Dr. Rivers Malone Lindsey, Jr.

August 12, 2025 149

Dr. Rivers Malone Lindsey, Jr. passed away peacefully in his sleep on August

10, 2015, in Florence, AL, aged 99. He was born in Florence, AL on

December 21,1925 to Rivers Malone Lindsey, Sr. and Pauline Cauhorn

Lindsey. He grew up, first, in Eva, TN where his father taught school, and

then in Oakland, AL where his father farmed and taught. He attended

Coffee High School in Florence. At the age of 16 he went to the University of

Alabama in Tuscaloosa. WWII, however, interrupted his education. He served

in the U.S. Navy as a young Naval pilot based in Pensacola, and other Naval

air-bases across the east coast during the war. After the war he attended

dental school in Memphis, TN at the University of Tennessee Dental School.

He began practicing dentistry in Florence in 1950, retiring in the 1980s.

He and his beloved wife Judy loved to travel and thoroughly enjoyed their

worldwide adventures. He loved flying, photography, golf, reading,

electronics (he once taught a class on how to build a computer), and

puttering in his workshop doing delicate cabinetry and woodwork.

Dr. Lindsey was preceded in death by his beloved wife Judy D. Jackson

Lindsey, his parents, and his sister, Jean Gay Lindsey Mussleman. He leaves

behind five daughters and a stepson: Barbara Lindsey Brown (Dennis

Welling) of Nashville, TN; Paige Lindsey Smith (partner, Walter Cunningham)

of Florence, Meredith Lindsey Price of Trussville, AL; Courtney Lindsey Dollar

(Danny) of Trussville, AL; Stacie Lindsey Tompkins (Troy) of Nashville, TN; and

Ron Jackson (Pam) of Killen, AL. He will be missed, also, by his constant

friend, Sandi Rosellini, of Florence. He leaves behind a host of devoted

grandchildren and step-grandchildren, as well as ten great-grandchildren.

Dr. Lindsey will be missed by a host of nieces and nephews and their loving

families.

Services will be at 1 P.M. on Thursday, August 14, at the Florence First United

Methodist Church, in Florence, on Tuscaloosa St. Visitation will be in the

church sanctuary at 12 noon. His grandsons will serve as pallbearers.

The family wants to thank Dr. Lyman Mitchell, Dr. Edsel Holden, and Dr. John

Baron for their thoughtful, attentive care of Dr. Lindsey. The family requests

that donations in his memory be made to Florence United Methodist Church

in Florence, AL. Elkins Funeral Home is assisting the family at this time.