Obituaries
 By  Staff Reports Published 
4:17 pm Monday, January 25, 2016

Mary Ruth Brown Evetts

Mary Ruth Brown Evetts, 77, Russellville, passed away Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2016, at ECM Hospital.

She was a native of Mississippi, but had lived most of her life in Franklin County.

Funeral service was held Saturday, Jan. 23, 2016, at Pinkard Funeral Home, Russellville with Dave Heg officiating. The family received friends from noon until time of service at the funeral home. Burial was in Franklin Memory Gardens.

Survivors include husband, Cecil Evetts; daughters, Sharmaine Fikes, Amy McLemore; grandchildren, Adam Fikes and fiancée, Alyssa Waldecker, Maegan Evetts, Molly Evetts, Cecilia McLemore; great-granddaughter, Addyson Fikes.

She was preceded in death by parents, Oscar and Marcy Dale Vest Brown.

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