Funeral service for Ms. Elizabeth Sue Pruitt Markham will be 2:00 P.M. Saturday, August 19, 2023, at Ligon & Bobo Funeral Home with Bro. Edward L. Anderson officiating.  Interment Cedar Grove Cemetery.  Visitation Saturday 11:00 A.M. – 2 P.M. at Ligon & Bobo.

Ms. Markham, age 84 of Lebanon passed away August 14, 2023, at Alive Hospice in Murfreesboro.

Born July 29, 1939, in Granville, Tennessee, she is the daughter of the late Carl Smith Pruitt and Mable Maurine Kirby Pruitt.  She retired in 2001, after a thirty year career in teaching, with the last eighteen years teaching kindergarten at Forks River School in Smith County.  She was a member of Adams Avenue Church of Christ.  In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by an infant sister, Marilyn Joyce Pruitt, brother, Billy Smith Pruitt, and a sister in law, Anita Pruitt.

She is survived by two children: Susie (Jeff) Cogdill of Murfreesboro and Billy L. Markham Jr. of South Carthage; two granddaughters, Addie Elizabeth Markham and Hailey Beth Markham; brother, Bobby Carl Pruitt of Lebanon; three nephews and two nieces.

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