Faye Sargent

Iva Faye Mash Sargent, 80, of Columbia, Tennessee passed away on February 17, 2019 at her home.

Faye was born on November 4, 1938 to Wilburn Mash and Lettie McCann Mash in Lewis County, Tennessee. She was the youngest of nine children. She graduated in 1957 from Lewis County High School. She married the love of her life on August 26, 1961, and they spent sixty wonderful years together. She retired from Tennessee Farm Bureau Federation and was a seamstress for thirty years. She loved spending time with her family especially watching all three of her grandsons play baseball, football, basketball and soccer the last eighteen years. She looked forward to each Labor Day weekend so she could support Grace Church of the Nazarene men’s Softball team in the National Nazarene Men’s Softball Tournaments, in Cincinnati, Ohio, for the past twenty-two years. She loved to go to Branson, Missouri or the Great Smoky Mountains each fall with her best friends, Jack and Sylvia Auville. She also enjoyed shopping. Anyone who has ever met her, loved her. She had the most precious spirit of anyone. She loved the Lord and loved going to church every time the doors were open, up until she could no longer attend. She was a member of Grace Church of the Nazarene.

Faye is survived by her loving husband Billy Sargent; daughter Brenda (Tony) Seaborn; son Terry (Angela) Sargent; grandchildren Austin Seaborn, Wil Sargent, and Andrew Sargent; sisters-in-law Jean (Bill) Reischman and Sue Clark and brother-in-law O’Neil Moore and several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by two brothers, Alfred (Lois) Mash and Elvis (Mary Dean) Mash; six sisters, Lillian (Emmett) Norman, Estelle (John) Robinson, Hazel (J.B.) Brown, Birdie (Grady) Turnbow, Jean (Buddy) Bullion, Christine (Leon) Hunter; sister-in-law Joyce Moore and brother-in-law Billy Clark.

Pallbearers: Austin Seaborn, Wil Sargent, Andrew Sargent, Kyle Thomas, Wayne Clark, Tim Thompson, Mike Reischman, and Steven Moore.

Honorary Pallbearers: Jack Auville, Hershel Currie, Joe Horne, Mike Bone, David Lovett, Tommy Carroll, and Ted Johnson, past and present members of Grace Church.

The family requests that donations be made to The American Cancer Society at www.cancer.org or Alzheimer’s research at www.support.brightfocus.org in lieu of flowers.

Services will be Friday, February 22, 2019 at Grace Church of the Nazarene at 2:00 PM with Rev. Brian Wiesinger and Rev. Rick Harvey officiating. Burial will follow at Polk Memorial Gardens. Family will visit with friends Thursday, February 21, 2019 from 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM at Williams Funeral Home, Columbia, and on Friday, February 22, 2019 at Grace Nazarene from 12 Noon until service time at 2:00 p.m.

Special thanks to Dr. Lucy Ledbetter, Dr. Mark Messenger, Dr. Douglas Kennedy and Dr. Scott McCall