Hazel Shanklin

Mrs. Hazel Shanklin, age 85, of Dyer, Tennessee, passed away from this life on June 26, 2014, at the Dyer Nursing Home. Funeral services for Mrs. Shanklin will be conducted on Saturday, June 28, 2014, at 1:00 p.m. in the chapel of Karnes & Son Funeral Home of Dyer with Bro. Steve Skelton and Bro. Corey Meggs officiating. Interment will follow in Poplar Grove Cemetery of Dyer. Mrs. Shanklin was born June 2, 1929, in Benton County, Tennessee; the daughter of the late Guy and Manie Cuthbertson Askew. She retired from Brown Shoe Company. Mrs. Shanklin was a member of New Hope Baptist Church. Mrs. Shanklin is survived by daughters, Kay Ervin and husband Stan, Faye Pierce, and Gale Hall; daughter-in-law, Dedra Shanklin; eight grandchildren, Marty, Robbie, Emily, Carol, Ross, Tiffany, Bradley, and Jessie; twenty great-grandchildren; one special niece; sisters, Rozell Cole of Dyer and Mary Etta Watkins of Paris; brothers, Douglas Askew of Bradford, and A. G. Askew of Dyer; and also by many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her spouse, Eddie D. Shanklin; parents; son, Eddie Guy Shanklin; and sons-in-law, Tommy Pierce, and Johnnie Hall. The family will receive friends from 5-8 p.m. on Friday, June 27. Karnes & Son Funeral Home is honored to serve the family of Mrs. Hazel Shanklin.