McKENZIE, Tenn. — Funeral services for Peggy Perritt Coleman are on Tuesday, July 8, 2025, at 11 a.m.
The family will receive friends on Monday, July 7, 2025, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. and on Tuesday from 9:30 a.m. until the time of the service. Interment will follow at Shiloh Cemetery, McKenzie.
Mrs. Coleman, 83 years old, died on Friday, July 4, 2025, at Baptist Memorial Hospital Carroll Co.
She was a member of McKenzie First Baptist Church, McKenzie Education Assn., T.E.A, N.E.A., and Delta Kappa Gamma. She taught school for 30 years for McKenzie Special School District.
She was born on January 20, 1942, in Dresden, Tenn. to John and Mary Johnson Reaves.
She is survived by her daughters, Sherry (Joey) McGee of Huntingdon and Lisa Coleman of Palm Springs, California, a son, Chris (Joy) Coleman of Paris, a sister, Wanda West of Silver Springs, Maryland and brother, Cecil Reaves of Trezevant, eight grandchildren, Jennifer Perritt, Clayton (Stefan) McGee, Katy (Cody) Knuutila, Jayden McGee, Hayley McGee, Hasadiah Coleman, Noah Floyd and Hadassah Coleman and seven great-grandchildren — Porter, Micah, Noah, Rylee, Ava, Stone and Riggs.
She is preceded in death by her parents, her husband, Billy Perritt and after her death her husband, Dennis M. Coleman, her son, Jeff Perritt, a daughter, Jennifer Coleman, two sisters, Gladys Brethaver and Adell Skinner, five brothers, Eugene Reaves, Joe Reaves, Bobby Reaves, Jerry Reaves and Charles Reaves, and a grandson, Michael Floyd.
