Wilson, John Payne, Jr – The Lives We Lived

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John Payne Wilson, age sixty-three, passed away July 27, 2010. An IT Support Advisor for the Metropolitan Nashville School System, he was born May 30, 1947, in Nashville, Tennessee, to the late John Woodrow and Margaret Lipscomb Brents Wilson. He is survived by his daughter Julie Shaffer; sons Phil (Sheryl) Wilson and Jeffrey (Fatin) Wilson; sister Milli Wilson Wallace; brother James B. Wilson; grandchildren Kinsey, Connor and Katy Grace. Memorial services will be 2:00 Saturday afternoon the 31st Day of July 2010 at Immanuel Church, 5253 Granny White Pike, with Ronnie Pittinger officiating. Family and friends will gather at the church from 12:00 until time of the service at 2:00. In lieu of flowers memorial may be made to the American Heart Association. Arrangements by Woodlawn-Roesch-Patton Funeral Home 660 Thompson Lane Nashville, TN 37204 (615) 383- 4754.

Comments by Pam White

John Payne loved the Lord, his family, singing and the theater. His voice, whether in congregational singing, leading songs in the church or on the stage was a “Tenor to Remember”! What joy he brought to song!

Wood…adult son

Wyatt, Joanne. . .11/24/1978

Services for Mrs. Joanne Hardeman Wyatt, 52, a specialist in teaching children with learning disabilities, will be at Woodlawn Funeral Home at 11:30 this morning. Mrs. Wyatt, the wife of Tennessean Associate Editor, Eugene Wyatt, died yesterday morning of complications following surgery for a brain tumor. She and Wyatt were married in 1948. Don Finto will officiate and burial will be in Woodlawn Memorial Park.

Mrs. Wyatt was born in Cuba, KY, the daughter of the late John B. Hardeman, Sr., and Mrs. Celeste Patterson Hardeman. She later lived in Sedalia and Mayfield, KY, and was graduated from Mayfield High School. She attended David Lipscomb College and received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from George Peabody College. She later did additional studies at the Rose Kennedy Center on the Peabody Campus. Until three days before her operation, she was teaching at Glencliff Elementary School. Previously she had taught at David Lipscomb, and Cockrill elementary schools and W.A. Bass Junior High School. She was a member at Belmont Church of Christ.

In addition to her husband and mother, she is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Celeste Martin of Hendersonville; three sons, Douglas, Griff and Phillip of Nashville; three brothers, John B. Hardeman, Jr., of Mayfield, Dr. Pat Hardeman of Sarasota, FL, and Dr. James Hardeman of Greensboro, NC; three sisters, Mrs. Louise Watson and Mrs. Billye Russell both of Mayfield, and Mrs. Paul Taylor of Memphis.

Yates, Betty