Wendell Pigg

Wendell F. Pigg Wendell Farris Pigg, 72, retired service technician with AT&T and Bell South and resident of North Laurel Circle, died Wednesday, February 2, 2005, at Maury Regional Hospital. Funeral services will be conducted at 10:00 A.M. Saturday at Oakes & Nichols Funeral Home with Rev. J. Tommy Jobe and The Reverend Thomas S. Wilson officiating. Burial will be in Santa Fe Cemetery with military honors provided by Herbert Griffin American Legion Post 19. The family will visit with friends Friday from 3:00 - 8:00 P.M. at the funeral home.Memorials may be made to Santa Fe Cumberland Presbyterian Church or Santa Fe Cemetery, c/o Norman Harris, 3929 Sowell Hollow Road, Columbia, TN 38401. Notes of sympathy may be sent to the family at www.oakesandnichols.com. The Maury County native was the son of the late Herschal Farris Pigg and Johnnie Mai Vestal Pigg. He was a 1950 graduate of Santa Fe High School and served in the U. S. Army during the Korean Conflict. He had worked with Bell South for twenty-seven years before retiring from AT&T in 1991. Since his retirement, he had continued working as a self-employed phone repairman and installer. Mr. Pigg was instrumental in starting the American Legion Gun & Knife Show. He was a member of Santa Fe Cumberland Presbyterian Church, where he had served as Treasurer and Elder. He was Past Commander of the Herbert Griffin American Legion Post 19 and a member of La Societe 40 & 8 Voiture 1394. He was Past President of Telephone Pioneers and longtime State Historical Chairman. Survivors include his wife of fifty-two years, Mattie Beth Hogan Pigg of Columbia; one son, Daniel F. Pigg of Martin, Tennessee; one sister, Doris (J.T.) Priest of Columbia; one brother, Charles (Gail) Pigg of Santa Fe; two sisters-in-law, Kathryn (Robert Lewis) Houser of Franklin; Betty Hogan of Nashville; and several nieces and nephews. Pallbearers will be Stephen Priest, Roger Priest, Bobby Houser, Mike Summar, Lloyd Smotherman, Sam Beddingfield, Jimmy Humphrey, Kent Woody, Ben Woody, and Charlie Richardson. Honorary pallbearers will be members of the Santa Fe Men's Fellowship, Telephone Pioneers, American Legion Post 19, La Societe 40 & 8 Voiture 1394, past and present elders and deacons of Santa Fe Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Dr. William Robinson, Terry Skillington, Henry Harris, Norman Harris, J. W. Shouse, George & Sherry Ladd, Clyde Skelley, Randy Blackburn, and John Robert Skillington.