Thelma Jean Gore

Funeral Services for Mrs. Thelma Jean Dailey Gore, age 83, of Holly Springs will be conducted 2 p.m., Sunday, November 10, 2019 from the chapel of Speck Funeral Home. Burial to follow in the Walnut Grove Cemetery. The family will welcome friends on Saturday evening from 5 until 9 p.m. at Speck Funeral Home. Mrs. Thelma Jean Gore passed from this life on Friday morning, November 8, 2019 from the Overton County Health & Rehab. She was born July 9, 1936, at home in the Rocky Mound Community of Overton County, Tennessee to the late Willie Newton & Ermine Catherine Clayborn Dailey. She attended the Windle Grammar School. She was baptized at Holly Springs Church of Christ in 1955. Thelma Jean worked for many years as a seamstress. She was known for her hard-working skills as a seamstress and at home. She loved gardening, canning, flowers, and working on her farm. She loved her family very much and always checked on them before going to bed every evening. Thelma looked forward to being with and worshiping her Lord and Savior. Thelma Jean Gore leaves behind her sons, Bobby Gore of Holly Springs, Community, and Billy Joe Gore & wife Lisa of Livingston, TN; grandchildren, ...[more]

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herine Gore, Ben Gore & wife Lisa Jai, and Molly Gore; great-grandchildren, Noah Gore and James Ryman Gore; sister, Beulah Morgan; brothers, Willie, Robert, Clifton, Howard, Roy U.L., and Donald Dailey. In addition to her parents, Thelma Jean was preceded in death by her husband, Robert Wylie Gore, Jr.; brothers, Elmer, Hubert, Arvis Ray & Herman Dailey, and sisters, Lara Ethel Dailey, Mary Brown, and Delma McWhorter. Pallbearers to serve are Eddie Gilpatrick, Eddie Dailey, Curtis Hayes, Teddy Dailey, Leo Willis, Tyler Sullivan, Jeremy McLearran, and Brian Dailey.