Roosevelt Ashburn

Funeral services for Olen Roosevelt Ashburn, 86 of Baxter, will be Wednesday, January 1, 2020 at 1 PM from the Cookeville chapel of Hooper Huddleston Horner Funeral Home. Bro. Gary West will officiate. Interment, with military honors will follow in Crest Lawn Cemetery. Mr. Ashburn died Monday morning, December 30, 2019 in Cookeville Regional Medical Center. He was born November 27, 1933 in Putnam County to the late John and Mary Dunn Ashburn. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his wife Mary Lou Ervin Ashburn on November 15, 2003, and a grandson Brad Madewell, sisters and brothers-in-law Clara Nell Thomas, Mildred and Jim Gammill, Melba and Howard Allison, Betty Sue Ashburn and Orby Goff, brother and sister-in-law Albert and Lorene Ashburn. He was a graduate of Baxter Seminary. He was a veteran of the Army. He was a retired assembler with Dana Corporation. Survivors include daughter June Madewell Smith of Cookeville, son and daughter-in-law Milton and Donna Ashburn of Baxter, sister Rose Lee Goff of Cookeville, brother and sister-in-law Alfred and Faye Ashburn of Cookeville, brother-in-law Carlyn Thomas of Baxter, grandchildren Julie Ashburn and Jamie and husband Adam Brown, great-grandchildren Bradi Madewell Betcher, Lillian, Olen and Geneva Brown. Family will receive friends Wednesday from 11 AM until service time at the funeral home. Active Pallbearers will be Mitch and Greg Thomas, Edwin Ashburn, Tanner Killian, Adam and Olen Brown, Le Grande Smith. Hooper Huddleston Horner Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements (931)526-6111. You may share your thoughts and memories at www.hhhfunerals.com.