Donald Roy Pendergrass 73, of Muscle Shoals, AL passed away Tuesday Dec. 16, 2014. Visitation will be 10:00am until 12:00pm Saturday, Dec. 20, 2014 at Calvary Baptist Church, Tuscumbia, AL. The funeral service will follow at 12:00pm Saturday at the church. Interment will be in Colbert Memorial Gardens. Todd Pendergrass and Darrell Pace will officiate.
Dr. Pendergrass lived in the Shoals area for 57 years. He was a member of Calvary Baptist Church, Tuscumbia, AL. He served as City Judge of Muscle Shoals being the youngest judge in Alabama. He also served as the first Building and License Inspector for Muscle Shoals and served three terms on the Muscle Shoals Board of Education. He served as pastor in churches in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee for 30 years.
He is survived by his wife of 53 years, Gloria Faye Nesbitt Pendergrass, his son Donald Todd Pendergrass (Lorie); daughter Dawn Pounders (Tim); his brother Freddie Lee Pendergrass (Peggy), and his 9 grandchildren Dustin Pounders (Erin), Luke Pounders (Leah), Caleb Pounders (Karen), Brooke, Madison, Caroline and Hudson Pendergrass, Carter and Carrington Cooper; and two great-grandchildren Spencer Pounders and Elisa Ruth Pounders.
Pallbearers will be Tim Pounders, Lee Pendergrass, and grandsons Dustin Pounders, Luke Pounders, Caleb Pounders, Madison Pendergrass, and Hudson Pendergrass.
Honorary pallbearers will be Paul Nesbitt, Jr., David McCollum, Jimmy Glenn, Ken Lane, Tommy Hickerson, Robbie Martin, Willis Lyman, Elliott Kimbrough, and Bill Hudgins.
The family would like to extend a special thanks to Amedisys Hospice, Kristen Howard, Dorothy Phillips and many others for the compassion and support during Don’s illness.
Memorials may be made to St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital or Calvary Baptist Church, Tuscumbia, AL .
