Mrs. Billie Glisson Perryman, 81, of Union City died 9:50 a.m. Wednesday, May 30, 2012, in the emergency room at Volunteer Community Hospital in Martin.

Funeral services for Mrs. Perryman will be conducted 10:30 a.m. Friday in the chapel of Edmaiston-Mosley Funeral Home. Brother Jerry Leggett and Brother Eddie Mallonee will officiate. Burial will follow in Sunnyside Cemetery in Kenton.

The family will receive friends at Edmaiston-Mosley Funeral Home from 5:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. Thursday.

Pallbearers will be Mike Perryman, Brian Hughes, Derek Perryman, Michael Simpson, Paul Crowell, Jimmy Hopper, Dallas King, Lance Morgan and Jason Qualls.

Honorary pallbearers will be Pete Mullins, W.C. Tate and William Duren.

Memorial contributions may take the form of donations to St. Jude Children's Hospital , 262 Danny Thomas Place, Memphis, Tn.  38105 or Second Baptist Church , 831 Everett Blvd., Union City, Tn.  38261.

Mrs. Perryman was born August 22, 1930, in Kenton, daughter of the late Glisson and Nell (Sharp) Dozier. She married William "Cotton" Perryman on December 2, 1951. He survives. She had been employed at the Kenton Flower Shop for thirty years, was a homemaker and a member of Second Baptist Church.

She is also survived by two daughters, Penny Petty and Tammy Crowell both of Union City; her son and daughter-in-law, Tony and Tammy Perryman of Union City; her sister, Juanita Lane of Kenton; six grandchildren, Jo Beth Petty of Brandon, Mississippi, Leigh Ann Reeder of Franklin, Derek Perryman of Murfreesboro, Taylor Perryman of Knoxville and Laura Petty and Kalie Beth Crowell both of Union City; and her great-grandson, Cohen Simpson of Union City.

She was preceded in death by three sisters, Wyone Johns, Maxine Hopper and Inez Watkins.

Edmaiston-Mosley Funeral Home 731-885-1033