Robert Lee Pearson, age 57 years, 5 months, and 30 days, of the Rattlesnake Ridge community passed away Friday, January 1, 2016 at his home.
Funeral services were held Tuesday, January 5, 2016 at the Pleasant Ridge United Baptist Church with Bro. Tom Abbott and Bro. George Allen Coffey officiating. Burial followed in the Sherd Dobbs Cemetery.
He was born July 2, 1958 in Wayne County, Kentucky to Eddie Pearson and Gladys Coffey Pearson. Robert was a member of the Pleasant Ridge Baptist Church and enjoyed four wheeling, swimming, fishing, and hunting. He loved to take care of animals and be with other people.
Preceding him in death are his parents, a sister, Glenda Faye Coffey, a niece, Shanda Dobbs, a brother-in-law, Clinton Dobbs, and his grandparents, Willie and Minnie Carter Coffey and John and Edna Pearson.
Survivors include his sisters, Lynda Dobbs and Viola Coffey, both of Stearns, Kentucky, an aunt, Elsie Reynolds of Alabama, an uncle, Billy Coffey of Somerset, Kentucky, nieces, Tonya Cordell of Whitley City, Kentucky, Julie Dobbs and Deanna Lewis, both of Stearns, Kentucky, nephews, Eric Crawford and Shain Higgins both of Oneida, Tennessee, a very special friend, Gary Terry, and cousins and other friends too numerous to name.
Hickman-Strunk Funeral Home served the family of Mr. Robert Pearson.