Thelma Sue Tindall

Thelma Sue Tindall died in Chattanooga on November 9, 2025. She was 97. Born in Chattanooga on August 20, 1928, into a English-American household that treated work as a language. From the start, she treated promises like tools: keep them sharp, do not lend them lightly. She paired mornings into boxes that left before travelers woke fully. A pairing table chalk stub taught that small mercies matter. Colleagues still mention a pairing table chalk stub. She married Billy in 1950. They kept a house that stayed modest when the neighborhood did not. They raised two daughters through public schools and ordinary weather. After Billy died in 2018, she kept the routines that still made sense: the walk, the garden, the Sunday call. Neighbors remember someone who swept the sidewalk past the property line when weather had been unfair. She liked early mornings before the heat or the noise. She died in Chattanooga, among streets she never needed to explain. The work gloves still keep the shape of a grip.