Mr. Tony "Red" Ray Hart, 69, of Wildersville, Tennessee passed away Friday, May 19, 2023 at Henderson County Community Hospital.

Funeral services will be conducted on Saturday, May 28, 2023 at 1:00 PM at Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church with Pastor Antwanne Jordan officiating.  Interment will follow in church cemetery.

The family will receive friends at Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church on Saturday from 11:00 AM until time of service.

Mr. Hart was born August 20, 1953 in Wildersville, Tennessee, to the late Lawton Hart and Robena (Rivers) Hart. He confessed in Christ at an early age and became a member at Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church in Yuma, Tennessee.  As a youth he attended Hale School in Huntingdon and later Montgomery School in Lexington. When he became older, he worked construction for a while. One of his hobbies was his passion for knife collecting, his favorite was Case Knives. He also loved to have fun, talk with friends, his phrase was "I am just shooting the breeze", while in conversation with his sister-mom, Surrenda.  Other than his parents he was also preceded in death by one sister, Lula Mae Melton, four brothers, Timothy Lynn Hart, John Thomas Hart, Lawrence Ray Hart, and Earnest Ray Melton.

He leaves to cherish his memories, his sister-mom, Surrenda Ross, two sisters, Peggy Hart, Lee Helen Weathers, two brothers, James Parker, Jessie Hart, all of Parkers Crossroads, an aunt, Norma Mebane of Huntingdon.  He also leaves nine nieces, thirteen nephews and a host of family and friends.