GLEAVES, JR., John Thaxton Age 58 years of Nashville, passed from this life Monday, July 21, 2008. Mr. Gleaves is preceded in death by his father, John Gleaves, Sr.; mother, Frances Gleaves; sister, Gail Smedley. Survived by his children, Kimberly (John) Roberts, Laura (Brian) Mitchell, Rebekah (Bobby) Sanderlin and John Thaxton (Carrie) Gleaves III; former wife, Mary Frances Rudy; grandchildren, Caitlin, John Roger, Franklin, Spencer and Jackson Roberts, Morgan, Jacob and Ellis Mitchell, Bo Sanderlin, Lydia, Shelby, Sydney, Thaxton and Benjamin Gleaves; sister, Guywn Lambert. A Celebration of Life service is scheduled for Wednesday, July 23, 2008 at 10 a.m., from the Serenity Chapel of the Mount Olivet Funeral Home. Interment to follow in historic Mount Olivet Cemetery. Visitation with the Gleaves family will be on Tuesday from 4-8 p.m. and Wednesday, one hour prior to the service in the Acklen Stateroom of the MOUNT OLIVET FUNERAL HOME & CEMETERY, 1101 Lebanon Road, (615) 255-4193.
Published in The Tennessean on 7/22/2008