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Mary Ruth Allen Speight
Date of Death or Service Sep 23, 2018
Mary Ruth Allen Speight
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   Funeral services will be conducted Tuesday afternoon, September 25, 2018, at 1:00 p.m. from the chapel of the Taylor Funeral Home. Bob Thomas will give her eulogy. Place of rest will be in the Dickson County Memorial Gardens. Visitation will be on Tuesday beginning at 11:00 a.m. until time of service.

   Those desiring, memorials are suggested to the Dickson County Help Center.

   Mrs. Speight, age 81, of Charlotte, TN died peacefully on Sunday morning, September 23 at her home with family by her side.

   She was born in Alabama, daughter of the late Daniel and Mildred Pendergrass Allen. In her early years, she was a bank teller with First Bank in Linden, Alabama. After she was married, she became a wife, homemaker, and mother. Mrs. Speight was the widow of the late Billy Speight and a member of the Water Street Church of Christ.  She loved making sourdough bread and sharing with family and friends. Mary Speight was a true example of what a southern lady should be. She loved her family and friends and loved spending time with all of them. She also enjoyed her time as a volunteer with the Dickson County Help Center in Dickson. She was preceded in death by her parents, a brother, Billy Allen, and a sister, Virginia Allen.

   Survivors include her children: Debbie Iris Wells and her husband, Terry of Hermitage, TN, Barbara Fuller and her special friend Andy Bowker of Charlotte, TN, Lucy Davey and her husband, Tim of Florida, and Robert Speight of Florida. Also surviving are her grandchildren: Alyssia Mary Thompson (Andrew), Michael Wells, Amanda Wells, Scott Cathey, Megan Cathey, Patrick Speight, John Robert Speight, Spencer Thompson, and Ada Thompson; her brothers Jimmy Allen of Butler Alabama and Dan Allen of Crestview, Florida.
   Casket bearers will be Andy Bowker, Terry Wells, Chad Allen, Thomas Southerland, Michael Wells, and Willie Speight.

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