Nolen Dean Sanders

NOLAN DEAN SANDERS

Funeral services for Mr. Nolan Dean Sanders, age 94 of Fayette, will be held Saturday, March 23, 2024, at 11a.m. from Nelson Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will follow in Fayette Memorial Gardens. Rev. Brent Smalley, Drew Manley and Bishop Richard Ramsey will officiate. The family will receive visitors Friday, March 22, from 6-8 p.m. at the funeral Home. He died Friday, March 16.
 Daddy had a giving spirit and it was his way of blessing others. That was his love language. Most of the time, you would find him outdoors enjoying the things he loved best: working in his workshop, planting his garden, tending to his flowers, tinkering with anything in his shop along with making additions to his museum that was open to the public. He enjoyed reminiscing about his life experiences with family, the Cotton Mill and his tour of service in the Korean War. He will be greatly missed by all who knew and loved him.  Although our hearts are broken, our faith and hope in the Lord is that we will one day be reunited with our loved ones that have gone before us.
 Nolen was preceded in death by his wife of 69 years, Bobbie Jean Gray (Forever Together Again); his parents, Henry Dalton Sanders and Mittie Mae Holcombe Sanders Aldridge; step-father, Ruben Aldridge; and sister, Barbara Ann Sanders Garrett.
 Nolen is survived by his three daughters, Becky (Jeff ) Pollard of Montgomery, Dianne (Randall) Brown of Millbrook and  Anita (Brent)  Smalley of Fayette; six grandchildren, Olivia (Scott ) Spry, Jeffrey Allen (Lyndsey) Brown, Amanda Leigh (Jonas) Chapman,  Adam Landon (Kristen) Smalley, Brianne (Kevin) Ives and Nathaniel Austin (Hannah) Brown; 11 great-grandchildren, Tori Spry, Lauren Spry, Ellington Brown, Everleigh Brown, Rileigh Ann Chapman, Rawlins Chapman, Remi Jean Chapman, Riverlynn Chapman, Kaden Ives, Silas Ives and Brinnlee Kate Ives; three nieces, Elise (Terry) Williams, Tammie (Gary) Hull and Cheri (Danny) King; and a great number of cousins.  
 Honorary pallbearers will be Jonas Chapman, Ben Rushing, Doug Williams, Buey Owens and Mackey Hubbard.
Active pallbearers will be Jeff Pollard, Randall Brown, Jeff Brown, Nathan Brown, Adam Smalley, Kevin Ives and Scott Spry.
 Special thanks for caregivers at Bill Nichols VA Home and Southern Care New Beacon Hospice.  
Nelson Funeral Home of Fayette will direct.