Laura Acuff

Funeral services for Laura Ruth Acuff, 80, of Cookeville will be held Tuesday, January 17 at 7 p.m. in the Cookeville Chapel of Hooper-Huddleston and Horner Funeral Home with Bro. Horace Burks officiating. Graveside service and interment will be Wednesday January 18 at 12:30 p.m. (E. S.T.) Chattanooga National Cemetery in Chattanooga, TN with Bro. J.C. Watkins of White Oak Church of Christ officiating. The family will receive friends Tuesday 5 p.m. until service time at the funeral home. Mrs. Acuff died Sunday afternoon, January 15, 2012 at Masters Health Care Center. She was born October 13, 1930 in McMinnville, TN to the late Era Fox and Victoria Askew Glenn. Mrs. Acuff was a member of Sycamore Church of Christ in Cookeville and a former member of White Church of Christ in Red Bank. She was a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband of 52 years Frank Melton Acuff (whom she married April 16, 1953 in Cheyenne, WY) who died December 9, 2005. In addition to her parents and husband, she was preceded in death by her daughter, Tammy Kirkpatrick, two brothers, Roy Glenn and Howard Glenn, and four sisters, Lula Glenn, Lila Armstrong, Lydia Glenn and Ona Jones. Mrs. Acuff is survived by a son and daughter-in-law, Steven and Lynn Acuff of San Ramon, CA; daughter and son-in-law, Victoria and David Young of Cookeville; three brothers, Claude Glenn of Chattanooga; Willie Paul Glenn of Jackson, Mississippi and Era Glenn, Jr. of McMinnville; sister, Rebecca Nobles of San Antonio, TX; four grandchildren, Dallas (April) Shackelford of Cookeville, Laurie (Jacob) Love of Columbia, TN, Nikki (Seth) Brendle of Winston Salem, NC, and Dustin (Lisa) Acuff of Covina, CA; ten great-grandchildren and numberous nieces and nephews.