Grace Presley

Funeral services for Mrs. Dona Grace Presley, 86, of Baxter, will be held at 11a.m. Thursday, January 12th at the Cookeville Chapel of Hooper Huddleston and Horner Funeral Home with Bro. John Pippin officiating. Interment will follow in Crest Lawn Cemetery. The family will receive friends Wednesday from 4 p.m. until 7 p.m. and again Thursday from 10 a.m. until service time at the funeral home. Mrs. Presley died Monday, January 9, 2017, at Saint Thomas West Hospital in Nashville. She was born October 29, 1930 in Putnam County to the late Simon and Beulah Burgess Thomas. She was a 1949 graduate of Baxter Seminary. Grace was an instructor at the former DeBerry Academy before joining her husband Ray working as a secretary for Woodmen of the World Insurance. Kind, sweet, loving, elegant, and classy, Grace's demeanor matched her name. She enjoyed painting, traveling and was a talented seamstress. She was a member of Baxter Church of Christ and enjoyed teaching the Ladies' Bible Study. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband of 65 years, Cecil Ray Presley; son, Michael Presley; brothers and sister-in-law, Carmel and Dean Thomas and Carl Thomas; and by brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law, Charles and Charlcie Presley and Willard and Vivian Presley. She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Sherrie and Chase Evans of Nashville; special daughter-in-law, Carolyn Hamby and her husband Terry of Cadiz, KY; four grandchildren, Martha Presley (husband, Danny Tran), Michael Presley, Jr. (wife, Lauren), Cody and Hunter Evans; two great-grandchildren, Michael Houston Presley III and Oliver James Tran; sisters-in-law, Jean Watts and Dorothy Thomas; and by a host of beloved nieces and nephews. Chase Evans, Cody Evans, Hunter Evans, Michael Presley, Jr., Terry Hamby and Danny Tran will serve as pallbearers. Memorial contributions may be made to Arthritis Foundation of Tennessee, 209 10th Avenue South, Suite 123, Nashville, TN 37203. Hooper-Huddleston & Horner Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements (931)526-6111. You may share your thoughts and memories at www.hhhfunerals.com