Robert "Tony" Anthony Tucker Obituary (1957 - 2016)

Funeral services for Robert Anthony "Tony" Tucker, age 59, will be held on Friday, October 28, 2016, at 2:00 PM in the chapel of Ronk Funeral Home with Gibb Tucker officiating. Interment will follow in Oakview Memorial Gardens in Alamo, Tennessee. Tony went to be with his Heavenly Father on October 26, 2016, at Maplewood Health & Rehab Center in Jackson, Tennessee. He was born on July 8, 1957, to Betty Carter Tucker and the late Robert Gaston Tucker in Memphis, Tennessee. Tony was previously employed at Cairo Gin and Crockett County School System as a bus driver and in Maintenance prior to his long-term illness. Tony's passion was riding his John Deere lawn mower and mowing for the public. He was a member of the Barkers Chapel Baptist Church and the Crockett Mills Fire Department. He was blessed with many friends and family members who will miss him dearly, but he is no longer suffering. Preceding him in death was his wife, Shirley Ann Tucker. Surviving relatives include his mother, Betty Carter Tucker; sons, Wesley Carter Tucker (Laney), Jason Anthony Tucker; sister in law, Susan Maddox; nephew, Christopher Maddox (Shama); great-nephews, Wylie Maddox, and Lane Hicks; grandchildren, Ruthie Elizabeth Tucker, and Maddox Lee Tucker. Visitation will be held at Ronk Funeral Home on Thursday, October 27, 2016, from 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM. In lieu of flowers please make donations to N.O.A.H. of Crockett County. Pallbearers for the service will be Bill Tyler, Jacob Hutchison, Christopher Maddox, Danny Agee, Chuck Hutchison, and Larry Carter. Honorary pallbearers will be Donald Prescott, Elbert Woods, Wayne Forsythe, Van Buckingham, and Otha Castellaw.