Verneta Cunningham

Dateline McKenzie, TN

A funeral service for Margie Verneta Cunningham is Saturday, October 5, 2019 at 1:00 p.m. at the Obion River District. The family will receive friends Friday, October 4, 2019 5:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.at the funeral home. Internment is at Old Reedy Creek Cemetery, McLemoresville, TN.

Mrs. Cunningham, 88 years old, died Monday, September 23, 2019 at McKenzie Health Care. She was born April 18, 1931 in McLemoresville, TN to Vernell Hunt and Berthena Webb. She is a retired sewing machine operator for Henry I. Seigle, and a member of Olivet Missionary Baptist Church.

She is preceded in death by her parents, sisters Annie Haynes, Mary Adkisson, Willie Jo Adkisson and Delois Webb and brother Yuma Webb.

She is survived by her husband Porter Cunningham Sr. of McKenzie, five daughters Betty (George) Burrow of McKenzie, Priscilla (Fred) Brown of McKenzie, Eunice Phillips of McKenzie, Mary Crawley of McKenzie and Julie (Obie) Tharpe of Camden, three sons Ernest (Lucille) Phillips of Champaign, IL, Ray (Regina) Cunningham of Dallas, TX and Porter Cunningham, Jr of McKenzie, twenty three grandchildren, thirty four great-grandchildren and ten great-great grandchildren.