Extracted from The Daily Herald (Columbia, TN)
Sunday, June 13, 2004

Charles Hargrove

Mr. Charles Edward ``Charlie'' Hargrove, 74, retired supervisor at Monsanto and resident of Old Highway 50A, died Friday, June 11, 2004, at Maury Regional Hospital.

Funeral services will be conducted at 2:00 P.M. Sunday at Oakes & Nichols Funeral Home with Joe Macer, Elmer Lusk, and Steve Lusk officiating. Burial will be in Rose Hill Cemetery with military honors provided by Herbert Griffin American Legion Post 19.

Memorials may be made to the East Side Church of Christ Building Fund, 1024 East Valley Drive, Columbia, TN 38401. Notes of sympathy may be sent to the family at www.oakesandnichols.com.

The Maury County native was the son of the late Willie A. Hargrove and Lethia Derryberry Hargrove. He retired from Monsanto, was owner of Hargrove Mobile Home Park, and a former employee of Maury Slag. Mr. Hargrove served in the U. S. Army during World War II and was a member of the Pleasant Grove Masonic Lodge #138 at Culleoka. He was a member of East Side Church of Christ.

Survivors include his wife of fifty-two years, Elizabeth Dillehay Hargrove of Columbia; two sons, Sonny (Cindy) Hargrove and Edward (Jackie) Hargrove, both of Columbia; two sisters, Ruth (Robert) Childress and Betty (Billy Ray) Hardison, both of Columbia; grandchildren, Chris Hargrove, Matthew Hargrove, Dustin Hargrove, Benjamin Hargrove, Jessica Hargrove, and Clara Hargrove; brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law, Ludie Miller, Oscar (Jean) Dillehay, Edith (Tom) Haney, Laddy (Judy) Dillehay, Clint (June) Dillehay, Peggy (Bill) Brent; and two aunts, Elizabeth Vasquez of Land O?Lakes, Florida; Georgia Hargrove of Columbia.

Pallbearers will be Ray Floyd, Jack Craig, Austin Brewer, Henry Harris, Jim Wilson, James Ed Pollard, Alfred Pagel, Ray Rummage, Ron Fogel, Jerry McNeese, and Sarge Westmoreland. Honorary pallbearers will be former employees of Monsanto; elders and deacons of East Side Church of Christ; Jack White, Ed Gossett, Arnold Sexton, John Vaughan, Dr. Dwayne Fulks, and Dr. Ben Gardner.