Jeanette Cripps Dodson

71 year old Jeanette Cripps Dodson of Smithville died Thursday at DeKalb Community Hospital. She was a factory worker having formerly worked at Westinghouse and a member of Bright Hill United Methodist Church. The funeral will be Saturday at 3:00 p.m. at the chapel of Love-Cantrell Funeral Home. John Carpenter and Tim Woodward will officiate with burial in DeKalb Memorial Gardens. Visitation will be Friday from 10:00 a.m. until 10:00 p.m. and Saturday from 9:00 a.m. until the service at 3:00 p.m. She was preceded in death by a daughter, Tabitha Danielle Dodson; parents, Johnie Roscoe, Sr. and Potter Loren Taylor Cripps; grandparents, Ada Pack and Robert Taylor and Martha and Sam Cripps; two brothers, Jerry and James “Curly” Cripps, and two sisters-in-law, Brenda and Chloa Cripps. She is survived by her husband of 40 years, Glenn Dodson of Smithville, Two sisters, Judy and husband M.B. Silcox of Smithville and Brenda and husband John Arledge of Centertown. Two brothers, Johnnie, Jr. and wife Shirley Cripps, and Gene Cripps, all of Smithville.; brother-in-law, James Paul and wife Mary Dodson of Cookeville; three sisters-in-law, Ruby Ann Hasting of Cookeville, Willie Kathryn Knowles of Michigan, and Margaret Ann Hickey of Sparta. Several nieces, nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews also survive. Love-Cantrell Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.

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