Tennessee Honors Shackelford Funeral Directors for 100 Years in Business
Shackelford Funeral Directors was recognized for 100 years in business in Tennessee during a program Thursday, November 12, 2026, at its Bolivar funeral home on Mecklenburg Drive.
Tracey Exum from The Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development presented a certificate from TNECD Commissioner Stuart McWhorter marking the centennial.
The business began in October 1926, when Robert Earnest and Loura Paisley Shackelford opened a funeral home in Savannah, Tennessee. Six years later, their only child, Robert Paisley Shackelford Sr., and his wife, Kathryne Hall Shackelford, moved from Savannah to Bolivar and opened the second Shackelford Funeral Home in 1932.
The Bolivar funeral home first operated in a building on the south side of Court Square. It moved to the east side of the square in 1934 and remained there until 1964, when it moved to its current location on Mecklenburg Drive.
The November 12 recognition marked a century in business for Shackelford Funeral Directors, from its first funeral home in Savannah in 1926 to more than nine decades of serving Bolivar families.
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