Mrs. Tommie Jean Clemons age 94, a homemaker of Carthage, was called to her heavenly home of eternal rest with her family at her bedside on Tuesday morning April 22, 2025 at the Highpoint Health-Riverview Medical Center in Carthage.
Funeral services from the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home will be conducted on Thursday morning April 24th at 11 a.m. with Dr. Jim Clardy and Bro. Tom Pierce officiating. Following the services, burial will be beside her husband. parents and sister in the center section at the Granville Cemetery. Visitation at Sanderson on Wednesday from 3:00 PM until 8:00 PM and on Thursday from 9:00 AM until service time at 11:00 AM.
The daughter of the late Hugh Hill McKinley who died at the age of 75 on June 20, 1948 and Nellie Lois Carter McKinley Cornwell who died at the age of 82 on August 1, 1987, she was born Tommie Jean McKinley in the Granville Community of Jackson County on August 30, 1930.
Mrs. Clemons step-father, the late Will Henry “Willie” Cornwell, also preceded her in death on September 22, 1959 at the age of 75.
Her only sibling, a sister, Ida Sue McKinley Reeves died in Murfreesboro on May 21, 2019 at the age of 86.
Mrs. Clemons was a member of the 1948 graduating class of the Jackson County Central High School and was transferred her junior year from Granville High School.
While at Granville she was a member of the Music Club her freshman and sophomore year where she served as President her sophomore year, was a member of the broadcast society her freshman year and where she also served as president.
Following transfer to Jackson County Central both her junior and senior year she was a member of the Future Homemakers of America serving as the class song leader, was the campus beauty her junior year, and her senior year, was a member of the Beta Club and was in the Beta Club play, an attendant to both the Beta Club Queen and Football Queen, served as class treasurer, a member of the Pep Squad and a member of “The Hickory” annual staff, serving as circulation manager. Mrs. Tommie Jean was selected as the prettiest girl of her graduating class and the statement made of her in the ’48 “The Hickory” annual by her class mates; “Beautiful as sweet, and young as beautiful”.
Shortly after graduation from high school, she married her high school sweetheart and the love of her life, Granville native James Edward Clemons at the Carthage United Methodist Church on July 3, 1948, He preceded her in death on July 23, 2022 at the age of 93, which was 20 days following their seventy fourth wedding anniversary.
She was employed as a Federal Crop Insurance Agent in Carthage from 1955 through 1960.
In 1971 she and the late Virginia Carter established the Carthage Fabric Shop in downtown Carthage where the former Fuqua-Butler Barbershop was located. They operated the business for thirteen years until their retirement in 1984.
While being reared and living in the Granville Community, Mrs. Clemons and her husband were members of the Granville United Methodist Church and after relocating to Carthage in 1966 prior to the impounding of the Cordell Hull Lake in the Spring of 1973, the Clemons family moved to their new home on Carmack Avenue and transferred their church membership from Granville to the Carthage United Methodist Church, where Mrs. Tommie Jean remained a faithful member until her death.
Surviving are her two sons; , Randall Clemons and wife Peggy of Lebanon and the Granville Community, Barry Clemons and wife Tiffy of the Dixon Springs Community; four grandchildren, James Michael Clemons of Nashville, Ashley Clemons Jordan of Lebanon, Steven Clemons and wife Kerri Beth Cookston Clemons of the Rome Community, Skyler Cowan and husband Ethan of the Russell Hill Community; five great-grandchildren, Kolby Jordan, Raelynn Cowan and James Cooper Clemons, Cole Clemons, and Riverlynn Cowan.
The Clemons family requests memorials to either the Granville Museum or the Granville Cemetery.
Active Pallbearers: Michael & Steven Clemons, Kolby Jordan, David & Paul Reeves, Jeff Wright,Ethan Cowan.
Honorary Pallbearers: Granville Museum Volunteers.
Special Honorary Pallbearers: Volunteers of Granville Museum, Dr. Richard Rutherford & Highpoint Health -Riverview nursing staff, Caregivers: Rida Cothron, Ann Wallace, Amy Bell, & Barbara Bratcher.
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