Alice Marie Bean Rhoton

Published 12:39 pm Thursday, March 14, 2013

Alice Marie Bean Rhoton, 86, of Tompkinsville, passed away Wednesday, March 13, at Skyline Medical Center in Nashville.

Marie was born in Clay County, Tenn., on May 21, 1926. She was the daughter of the late Sidney Stanton and Martha Alice (Browning) Bean. She is survived by her husband of 67 years, Cornell Rhoton. They married Sept. 11, 1945, in the Mount Gilead Community at Tol Phemister’s home. She graduated from Gamaliel High School in 1944. She was a member of Corinth Church of Christ.

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Marie is survived by a daughter, Judy Ross and her husband, Larry Tim, of Tompkinsville; two sons, Terry Rhoton of Alvaton and Jeffrey Rhoton and his wife, Windy, of Hendersonville, Tenn.; six grandchildren, Tim Ross, Mark Ross, Jon Ross, April Pritchett, Eric Rhoton and Simeon Rhoton; and 14 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents; her sisters, Ova Wright, Estelle Armer, Hazel Hakinson, Allie Reheis, Dossie King, Haley Peterson, Ruth Grace, Ruby Bouffard and Cena Jane Bean; her brothers, Millard Bransford Bean, James Bean, Duel Bean and Elmore Bean; and her daughter-in-law, Janie Hale Rhoton.

Funeral services will be conducted Friday at 1 p.m. at Yokley-Trible Funeral Home, with Stewart Tarter officiating. Visitation is today from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. and Friday from 6 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Yokley-Trible Funeral Home. Burial is in the Monroe County Memorial Lawn.

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