Jim Adcock, age 74 of Union City, passed away Thursday, August 1, 2024 at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Union City surrounded by his loving family.
Funeral service will be held at White-Ranson Funeral Home at 4 pm Monday, August 5, 2024 with Bro. Mike Wilson officiating. Burial will follow in East View Cemetery. Visitation will be Sunday, August 4, 2024 from 4 pm – 6 pm at the funeral home.
Rick Nelson, Bill Wallace, Randy Harris, Rick Brewer, Josh Brewer, and Aaron Campbell will serve as pallbearers. His radio station colleagues and Union City High School Class of 1967 will serve as honorary pallbearers.
Jim was born on October 20, 1949 in Dickson, Tennessee. He was the son of the late Elmer and Dollie (Loveless) Adcock. As a small boy, his family moved to Nashville where Jim lived until age twelve when his dad was transferred to Union City with L & N Railroad. He married Debi (Nelson) Adcock on November 4, 1977. She survives. Jim was a member of Bishop Street Church of Christ.
Jim was a proud 1967 graduate of Union City High School. He received his Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree from Harding University in Searcy, Arkansas. Jim served as pulpit minister at churches of Christ in Western Grove and Remmel, Arkansas and Cloverdale and Glass, Tennessee.
He was president of the Union City Jaycees and Regional Vice-President of the Tennessee Jaycees. He was past Vice-President of the Searcy Civitan Club.
At the age of 15, Jim went to work at WENK-AM radio station in downtown Union City and was one of the original employees when WALR-FM went on the air. He worked for KWCK and the Caldwell Broadcasting Group in Searcy. Most recently, Jim was a member of the Thunderbold Broadcast Family in Union City and Martin.
Jim’s greatest love was that of his family. He is survived by his daughters and sons-in-law, Kisah and Paul Stinnett and Hannah and Jason Brewer, and his two grandchildren, Alyxis Brewer and Jensen Stinett, all of Union City. He is also survived by his sisters, Penella Davis of Hornbeak and Patsy Cortez-Lugo of Mineral Wells, Texas, and several nieces and nephews.
He was also preceded in death by his sisters, Janice Kennedy of Union City and Glenda Brewer of Choctaw, Oklahoma.