Andy Maness, 93, passed away on Oct. 8, 2023, in Memphis. Funeral services will be 2 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 12, at Shackelford Funeral Directors – Crook Avenue Chapel with Bro. Ben Flatt officiating. Burial will follow at Henderson City Cemetery. The family will receive friends at Crook Avenue from noon until 2 p.m. service time on Thursday.
He was born on Feb. 12, 1930, in Chester County. He was the second son of Robert Lomax Maness and Cora Alline Wamble Maness. He grew up in Chester County with a brother, Ernest Lee and sisters, Frankie Sue, Willadean, and Joy.
He graduated from Chester County High School in 1948, after which he attended Draughon’s Business School in Nashville. He married Doris Barton on May 29, 1954 and worked in life and health insurance for most of his adult life. In the early 1960s, he became a gospel preacher after which he preached and taught in various congregations for the next 50 years. He was a member of the Plainview Church of Christ. His greatest contribution to Christ was the selfless life of service he lived.
Over the course of his adult life, he was an agent of peace and reconciliation in the world, treating everyone he encountered in the way that he would want to be treated. His home was open to countless children, friends, and others. Countless lives were made better by the hospitality and friendship extended by him and his wife, Doris. He never met a stranger.
He is survived by his wife of 69 years, Doris Barton Maness; their four children, Roger (Kathy) Maness, Karen (Randy) McPherson, Joey (Diana) Maness and Michele (Glenn) Phillips; their grandchildren, Nichole Karnes, Brandy (Jon) Smith, Summer (Ezra) Taylor, Joseph (Diane) Maness, Austin (Polina) Maness, Taylor (Whitney) McPherson, Hayes (Amy) McPherson, Jonathan Van Eaton, Timmy Van Eaton and Emily Van Eaton; 10 great-grandchildren; his sisters, Willadean Thrasher and Joy Whittaker; several nieces and nephews; and countless friends and persons whose lives were enriched immeasurably by him and his wife, Doris, along the way.
