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Argie Jean Nelson
Argie Jean Lancaster-Hurt
January 29, 1925 - December 12, 2006
Argie Jean Lancaster-Hurt, 81, of Bruceton, died Tuesday, December 12, 2006 at Life Care Center of Bruceton. Graveside services were held at 10 a.m. Friday, December 15, at Prospect Cemetery in Hollow Rock. Bruceton Funeral Home was in charge of the arrangements.
Mrs. Hurt, daughter of the late Lennie and Emmett Nelson, was born on January 29, 1925, in Dickson. She grew up in Bruceton with her two sisters, Marie and Virginia Lee. Although she struggled with Parkinson’s Disease for over her last 10 years, she never complained or lost her sweet, lovely attitude toward all around her and toward life. Argie’s life was filled with music. Encouraged by her mother, she studied piano and sang. With her sister, Virginia Lee, and her friend, Juanita Fristoe, they formed a trio that sang locally and on Nashville radio in the 1930s. Although she had no children of her own, she touched the lives of many children in Bruceton through music. She gave piano lessons in the music studio her husband, Harry Lancaster, built for her behind their house on Carroll Street. Argie was also the organist at First Baptist Church in Bruceton for many years.
Harry died in May of 1993, and she married Lewis Hurt in October of 1994, who passed away on June 12 of this year. Argie is survived by her sister, Virginia N. Ackerman of Huntsville, Alabama; four nephews, Gary N. Ackerman and his wife, Robin Dearling, of Seattle, Washington, and their sons, Graham and David, Steven Ackerman and his wife, Emma Ackerman, of Huntsville, Alabama, and their son, Garrett, and daughters, Maghan and Hallie, Tony Lancaster and his wife, Edith, their son, Will, and daughter, Gretchen, and James Parham of Atlanta, Georgia; a niece, Leigh Gresham of Dallas, Texas; two stepsons, Ted and Richard Hurt; and her stepdaughter, Linda Smothers of Huntingdon, who was a great comfort to her after she moved to Life Care Center. [Source: Carroll County NEWS-LEADER]