The Tennessean from Nashville, Tennessee (2024)

7A local news Age84ofWhiteHouse, athishome. Inadditiontohis indeathbyhisfirst McMurtry. Heissurvivedby CharlesMichael McMurtry(Marlene) andJannaMcMurtry ButlerandJamesButler ClayMcMurtry(Lauren), andTaylorHolthofer; andstep-grandchildren, DonnyButlerandSharon ButlerHarvey. Agravesideservice willbeconductedon HouseMemorialGardens. Thefamilywillhave privateviewing.

ActivePallbearerswill behisgrandchildren, GilbertMcMurtryand JamesAdams. ArrangementsEntrust- WhiteHouse(615)672- SIDNEY Cane Ridge, TN Age 99, July 11, 2015. Visit Tuesday, 6-8 p.m. Service Wednesday, 11 a.m., at Woodbine Hickory Chapel, (615) 331-1952. VICKY Cookeville, TN Age 56.

Services 1 Tuesday, July 14th. Chapel of Hooper-Huddleston Horner, (931) 526-6111; www.hhhfunerals.com BARBARA ANN PATTERSON Nashville, TN Survived by family and friends. Complete notice later. Smith Brothers, (615) 726-1476. LINDA REDDEN Columbia, TN Arrangements are incomplete.

Heritage Funeral Home, (931) 840-4750; www.TNfunerals.com SHANE RITTENBERRY Hartsville, TN Memorial Service 7 p.m. Thursday, July 16th. Visitation 5-7 p.m. Thursday. Anderson Funeral Home, Gallatin (615) 461-7777.

WILLIAM SAYLORS Sparta, TN Service 11 a.m. Wednesday, uly 15, 2015. Hunter Funeral Home, (931) 836-3211. AMALIE SMITH Clarksville, TN Funeral 1 p.m. Tuesday, uly 14, 2015 at McReynolds-Nave Larson Funeral Home, (931) 647-3371.

NaveFuneralHomes.com. LOUISE SPEARS Lebanon, TN Age 86. Visit 4 p.m. Tuesday, funeral 6:30 p.m. Graveside 11 a.m.

Wednesday, Wilson Co. Partlow Chapel, (615) 444-7007. JANICE STRONG Murfreesboro, TN Private family services will be held at a later date. Woodfn Memorial Chapel, (615) 893-5151; www.wood- nchapel.com Heisprecededindeath EdithShields. Survivedbyhisloving Shieldsandhisaunt, MarthaHesson.

Terrell Broady Funeral Home, (615) 244-4755. MARY E. WINFREY Nashville, TN Age 99, passed away July 12, 2015. Complete obit later. Terrell Broady Funeral Home, (615) 244-4755.

Victim identified in fatal Hermitage shooting The victim of a fatal shooting outside a home in Hermitage on Sunday night has been identified as Michael T. Larson, 35, Metro police said. Officers responded at 11:02 p.m. to the 600 block of Rockwood Drive just off Hermitage Woods Drive after receiving multiple 911calls that a man had been shot, Metro police spokeswoman Kris Mumford said Monday. A rriving officers found Larson on he ground outside his garage.

His .22 aliber rifle was recovered near his open garage door, Mumford said. Larson was transported to Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where he died. Mumford said the shooting appears to be the result of a prescription-drug transaction. As of Monday morning, no arrest had been made and the case remained under investigation. Anyone with information about the case is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 615-742-7463.

Electronic tips can also be sent to Crime Stoppers by texting the word along with a message to 274637 or online at nashvillecrimestop- pers.com. Neysa Alund, Child drowns in West Nashville A3-year-old girl who lifeguards pulled from a West Nashville swimming pool late last month died as a result of drowning, authorities confirmed Monday. The death marked the first child drowning of 2015. he incident, which authorities say appears to be accidental, took place the evening of June 24 while the girl by authorities as Celia raziano attended a private pool arty at Seven Hills Swim and Tennis lub at on Hildreth Drive, said Metro Nashville Police Department spokeswoman Kris Mumford. Lifeguards spotted her in 3 feet of ater, pulled her from the water and erformed CPR.

umford said it appears the girl was submerged for more than a minute efore lifeguards reached her. The child was taken to the Vanderbilt hospital where she was removed from life support on July 1. A autopsy condetermined the child died by drowning, Mumford said. Neysa Alund, UT adding help for transfers The University of ennessee is ramping up its efforts to help a growing number of transfer students. The Knoxville News Sentinel reported the school had roughly 1,200 transfer students in the 2014-15 academic year.

