Rudolph B. “Rudy” Newby of Tullahoma passed this life Wednesday, March 14 at his home at the age of 94.

Mr. Newby was born in Warren County in the Daylight community to the late Sam H. and Bertha E. Newby. He served his country in the United States Army during World War II and went on to work as an insurance agent with Kentucky Central Insurance. Mr. Newby was a longtime member of First Baptist Church in Tullahoma where he had served as a deacon and trustee. He was also a member of the Kiwanis Club and the Life Underwriters.

In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by wife Florene Newby; one son George Stephen Newby; one daughter Claudia Reed Newby; brothers G.W. Newby, his twin, Randolph Newby, J. Paul Newby and Clayburn Robinson; and sisters Lowry Turner, Rowena Boyd, and Jim Newby Robinson.

Mr. Newby is survived by daughter Libby Sohrabi and her husband Nader of Wartrace; grandchildren Erin Carner and her husband Matt, Allison Newby, Nick Sohrabi and his wife Melissa, Evan Sohrabi and his wife Heather, and Carrie Miller and her husband Jesse; and great-grandchildren, Jackson, Shepherd and Allison Carner, June, Ivy, Audrey and Owen Sohrabi and Mason and Ella Miller.

Funeral services will be held Sunday, March 18 at 2 p.m. at Kilgore Funeral Home Chapel with pastors Andy Stallings and Kevin Ivy officiating. Burial will follow at Rose Hill Memorial Gardens. For those who wish, in lieu of flowers, the family asks donations be made to Hospice Compassus, 110 East Lauderdale Street, Tullahoma, TN 37388.

Kilgore Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.