A devoted and precious, wife, mother, grandmother and sister has transitioned from her earthly home to her heavenly reward.

Mrs. Robbie Huff Apple, a homemaker of Gordonsville, was discovered unresponsive by her husband at the family Trousdale Ferry Pike home. She was pronounced deceased at 7:11 a.m. Thursday morning July 25, 2024 at the age of 87 at Highpoint Health – Riverview Emergency Room. Smith County E-911 received a call for assistance at 5:47 a.m.

Funeral services from the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home will be conducted on Sunday afternoon July 28th at 3 p.m. Her pastor and former pastor, Bro. Gary McBride and Bro. Tim Bennett will officiate. Her grandson, Bro. John Winfree, will close the chapel service with personal family remarks and will officiate at the graveside service.

The Apple family will receive friends at Sanderson in Carthage on Saturday from 4 p.m. until 6 p.m. and again on Sunday from 1 p.m. until the 3 p.m. services.

Mrs. Apple was born Robbie Catherine Huff on September 12, 1936  in the Jared Hollow in the Chestnut Mound Community and was the fifth of seven children born to the late Charlie Huff who died March 18, 1990 at the age of 86 and Lena Laura Lambert Huff who died April 11, 1982 at the age of 77.

The five siblings preceding her in death were Mildred Elizabeth Huff Glover who died November 28, 1996 at the age of 65, Henry Franklin Huff who died March 24, 2005 at the age of 77, Margaret Huff Bradley who died in California on January 6,, 2015 at the age of 86, Bobby Dow Huff who died January 26, 2019 at the age of 79 and Billy Charles Huff Sr. who died December 8, 2021 at the age of 88.

Mrs. Huff was a member of the 1955 graduating class of Smith County High School where she was a member of the Record Club, Pep squad, Hobby Club, Glee Club and the Future Homemakers of America.

It was stated of her by her classmates in the “55 Owl” annual; “I have room in my heart for every joy”.

She was saved as a young girl at the Chestnut Mound United Methodist Church and for many years before her death she had moved her membership to Macedonia: The Baptist Church of Christ in the Club Springs Community.

In Ringgold, Georgia on January 5, 1957, she was united in marriage to Club Springs Community native, Joe Garland Apple, who survives.

Besides cooking for her family, she had a great love for the outdoors. She especially enjoyed growing and tending her flowers and feeding her backyard birds.

She and her husband Garland had enjoyed over sixty seven years of marriage and as a testament to the lives they have two wonderful children, Kim Apple Winfree and husband Wayne of South Carthage, Duane Apple and wife Ann Cantrell Apple of the Hickman Community; her only surviving sibling, a brother, Tommy Huff of the Castalian Springs Community; four grandchildren, Anna Winfree Sircy and husband Jamie of Gordonsville, John Winfree and wife Brittany of Jackson, Tennessee, Emmy Winfree Coltart and husband Winston of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, Africa, and David Winfree and wife Callie of South Carthage; twelve great-grandchildren, Catie Belle, Silas, Abigail, and Carmen Jo Sircy, Isaac, Maddie Rose, Mary, and Chara Winfree, Nora and Ezara Coltrat, Parker and Carter Winfree.

The Apple family has requested memorials to Macedonia: The Baptist Church of Christ.

Pallbearers: Jamie Sircy, David & John Winfree, Dale Williams, Bruce Winfree, Perry Lee Randolph