That number is expected to grow as Tennessee Promise students begin finishing their first two years at community col- eges. ari Alldredge is interim assoc iate provost for enrollment management. She said UT placed regional recruiting representatives in Memphis, Nashville and East Tennessee last year. Those representatives start working with potential transfer students early on to make sure their credits will transfer. The school also piloted a transfer transition guide with Pellissippi State Community College that helps transfer students have an eight- semester plan.

That version is expanding to other local community colleges next year. Boy drowns in Memphis pool For the second time in seven days, a Memphis boy has drowned in a swimming pool. Multiple media outlets reported a 5-year-old boy was found unresponsive Sunday in the pool of a southeast Memphis apartment complex. The boy was taken to a hospital in extremely critical condition and was pronounced dead that evening. Witnesses told WREG-TV the boy was with his older sister.

Their moth- showed up after a call for help. On July 5, Cedric Walton, 13, and three other boys climbed a fence at L.E. Brown community pool. Walton umped into the pool and drowned. Safety Fest TN set for Sept.

OAK This Safety Fest TN has been set for September, ith experts to present more than 40 ree classes, seminars, demonstra- ions and a safety expo. The fourth annual event is being eld in Oak Ridge, put on by the Tennessee Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Oak Ridge Business Safety Partnership a nd dozens of other organizations. More information is available nline at www.safetyfesttn.org Press BRIEFLY The fact that a controversial new state logo cost Tennessee $46,000 makes it the most egregious ex- a mple of for the ear, argues the Beacon enter of Tennessee. But the conservative think tank believes the logo is only one of 62 examples of government waste, abuse or theft by public employees in Nashville and throughout the state, as chronicled in the 10th annual edition of its Pork embezzling money at the Sport- splex or spending taxpayer money defending obsolete school practices, the misuse of public funds is rampant in the Nashville said center CEO Justin Owen in a prepared statement. The center previously announced that the new state logo the the award, fol- owing the results of an open, online vote.

Gov. Bill Haslam has acknowledged the design is simple, but argued the $46,000 was a necessary investment to create a consistent image for state government agencies and departments. In addition to the logo, the report includes several specific Nashville cases the center deemed pork-worthy: In September a former employee of the Metro Nashville Centennial Sportsplex was indicted for allegedly stealing at least $95,310 from the tennis center. As referenced by wen, Sumner County Schools has reportedly spent legal bills defending its policy that requests for public recordsmust be submitted in person or through he mail and not via email. A illion from the state budget to 96 at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville.

The $8 million in economic incentivesprovid- ed by the state to television show so that it will continue filming in Nashville. In total the center says various levels of state and local government $763 million in public funds. The full report is available at www.beacontn Reach Dave Boucher at 615-259-8892 and on Twitter Center says TN logo eads examples Dave Boucher new state logo cost 46,000. Almost one in every ive Tennessee workers who suffers an on-the-job back injury goes on the operating table for relief, ut the success of the sur- ery can vary depending pon the surgeon. People can now search or complication rates by hospital and by doctor for eight elective surgeries because of a database set as part of a joint investigation by USA Today a nd ProPublica.

In Middle Tennessee, some sur- geons were found to have igh complication rates with a type of lower back surgery. Others had high rates for prostatectomies a nd knee replacements. People can use the atabase to check on surgeon performance for hip eplacements, knee rep lacements, neck spinal usions, lumbar spinal fu- ions (front and back), gallbladder removal, prostate resection and prostate removal. he Compen- ation back surgery rate i Tennessee is 18.9 percent, according to a comp arison of 13 states prepared by the Workers Compensation Research Institute. That compares ith 6.9 percent for California, 7.4 percent for lorida and 9.6 percent for Texas.

Elective surgeries pose higher isks with some doctors Staff Reports Read more about the database on 3B Look up surgeons at projects.propublica.org/ surgeons..