Mary Jarrett Baucum

Mrs. Mary Charlene Jarrett Baucum, 58, elementary school teacher, died Thursday, November 30, 2006 at her residence on Chasepointe Place. Funeral services will be conducted at 2:00 P.M. Sunday at Columbia Academy Vest Hall with Randy Owens and Gipson Baucum, Sr. officiating. The family will visit with friends from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. in Vest Hall. Burial will be in Rose Hill Cemetery. Memorials may be made to West Seventh Street Church of Christ Building Fund, 405 West Seventh Street, Columbia, 38401 or Columbia Academy, 1101 West Seventh Street, Columbia 38401. Notes of sympathy may be sent to the family at www.oakesandnichols.com. A native of Chattanooga, she was the daughter of the late Charles Leslie Jarrett, Sr. and Mary Evelyn Mathis Jarrett. Mrs. Baucum was a graduate of Middle Tennessee State University and had taught at Columbia Academy for the past several years. She was a member of West Seventh Street Church of Christ. Survivors include her husband of thirty-six years, Gipson H. Baucum, Sr. of Columbia; one son, Gipson H. Baucum, Jr. of Acworth, Georgia; two daughters, Jennifer E. Baucum of Nashville; Cherri Lynn Walker of Henderson,; two brothers, Charles Jarrett, Jr. of Spencer; Marvin Jarrett of Chattanooga; four grandchildren, Emily Claire Baucum, William Henry Baucum, Mary Katherine Walker, Pearce Alexander Walker; and seven nieces and nephews. Pallbearers will be Douglas Jarrett, Matt Jarrett, Tres Baucum, Brent Roberts, Bill Baucum, Eric Baucum, Terry Roberts, Mike Kesler, and Jeremy Butt.