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Emory Brock Edmondson
Date of Death or Service Dec 6, 2020
Emory Brock Edmondson
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 A funeral service will be held on Saturday, December 12, 2020 at 1:00 PM at the Taylor Funeral Home.   Place of rest will be in the Dickson County Memorial Gardens.  Visitation will be held on Saturday from 12:00 noon until the time of service.  To view a livestream of the service on Saturday, please click HERE.

Emory Brock Edmondson was born on July 17, 1952 in the Promise Land Community of Charlotte, Tennessee.  The sixth of seven children born to James Armstrong and Betty Ruth Collier-Edmondson, Brock grew up in a household surrounded by loving parents and siblings, included Thomas, Hattie, Mickey, Jimmy, Sharon, Bobby and expanded “siblings”/cousins, George and Nancy Mosely. If this was not enough, at almost any given time you might find his other out of town cousins, David Jackson, Brenda Blue, Curtis and Freddie Corlew, and Regina Edmondson staying at the happy and kids’ friendly home.  The home and table were also opened always to his many cousins who lived in the community.

 Brock accepted Christ as his personal Savior when he was a young child at St. John United Methodist Church. He was not officially enrolled at Promise Land School, but he attended regularly with his older brothers and sisters.  By the time he became school aged the Promise Land School had closed so he attended primary school at Cedar Grove School in Charlotte. In 1966, he was among the first African American youth to attend the newly integrated Dickson County school system.

 As a young man, he moved away from home to Columbus, Ohio.  It was at Lazarus Department Store in Columbus where he met his wife to be Debra Sutton.  He and Debra returned to Tennessee where they enjoyed 40 years of marital bliss.  To this union their son Erynn and daughter Cheresa were born. In addition, from a previous marriage and another relationship, he fathered two more sons, Rahsaun Ferguson and Quinton Vaughn and daughters, Selita Ferguson and Trista Jones.

 After retiring as a maintenance engineer at Hiscall Communication, he was able to devote more time to his family life.  He loved working around the home, tending the landscape and addressing the “honey do” lists.  Spending time and caring for his grandchildren brought him even more joy.  He was loved dearly by his family and was a devoted husband, father, grandfather, and great-grandfather affectionally known as “Pop Pop”.

 Brock was preceded in death by both parents, sister Hattie Blakely, brothers, Thomas and Jewel “Mickey” and cousin, George, grandson, RayVon, sister-in-law, Minerva Edmondson and brothers-law, Jerome Harrington and Bill Blakely. Left to mourn his absence are his siblings, Sharon Harrington, James “Jimmy” (Deborah), Robert “Bobby” (Ulrike) Edmondson and sister-in-law Joyce Edmondson, as well as sixteen grandchildren and four great-grandchildren; devoted cousins, Bill Gilbert, Regina Webb; the Sutton Family; a host of nieces and nephews; cousins and friends.

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