The 2025 Homeless Memorial remembered 169 people who died from the homeless community this year. The memorial on Dec. 20 took place downtown at Riverfront Park by the Tara Cole Memorial Bench.
Each name below was read aloud and those in attendance remembered their neighbors in the form of poetry, prayer and meaningful stories. Following the ceremony, attendees placed flowers in the Cumberland River to honor each person who lost their life.
Matthew Able
Maurice Adams
Jennifer Alexander*
Linda Amos
Jimmy Andrews Jr.
Jimmy Dean Ashworth
Beth Bacon
Raymond Bain
Andrew Barksdale
Shelley Denise Bass
Harry Beard
Jacquelyne Beasley
Cortez Bell II
Jovan Blackman
Thomas Bolton
Yvonne Decarlos Bostic
Jerry Bowen
Larry Wade Boyd
Thomas Brown Jr.
Christy Bryant
Sherrod Burnett, Sr.
Aaron Busse
Gary Campbell
John A Carter
Quentazia Cason
David Church
Racheal Marie Clark
James Lloyd Clark
James Curie Clifford
Eric Coffman
John Coleman
Evonne Cornwell
Mark Crites/Kilgore
Jerry Crutcher
Patricia Davis*
James Denton
Jennifer Deragon
Darlene DeRosa
William Diviney
John Doe (unnamed)
Sherry Donoho
Marion Duerkson
Sherry Dybeck
Anthony Ellis
Lamelle A Evans
Gordon Fields
Bobby Fillmore
Travis Finch
Debra Flynn
John Franklin
Cartel K Galloway
David Galloway
Lisa Garrett
Darin Gassaway
Micki Gentry
Teresa Glenn
Missy Gooch
Brenda Gregory
Rocky Harper
David Harris
Christopher Harrison
Wiliam Henry Head Jr.
Sanford Helt
Douglas Henson
Christopher Herbert
Angelica Hernandez
Richard Higgins
Randall Hogan
Mark Holt
Randy Honea*
Brandon Hubert
Ricky Hudgens*
Billy Glynn Huffman
Tadarius Hunt
DeeAngelo Hunter
Steven Hymes
Terry Jackson
Willie James Jackson
David Jacobsson*
Christopher Jenkins
Laron Johnson
Joe Johnson
Natasha Jones
Kevin Wayne Jones
Patrick Killian
Charles Kimbro
Kelton King*
James Earl King
David Klotwog
Delaney LaPlante
John Alan Lawson
Dennis Ledford
James Leon*
Dean Levinsohn*
Greg Lewis
Curtis Livingston
Brent Lovely
John Lowe
John Manasco
Nicholas Marrone
Bobby Mayes
Jesse James McAdoo III
John McKinnie Jr.
Curtis McNeil
Jennie Meadows
Gary Melton*
Alan Merrill
Ricky Merryman
Donald Milburn
Tamika Mitchell
Deonte Morris
Otis Murphy
Michael Murphy
Marilyn Ann Musser*
Author Nall
Johnda Nottingham
Christopher Owen*
Peyton Owens
Michael “Scottie” Parker
Donald Parker
Edward Parsons
Melinda Pedigo
Jack Phillips Jr.
Charles Walter Pope*
Taylor Powell
Labar Pratt
Billy Pressley
Contessa Previtera
Wendall Quarles
Greg Rivers
Aaron Robison
Susan Rocha
Dana Roland
Thurston Rucker
Joshua Rutherford
Jerry Salazar
Julie Savoy
Mary Scales
Atley Settles
Brian Smith
Samantha Kay Smith
Valenna Spikes
Anquenette Stanton*
Raymond Stevens
David Suddeth
Kenneth Sutliff
Brenda Taylor
Johnnie Taylor
Leslie Taylor
Joseph Tees
Earl Titus
Inez Turley
Alice Turner
William Vanfleet
Kenneth Walden
Steve Allen Walker
John Welch
Jessie Whitworth
Zachary Williams
Joseph Williams
Lee Williams
Gabriel Adam Williams
Joseph Gilbert Williams Jr.
Vanell Wilson
Willie Paul Windom
Leslie Woodard Taylor III
Diane Yates
Robert Yelden
Alex “Detroit”*
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