Thomas Rance Cleveland, 75, Spruce Pine, Alabama, passed away Sunday, April 24, 2016, at Helen Keller Hospital.
Mr. Cleveland lived his entire life in Franklin County and was a member of Belgreen Church of Christ. He was a mason lodge #428, member of Franklin County Cattlemen’s Association and former Franklin County Commissioner. He served in the Alabama National Guard, 186th Engineering Company. He was employed at U.S. Reduction and retired from Chrysler with 39 years of combined service.
Visitation will be Tuesday, April 26, 2016, 6 p.m. until 8 p.m. at Pinkard Funeral Home, Russellville. Funeral service will be Wednesday, 11 a.m. in the funeral home chapel with Jackie and Johnny Richardson and Josh Thompson officiating. Burial will follow in Knights of Pythias Cemetery.
Survivors include sons, Tom Cleveland and wife, Vanessa, Decatur, Tim Cleveland and wife, Tracy, Madison, Ted Cleveland and wife, Wronda, Belgreen; grandchildren Tim Cleveland, Jr. and wife Tiffany, Tabetha Pinkard and husband, Josh, Jessica Pannell and husband, Richard, Hannah, Abigail, Addison, Tanner and Teagan Cleveland; great-grandchildren, Tripp and Tinley Cleveland, Caylin and Darby Pinkard; brother, Horace Cleveland and wife, Marie, Sheffield; sister, Betty Cleveland Weatherly, Brandon, Mississippi; several nieces and nephews.
Pallbearers will be Ray Hargett, Wiley Beam, Johnny Barber, Frankie Taylor, Paul Cleveland, Jimmy Cleveland, Donnie Murray and Jack Hargett.
Honorary bearers will be the late Gene Hamilton, Don Gerrard, Tim Murray and Donald King.
He was preceded in death by wife, Brenda Gail Cleveland; parents, Rance (R.L.) and Pauline Benson Cleveland; brother, Hollis Cleveland.
