Mary Moore Earthman Weatherford, age 97, passed away peacefully in her home and went to be with her Lord and Savior on Monday, February 24, 2025. She was welcomed into this world on January 17, 1928, being one of the first babies born in the then new Rutherford Hospital in Murfreesboro, TN. She was the second of four children born to Harold “Doc” H. Earthman, Sr., and Mary Moore Earthman. She grew up in a house built by her parents fondly known as “Countryside,” which was on several acres bordering the Main Street entrance to Middle Tennessee State College (now M.T.S.U.). Their residence had one of the few, if not the only, swimming pools in Murfreesboro which attracted many childhood friends to Countryside. Mary lived in Murfreesboro virtually her entire life, with the brief exception of living in Washington D.C., and later living near U.T.’s campus with her husband, Jack Weatherford. 

Mary and Jack have been active members of New Heights Chapel (formerly College Heights Chapel) for 70 years, a church started by her father, her brother, Ben Earthman, and their close friend, Oscar Johns, in 1955.

Mary is survived by her husband of 77 years, Jack O. Weatherford, Sr. Also surviving Mary are her children Virginia Weatherford Perry (Charles), Camden Weatherford Dement (Andy), and J. Ben Weatherford (Margie), as well as her grandchildren, Sarah, Rachel, David, and John Perry, along with Will, Bart, and Jack Dement, and Ben and Mary Margaret Weatherford. She is also survived by her loving nieces and nephews, Mary, John, Rob, Alice (the Sanders) and Mark and Jim Poag. Mary was preceded in death by her son, Jack O. Weatherford, Jr.; parents, Harold and Mary Earthman; sister, Virginia Earthman Sanders; and brothers, Ben Earthman and Harold Henderson Earthman, Jr.

Visitation with the family will be Wednesday, March 5, 2025 from 10:00am until 12:00noon at Woodfin Memorial Chapel. Funeral services will immediately follow at noon at Woodfin Memorial Chapel. Burial will follow in the Evergreen Cemetery in Murfreesboro, TN.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to New Heights Chapel in Murfreesboro, TN or to Horton Haven Christian Camp in Chapel Hill, TN or to Portico in Murfreesboro, TN.