In 2024, more than 110 people died while living on the streets in Nashville. At the 2024 Homeless Memorial on Dec. 14, 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.
Jimmy Andrews
Beth Bacon
Gerardo Behori
Brent Bidwell
William Brinkley
Andrea Brown
Trumaine Brown
Kenneth Bunyard
William Batts Burney III
Lolinda Burns
Brandon Calloway
Dewayne Carr
Adam Carter
Kianna Cayetano
Stanley “Cowboy” Chase
Bong Cho
Joseph Christofora
Wilbon Claybrooks
Caroline Conner
Ricky Cook
Francis Crayner
Quartez Dangerfield
Steve Daniels
Kirk Dickens
Isaac Dodd
David Empey
Sharon Foster
Beverly Gleason
Rose Mary Goode
Jimmy Hall
Christopher Hall
Stephen Harford
Robert Harris
Rodney Hays
Angela Holt
Craig Hunley
Nicholas Taylor Hunt
Eugene Ilsley
Jamesha Jackson
Gary Johnson
Madge Johnson
Travis Johnson
Jessie Johnson
Charles Johnson
Charles Kenley Jones
Melissa Kandlstorfer
Stacey Michelle Kennedy
Jeffery Kimbrough
Jarred Jay Kleinart
Mellisa Lay
Henry Lehr
Frankie Lewis
Lauren Lunsford
Matthew Lyons
Joseph “Clint” Martin
Keith Mason
Timothy Maye
Tavarius McDowell
Jamar McGavock
Phillip Meadows
Robert Meece
Richard Millwood
Crystal Miller
Christopher Eric Minchey
Jeremy Mooneyham
Timothy Wayne Moore
Dennis Morgan
Monica Nolan
Johnny Norris
Wilbon O’Neil Claybrooks
Shellice Offutt
Chad Orr
Edward Overton
Christopher Owen
Isaac Owens Jr.
Angela Patton
Richard Perry
Clellan Perryman Jr.
John Pierson
David Pike
Jeffery Ping
Jada Pratt
Patricia Ramos
Charles Rhoda
John Rogers
Scott Thomas Sazama
Timothy Seeds
Carly Shea
Darin Slater
Richard Smith
Kevin Snell
Justin Matthew Stephens
Robert Talley
Jeffery Teague
Michael Tinch
Thaddeus Vaughans
Aquila Vaughans
Cynthia R. Vaughn
Ronald Vaughn
Charlie Walpole
Christopher Walter
Patricia Walton
Richard Watkins Jr.
Avian Watts
Lauren Emma Wegerbauer
Douglas Jay White
Jessie O. Whitworth
Stephanie Wilkins
Charles Williams
James Williams
Robert Yancey
Tay