Obituaries
 By  Staff Reports Published 
4:18 pm Monday, September 22, 2014

Tommy Daniel Adair

Tommy Daniel Adair

September 16, 2014

Tommy Daniel Adair, 59, died Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2014 at ShoalsHospital, Muscle Shoals. He was born in Tishomingo, Miss., and was a welder for more than twenty years. He was a Baptist.

Services were Friday, Sept. 19, at Deaton Funeral Home Chapel, RedBay, with Bro. Joseph Jones and Mike Deaton officiating. Burial was in RidgeCemetery, Golden, Miss.

Survivors are his wife, Joyce Adair, Red Bay;  two daughters, Cheirl Gattis and husband, Michael, Paden, Miss., and Stephaine Harrison and Billy Pressley, Tishomingo, Miss.; grandchildren raised as children, Paul Daniel Thomas Harrison, Amanda Harrison, Austin Harrison and Christy Harrison; two grandsons, Wade Smith and Bradley Smith and five sisters, Joyce Earnest and husband, Wayne, Fairview, Miss., Freda Renshaw, St. Louis, Mo., Betty Davis and husband, Varnell, Iuka, Miss., Bernice Spencer and husband, Dennis, Ryans Well, Miss., and Irene White.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Douglas Adair and Dellie Pate Adair; three brothers, Ed Adair, Junior Adair and Bobby Adair; two sisters, Maxine Jones and Brenda Jones; and three brothers-in-law, John Renshaw, Jim Jones and Joe Jones.

Pallbearers were Danny Wayne Earnest, Jeff Jones, Brandon Jones, DJ Spencer, Billy Pressley, Danny Joe Hacker, Michael Fairchild and Bill Swader. Honorary pallbearers were Eric Leathers and Michael Gattis.

Visitation was Thursday, Sept. 18, at Deaton Funeral Home, RedBay, and until service time on Friday. 

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