Junior Tharpe

Mr. Junior Tharpe, 85, of Paris died Friday, October 18, 2013, at Plumley Rehabilitation Center. Services will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, October 26, 2013, at Rawls Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Ivy Jamison officiating. Interment will follow in Greenwood Cemetery. Visitation will begin at noon on Saturday at the funeral home.Junior Tharpe was born in Benton County, Tennessee to his parents, Jim and Nellie Boyd Tharpe, on December 19, 1927. Junior left this earth on Friday, October 18, 2013, at Plumley Rehab Center. He married Ruby Inez Porter on December 5, 1946. They were faithfully devoted to each other until her departure on April 28, 2013.All that knew Junior knew he was blessed to be a blessing to not only his children, grandchildren and great grandchildren but to everyone he was involved with throughout his journey called life. Our father was a good man, loved the Lord, loved to sang God’s hymns. Kind, loving, full of joy and loved to be around people. He loved his children and family.He was a faithful member and deacon of Spring Creek Baptist Church. He loved working in his garden and he loved sitting on the porch and talking to people all day and night.He was preceded in death by his parents, his wife, a son, a daughter and eleven siblings.Left to cherish his memory are six children, Verna (Sharon) Tharpe of Nashville, Tennessee and John Tharpe, Larry Tharpe, Carlene (Thomas) Shields, Margaret Freeman and Linda Tharpe, all of Paris, Tennessee; six grandchildren; fourteen great grandchildren; one great-great grandchild; one brother, John (Hazel) Tharpe of Paris, Tennessee; one sister-in-law, Mary L. Teague of Chicago, Illinois and a host of nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends. Rawls Funeral Home - Paris 731-642-1515