Michael Hutcheson

Funeral Services will be at 12:30 p.m. Friday at Collier-Butler Chapel for Mr. Michael M. Hutcheson, 53, Rainbow City, who passed away Tuesday, January 31, 2012. Revs. Jerald Adams and Tommy Crocker will officiate with burial at Crestwood Cemetery. Collier-Butler Funeral Home will direct.

Mr. Hutcheson was a native and lifelong resident of Etowah County. He was a 1977 graduate of Southside High School and a 1982 graduate of the Auburn University School of Pharmacy. During High School he played all sports, baseball at Gadsden State Community College, and in 1977, he played with Jacksonville State in the national championship game. Mr. Hutcheson was an avid War Gamer and had been employed with Super Bee Pharmacy for 30 years. He was a member of Paden Baptist Church and was a loving husband, father, grandfather, son, brother and friend.

Survivors include his wife, Donna Wagnon Hutcheson, children, Lauren Hutcheson Deerman and husband Skylar and Jordan Michael Hutcheson, grandson, Hutcheson “Hutch” Deerman, parents, H. M. and Lynette Hutcheson, sisters, Debbie Adams and husband, Dale and Kim Hutcheson, brother, Brad Hutcheson and wife Mitzi, mother-in-law, Claudette Wagnon, brother-in-law, Danny Wagnon and wife Amy and a host of nieces and nephews.

Pallbearers will be family and friends.

Honorary pallbearers will be Employees of Super Bee Pharmacy and deacons of Paden Baptist Church.

The family will accept flowers or memorials may be made to Paden Baptist Church or any charity.

Special thanks is extended to Dr. Gregory Chapman and staff, Dr. James Robinson and staff, The E R Staff at Riverview Regional Medical Center and Whorton Bend Volunteer Fire Department and EMTs.

Visitation will be this evening from 5 to 8 p.m. at the funeral home. Condolences for the family may be given at www.collier-butler.com