Effie Lou Binkley

January 13, 1929 - June 26, 2020

Effie Lou Bolding Binkley of Bruceville passed away June 26, 2020 at Harborview Nursing Home. She was born January 13, 1929 in Bonicord, TN to James H. Bolding and Minnie Ball Bolding. She is pre-deceased by her parents, her husband of 52 years Colman L. Binkley, her sister Wylodean Bolding Redmond and two children Terry Jay Binkley and Carol Ann Davidson and a grandson Derek Binkley. She is survived by a son Loyd Binkley and a daughter Kathy George of Dyersburg as well as 8 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren. She graduated from Dyersburg High School in 1946 and taught at Fowlkes Elementary for several years. She helped her husband farm and in her later years was an employee of J&W Drug Store and Methodist Hospital of Dyersburg as a pharmacy technician. She is a past member of Beech Grove Baptist Church and an inactive member of West Side Baptist Church in Halls TN. She is remembered as hard working since she was the daughter of a farmer and the wife of a farmer. She spent many hours in the fields and was a master of cooking, canning and sewing. She loved flowers and was often teased that she could just throw flowers out in the yard and they would grow. She cooked many Sunday chicken dinner for the preachers of our church! Her family was blessed by her limitless generosity. At the nursing home, she was often seen by the staff helping other residents find their way to the dinning room or pushing them if they were in a wheelchair. She loved to read novels and particularly scripture and religious books although she also loved history. All arrangements are private.