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Rita Ann Conquest

1949 -2020

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McKENZIE - Services for Rita Ann Conquest, 70, are Tuesday, February 18, 2020 at 10 a.m. at Brummitt-McKenzie Funeral Home with Brother Kenny Carr officiating.  Interment will follow at Shiloh Cemetery. 

The family will receive friends on Monday, February 17, 5 p.m. until 8 p.m. and Tuesday, February 18, 2020 from 8:30 a.m. to  10 a.m.  

Mrs. Conquest, a retired McKenzie Elementary School teacher, died Saturday, February 15, 2020 at her home.  She was born October 24, 1949 in McKenzie, Tenn. to Arlie C. and Pauline Bush Berry. She was a member of the First Baptist Church in Gleason and a member of the National Education Association (NEA).  She was preceded in death by her parents and a grandson, J.D. Kelly. 

Survivors include her husband of 47 years, Paul Conquest, a daughter and son, Michelle Lee Conquest and Randall Lee Conquest, all of McKenzie, and five grandchildren, Lexie Sullivan and Leslie Sullivan, Carey Grace Kelly, Chris Kelly and Brooke Kelly.

Pallbearers are Jimmy Holt, Nick Flippen, Gary Flippen, Greg Cook, Stacy Collins and Roger Sawyers and as honorary pallbearers Chip Dunavan, Ray Dean Verdell, Rueben Poff and Don Savers.

Brummitt-McKenzie Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.  For more information please call (731) 352-4848 or visit www.brummittmckenziefuneralhome.com.