Gracey Gayle Gobbell

Gracey Gayle Gobbell of Hermitage, TN. Age 12, born December 23, 2002 and went to live with our Lord on October 20, 2015. She will be forever missed by all who knew her and the family's lives will never be the same. She was a beautiful and happy ray of sunshine in our lives. She lived her life making other people happy with her heartwarming smile and random acts of kindness. Her hugs warmed you all the way to your soul. She was well loved by the friends and staff at DuPont Tyler Middle Prep. Her smile and soul reached way beyond the halls of her school. She touched everyone she met and built friendships that turned into families.

She is preceded in death and joined in heaven with our beautiful and kind mother, grandmother and Granny- Bebe Rizor who adored and cared for her when she was a child. And all the other family who live in heaven, she has now met and will take care of her there.

She is survived by her loving parents, Shaner and Kelly (Tidwell) Gobbell; sister, Kylee Gobbell; brothers, Bailey Rush, Jaxon Gobbell and Brody Gobbell; grandparents, Jim Pat and Karen (Rizor) Tidwell, Tony Gobbell and Toni Gobbell; aunt, Tera Tidwell and cousin, Liliana Tidwell; uncle, Jamey and Ashley (Sabato) Tidwell and cousins, Cade, Rylan and Maci; her great-grandfather, Lester "Buddy" Rizor; great-aunts and uncles, John and Barbara (Tidwell) Nanni, Mark and Joan (Rizor) Pionke, Sandra Sanders, David and Linda (Knies) Rizor and John and Brenda (Rizor) Dye, Rex and Kay Gobbell and Tom and Tootie Lomax. Other immediate family includes, Mandy Dye and Maverick Green, Haley and Chad Soeder, Chris, Angie and Jack Sanders, Steve and Lauren Pionke, Cara, Brad, Nora and Cohen Vaughn, Natalina, Rob, JoJo and Rufus Marlow, Lindsey, Nathan and Abbie Wood, Wendy, Jason, Nick, Matthew and Michael Trusty and John, Leslie and McKenna Pionke, Jonathan, Michelle and Elizabeth Gobbell and Bryan, Anne, Cole, Will and Kathleen Gobbell, Allen Lomax and family and Kristy Miller and family.

A Memorial service will be held for the public at 2pm Saturday, October 24, 2015 at the Hermitage United Methodist Church with Pastor Chris Seifert officiating with a private burial at Hermitage Memorial Gardens.

Please keep us in your thoughts and prayers in the weeks, months and years to come. Our grief at this time is inconsolable but we pray that with God's grace and mercy, we can go on with our lives and make a difference in someone else's life in memory of our cherished Gracey.