Dickson County News

Vervin Thomas McClelland, Jr. age 89 of Charlotte, will be conducted Friday afternoon, May 24, 2013 at 1 PM from the Chapel of the Taylor Funeral Home with Dwight Work and Rev.

A proposed $15.1 million budget for the city of Dickson for 2013-2014 includes no property tax hike and nearly $268,000 in city employee raises.

The Tennessee Highway Patrol is conducting a driver license checkpoint in Davidson County on Thursday.

David Hamilton, president and chief executive officer of the Dickson County Chamber of Commerce, announced his resignation at the chamber's board of directors meeting Tuesday.

Strong thunderstorms with rain and winds gusts up to 45 mph are heading through Dickson County.

Dickson County Sheriff Jeff Bledsoe has asked a judge to review the local civil service board's reinstatement of a fired patrol deputy.

The Vanleer alderman accused of soliciting a minor goes to trial in October. Westley A. Albright, 40, was indicted by a grand jury in April for solicitation of a minor-law enforcement, and solicitation of a minor.

Former state senator Kerry Roberts, of Robertson County, announced Monday he will be among the challengers to face off against incumbent state Sen.

A Vanleer man was possibly killed in a fire that engulfed his home Saturday night.

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation indicted a Bon Aqua man for food stamp fraud last month, which resulted in his arrest Sunday night in Ohio.

* A child abuse hotline was leaving calls unanswered. After The Tennessean chronicled the missed calls, the call center director was replaced.

According to WTVF-TV , the 55-year-old man was last seen Saturday evening. He was on a pontoon boat with a group of friends when he jumped off near a small island in the lake and never resurfaced.

According to Mayor Larry Robertson, the home at 4900 Highway 49 West was engulfed in flames when the fire department got there just before 10:00 p.m. Police say the bodies of a woman and a 13-year-old boy have been found after a dayslong standoff in New Jersey, and a suspect was killed in the rescue of three children inside the home.

VANLEER, Tenn. -- Authorities are investigating the cause of a house fire that claimed the life of at least one person in Dickson County.

Authorities are investigating the cause of a house fire that claimed the life of at least one person in Dickson County.

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation indicted a Hickman County man for food stamp fraud last month which resulted in his arrest last night in Ohio.

The county mayor debuted a proposed $22.8 million budget Monday night that does not raise property taxes while including raises for most employees.

David Hatcher has joined Pinnacle as financial advisor and area manager for Dickson, Ashland City and Bellevue, while Lorrie Pruett has been named Dickson office leader.

In conjunction with Charlotte Middle School and Dickson County Schools, Sheriff Jeff Bledsoe announces an up-coming presentation of the Blake McMeans Promise Tour to be held at Charlotte Middle School today at 1:30 p.m. At the end of his high school career, McMeans made a poor choice to drink and drive and, as a result, was involved in a serious ... (more)

<![CDATA[Will Cummins Morrison, Jr. died on May 5, 2013 in Dickson, Tenn. He was 90 years old. Will was a life-long native of Dickson. He was born April 2, 1923 to the late Tennye Bates Morrison and the late Will C. Morrison Sr. He has one sister Carol Morrison Fuson of Dickson. Will attended Dickson High School and was the salutatorian of his 1941 graduating class. For many years, he assisted his graduating class with their annual June reunion. He loved his classmates and always made time to spend with them. They were his best friends. He began his college career at Vanderbilt University until the outbreak of World War II changed his focus that same year. Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, he enlisted in the Navy and served in World War II until 1945. He then completed his degree in engineering at Tennessee Technological University. Following graduation, he joined his father, Will C. Morrison Sr., who along with his own father, W.P. Morrison, had already founded the W.P. Morrison Insurance Agency in 1921. He worked there until he retired in 1986. By that time the name of the insurance agency had changed to Morrison and Fuson, and he passed the torch to his namesake, Will III. Morrison and Fuson Insurance remained always a true source of his familial pride. In 1950, Will married Clara Imogene (Jean) Inman. She preceded him in death in 2003. They shared 53 years of marriage and had four children together. During these years, he continued to work in the insurance industry, shoot and hunt, and restore old farms in both Dickson and Houston counties. For over a decade, he made an annual hunting pilgrimage to Argentina where he met the same group of buddies. Every October, he went to South Dakota with friends from Dickson, Texas, and around the country for a pheasant hunt. He was also very active in local Republican politics and the PTA. In addition to his career in insurance, Will served on the Board of Directors for The First National Bank for many years. He was also a volunteer Boy Scout leader. He was passionate about teaching hunting techniques and gun safety. He made a tremendous difference in many young men's lives by honing their shooting skills. Will was a nationally renowned trap shooter. He won many state trap-shooting competitions and served for a number of years as the President of The Nashville Gun Club. In 1963, he won a prestigious trap-shooting title in Kentucky and was named as a "Kentucky Colonel". One highlight of his shooting career was winning the southern zone father and son trapshoot with his son Will. In 2006, he was inducted into the Tennessee Trap-shooting Hall of Fame during the time when his youngest son, Charles, served as the President of The Nashville Gun Club. He often said, "This was the most unexpected and satisfying award of my life." He was a life- long member of The National Rifle Association. For a time, he enjoyed raising bird dogs. In more recent years, he enjoyed spending time on his Yellow Creek farm. He attended the Sylvia Church of Christ. He loved the people and enjoyed the kindness that Reverend Daniel and Reverend Beard showed him in so many ways. Will was truly an individualist, a real treasure, and a talented storyteller. Some of his best stories were about his days as a young man in World War II, hunting adventures, and from his breakfast club meetings at East Hills and High Point restaurants where local men often greatly embellished their individual tales and solved the problems of our world. The fact is most of his tall tales were actually quite true. He was certainly unhappy when those wonderful meeting places closed their doors forever. He enjoyed reading, riding around his farm on his Kubota, watching movies about the Civil War and cowboys and Indians, and was a huge fan of Fox News. He is survived by his four children: Susan Deavers (Danny), Will C. Morrison III, Charles I. Morrison (all of Dickson), and Margo Jacobs (Phil) of Houston, Texas as well as eight grandchildren, Joe Owens, Miranda Melton, Charles Morrison, Jr., McKensie Morrison, Will C. Morrison IV, Garrett Cummins Morrison, Samuel Deavers, and Leah Jacobs, and four great-grand children, Emma, Audrey, Erica, and Christopher. Memorials celebrating Will's life can be made to: the Sylvia Church of Christ, 1002 Church Street, Dickson, Tennessee 37055, or the Nashville Gun Club, 1100 County Hospital Road, Nashville, Tennessee 37218 (615) 742-5297. Funeral arrangements are shared between Woodlawn-Roesch-Patton Funeral Home in Nashville and Spann Funeral Home in Dickson. Visitation was at Spann Funeral Home Tuesday from 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Services will take place at Spann's Wednesday at 11 a.m. to celebrate and remember Will's colorful life. Condolences may be offered at www.Woodlawn-Roesch-Patttonfh.com.