Bonnie Faye McMahan, age 79 of Hornsby, Tennessee passed away Thursday morning, November 1, 2012 at McNairy County Health Care Center in Selmer.
The wife of Orville McMahan of Hornsby, who survives, she was a homemaker. She worked for a year and a half at Bolivar Packing Company and for 15 years as a cook with the Hornsby School where she was well known for her homemade rolls. She was born April 28, 1933 in a log cabin on the Mitchell Farm near Hornsby to the late William Andrew Tigner and Callie Estella Sipes Tigner and lived most of her life in Hardeman County. She married her husband on September 24, 1949 in Corinth, Mississippi and later moved to Gibson County, where he was a preacher, living there for eight years before moving back here in 1968. She was a very talented piano player and singer, enjoyed piece quilting, working in her garden and canning the produce out of it. She dearly loved her grandchildren and great grandchildren. Mrs. McMahan was a member of Hatchie Baptist Church.
In addition to her husband, survivors include a son, Dennis McMahan of Hornsby; a sister, Lucille Donahoe of Bolivar; four grandchildren, Julie McMahan Walton and Lisa McMahan Pulse, both of Bolivar, Brandon McMahan of Mercer and Phillip McMahan of Whiteville; and six great grandchildren, Juliana and Clyne Walton, Lily and Harper Pulse, Hunter and Sophie McMahan.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by a son, Anthony McMahan in 2010, a sister, Jeanette Tank and a brother, Robert Tigner.
