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Martha Poyner

1923-2018

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Services for Martha N. Poyner, age 95 of Gleason, Tenn. are Tuesday December 11, 2018 at 1 p.m.  at Gleason First United Methodist Church. Burial will follow in Hopewell Cemetery.

Visitation will begin Tuesday morning at 11 a.m.  and will go until time of her funeral service. Mrs. Poyner is survived by two daughters, Paula (Jim) Hooper of Memphis, and Pam (Jerry) McElhiney of Gleason. She is also survived by five siblings; Virginia Jeter, Betty Bell, Janis Featherstone, Susan Bradberry all of McKenzie, and Charles Hodges of Huntingdon.

Mrs. Poyner leaves behind two grandchildren, Angela (Jason) Hunt of Gleason and Andrew (Heather Fletcher) McElhiney of Springfield.  She also leaves behind three great grandchildren, Price, Dylan, and Sadie Hunt all of Gleason. Mrs. Poyner was preceded in death by her husband, Thomas Ed Poyner, parents, Roy Rosco and Tennie Aileen Hodges, two sisters, Margaret Calvert and Mary Jane Higgs, and three brothers, Tommy, John Robert, and Roy Lee Hodges.

Willians Funeral Home of Gleason has charge of arrangements.