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Ray McNew Obituary
Mr. McNew attended Tulip Grove Baptist Church.
He spent nine years in the U.S. Air Force as a weatherman and 11 years in the U.S. Army, retiring as a highly decorated CW3. He also was employed for 20 years with flight services at Nashville International Airport.
Mr. McNew was preceded in death by his parents, Arthur and Emma Griffith McNew; and six siblings.
He is survived by his wife of 57 years, Doris Addison McNew; children, Richard (Jeanelle) McNew, Teresa McNew, Rita (Gary) Malugin and Thomas (Crystal) McNew; brother, Donald McNew; grandchildren, Jennifer Iddings, Melissa Carrier, Tiffany Brown, Tiffany Fox, Rebecca Tomlinson, Hillary Malugin, Elizabeth Usmiller and Hailey Malugin; and great-grandchildren, Christopher Messick, Nathan McNew, Jarred Messick, Nicholas Iddings, Dalton Tomlinson, Gibson Fox, Teagan Brown and Dean Fox.
Services will be conducted at 10 a.m. Monday, July 30, in Bond Memorial Chapel with Brother Jack Lewis and Larry Addison officiating. Interment with full military honors will be in Hermitage Memorial Gardens. Visitation will be 2 to 8 p.m. today and from 9 to 10 a.m. Monday at the memorial chapel at N. Mount Juliet Road and Weston Drive in Mount Juliet, Tenn.
Flowers will be accepted or memorials may be made to Alive Hospice, 1718 Patterson St., Nashville, TN 37203.
For information, visit www.bondmemorial.com.
To plant trees in memory, please visit the Sympathy Store.
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Hermitage Memorial Gardens
August 6, 2012
The staff of Hermitage Memorial Gardens would like to offer our condolences to your family. At this very difficult time we want to say thank you for choosing Dignity Memorial.
Ken Stone
July 29, 2012
Sorry for your lost. You will always have the memory the rest of your lives.Im one of the sons of the late Ruth Smith. We lived next to your grandmother Emma, in Carterville
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