Dorothy Jean Mccaleb

Funeral services for Mrs. Dorothy Jean McCaleb, age 87, of Cookeville, will be at 11 a.m. Saturday November 2 at Dyer Funeral Home. Bro. Danny Lane will officiate. Interment will follow in the Boiling Springs Cemetery. The family will receive friends Friday from 5 - 8 p.m. and again Saturday from 10 a.m. until service time. Mrs. McCaleb passed away Wednesday afternoon October 30, 2019 at Cookeville Regional Medical Center. She was born September 29, 1932 in Putnam County, TN to the late George Monroe and Alice Jane Thomas Sherrell. Mrs. McCaleb has a homemaker. She was loving wife, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother and she cared deeply for her family. She enjoyed singing gospel music in local churches with her family. She is survived by two daughters, Beverly Goff of Baxter and Priscilla Cox (husband, Sherman); sister, Mary Martin of Baxter; four grandchildren, Amy Goff; Andrew Goff (wife, Gail), Brianna Howell (husband, Logan) and Jessica Cox; and three great-grandchildren, Shari, Earnest and Lily Goff. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, William Bulas McCaleb; eight brothers, Edgar, Estel, Lloyd, Billy, Robert, Wynne D., Leonard, and Oakley Sherrell; two sisters, Myrtie Bussell, and Clara Spears; and son-in-law, Donald Lee Goff. Pallbearers will be friends and family. Dyer Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. (931)526-7158. Share your thoughts and memories at www.dyerfh.com.