Obituaries
 By  Staff Reports Published 
3:58 pm Monday, October 13, 2014

Thomas Stanley “Stan” Hovater

Thomas Stanley “Stan” Hovater

October 11, 2014

Thomas Stanley “Stan” Hovater, age 52, of Murfreesboro, passed away on Saturday, Oct. 11, 2014 at St. Thomas Rutherford Hospital. He was a native of Decatur, and was the son of Suzanne Awbrey Hovater and James Fred Hovater, Jr.

Mr. Hovater is survived by his wife of 29 years, Melody Layne Hovater; daughter and her husband, Shelby and Andrew Hooper; sons, Hayden and Harrison Hovater all of Murfreesboro; mother, Suzanne Hovater; father, Fred Hovater; brothers, Howard Hovater of Homewood, and Wil Hovater of Gardendale; and sister, Megan Hovater of Russellville.

Funeral services will be at 1 p.m. of Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2014 at Roselawn Funeral Home with Trevor Atwood officiating.  Placement will follow in RoselawnMemorialGardens.  Stan was a proud graduate of MTSU, where he played left field for the Blue Raider baseball team.  Mr. Hovater was a Rural Mail Carrier with the Rockvale Post Office for twenty years.  He followed University of Alabama football, the Atlanta Braves and St. Louis Cardinals.  Stan was a member of BelleAireBaptistChurch and currently attended CityChurch. Friends are cordially invited to a visitation from 4 p.m. until 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct.14, 2014 and one hour prior to the service at Roselawn Funeral Home.

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