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Eddie Neil Ferguson, age 73 of the Kirbytown Community in Macon County, TN, passed away Thursday afternoon, February 19 ,2026 at Tristar Hendersonville. Neil is in the care of Anderson & Son Funeral Home in Lafayette, TN.
Funeral Services for Eddie Neil Ferguson, will be conducted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 2:00 pm from the chapel of Anderson & Son Funeral Home in Lafayette with Brother Johnathan West & Elder Tyler Eller officiating. Interment will follow in the Anderson & Son Memorial Park.
Visitation will begin Saturday from 2:00 pm until 8:00 pm and again on Sunday from 9:00 a.m. until service time at 2:00 p.m.
Family requests memorials be made to the Macon County Terminal Illness Fund. You may make these memorials by calling or coming by the funeral home.
He is preceded in death by: Parents, Lucian Myers & Dessie Mae Copass Ferguson, Sisters, Ruby Deckard, Blanche Hix, Delpha Holland, Brothers, Fred, Kenneth, Jesse, Harold, and Elder Floyd Ferguson, Father-in-law & Mother-in-law, Lowell & Betty Smith.
Survivors include: Wife, Melinda Smith Ferguson of the Kirbytown Community, Daughters, Krystal Sallee & husband, Jason, Kastonia Herron & husband, Steve all of Lafayette, Son, Shane Ferguson of Texas, Grandchildren, Adalyn Sallee, Corbin Sallee, Haleigh Eller & husband, Tyler, Hunter Herron, Jacquelyn Ferguson, Kathryn Ferguson, Great-grandchildren, Keegan & Stone Eller, Aspen Herron, Sister, Nina Carter of Red Boiling Springs, Brothers, Edwin Ether “Chigger” Ferguson & wife, Judy of Indianapolis, IN, Clarence Ferguson & wife, Lorienda of Red Boiling Springs, Huey Randall Ferguson & wife, Mary Anna of Lafayette, Dewey Joe Ferguson & companion, Jean Austin of Franklin, TN, Sisters-in-law, Bessie Ferguson of Lafayette, Geneva Ferguson of Red Boiling Springs, Brother-in-law, Tim Smith & wife, Diana of Red Boiling Springs, and a host of nieces and nephews.
Arrangements entrusted to Anderson & Son Funeral Home, Directors, Lafayette, TN. 615-666-4011 www.andersonandsonfuneralhomes.com
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