Brushy Mountain State Prison was closed in the wake of a guard strike and work was discontinued on the Morristown regional prison because of objections by local residents.
Mr. Luttrell was appointed superintendent of the Shelby County Penal Farm in 1962 and became commissioner of correction for Tennessee in early 1971, shortly after Dunn took office.
After leaving the Dunn administration he returned to Memphis and for three years worked with the Shelby County Sheriff’s Department. He was named warden of the Memphis Correctional Facility on Nov. 1, 1976, a position he held until retirement in 1979.
In April 1988, the State General Assembly passed a resolution to rename the West Tennessee Reception Center after Mr. Luttrell. In July 1988, it became the Mark H. Luttrell Reception Center.
Mr. Luttrell began his career as a teacher of vocational agriculture in 1938 in Obion County after graduating from the University of Tennessee. He worked for the Tennessee Agricultural Extension Service from 1939 to 1945 as a 4-H Club agent in Jackson, Tenn., and owned and operated a farm supply and farm equipment retail business from 1945 to 1960.
Mr. Luttrell had moved to Nashville after retirement.
Mr. Luttrell, the widower of Mary Margaret Richardson Luttrell, leaves a daughter, Lydia Luttrell Grubb of Nashville; a son, Mark H. Luttrell Jr. of London, Ky., and six grandchildren.
The family requests any memorials be sent to Reconciliation Prison Ministry, 4710 Charlotte Avenue, Nashville 37209.
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