Currilla, Myrone

  • Monday, July 8, 2019
Myrone Currilla
Myrone Currilla

Myrone Currilla, 44, passed away on July 1, 2019 in Chattanooga. 

He was born in Brooklyn, New York, and graduated from Franklin K. Lane High School. He attended New York Technical College.

He worked as a computer technician but due to kidney disease, he was limited to working. Kidney disease did not stop him.  When he could he did. He loved playing the piano and was a great pool player. He liked watching basketball and movies.

He is survived by his parents, Clarence and Edith Currilla; great aunt, Lois P. Scott, aunts, Emma L. McCullough, Jackie Hazel, Queen Adams, Evelyn Smith, Debra Hazel, Sherrette Howell and Sharon Howell; uncles, Kenneth (Cheryl) Hazel, Alfonzo King, Bernard (Rosa) Hazel, Rickey Currelly, Levern (Cynthia) Hazel, Darrell Hazel, Rodney (Mae) Hazel, David Hazel, Toney Hazel and Woody (Erica) Scott; other cousins and friends.

He will lie in state from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. on Wednesday, July 10, at the funeral home followed by a chapel service at 1 p.m. Interment will be in Lakewood Memory Gardens East.

Arrangements are by John P. Franklin Funeral Home, 1101 Dodds Ave., 423 622-9995.

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