Cleo Pendergrass

Cleo Pendergrass, age 91 of Sale Creek, died Saturday January 19, 2013 at her home. She was born October 7, 1921 in Putnam County, TN to the late Johnson Asberry and Emma Dale (Perry) Hyder. She was also preceded in death by her husband Thomas Foster Pendergrass, brothers Hooper Hyder, Paul Hyder and Doyle Hyder and sister Willie Swallows.
A resident of Sale Creek most of her life, she was a graduate of Sale Creek High School and had been employed as a teacher’s aide with the Hamilton County School System. She attended Sale Creek Independent Presbyterian Church.
Cleo is survived by her son Donnie Pendergrass of Arlington, TX, her daughter Peggy (Len) Mackney of Murfreesboro, brother Leo Hyder of Columbus, MI, grandson Len (Missy) Mackney, Jr. of Smyrna, two great-granddaughters Brittany (John) Kluver and Elizabeth Mackney, and three great-grandsons Brett Kluver and John Kluver and Baby Boy Kluver, all of Smyrna.
Funeral services for Cleo will be held Wednesday at 1:00 p.m. in the funeral home chapel with Rev. Phil Evaul officiating. She will be laid to rest next to her husband in the Welch-Rogers Cemetery in Sale Creek.
Please share your memories of Cleo on her on-line guest register at www.vanderwallfh.com .
The family is being served by the Vanderwall Funeral Home in Dayton where they will receive friends Tuesday after 5:00 p.m.