Funeral services were held today at 11 a.m. at the Howell-Thompson Funeral Home for Mrs. Joe Pressgrove, 82.  Newspaper correspondent, civic and church leader, who died Saturday afternoon at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Frank P. Provost, Jr.  C-I Belle Meade Apts., Nashville, after several months illness.  She resided at the Hotel Dixie.

The Rev. Robert E. Cogswell, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, officiated and burial was in Willow Mount Cemetery.

For the past 25 years, Mrs. Pressgrove had served as correspondent for the Chattanooga Times.  She had previously been correspondent many years for the Nashville Tennessean and society editor of the Bedford County Times several years before its consolidation with the Shelbyville Gazette early in 1948.

A native of Shelbyville, Mrs. Pressgrove would have been 83 on Sunday, March 19.  She was the former Miss Mary Addie Thompson, daughter of the late Thomas L. Thompson and Eunice Mary Rutledge Thompson.

For many years, Mrs. Pressgrove taught school in Shelbyville and at Bell Buckle.  She received her education in the Shelbyville schools and was married in 1905 to Joe Pressgrove, an insurance man, who died in 1939.

Mrs. Pressgrove was a very active member of the First Presbyterian Church where she had taught Sunday School class and served various positions in the women's work in the church. 

She was one of the founders of the Shelbyville Garden Club which was organized in 1937 and was also a member of the Shelbyville Woman's Club.  She was a life member of the Peabody Aid and Scarritt Aid in Nashville and the YWCA.

Surviving are another daughter, Mrs. Claude A. LaVarre of Medellin, Columbia, South America, and three grandchildren Claude A. LaVarre., Jr. a senior student at McCallie School in Chattanooga, Harriette Anne LaVarre, student at Stuart Hall, Stanton, VA., and Frank Provost LaVarre, who resides with his parents in South America.

Pallbearers were A.B. Rodes, Greene Benton, Jr., Ben Gambill, all of Nashville.  J.W. Stone, Sydney CC. McGrew, Evan LLoyd Adamson, Charles Carney., Jr., Austin W. Shofner and Charlie Rice of Shelbyville.

Honorary pallbearers were W. Bryant Woosley, Sr., Shelbyville and Charlie Pressgrove, F. Bernard Evers, Sr., Dr. Sidney Ballard, James G. Stahlman, Neely Coble, Sr., Ralph W. Harrison, V. Sumpter Campbell, Jr., R.M. Tallman, Haskell Tidman, Robert Cooney, Judge Thomas Shriver and  Gheens Conn all of Nashville.