Jeffrey Wayne Childrey

Jeffrey Wayne Childrey, 49, tow motor operator for Meneasha Corporation in Mt. Pleasant and resident of Mockingbird Drive, died Saturday, November 1, 2008 at Maury Regional Medical Center. A memorial service will be conducted Monday at 6:00 p.m. at Oakes & Nichols with Rev. Pete Tackett officiating. The family will visit with friends Monday from 4:00 p.m. to service time at the funeral home. Memorials may be made to Jeffrey Childrey Fund, c/o First Farmers & Merchants Bank, 816 South Garden Street, Columbia 38401. Notes of sympathy may be sent to www.oakesandnichols.com. Survivors include his mother, Edna Ruth Stanfill Childrey of Columbia; his father, Thomas Claude Childrey, Jr. of Columbia; son, Jeffrey Wayne Childrey, II of Columbia; sister, Carol Lynette (Bruce) Gagneur of Columbia; brother, Thomas Childrey, III of Columbia; step-son, Chris Herbison of Benton County; aunt, Martha (Bill) Rittenberry of Panama City, Florida; nephews, Justin Lee Gagneur and Rodney Allen Dewire of Columbia; cousins, William Rittenberry of Columbia, Mark Rittenberry of Panama City, Florida, Tommy Stanfill and David Stanfill of Columbia, and Diane Long of Chapel Hill. Honorary pallbearers are Tommy Stanfill, David Stanfill, Diane Long, William Rittenberry, and Mark Rittenberry.