A longtime farmer has died at the age of 69 following a brief battle with Adreno carcinoma.
Mr. Wayne Carver of Carthage departed this life at 5:05 a.m. Saturday morning November 9, 2024 with his family at his bedside at the Vanderbilt Wilson County Hospital in Lebanon where he was admitted under hospice care on Thursday morning. He was pronounced deceased by Avalon Gentiva Hospice at 5:18 a.m.
Mr. Carver is at the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home where his funeral services are scheduled to be conducted on Tuesday afternoon November 12th at 1 p.m. with his pastor, Pastor David Gray assisted by his former pastor, Pastor Tracy Symoens officiating. Burial will follow in the Carver family lot in Section two at the Ridgewood Cemetery.
The family will receive friends at Sanderson in Carthage on Monday from 11 a.m. until 7 p.m. and again on Tuesday after 10 a.m.
Born Herbert Wayne Carver in Westmoreland in Sumner County on Christmas Day, December 25, 1954, he was the son of Mrs. Jewel Richardson of Carthage and the late Herbert Dean Carver who died in Franklin, Kentucky in 1976 at the age of 48.
Mr. Carver was a 1972 graduate of Smith County High School with a major in agriculture.
In South Carthage on July 11, 1981, he was united in marriage to Columbia, Kentucky native, the former Loretta June Coffey. The wedding ceremony was performed by United Methodist pastor, Bro. Frank Eddie Blair.
He was an employee of Wayne Taylor Farms in the Riddleton Community and enjoyed working with cattle and all things related to agriculture and anything where he could be outside.
He was a member of the Church of Redemption in South Carthage where he also served on the church board of directors.
A congenial man with a pleasing disposition, he had great love for his family and was a devoted gentleman to many friends.
Surviving in addition to his wife Loretta, of over forty-three years, and his mother, Mrs. Jewel are four children, April Wills and husband Julian of the Brush Creek Community, Kim Franklin and husband Joey of Watertown, Allen “Yeeha” Carver and wife Tammy of the Defeated Creek Community, Michael Blair and wife Christy of Lewisburg; sister, Susan Prock and husband Timmy of Franklin, Kentucky; two brothers, Roy Dean Carver and wife Deborah of New Whiteland, Indiana, Jeff Carver also of Franklin, Kentucky; eleven grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers: Wayne and Kent Taylor, Taylor McCall, Allen Carver Jr., Chazz Wesley, Ronnie Butler.
