Loretta Nash

Loretta S. Nash, 69, passed on Friday, Jan. 23, 2015, in a local hospital. She was employed many years at DuPont then served 24 years with the United States Postal Service before retiring. She was a member of New Mt. Carmel M.B. Church and the IBPO Elks of the World and a member of the Order of Eastern Star PHA White Lilly Chapter 284. She was preceded in death by her former husband, Sygbee Nash; father, Percy Allen Sr.; sisters, Sandra Powell and Shirley Fairbanks; brothers, Percy Allen Jr. and Jerry Allen. She is survived by daughters Janice Nash Walker, Debra and Veronica Nash; son-in-law, Arnold Walker; grandchildren, Corey and Courtney Washington, Marcus Nash and Alden Smith; mother, Bertha Stoudemire; six brothers, Harold (Mary) Phillips, of Decatur, Ga., Percy, Charles and Calvin (Patricia) Stoudemire, Raulston Allen, Carlton (Delores) Allen, all of Chattanooga; four sisters, Joyce McClain, of Detroit, Mich., Barbara Allen, Brenda (Herbert) Dallas and Linda Bonner, all of Chattanooga; uncle, Jimmy (Linda) Allen; aunts, Ruby Issac and Willena Sampler; dear friend, Lillian Lewis; other relatives and friends. Funeral services will be held at noon on Saturday, Jan. 31, 2015, at Hawkinsville Baptist Church with Pastor Floyd Whiteside of New Mt. Carmel Missionary Baptist Church. Interment Lakewood-East. The body will lie in state after noon today and family will receive friends from 5-7 p.m. at John P. Franklin Funeral Home, 1101 Dodds Ave. 423-622-9995.