Tony Lee Mcgaw Jr

Tony Lee McGaw, Jr., 36, resident of East Willow St., died Wednesday, January 31, 2007 at Maury Regional Hospital. Funeral services will be conducted at 12 noon Friday at Oakes & Nichols Funeral Home with Rev. Larry Chatman and Rev. Ronnie Johnson officiating. Burial will be in Knob Creek Cemetery. The family will visit with friends Thursday from 4 - 8 p.m. at the funeral home. Memorials may be made to Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center Gift Records, Stem Cell Research, VU Station B #357727, Nashville, TN 37235-7727. Please designate "Stem Cell Research". Notes of sympathy may be sent to the family at www.oakesandnichols.com. The Maury County native was the son of Tony Lee McGaw, Sr. of Spring Hill and Donna Reed Foster of Chapel Hill. He attended Spring Hill High School and was a graduate of Tennessee Rehabilitation Center in 1998. He was a member of Holts Corner Baptist Church. Tony had passion for people and a zest for life. If you were fortunate enough to have crossed his path you are a better person for being in his company. In addition to his parents he is survived by three brothers, Charles "Bubba" (Rhonda Johnson) McGaw, Jimmy McGaw, Cody McGaw all of Spring Hill; two step-brothers, Ray Foster, Jr. of Nashville, David Foster of Elizabethton; maternal grandmother, Ruby Lee Green Reed of Columbia, paternal grandmother, Bertha Brewer McGaw of Spring Hill; step-mother, Kathy McGaw of Spring Hill; step-father, Ray Foster of Chapel Hill; and two nieces, Maggie McGaw and Madison McGaw. He was preceded in death by his grandfathers, Norman Dozia McGaw, Irvin "Dick" Reed, Sr., uncle, James Reed and cousin, Cindy Ketchum Brooks. Pallbearers will be David Hardin, David Ragsdale, Bubba Barnes, Jimmy Kergan, Billy Joe Johnson, Richie McClendon, Jamie Anderson, John Murphy, Jerry Burns, Billy Matlock and Rick Covington. Honorary pallbearers will be his wonderful sitters with Quality First; the staff and friends at Rosewood Manor; special friend, Debra; very special aunts, Carolyn Reed, Vicky McGaw Frye, Sarah Mitchell; special cousins, Travis and Lee Ann Ketchum; Dr. Darrel R. Rinehart; and Dr. Moataz Toban.