The Nashville native was a World War II veteran of the U.S. Maritime Service, was employed with the Tennessee Central Railroad in Nashville and was in the retail home furnishings business for 30 years in Kentucky and Georgia. He was a deacon and charter member of the Lewis Lane Baptist Church in Owensboro.
Services are private.
Burial will be in Veterans National Memorial Cemetery of Arizona. Expressions of sympathy may take the form of donations to Mayo Clinic Liver Cancer Research in Arizona. Camino Del Sol Funeral Home in Sun City West is handling arrangements.