This year, 181 people died while living on the streets in Nashville. At the 2023 Annual Homeless Memorial on Dec. 16, all of them were remembered in a ceremony downtown at Riverfront Park by the Tara Cole Memorial Bench.
Members of the community read aloud each name and gave remembrances in the form of poetry, prayer and comments about their loved ones and neighbors. Following the ceremony, attendees placed flowers in the Cumberland River to honor each person who lost their life while living on the streets.
Kristen Abrams
Lawrence Adams
Christopher Alford
Landon Alley
Marilyn Avery
Phillip Bailey
Kristine Barbee
Courtney Barnes
Harold Bass
Jamie Biggs
Anthony Blake
Antonio Booker
William Booker, Jr.
Jeannine Botts
John Brazelton
Richard Broome
Walter Brown
William Alfonso Brown
Johnny Ray Bunch
Jeffery Allen Capps
Aaron Carpenter
Gregory Carter
Misty Caudill
Roy Cherry
Tonya Church
Marquis D. Churchwell
Andre “Old School” Clow
Bruce Coco
Robert Coffee
Otha Collins
David Cook
Jeremy Culbertson
James Depung
Conni Dickerson
Roger Dile
Mark Dodd
Ricky Donnell
Michael Duke II
Jasmine Dukes
Thomas Edward
Anthony Thomas Edwards
Tony England
James Espie
Margaret Evans
Robert “Wayne” Fathera
Chris Few
Saundra Fisk
Edward Charles Foley
Marlesse Frank
Leon Freeman
Denyce “Gypsy” Gagnon
Joey Gann
Justin Goodrich
Ronald Graves
Christopher Lee Grubb
Sifeldin Hamad
Kevin Hamilton
David Hammond
Brian “Treetop” Hancock
Rayford Alton Harvey
Letha Hayes
Daniel Hicks
Charles Hodge
Lawrence Holly
Latarsha Howard
Bronson Hunter
Pamela Hurd
Timothy Wayne Hutcherson
Jeffery Walker Irons
Christopher Robert James
Fred Jarvis
Whitney Jeffries
Dedja Dannielle Jenkins
Bobby Jennings
Antonio Jordan
Joy Kabelu
Julia Kaylor
Johnny Keith
David A. Kelley
Kenneth Kelly
Charlie Keys
Francise Kimbrough
Michael Allen Kinslow
Garry Klucas
Tangela Knox
David C. Kramnic
Loren Lange
Tomekia LaQuan Clark
Charles Eddie Lawson
Ricky Lewis
Gary M. Lucus
William Luster
Ellen Luna
Maurice “Wild Bill” Marce
Kenneth Mathis
Sarah McAllister
Mark McCormick
Brian Lee McInnis Wilson
James McQuiston
Juan Mena
Danny T. Merrell
Jody Minor (aka Joe D.
Vernon)
Thomas Mitchell
Kenneth Moore
Thomas Moore III
John Moran
Richard Moss
Jennifer Motil
Donald Murphy
Marece Nebil
Donnell Norford
Marvin Nunes-Nunes
Andrew Matthew Nuzzo
Mary “Strawberry” Oldham
Jacob Leroy Olivarez
Lonnie Orr
Jeffrey Wayne Padgett
Andre Palenzuela
Donna Pardue
John Wilson (Country)
Patterson
Ronald Eugene Peach
Christopher Perrin
Bronson Pharr
James H. Pinkard
Carol “June” Potts
Jeffery Ranstad
Julia Ray
Adam Reynolds
Kathleen Reynolds
Tina Rusak
Ray Sanders
Leonard Sanford
Barry Sargel
Tamara Savickas
Christopher Bryan Scott
Juan Sis
Blackie James “Jim” Skinner
Torrance Sledge
Christopher Smalley
Walter Smith
Michael T Smith
Tara Smith
Justin Lee Smith
Rodney Terdelle Speed
Ponce DeLeon Spight
Richard Starnes
Donald Lee Stennis
Benjamin (Joker) Sterling
Tommy Stevens
Anthony Sweatt
Billy G. Tabb
Johnnie Taylor
Michelle Tayse
Ronald E. Thomas
Ruth Thomas
Tommy L. Thompson
Kyle Thornton
Sammy Threet
William Thrift
Michael “Patrick” Timbes
Michael Kevin Tinch
William Todd
Kapriel Trauernicht
Tyler Tripp
Martha Turner
Stephanie Vaughn
Virginia Wair
Jonathan Brent Walden
Megal Wallace
Kenneth Ward
Jerry Washington
Mark Weatherford
Richard “RC” Weller
Danny White
Daryl Whitfield Sr.
Anthony Wilson
Adam Woods
Carmeka R. Worthington
Herod Wright
Sedrick Yarbrough
Mark York