Smith Bend Community farmer and retired merchant, Mr. Billy White Myers, died at the age of 91 at 9:55 p.m. Friday evening August 30, 2024 at the Smith County Health and Rehabilitation Center in Carthage where he was receiving therapy from a fall.
Mr. Myers is at the Hackett Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home where his family will receive friends only on Tuesday September 3rd from 4 p.m. until 7 p.m.
Graveside services and interment are scheduled for Wednesday morning September 4th at 10 a.m. from the Rob Draper Cemetery in the Stone Community in Gainesboro. He will be buried beside his wife and son. His longtime brother in Christ, Guy Holliman, will deliver the eulogy.
Mr. Myers was born on July 4, 1933 on the family farm at the end of Smith Bend Lane in Jackson County, and was one of two sons of the late Joseph Gilbreath (Joe) Myers who died at the age of 49 on May 18, 1952 and Georgie McCauley Myers who died on Mr. Myers 59th birthday on July 4, 1992 at the age of 87.
At the Gainesboro home of the late Robert Fox on September 18, 1952, Mr. Myers was united in marriage to Gainesboro native, the former Mary Chaffin. She preceded him in death on June 5, 2016 at the age of 83.
They suffered the loss of a 41-year-old son, David Eugene Myers who died as the result of an automobile accident in the Highland Community on May 23, 2002.
Mr. Myers was also preceded in death by a brother, Joe McCauley Myers, a 43-year employee of the former Third National Bank in Nashville and World War II Navy veteran, who died July 24, 2009 at the age of 83.
From 1973 until 1991 Mr. and Mrs. Myers owned and operated the Kempville Stop-n-Shop In the Kempville Community and prior to that was in the grocery business in Gamaliel, Kentucky.
In 1991 he opened the Myers Farm Supply in the Smith Bend Community which he operated until his retirement.
In 1953 he was appointed to fill the unexpired term of the late Donald Dixon and served on the then Jackson County Quarterly Court until 1963.
In 1974 he was again elected to the then Jackson County Commission where he served for over forty years.
Mr. Myers was a faithful member of the Bagdad Church of Christ where he was baptized into Christ in 1951.
He was a 1952 graduate of the Jackson County Central High School.
Surviving is his daughter, Stephanie Myers Konrad and husband Dr. Peter Konrad of Morgantown, West Virginia; two grandchildren, Derek Myers of the Smith Bend Community and Tabitha Myers Warren and husband D. J. of the Gladdice Community.
Pallbearers: Glenn Norton, Tim Agee, Derek Myers, Mark Goad, Bob Haman,
Edward “Preacher” Anderson
