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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Oct 19, 2016

Charles Henry McWherter, a former judge and prosecutor, died Oct. 16 at the age of 84. Funeral services were held yesterday in Dresden with a private burial following in the Palmersville Cemetery. McWherter was a graduate of the University of Tennessee and Vanderbilt University Law School. He served in the U.S. Navy, as judge advocate for the Tennessee Department of the American Legion, and as commander and chaplain of the American Legion Post 55 in Martin. His legal service included stints as an assistant U.S. attorney for the Western District of Tennessee; assistant district attorney general in Henry, Benton, Carroll, Decatur and Hardin counties; and general sessions judge in Weakly County. The Paris Post-Intelligencer reported his death while the Bowlin Funeral Home has a more complete obituary.