Obituaries
 By  Staff Reports Published 
2:44 pm Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Wanda Nell Pickett

Wanda Nell Pickett

January 26, 2012

Wanda Nell Pickett, 69, died Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012, at ECM Hospital. She was a native of Franklin County and a homemaker.

Funeral services were Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012, at Deaton Funeral Home Chapel, Red Bay, with Bro. John Stockton officiating.

She is survived by three children, Gary Armstrong and Randy Armstrong and wife, Toni,   all of Red Bay, and Tammi Mason and husband, Tommy, of Hamilton; her mother, Marveline Hastings Pharr, of Atwood; four sisters, Lavell Hall, Darlene Carter, Doris Swindle and Cathy Davidson; one brother, Jerry Hastings; four grandchildren, Cody and Phillip Armstrong and Brittany and Brandy Mason; one great-grandchild, Kalei Mason and special friend and caregiver, Joyce Bates.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Raymond “Pee Wee” Pickett, her father, Raymond Harley Hastings and a grandchild, Andy Armstrong.

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