John Billingsby

Mr. John Gilbert Billingsby, age 83, of Dresden died Tuesday, August 18, 2015, at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Union City, Tennessee.

Funeral Service will be Saturday, August 22, 2015, 11:00 A.M. at Hatler's Chapel Church of Christ with Dr. Rodger Eakin and Carl Harper officiating. Burial will follow in Hatler's Chapel Cemetery. Visitation will be Friday, August 21, 2015, from 5:00 P.M. - 8:00 P.M. at Hatler's Chapel, or after 9:00 A. M. Saturday at the church until funeral time at 11:00 A.M.

Mr. Billingsby is survived by his wife of 60 years, Joyce Ann Culbertson Billingsby of Dresden; his daughters, Natalie Ann Billingsby of Nashville and Sherry Lynn (J.C.) Stinson of Elkhorn, NE; his sons, Scott Crosser Billingsby of Nashville and John Michael (Laurie Wilson) Billingsby of Dickson, TN; sisters, Sue (Carl) Harper of Franklin, TN and Reggie Roney of Smiths Grove, KY; seven grandchildren, Barrett (Stephanie) Brewer, Sarah, Megan, Leah and John Garrett Billingsby, Brett and Daniel Stinson; one great- grandson, Jackson Brewer.

He was an active farmer of a Heritage farm that has been in the Billingsby family since 1830. Additional occupations included managing a polo farm in Hartland, Michigan and working for General Motors in Detroit, Michigan. Mr. Billingby was a U.S. Army veteran of the Korean War.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Gilbert L. Billingsby and Ida Mae Crosser Billingsby; brothers, Flavil, Howard and Dink Billingsby; two sisters, Anna Lou Storey and Pauline Walker.