LEBANON -- Funeral services will be held 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 6, at the Gladeville Baptist Church for Rhonda Burkett, 55, of Murfreesboro. Retired from Bridgestone as an engineer, and a member of Gladeville Baptist Church, she died Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2012. Rhonda was a 1975 graduate of Lebanon High School and Middle Tennessee State University.

The family will receive friends Friday, Oct. 5 from 4 - 8 p.m. at the Partlow Funeral Chapel and at the church on Saturday from 12 noon until the service.  Bro. Bruce Grubbs conduct the service with interment to follow at Cedar Grove Cemetery.

Survivors include: husband Steve Ricker; mother Lola (David) Mann; grandmother Frankie Hendrixson; brothers Mark Burkett & William “Vim” Burkett; sister Suzanne (Doug) Minert; step-sisters Terri (Bill) Mann & Robin (Claude) Jacobs; nephews Tyler, Wade, Andrew, & Josh Minert and Tell (Angela) Burkett. 

Ms. Burkett is preceded in death by her father Ronald Burkett; maternal grandfather William Floyd Wooden; paternal grandparents William & Callie Burkett; and nephew Benjamin Burkett.

Family members will serve as pallbearers.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Sherry’s Run or New Leash on Life: 507 W Baddour Pkwy Lebanon, 37087.

Arrangements by Lebanon's Partlow Funeral Chapel / www.partlowchapel.com