Charlie F. Arnett

Published 12:00 am Monday, August 3, 2009

MURRAY — Charlie F. Arnett, 95, of Coldwater died at 6 p.m. July 29, 2009, at his home.

The Brown’s Grove native was born Sept. 14, 1913. He was a graduate of Lynn Grove High School in 1934, attended Freed-Hardeman College from 1938-1940, and served as a Church of Christ minister from 1932 to 2009. Arnett preached in 14 states, and began mission trips to the Caribbean at age 76, visiting the islands of Trinidad, St. Kitts and Nevis, Montserrat and Grenada. He preached in Bowling Green in the 1940s. In later years he moved to Logan and then Todd County, preaching and dairy farming, then moved back to Calloway County where he built a log cabin and a fish pond. Prior to his death, he had been serving as minister for the Hatler’s Chapel Church of Christ in Dresden, Tenn. He was well known for his herd of Jersey cattle in Logan and Todd counties for many years. He was a son of the late Cletus Arnett and Ophelia Duncan Arnett Bazzell and stepson of the late Albert Bazzell. He was preceded in death by an infant son, Rueben Arnett; a brother, Robert Lee Bazzell; and two sisters, Jenny Perich and Mary Kirkland.

Funeral was Sunday at J.H. Churchill Funeral Home in Murray, with burial in Antioch Cemetery.

Survivors include his wife of 74 years, Ruby Herndon Arnett; two daughters, Freeda Holladay and her husband, Olian, of Kannapolis, N.C., and Patsy Watson and her husband, Lorin, of Abilene, Texas; four sons, Richard Arnett and his wife, Joan, of Murray, Paul Arnett and his wife, Debra, of Lancaster, Ohio, Harold Arnett and his wife, Randa, of St. Joseph, Mo., and John Arnett and his wife, Frieda, of Franklin; a sister, Betty Dixon of Kirksey; a brother, Albert Bazzell Jr. of Murray; 21 grandchildren; 27 great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.