Mr. Fred Eugene Claxton Jr. Obituary - Visitation & Funeral Information

Mr. Fred Eugene Claxton, Jr., age 78, of Shelbyville, passed away Wednesday, August 18, 2021. Funeral Services will be 2 PM Saturday, August 21, 2021, at Feldhaus Memorial Chapel. Albert Cook will officiate. Burial, with full military honors, will follow in Willow Mount Cemetery. The family will receive visitors 12 PM until service time Saturday at the funeral home. The family request that all persons attending any of the services, please wear a mask. He was born August 13, 1943, in Bedford County, to the late Fred Eugene and Kathleen Ruth Neeley Claxton, Sr. He was retired from farming and the Tennessean Newspaper. He was an avid deer hunter and fisherman, and attended the First Assembly of God Church. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a brother, Richard Claxton, and a sister, Anita Claxton. Survivors include his wife of 47 + years, Wanda Cook Claxton; a son, Dion Gordon, and his wife Christie; daughters, Tammy Vajcner, and her husband Johnny, and Misty Claxton, all of Shelbyville; a brother, Carl Claxton, of Shelbyville; sisters, Juanita Wisdom, and her husband Beady, of Lenoir City, and Mary Ann Sanders, of Shelbyville; grandchildren, Ray Carter, and his wife Amanda, Cody Carter, and his wife Brandi, Lenzie Gordon, Kirstyn Meyer, and her husband Taylor, Carley Sullivan, Phillip Gordon, Hannah Ensey, Ayla Snoddy, and Jessica Snoddy; great grandchildren, Kenzie Carter, Nathan Carter, Bentley Simpson, Calliegh Simpson, Londyn Simpson, Paisley Winton, and Eli Gordon; brother in law and sister in law, Albert and Connie Cook. Feldhaus Memorial Chapel is assisting the family.

Mr. Fred Eugene Claxton Jr.

August 13, 1943 - August 18, 2021