Sweeney, James O. January 26, 1997. Survived by wife, Catherine Sweeney; sons, Michael Sweeney and Kelly Sweeney, all of Nashville, and Scott Sweeney, Brush Creek, TN; daughters, Lynne Daniel, Susan Parker, and Cindy Page, all of Nashville; sisters, Edna Pomeroy, Nashville, and Joy Luther, Melbourne, FL; grandchildren, Eve Jackson, Amber Parker, Shannon Sweeney, Patrick Sweeney, Todd Daniel and Nathan Daniel, Thomas Parker, Justin Parker, Chris Parker, Carter Page, Jimmy Sweeney, and Alan Sweeney. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m., Tuesday, at Harpeth Hills Funeral Home Chapel. Grandsons will serve as pallbearers. Family will receive friends from 12 until 2 p.m. Tuesday at Harpeth Hills Funeral Home. Memorial contributions may be made through Otter Creek Church of Christ, 5253 Granny White Pike. 37220. Harpeth Hills Funeral Home, 09090 Hwy. 100, (615) 646-9292.
Memories from children and grandchildren
Cindy: Throwing ball in the backyard, helping you with a project in the basement, sitting on the back porch steps. I love you!
Scott: Doing projects around the house with you; lying on the floor watching TV in the wintertime and you going to spit out the door. I don’t think I ever told you that I loved you, but I know there was always a lot of love here. Daddy, I love you.
Lynne: Thanks for working so hard for us. You worked two jobs most of your life to provide for us six kids. We are proud of your master carpentry skills. We are all proud of the house you built for us—5036 Briarwood Drive. I loved your smile. I wish I could have remembered more jokes to tell you to get that smile. You and Mama were a good- looking couple. We are glad that you are well now and enjoying life with the Lord.
Carter: Papa, I never really got to know you when you were well. But we still had some good times when Mom and Nana went walking. I loved to help you get some water and when I used to change the TV channel for you. Papa I will miss you a lot. You were the only grandfather I knew. Make me a hole-in-one in heaven. I will always be thinking of you. I love you, Papa! I hope you are living large in heaven. Now you are whole again. I love you, Papa!
Kelly: Daddy, I know you loved us even though you didn’t say it much. But it showed in everything you did. I remember the times sitting with you in the car waiting on Momma in the grocery store. You looked really cool in those green shades! Those times we all went riding, then stopping at Baskin Robbins. (You’d always get pistachio!)
I’ll miss your singing and the little dance you would do in front of the TV. I used to kiss you and Momma before I went to bed when I was little. Sometimes I wish I never stopped that. How great you must be feeling right now, Daddy—out of that body that didn’t work. I bet you just feel like running a marathon! Please say hi to Aunt Peggy, Granny, and Granddaddy, Uncle Bib, Peewee, and Snookie, and all the others and your parents. I never met them but they must be great because they gave us you. I love you, Daddy, and I’ll miss you so much. And don’t worry about Momma.
Additional Comments by Lynne Daniel
It is especially noteworthy for us in light of the Otter Creek church connection that my dad, mother, and sister Cindy all reaffirmed their faith in Christ and were baptized at the old Otter Creek building in 1980. This was shortly after their son-in-law/brother-in-law [Tommy Daniel] began working as minister at Otter Creek church. This was certainly a joyous serendipity of our moving to work in Nashville. It was a joy to worship with them there until our dad became ill and homebound.