Ms. Reba Joyce Bumbalough Woodard, age 65, of Cookeville, went to be with the Lord at 3:25 pm on Friday, July 3, 2026, at Cookeville Regional Medical Center.
Reba was born February 20, 1961, in McMinnville, Tennessee. She was a longtime employee of Wagner and later Brasel’s Fruit Market in Sparta. Reba was an active member of Where God Leads Church. She loved church and her church family. To know Reba is to know how to love like Jesus. Her journey on earth is now done. She is now healed and walking the streets of gold with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! By her request, she wants us all to follow Him so she can see us all again in Heaven, Amen. In addition to her love for the Lord, she will be fondly remembered for the love she had for her family who knew her best as Nana.
Reba is preceded in death by her father, Otis Bumbalough, and longtime friend, Rex Pryor
Funeral services were conducted at 1 pm Monday, July 6, 2026, from the Chapel of Hunter Funeral Home with burial in Anderson Cemetery. The family received friends after 11 am Monday at Hunter Funeral Home. Pastor Mike Buck officiated.
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