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Mr. Robert A. Myers, 89, of Union City went home to be with the Lord at 8:55 a.m. Thursday, May 23, 2013, at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Union City.

Funeral services will be conducted 10:00 a.m. Saturday in the chapel of Edmaiston-Mosley Funeral Home. Brother Chip Davis, Brother Jerry Leggett and Brother Eddie Mallonee will officiate. Burial will follow in Obion County Memorial Gardens.

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

Pallbearers will be Allen Herchenhahn, Mike McCarver, Royce Morgan, Keith Nance, Jimmy Barron, David Durham and Kenny Crews.

Honorary pallbearers will be James Henson, Carol Thomas and Willie Etheridge.

Mr. Myers was born July 7, 1923, in Obion County, son of the late Osie Edward and Carrie Mardell (Beeler) Myers. He married Maxine (Tanner) Myers December 12, 1942. She survives. He was a retired self employed contractor and a World War II United States Army veteran. He was a member of Second Baptist Church and a former founding member of Lake Road Baptist Church.

He is also survived by two daughters and his son-in-law, Ruth Ann and William Brewer of Sharon and Sherry Shanklin of Union City; his sister, Leona Threlkeld of Union City; his brother, Edward Myers of South Fulton; four grandsons and the spouses of two, Allan Brewer and Thomas and Sue Brewer all of Sharon, Guy Shanklin of Union City and Ryan and Ashley Shanklin of Dyer; four great grandchildren and the spouse of one, Matt, Chad and Samantha, Adam, and Allie.

He was preceded in death by his son-in-law, Bill Shanklin; two sisters, Pauline Myers and Jewel Milligan; and his brother, Raymond Myers.

Edmaiston-Mosley Funeral Home
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