age 98, peacefully slipped into Heavenly rest on March 12, 2021. She is preceded in death by her husband of 55 years, W.A. "Fred" Wetherford, parents, Reuben and Billie Robinson of Chattanooga, brother Allen Robinson of Chattanooga. She is survived by her daughters: Billie Ann (Louis) Boyte, Mecia Lee Wetherford of Denver, CO; Rebecca Len (Don) Evans: brother, Traylor (Tena) Robinson of Chattanooga, TN; cousin, Barry (Aleta) Robinson of Clemson, SC; and nieces and nephew. Emmie was born in Augusta, Ga on September 19, 1922 and grew up in Chattanooga, TN where she graduated from Chattanooga High School. She and Fred raised their daughters in Nashville after Fred was transferred with...

James Dexter "Jim" Weatherly of Brentwood, Tenn., went to be with the Lord on February 3, 2021. He was 77. Born March 17, 1943, in Pontotoc to Ira Burdell "Ike" Weatherly and Edith Roberson Weatherly, Jim had a hall of fame music career after being an All-Southeastern Conference and All-America (honorable mention) quarterback at Ole Miss. At Pontotoc High School he was a multi-sport athlete and All-Little Ten Conference quarterback. Weatherly was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame in 2006 and the Ole Miss Alumni Hall of Fame in 2011. He became a member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame in New York in 2014 and that same year was...