Larry Howard Pinkleton

Larry Howard Pinkleton, 56, former resident of Columbia, died Sunday, January 11, 2009 at Brookwood Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama. Family and friends will gather from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. Wednesday at Oakes & Nichols followed by graveside services at Rose Hill Cemetery with Joe Macer officiating. Notes of sympathy may be sent to ww.oakesandnichols.com. Family and friends will serve as pallbearers. The Maury County native was a 1970 graduate of Columbia Central High School and as a teenager delivered papers for THE DAILY HERALD. He served in the U. S. Marine Corps as an MP for several years stationed in Camp LeJeune, North Carolina and later moved to Asheville, North Carolina where he met and married the former Dee Brinkley in 1975. After dishcharge from military service, he moved to Birmingham and worked with M. C. West Construction Company. He later trained as a jeweler and operated Pinkleton Jewelers in Birmingham for twenty-five years. An interest in logging as a hobby turned into a prosperous firewood business which he continued to operate as well. Survivors include a son, Benjamin David (Donora) Pinkleton of Birmingham; his wife of 32 years, Dee Brinkley Pinkleton of Birmingham; sisters, Linda Pinkleton Knox and Kaye Poteete (Jeff) Carroll of Columbia; father since the age of 4 years, Buford Poteete of Columbia; nieces, Tammi (Timothy) Thompson and Terri (Kerry) Dickens; nephew, Michael (Amanda) Orr; nine great-nieces and great-nephews; brother-in-law, Bobby Knox. He was preceded in death by his mother, Lenora Norman Pinkleton Poteete; father, Howard "Buck" Pinkleton; brother, Michael Clayton Pinkleton; maternal grandparents, John Ben Norman and Vera Carpenter Norman; paternal grandparents, Floyd Pinkleton, Sr. and Rosie Bell Lovell Pinkleton.