Born in Trimble, he was a retired farmer and a U.S. Army veteran.
Funeral services took place in the chapel of Johnson Funeral Home at 2 p.m. on Saturday. Burial was in the Mason Hall Cemetery at Mason Hall, Tenn. Dr. William Oakley officiated.
He was the widower of the late Dora Elizabeth Parnell and the son of Gertrude Ragsdale Parnell and Lattie Parnell, both deceased.
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