Tim Spires

CLEVELAND — Tim Spires, 57, passed away Sunday, Feb. 19, 2017. He was a member of First Baptist Church where he was a Deacon and choir member. Tim Spires was the President and CEO of the Tennessee Association of Manufacturers and the Chattanooga Regional Manufactures Association. He holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Cincinnati and an MBA from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. He currently serves on the faculty of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, College of Business Administration. His field is Leadership Development and he also works one-on-one with executives and physicians working on their MBA. He was a great humanitarian and very active in the Boy Scouts of America, and was a scout master for Troop 10, the former chairman of the Board for the Cherokee area council and the current BSA area six president. He was very active in the United Way of Bradley County serving as chair of the impact committee. He was past president of the Cleveland Rotary Club and president of the Cleveland and Chattanooga Metropolitan YMCA. He was preceded in death by his father-in-law, Robert Daasch. He is survived by his wife, Cindy Spires, of Cleveland; children, Ben Spires, of Knoxville, and Lindsay Spires, of Kathleen, Ga.; mother and father, Forrest and Janice Spires, of Stout, Ohio; mother-in-law, Marjorie Daasch, of Cleveland. A celebration of life service will be held at 4 p.m. today, Feb. 22, 2017, at First Baptist Church with Pastor Steve Morgan and Pastor Jim Gibson officiating. The family will receive friends from 1 to 4 p.m. today at the church prior to the service. Memorials may be made to the Boy Scouts of America; United Way of Cleveland; or the First Baptist Mission Department. We invite you to send a message of condolence and view the Spires family guestbook at www.ralphbuckner.com.