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Thomas L. Pendergrass
Date of Death or Service Sep 20, 2019
Thomas L. Pendergrass
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A memorial service is planned for Friday, September 20, 2019 at 11:00 a.m. in the Chapel of the Taylor Funeral Home with Dr. Jimmy Overton, eulogist. Visitation with the family will be from 10:00 a.m. until the time of service.

Thomas Levon Pendergrass, age 74 of Nashville, TN passed away on Sunday, September 15, 2019 at Good Samaritan Health and Rehab in Antioch, TN. He was born on June 21, 1945 to the late Theodore and Vera Hayes Pendergrass.

Thomas had the nickname “Toots” because as a child he was always busy with his hands. He was playing in the street in a cardboard box pretending to be driving and his mother gave him that name because he was blowing the horn on his cardboard car.

He attended Hampton High School and after graduation he proudly enlisted in the Army as a paratrooper jumping from planes while stationed at Fort Campbell. After training, he served in Vietnam. He returned home on the 4th of July in 1968. In 1969 he moved to Columbus, Ohio where he learned how to lay blocks also worked at a coil factory until 1972. He returned to Tennessee and worked for the State in the drafting department. He also worked for L&N Railroad and McQuiddy office. He later retired from the Tennessee Valley Department of Veterans Affairs in Murfreesboro, TN.

He is survived by his son, Thomas Terrell Pendergrass of California; big brother, Charles E. Pendergrass (Margaret) of Dickson; 2 nephews, Kelvin Pendergrass (Paula) of Nashville and Keenan Pendergrass (Valerie) of Florida; 2 great nieces and 3 great nephews; special friend Marsha Lynnette Walker and her daughter Kashka Walker of Nashville; and special brothers, Samuel Newsome of Ohio and Thomas Robinson of Dickson.

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