Ephraim "Mr B" Buchanan

Funeral services for Mr. Ephraim (better known as Mr. B) Buchanan Jr. will be held Sunday July 3 at 3 p.m. in the Cookeville Chapel of Hooper-Huddleston & Horner Funeral Home. Interment, with military honors, will follow in Cookeville City Cemetery. Dr. Randall Adkisson, Rev. Charles Hutchinson, and Rev. Barry Boggs will officiate. Mr. Buchanan died Thursday morning June 30, 2011, at his home. He was born December 2, 1929, in Pulaski, Kentucky to the late Ephraim and Lucy Claunch Buchanan. He was Valedictorian of his 1949 Nancy High School graduating class in Nancy, KY. He owned and operated B & H Shoes in Cookeville until his retirement and was a U. S. Army Veteran of Korean War. Survivors include his wife of 58 years, Althene Smith Buchanan of Cookeville (whom he married April 26, 1953, in Rossville, GA); son and daughter-in-law, Doug & Kellie Buchanan of Knoxville, TN; two daughters and sons-in-law, Shelia & John Blakley of Huntsville, TN and Debra & Dr. Hugh Thompson of Baxter; seven grandchildren, Stephanie (Nick) Barca, Andrea (Jason) Smith, Ryan Thompson, Amanda (Eric) Kirk, Andrew Blakley, Luke Buchanan, and Ben Buchanan; great grandson, Colin Barca; and his brother, Calvin (Kay) Buchanan of Somerset, KY. Family and friends will serve as pallbearers. Mr. Buchanan"�s family will receive friends Sunday from 1 p.m. until service time at the funeral home. Memorial contributions may be made to Caris Hospice, 2525 Highway 111, Suite B, Cookeville, TN 38501 or to the National Parkinson Foundation, Gift Processing Center, PO Box 5018, Hagerstown, MD 21741-5018.