Karen Currie

Mrs. Karen Ray Currie, age 69, of Martin died Wednesday, August 17, 2016, at Baptist Memorial Hospital North in Oxford, Mississippi.

Funeral Service will be Saturday, August 20, 2016, 1:00 P.M. at Murphy Funeral Home with Dr. Robert Allen officiating. Burial will follow in East Side Cemetery. Visitation will begin at 11:00 A.M. on Saturday at the funeral home.

Mrs. Currie was preceded in death by her husband Edwin "Ed" Currie; her son, Gerald Wayne Currie; parents, Wallace Benton Ray and Margardelle Boden Ray; sister, Patty Stroble; brother, Benny Benton Ray.

Mrs. Currie was a retired secretary for student housing at The University of Tennessee at Martin. She was a member of Central Baptist Church in Martin; former member of Martin Kiwanis Club; former member of Martin Pilot Club, and a graduate of Martin Citizens Police Academy. Karen was a past president of the Martin Citizens Police Academy Alumni Association.

She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Christie and Don Rogers of Oxford, MS and her son and daughter-in-law, Paul and Mary Currie of LaVergne, TN; two grandchildren, Donald "D" Rogers, III and Currie Benton Rogers.