Robert “Eddy” Jackett Sr., 77, born April 26, 1942 to Robert W. Jackett and Lillian Inez Burnett Jackett at Baptist Hospital, Memphis, Tn,, died May 16, 2019 at his home on Dayton Mountain. Eddy was past master of Masonic Lodge 512, Dayton, and a member of Alhambra Shrine of Chattanooga, serving in the Provost Unit. He was a tool and die maker with La-Z-Boy, Dayton for over 30 ... (click for more)

Carlynne Ruth Royal Patterson, 85, of Dalton, Georgia, departed this life early Friday morning, May 17, 2019 at Quinton Memorial Health Care. Ms. Patterson was born in Chattanooga, Tn. on July 11, 1933. She was a daughter of the late Carl B.C. and Mattie May Johnston Royal. Along with her parents she was also preceded in death by her sister, Carolyn Royal; and two great-grandchildren. ... (click for more)

Catherine Douglass “Ducky” Anderson Kain died at a local hospital on May 15, 2019, after a brief illness. She was 93. Ducky was born in Chattanooga on January 16, 1926, to the late Maria Brabson Anderson Dunlap and the late Dr. E. B. Anderson and was a descendant of one of the oldest Pioneer families of Tennessee. She was preceded in death by her husband of fifty years, John ... (click for more)

Martha Webster Gordon, 67, of Ooltewah, Tennessee, died on Thursday, May 16, 2019. She was born and raised in Knoxville, to the late Hubert E. Webster and Thelma Lafollette Webster. Martha graduated in 1968 from Young High School and then from UTK in 1971, receiving her BS in Accounting. She was a member of the Sigma Kappa Fraternity and she received her master’s degree in Accounting ... (click for more)

Four men were shot in two overnight shootings in Hixson. Two people were shot and killed on Ardis Lane. At approximately 10:07 p.m., Chattanooga Police responded to the 6700 block of Ardis Lane on a report of persons shot. Upon arrival, police located two men suffering from gunshot wounds. Hamilton County EMS responded and pronounced Kirtus Thompson, 27, deceased on ... (click for more)

Lawyers for Georgetown property owner Greg Vital notified the Tennessee Valley Authority on Thursday that a second archaeological study of the site found 15 different Native American artifacts, not one, as TVA said in its official report in April. “There are 14 more historically significant cairns in a distinguishable pattern within a hundred yards of what TVA said was the only ... (click for more)