RIVERS MALONE LINDSEY, JR
Florence, AL.
December 21, 1925 – August 10, 2025
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.