Mrs. Noveline Slaughter Beard, 71, died Sunday, March 19, 2006 at her residence on Beard Road in Primm Springs. Funeral services will be conducted at 11a.m. Wednesday at Oakes & Nichols Funeral Home with Edgar Beard and Charles Hardison officiating. Burial will be in Pine Garden Cemetery. The family will visit with friends Tuesday after 4p.m. at the funeral home. Notes of sympathy may be sent to the family at www.oakesandnichols.com. The Maury County native was the daughter of the late Hicks Slaughter and Annie Mai Malugin Slaughter. She attended Hickman County schools. Mrs. Beard was a member of Shoals Branch church of Christ. Survivors include her husband of 56 years, Grover Beard of Primm Springs; one daughter, Mrs. Annette (George) Dodson of Santa Fe; one son, Milton (Donna) Beard of Santa Fe; three sisters, Mrs. Esther Mai Ragsdale, Mrs. Mamie Ruth Tomlin both of Franklin, Mrs. Shirley Faulkner of Fairview; four grandchildren, Chris (Jennifer) Beard, Renee (Mack) Garvin, Greg Dodson, Lisa Dodson; and one great-grandson, Jacob Allen Beard. Pallbearers will be Chris Beard, Gregg Dodson, Mac Garvin, Ricky Hutcherson, Kenneth Davis and Kenneth Slaughter.