Stories from Saturday, August 8, 2009

Gerald M. Patton, 74, of Shelbyville died Friday at Heritage Medical Center. Graveside services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Willow Mount Cemetery. Visitation is scheduled from 12 to 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at Feldhaus Memorial Chapel.

NASHVILLE (AP) -- Jimmy Bedford, the slender and silver-haired former master distiller at the Jack Daniel's Distillery during a 40-year career with the company, died Friday. He was 69. His body was found outside a barn at his farm in Lynchburg, apparently the victim of a heart attack, company officials said...

Funeral services for Juanita Duncan Long, 71, of Shelbyville, who died Friday at Centennial Medical Center in Nashville, will be 2 p.m. Monday at Tullahoma Funeral Home Chapel. Horace Lee Jacobs will officiate and burial will follow in Maplewood Cemetery...