Bonnie Carr

Bonnie Sue Bransford Carr, 82, of Lafayette, Tennessee, passed away Sunday morning, Feb. 11, 2024, at Knollwood Manor in Lafayette.

Funeral services were conducted Tuesday afternoon, February 13, 2024, at 2 p.m. from the chapel of Anderson & Son Funeral Home in Lafayette with Elder Todd Austin officiating. Interment followed in the Macon County Memorial Gardens.

Austin Smith, Dylan Smith, Hayden Carr, Roger Jent, James Ford and Kenny Driver served as pallbearers.

Bonnie Sue Bransford Carr was born Jan. 15, 1942, to the late Grover and Amy Dallas Branford, and departed this life Sunday, Feb. 11, 2024 at the age of 82 years and 27 days.

Bonnie married the love of her life, Randall, April 12,1979. They shared 44 years and 10 months together. She graduated high school in 1960 where she then worked at Form Fit Rodgers as a seamstress for almost 25 years. She later began a career working at the Macon County Board of Education as a teachers aid for Fairlane Elementary and then worked as an assistant in the High School Special Education classroom where she eventually retired from. Bonnie was a gifted homemaker and wonderful cook. The Lord saved Bonnie’s soul when she was 11 years old. On August 30, 1953 she joined and was baptized into New Zion Missionary Baptist Church. She remained a faithful member there for her entire life.

Survivors include her husband, Randall Carr; daughter and son-in-law, Chrissy and Stevie Smith, all of Lafayette; step-son, Tracy Carr, of Cookeville, Tennessee; and grandsons, Austin and Brooklyn Smith, of Lafayette, Dylan Smith, of Knoxville, Tennessee, and Hayden Carr, also of Cookeville.

Anderson & Son Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements, 615-666-4011, andersonandsonfuneralhomes.com.