Lorena Glasner Wiseman passed away peacefully at her home on July 29, 2021. She was born on March 26, 1926 in Estill Springs, Tennessee. She was the seventh of eight children of August and Rena Ann Bradford Glasner. Her family moved to the Goshen community in 1934 where she lived until she was married. She graduated from Cowan Public School in 1941, and Central High School in 1945. The day after she graduated, she started working for the Civil Service Commission at Camp Forrest. She worked there for two years, and then worked at the Farmer’s National Bank for the next seven years. On September 16, 1950, she married David G. Wiseman, Jr. and moved to the Harmony Community. In 1953 she became a full-time homemaker.
She joined the Harmony Cumberland Presbyterian Church in August 1953, and served faithfully in the church as a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Women, and as a Sunday School teacher and Bible School leader. She was known and loved as “Miss Lorena” to multiple generations in the church and in the community where she was famous for her home-made popcorn balls at Halloween. She was also an active volunteer at the Harmony Elementary School until it was closed. She was active in her local Homemakers Club. She was an excellent seamstress making clothing, costumes, and doll dresses, a wonderful cook, an avid gardener, and lover of nature, particularly birds and butterflies. She kept jars and lids on her porch for her “young’uns” to capture lightning bugs, frogs, caterpillars, and tadpoles. She especially enjoyed flowers and furnished her church with beautiful arrangements from her gardens for years. She was a dedicated writer of letters and cards to her friends and family. In later years she colored beautiful pictures and cards which she enclosed in her correspondence.
She had a great and abiding love for her extended family. She was preceded in death by her parents; her brother, Charlie Glasner (Dola); her sisters, Bertha Bell (Clarence); Margie Hopkins (C.W.); Annie Faris (Sam); Rosetta Bishop (Frank); Louise Woodard (Sammy Lee); her brothers-in-law, Ernest Snell and Robert Lyle Custer; her sister-in-Law, Imogene Knowles (Lloyd); and her father and mother-in law, David and Johnie Wiseman.
She is survived by her husband of 71 years, David G. Wiseman, Jr. and four children, David G. Wiseman III (Christianna), Rena Clare Wiseman, Robert “Bob” Alexander Wiseman (Ann), and Jean Ann Andrews (Mark). She had seven grandchildren; Anna Hoffman (Matt), Alex Wiseman (Joline), Jacob Wiseman (Megan), Andrew Wiseman (Kayla), Alexandria Andrews Deckert (Jesse), Michael Andrews, and Kate Andrews. She also had six great- grandchildren; Lillian and Reagan Hoffman; Ivy Williams, Gabrial and Steven Wiseman, and Clayton Deckert. She is also survived by her sister, Cora Snell, sister-in-law Margaret Custer, and numerous nieces and nephews who loved their Aunt Lorena.
Visitation will be from 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM on Sunday, August 1, 2021 at Moore-Cortner Funeral Home. The funeral service will follow at 3:00 PM with Dr. Joe Butler officiating. Interment will be at Harmony Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be sent to the South Middle School Library, c/o Mrs. Jamie Latham, 601 Cumberland St. W, Cowan, Tennessee 37318; or to your favorite charity.
Moore-Cortner Funeral Home, 300 1st Ave. NW, Winchester, TN 37398, 931-967-2222
