A Freedom Rider and civil rights icon. An innovator of Nashville’s most famous dish. A former United States senator. Several widely celebrated songwriters, a former Tennessee Titans general manager, and the longest-serving woman in Tennessee state Senate history.
These are just a few of the Nashvillians, former Nashvillians and other locally significant people our city lost in 2021. In our annual In Memoriam issue, we at the Nashville Scene commemorate some of the irreplaceable figures who died over the past year.
Read on and remember.
Remembering Ernest ‘Rip’ Patton, Thelma Harper, Cornelia Clark and more
Remembering Marc Boyer, Penny Felts, Frederick S. Humphries and more
Remembering Tom T. Hall, Connie Bradley, Kenneth Wayne 'Scat' Springs, Nanci Griffith, Ross Norton, Robb Earls and more
Remembering Ben Rechter, James Cheek III, Alice Pearson Chapman, Patricia C. Frist and more
Remembering Sandra Austin, Bolton Matthews, Sam Kopsombut and Frank Hall
Remembering LaQuita James, Albert Davis, Jason Reynolds and more
Remembering Charlie Anderson, Floyd Reese, Josh Evans and Van Heflin
