COOKEVILLE - Funeral services for Willie Savage Ragland, 58, were held Sunday at Whitson Funeral Home with burial in Cookeville City Cemetery.
Mr. Ragland, retired farmer of the Buck Mountain community and a native of Jackson County, died Saturday morning at his home.
He was a member of the Methodist Church.
Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Lettie Ragland; seven sons, Mack E., Nashville, Fowler, Columbus, Miss., W.S., Wesley, and Kenneth Ragland, all of Cookeville, Vernon of Gainesboro, and Franklin Ragland of Kansas; four daughters, Mrs. Charles Pritchard, Kingston, Mrs. Leon Napier, Orlando, Fla., Mrs. Charlie Ray, Huntsville, and Mrs. Billy Brown, Nashville; a brother, Vernon Ragland, Long Beach, Calif.; a sister, Mrs. Farmer Brown, Cookeville; four half-brothers, Lester and Verble Ragland, both of Granville, Guy Ragland, Donelson, and Thurman Ragland, Detroit, Mich.; five half-sisters, Mrs. Hooper Brown and Mrs. Everett Halfacre, both of Granville, Mrs. Doyle Apple, Smyrna, Mrs. Homer Apple, Gainesboro, and Mrs. Gleen Williams, Nashville; and 20 grandchildren.
COOKEVILLE - Funeral services for Willie Savage Ragland, 58, were held Sunday at Whitson Funeral Home with burial in Cookeville City Cemetery.
Mr. Ragland, retired farmer of the Buck Mountain community and a native of Jackson County, died Saturday morning at his home.
He was a member of the Methodist Church.
Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Lettie Ragland; seven sons, Mack E., Nashville, Fowler, Columbus, Miss., W.S., Wesley, and Kenneth Ragland, all of Cookeville, Vernon of Gainesboro, and Franklin Ragland of Kansas; four daughters, Mrs. Charles Pritchard, Kingston, Mrs. Leon Napier, Orlando, Fla., Mrs. Charlie Ray, Huntsville, and Mrs. Billy Brown, Nashville; a brother, Vernon Ragland, Long Beach, Calif.; a sister, Mrs. Farmer Brown, Cookeville; four half-brothers, Lester and Verble Ragland, both of Granville, Guy Ragland, Donelson, and Thurman Ragland, Detroit, Mich.; five half-sisters, Mrs. Hooper Brown and Mrs. Everett Halfacre, both of Granville, Mrs. Doyle Apple, Smyrna, Mrs. Homer Apple, Gainesboro, and Mrs. Gleen Williams, Nashville; and 20 grandchildren.
Family Members
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Vernon Ragland
1898–1987
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Virginia Ragland
1900–1900
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James Bedford Ragland
1901–1963
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Bessie May Ragland Brown
1904–1975
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Lester Patterson Ragland
1909–1979
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Arthur Cordell Ragland
1911–1946
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Geneva Ethel "Neva" Ragland Brown
1914–2004
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Harvey Verble Ragland
1916–2007
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Lona Daris Ragland Apple
1919–2010
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Guy Dibrell Ragland
1921–1983
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Zora Nell Ragland Barton
1924–2014
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Johnnie Thurman Ragland
1926–2013
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Elise Ragland Huff
1931–2023
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Bobbye Ann Ragland Williams
1934–2013
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