Louise Medley

Funeral Services for Louise Medley, 90 of Cookeville will be Saturday, January 24 at 11:30 A.M. from the Cookeville Chapel of Hooper Huddleston Horner Funeral Home. Interment will follow in Cookeville City Cemetery. Miss Medley died Wednesday Night, January 21, 2015 at NHC of Cookeville. She was born July 3, 1924 in Baxter to the late Ernest and Martelia "TELIA" Anderson Medley. She grew up on the family farm, helping with all the chores and crops. She attended Baxter schools, graduating from Baxter Seminary as the valedictorian of her class. In support of the war effort during World War II, she took a job with the War Department and worked several years in New Jersey and Washington, D.C. She found her true calling though by working for her cousin, Luke Medley, at his radio station, WHUB in Cookeville. She worked forty years at WHUB, only missing one day's work during that time. Louise was an avid walker and for years could be seen around town walking to work at WHUB, to the Spring Street Market, or to local shops in search of a special dish or figurine which she loved to collect. The last surviving member of her immediate family, Louise was preceded in death by her parents, her brothers Arnold, Morris, Lamar and Roy Medley and , just recently, her sister Ruth Neal. Survivors include nieces Pat Prentice and husband Carl of Madison, TN, Deane Kay and husband Sutton, and by nephews James Ernest Medley and wife Sarah, Mark Lamar Medley and wife Donna all of Clinton, TN., and Donald M. Medley and wife Shirley of Harrisburg, IL. Her cousins Mike Medley and wife Carolyn, and Martin Medley and wife Laura, all of Cookeville were so dear to her and always provided loving care for her. An independent, determined woman is how we shall remember Louise Medley. Family will receive friends Saturday at Cookeville Chapel of Hooper Huddleston Huddleston Funeral Home from 10 A.M. until service time. Carl Prentice and Jim Ern Medley will officiate. Family and friends will serve as pallbearers. I lieu of flowers, donations in memory of Louise Medley may be made to TTU Foundation, The Luke and Pauline Medley Scholarship Fund, P.O. Box 1915, Cookeville, TN 38505