Clarence-Darnell-Obituary

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Clarence Olden Darnell

Mar 25, 1943 - Aug 8, 2025

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You’re going to be greatly missed dad. I’ll cherish every moment I had with you. RIP til we meet again. No more pain. You are now with God and your wife Jill Love you always

I am so sorry to hear this. Someone sent this to me literally just a couple minutes ago. I just walked across the road the other day to get as close to where the old house stood as I could. I remember Phyllis and I riding Fireball and Tiger in the fields and Jill making oh now I can’t remember what she called it soup lol. Clarence always working on an old car. I still remember as I stand in my kitchen my mom picking at Connie about a doughnut Connie wanted and what Connie said, when mom...

You have our sympathies.

Obituary

Clarence's Obituary

Clarence Olden Darnell, 82, of Lebanon, passed away Friday, August 8, 2025 at Springfield Nursing and Rehab.  He was born March 25, 1943 in Marion County.  He worked as a farmer and a mechanic.  

He was preceded in death by his wife, Jill Simpson Darnell; parents, Edward Brodus and Doshia Lee Sneed Darnell; three sisters, Edith Ann Thomas, Cordia Faye Darnell, and Frances Cull; three brothers, William Edward, Lonnie Ray, and Perry Woodson Darnell.

Survivors include six children, Phyllis Estes of Springfield, Owen Darnell (Melissa) of North Vernon, Indiana, Mary Leola Hutchinson (Mike) of Hutchison, William Ray Mattingly (Rose) of Lebanon, Connie Lynn Collins of New Castle, Tennessee, and Tina Marie Cunningham of LaFollette, Tennessee; 12 grandchildren and a number of great grandchildren.  

Cremation was chosen with inurnment at 1 pm Saturday, August 23, 2025 in Muldraugh Hill Baptist Church cemetery.  Mattingly Funeral Home is entrusted with the arrangements.

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