Marjorie "Gayle" McConnell

Marjorie Gayle Brown McConnell January 7, 1941 — September 24, 2025 Erin

Marjorie Gayle Brown McConnell, age 84, passed away September 24, 2025 at Humphreys County Nursing Home in Waverly, TN.

Gayle was born January 7, 1941 in Nashville, Tennessee, daughter to the late Marjorie Poole Brown and Tillman Morgan Brown.

Gayle was a fierce, complex woman- the definition of a survivor. She is the reason we will go anywhere with rollers in our hair and say “sir” and “ma’am”. Gratefully, we have inherited her intuition, curiosity, and the love of history and reading. We will miss her laugh, and how she called you “darlin” or “son” brimming with love when she was pleased with you, and then address you with all three of your given names when she was vexed with you. Always reminding us that “this too shall pass”.

Time and dementia are savage thieves no more. We will love you always.

In addition to her parents, she is proceeded in death by the “love of her life”, Mervin Davaughn Miller and her sister Ann Hemmer.

Survivors include her children, Karen Elizabeth (Toby) Locke, William Richard McConnell, Jr., Mary Kathrine (Richard) Bean and Samantha L. McConnell. She also leaves behind her grandchildren, Dustin (Samantha) McConnell, Keeley Briana Locke, Lauren N. (Bronson) Amalfitano, Morgan Elizabeth McConnell, William L. (April) Barber, Jr., Hunter Cole York, Autumn Belle York; two great-grandchildren; her sister, Tilma Jean Pomeroy, and many nieces and nephews.

Arrangements are in the care of Nave Funeral Home.