Larry Marshall Cross

Mr. Larry Cross, 64, of Union City died Friday, July 26, 2013, in Louisville, KY. Services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, August 3, 2013, at Oak Grove Missionary Baptist Church in Martin. Rev Marvin Mercer, Sr. will be officiating. Interment will follow in Obion County Memorial Gardens. Visitation will begin at 6 p.m. until 8 p.m. on Friday at Rawls Funeral Home. He was born July 10, 1949, in Woodland Mills, son of the late Randall and Grace (Johnson) Cross. A 1968 graduate of Obion County Central High School, he studied at Meharry Medical College to become a certified X-ray technician. He was a retired 30-year Goodyear employee, had served in the U.S. Army and was retired from the Tennessee Army National Guard’s 913th Engineer Co. in Union City. He was a member of Mount Herman Missionary Baptist Church in Woodland Mills and attended Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church in South Fulton. He is survived by his wife, Darline Sneed Cross; three sons and a daughter-in-law, Larry and Taquitta Cross, Sherron Cross and Shane Cross, all of Union City; two daughters and a son-in-law, Tiea and Eric Davis of South Fulton and Toya Acosta of Nashville; nine grandchildren; a brother, David Cross of Woodland Mills; two sisters and a brother-in-law, Betty Ferguson of Indianapolis and Jackie and James Anderson of Dyersburg; two uncles, Robert Johnson of Paducah, Ky., and James Bransford of South Fulton; and two aunts, Amelia Johnson of Cleveland and Gladys Johnson of South Fulton. Rawls Funeral Home – Union City 731-885-8110