Geraldine Thomas

Mrs. Geraldine Thomas entered into her eternal rest at 4:09 a.m. with her family at her bedside at the age of 76. She was suffering from liver cancer. Mrs. Thomas was pronounced deceased at 5:48 a.m. Friday morning November 21, 2025 at her Walnut Grove Lane farm by Heather Lowe: R.N. with Gentiva Hospice.
Bro. Bryan Bratcher will officiate at the 1 p.m. Tuesday afternoon November 25th funeral services from the Hackett Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home in Kempville. Burial will follow in the Miller-Williams Cemetery in the Dean Hill Community.
The Thomas family will receive friends at Sanderson in Kempville on Monday from 12 noon until 7 p.m. and again on Tuesday from 10 a.m. until the 1 p.m. services.
She was the last born of eight children, five sons and three daughters, and was the daughter of the late James Polk Mitchell and Mary Alice Marie Dillehay Mitchell and was born Geraldine Mitchell in Spring Hill, in Williamson County, Tennessee on February 20, 1940.
At the Metropolitan Nashville-Davidson County Courthouse on June 22, 1970, she was united in marriage to Nashville native, Elmer Ray Thomas. Her highly decorated husband was a Green Beret having served with the United States Army during the Vietnam War. Mr. Thomas preceded her in death on December 5, 2020 at the age of 76 following almost fifty years of marriage.
They tragically lost a son, Johnny Lee Thomas, who died in a single car accident on Gladdice Road near the family farm at the age of 43 on September 26, 2017.
Also preceding her in death was two sisters, Bertha Mitchell and Louise Mitchell Jones and three brothers, John Mitchell, James Mitchell and Dickie Mitchell.
Mrs. Thomas was the former owner of Boogie Bear Bakery in Mount Juliet before retiring in 1994.
The family relocated from Mount Juliet to their Dean Hill Community Farm in 2008.
In 2012 Mrs. Thomas was saved and baptized into the Kempville Chapel Old Time Methodist Church (now Kempville Chapel Church).
She loved the family farm and enjoyed riding and raising riding horses and at the time of her death she owned seventeen horses.
Surviving is her daughter, Jerrie Hackett and spouse Kayla Bagwell of Oak, Grove, Kentucky; son, Donald Ray Thomas and wife Sharyl of the Dean Hill Community; two brothers, Roy Mitchell of Franklin, Tennessee and Bobby Mitchell of Madison, Tennessee; eight grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers: William Andrew Bates, Jacob Thomas Hackett, Morgan Ray Thomas,
Adrain Lyle Hollis, Mason Carter Thomas and Maverick James Thomas; Jimmy Tisdale, Chris Williams