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Forest Clark Cantrell, 82
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Forest Clark Cantrell, 82, prominent Sparta businessman, died Sunday, Sept. 11 at Baptist Hospital in Nashville.Mr. Cantrell was born in McMinnville on Feb. 18, 1929, the son of Mary Clark Cantrell and Forest H. Cantrell. He graduated from McMinnville High School, attended Tennessee Tech and graduated from Nashville Auto Diesel College. He married Geraldine Rader in 1949.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt Womack, 84
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Lifelong McMinnville resident and Warren County native Franklin Delano Roosevelt Womack, age 84, was born May 19, 1940 and died March 5, 2025 at NHC Healthcare of McMinnville following an extended illness. A retired employee of BRC and Boyd Nursery and member of Hiawassee Church of Christ, he was the son of the late Ernest and Lucille Smith Womack. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by son, Rodney Thomas and siblings, Dorothy Grayson, Virginia Alexander, Ernestine Bonner, Maggie McReynolds, Edward Womack, Bob Womack and Charles Womack.
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