Funeral services will be conducted 1:00 p.m. Saturday in the chapel of Edmaiston-Mosley Funeral Home. Dr. Bobby Williams will officiate. Burial will follow in East View Cemetery.

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

Pallbearers will be grandsons and sons-in-laws.

Mr. Ragsdale was born May 13, 1931, in Obion County, son of the late Herman and Mintie (Sullivan) Ragsdale. He married the former Shirley Ivy on December 25, 1969. She survives. Mr. Ragsdale was a truck driver for the former Reelfoot Packing Company and was the owner and operator of the former Ragsdale Grocery and the former Colony Market for a number of years. He was a member of Beech Cumberland Presbyterian Church and served in the Tennessee National Guard from 1947 to 1950.

He is also survived by two sons and a daughter-in-law, Jeff and Denise Stover of Paducah, Kentucky and Brent Stover of Union City; three daughters and sons-in-law,Fretta and Pete Quinton and Renea and Robbie White all of Union City and Darlene and Chad Fultz of Obion; his sister, Margie Chessor of Union City; eleven grandchildren, Richard Ragsdale, Jason Quinton, Melanie French, Ty Ragsdale, Michelle Phipps, Brett Ragsdale, Carly White, Robert White, Ivy Fultz, Peyton Stover and Avery Stover; and fourteen great grandchildren.

He was also preceded in death by his son, Ricky Ragsdale, two brothers, Harvey Ragsdale and Hugh Ragsdale; and four sisters, Joanne McMillin, Inez Burrell, Mildred Wilbanks and Janie Tilghman.

Edmaiston-Mosley Funeral Home 731-885-1033