Carmen Tatum Eakin

Ms. Carmen Tatum Eakin, 93, of Linden, passed away Wednesday June 4, 2025 at Perry County Nursing Home. She was born in Wayne County to the late Woodrow "Pete" Tatum and Emmie Pauline Gladden Tatum. After retiring from General Motors in Pittsburg, PA, she moved back to Tennessee making her home in Linden. She loved worked in her flower garden and often had people stopping by just to see her garden. 

In addition to her parents she is also preceded in death by her husbands Loyd H. McMahan and Charles W. Eakin, a sister Katie Garner and brothers Russell and Ronnie Tatum.

Survivors include her daughter Evelyn (Gary) Barber of Linden, a son Curtis Dale McMahan of Mitchell, Indiana, grandchildren Judy Naples and Carol Roth, great-grandchildren Benedetto and Giovanni Naples, brothers Bud H. Tatum of Brookville, Ohio and Jimmy L. (Glenda) Tatum of Waynesboro and a host of other loving family members and many friends. 

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