Obituaries
 By  Staff Reports Published 
2:28 pm Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Jack Colglazier

Jack Colglazier, 92, Russellville, passed away July 25 at Mitchell Hollingsworth Nursing Facility.

 

Mr. Colglazier was a native of Lawrence County, Indiana, but lived most of his life in Franklin County, Alabama. He served in the Navy and was a WWII Veteran and a cost estimator for Alabama Stone/Russellville Cut Stone for 67 years.  He cherished all his memories at both businesses.

 

Funeral service will be July 28, 12 p.m. at Pinkard Funeral Home, Russellville with Bro. Sammy Taylor officiating. Burial will be in Franklin Memory Gardens.  The family will receive friends Thursday from 10 a.m. until time of the service.

 

Survivors include children, Lucinda Kaye Olive and husband, Wendell, Teresa Susan Smith, Rhonda Joyce Stanley and husband, Jimmy, Jacqueline Ann Pickett and husband, Daniel, Alan Kim Colglazier and wife, Sherrie, Brian Scott Colglazier and wife, Nell; 15 grandchildren; 28 great-grandchildren; two great-great grandchildren; several nieces and nephews.

 

Pallbearers will be grandsons and nephews.

 

He was preceded in death by wife, Erma Carolyn “Terry” Colglazier; parents, Clay F. and Margaret D. Colglazier; son-in-law, Shelby Smith; siblings, James Tim Dodd Colglazier, Wilma C. Burton and Phillip F. Colglazier.

 

 

Special thanks to Mitchell Hollingsworth Nursing and Rehab Facility, third floor and Amedysis Hospice Care.

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