Beatrice Cole

Funeral services for Beatrice Cole, 97 of Cookeville, will be Saturday, May 28 at 2 PM from the Dyer Chapel of Hooper Huddleston Horner Funeral Home. Interment will follow in the Boiling Springs Cemetery. The family will receive friends Friday from 5 to 8 PM and after 10 AM Saturday until service time at the funeral home. Bro. Andy Patterson will officiate. Mrs. Cole died Thursday morning, May 26, 2022 at Cookeville Regional Medical Center. She was born October 21, 1924 in Putnam County to the late William Ammon and Vesta Victoria Bussell Massa. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by husband, Robert Malcolm Cole on June 2, 1968; daughter, Rebecca Faye Allen; sons, Donald Cole and Robert M Cole, Jr.; sons-in-law, David Wilkerson, Bill Trobaugh, Malcolm Franklin and Danny Allen; sisters, Roberta Shaw and Anna Jewell Sherrell; brothers, Oakley, Luther, Shelia, James and Lenville Massa. She was a member of Boiling Springs Baptist Church. Beatrice enjoyed gardening, quilting, fishing and was a great cook. Survivors include daughters, Geraldene Wilkerson, Janice (Jere) Gentry, Patricia Franklin and Regina (Dale) Sherrell all of Cookeville, Wanda (Ralph) Fisher of Cleveland and Judy Trobaugh of Baxter; son, Buford (Vicky) Cole of Sparta; sister, Marie Massa of Sparta; 22 grandchildren, 31 great-grandchildren, 10 great-great grandchildren. Grandsons will serve as pallbearers. Dyer Chapel of Hooper Huddleston Horner Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements (931)526-7158. You may share your thoughts and condolences at www.dyerfh.com