Anne L. King Looney, age 88, of Springfield, passed away Tuesday, October 27, 2026 at her home. Funeral services will be conducted at 1pm Friday, October 30th, at the 5th Avenue Uniting Church with Pastor Dakota Norris officiating. There will be a private family graveside service at Springfield Memorial Gardens.
The family will receive friends from 10:30am until 1pm Friday at the church.
Ms. Looney was born January 16, 1938, in Huntsville, AL, to the late Murray Oliver King and Helen Catherine King. She grew up in Decatur, AL, and graduated from Decatur High School. Ms. Looney graduated from Nashville General Hospital School of Nursing in 1959 and worked as a nurse in Springfield for many years. Before retiring in 2005, she worked as an Emergency Room nurse for 19 years at Cheatham Medical Center in Ashland City. There she made many life-long friendships with her co-workers. In 1993 she was voted “Nurse of the Year”. Ms. Looney was a member of First Presbyterian Church since 1963, where she was an ordained Elder, a member of the Mattie Mason Sunday School class, and sang in the choir for many years. Her passion was Missions and was actively involved in the monthly and yearly missions of the church. She was a member of the Board of Community Partners for the Master’s Table, where she often volunteered, and a member of the Board of Directors for COPE, where she worked as a volunteer for many years. Ms. Looney loved reading, playing cards with friends, bird watching and worked at least one crossword puzzle every day, and loved classical music. She enjoyed her frequent “critter visitors” “Ma and Pa” a pair of groundhogs, “Chippie” a chipmunk, “Jack and Jill” a pair of Carolina Wrens that night nested on her back porch and she hand fed bird seed, “Ricky” a racoon she hand fed vanilla wafers, and “Beethoven” a mockingbird.
In addition to her parents, Ms. Looney was preceded in death by her husband, Carroll Medley Looney.
She is survived by her children, Susie Cummins, Mike (Kristi) Looney and Pat (Angela) Looney; 8 grandchildren, Katie (Spencer) Jansen, Hannah (Andrew) Warren, Hunt Cummins, Taylor (Whitney) Looney, Lauren (Clint) Reed, Kristian (Kayla) Cabarcas, Coty (Briana) Kruger and Jay Looney; 10 great grandchildren; and a brother, Murray (Cheryl) King.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to: The Master’s Table, 619 Central Ave. W, Springfield, TN 37172 or to C.O.P.E. of Robertson County, 810 S Main St., Springfield, TN 37172.
Austin & Bell Funeral Home in Springfield is in charge of these arrangements.
