Funeral services will be conducted Saturday afternoon, February 22, 2025, at 1:00 p.m. from the Greenwood United Methodist Church. Tom Heard will officiate. Visitation will be on Friday, February 22, 2025 at Taylor Funeral Home from 4:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. and on Saturday, at the church beginning at 12 Noon until time of service. Place of rest will be in the Greenwood Cemetery with military honors.
Those desiring, memorials are suggested to the Greenwood Cemetery Fund.
James Robert McClelland, age 88, of Charlotte, TN died peacefully February 15, 2025, at his home with his family by his side.
He was born in Charlotte, Tennessee and was one of 12 children born to the late Vervin Thomas, Sr. and Verla Catherine Duke McClelland. He was preceded in death by his wife Glenda Fay Etheridge McClelland who died in 2003 also his brothers and sisters, V. T. McClelland, Jr., Joel McClelland, Herbert McClelland, Virginia Chandler, Mary Ann Jones, Sarah Spruill, Linda Cammack and Clara Story.
James was a graduate of Charlotte High School, Class of 1955. In the spring of 1943 at the young age of seven years, he stepped between the handles of a two-horse turning plow and never stopped. In the fall of 1943, he started school at the White Oak Flat School in the first grade. At the age of nine years old, he continued his farming life and climbed on a John Deere Tractor and pulled a disc. At the age of twelve he broke, fed out and sold a beef calf as a 4-H project. While in Charlotte High School he played on the 1954 football team, he was thrown 18 passes by quarterback John Loggins and caught 14 of those passes. He proudly served his country in the U.S. Army and while serving in the U. S. Army, he was employed as a civilian by Army Intelligence. He was cleared for a military top secret, two crypto and a civilian top secret security clearance. In his working career he drove a rock asphalt truck for the late Leroy Eubank, worked at Schrader Automotive Manufacturing and as a mail carrier out of Charlotte. He delivered mail for 28 years full time plus 6 years substituting to Cheatham Dam and with Gods help he was not ever involved in one accident.
James was a great husband, dad, brother and citizen of the Charlotte and Dickson County community.
He is survived by his son, James H. (Jamie) McClelland and his fiancée Tonyia Pafford, his two sisters, Brenda Work and her husband Dwight and Rose Baird and her husband Bob, his brother, William C. “Sharkey” McClelland and his wife Jennifer, several nieces and nephews.