Billy Joe Stubblefield

Billy Joe Stubblefield, 84, of Murray passed away Sunday, December 12, 2010 at Lourdes Hospital. Born October 18, 1926 in the Cherry Corner community, he was the youngest son of Porter and Grace McClain Stubblefield. He attended elementary school at Cherry Corner and graduated from New Concord High School in 1944.

On January 29, 1948, he married Jimmie Lee Gingles, the daughter of Lee and Callie Gingles. A lifelong dairy farmer, he acquired the herd of purebred Jerseys his father had started in 1928. Together with his wife and children, they developed a herd of registered Jerseys. The Stubblefield Jersey herd was exhibited at state and national shows for over forty years. The herd was sold in 1997, but Billy Joe continued to milk a couple of cows on the farm until 2005. He and “Miss Jimmie” had been married almost 52 years when she passed away December 15, 1999.

He was elected to three terms on the Calloway County Board of Education where he served from 1965-1976, serving as chairman of the board for four years.
He was an elder of the Green Plain Church of Christ for thirty years, from 1981 till the time of his death.

In addition to his wife and parents, he was preceded in death by two brothers, Dyrus Stubblefield and Charles Locke Stubblefield, and three sisters, Altie Garrison, Morelle Henry, and Laurene Hall.

He is survived by his second wife Joan Parker Barnes Stubblefield; his daughter Kathy Jo Stubblefield; his son Krit Stubblefield; two sisters-in-law, Marguritte Stubblefield and June Gingles; and one brother-in-law Starkie Hall, all of Murray.
Nieces and nephews who survive are Kenny Stubblefield, Van Stubblefield, Gracie Holland, Owen Garrison, Cindy Cleaver, Dorothy Cook, Max Henry, Bobby Hall, and J.W. Hall all of the Murray area, Reba Garrison King, Southaven, Mississippi; Linda Henry Cole and Donna Hall Fair, in Texas.

Services will be held at 2:00 p.m. Thursday at the Green Plain Church of Christ with Mike Kiser of Sylacauga, Alabama, Robert Meredith, and Virgil Hale officiating. Burial will follow at Hicks Cemetery. Visitation with the family will be from 4:00- to 9:00 p.m. on Wednesday at the J. H. Churchill Funeral Home and from noon till the funeral hour on Thursday at Green Plain Church of Christ. Expressions of sympathy may be made to the Hicks Cemetery fund, in care of Gary Farris, 498 Farris Road Murray, KY 42071.
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