Richard Battles, age 83 of Paris, TN passed away Saturday, October 17, 2026, at West Tennessee Healthcare \u2013 Henry County Hospital in Paris, TN.<\/p>\n
Richard was born in Attala, AL on October 22, 1942, to the late Richard Eugene Battles and the late Evelyn Juanita Wicks Battles.<\/p>\n
On December 25, 1963, he married Anna Lou Basson Battles. She preceded him in death on June 23, 2025.<\/p>\n
Richard served his country in the United States Army from 1963-1966 while serving a tour in Vietnam. He was a member of Oak Hill Union Church, an avid hunter, outdoorsman, RC operator, and motorcycle rider. He was also a lifelong Ham radio operator (KB4TKM).<\/p>\n
Richard was a lifelong aviator, pilot, flight instructor and aviation mechanic. He spent 20 years as the manager of the Henry County Airport in Paris, TN.<\/p>\n
He is survived by one son, Daryl (Kheri) Battles of Paris, TN; two grandchildren, Evelyn Rose Battles, and Karl Alexander Battles; two brothers, Bobby Battles of Paris, TN, and Billy Battles of Hanover, IN; and one niece and one nephew.<\/p>\n
Along with his parents and wife, Richard was preceded in death by two children, Lanita Battles and Karl Edward Battles.<\/p>\n
Ridgeway Funeral Home, 201 Dunlap Street, Paris, TN, 38242, is handling the arrangements. Visitation and funeral arrangements are incomplete at this time and will be published when finalized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Richard Battles, age 83 of Paris, TN passed away Saturday, October 17, 2026, at West Tennessee Healthcare \u2013…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-431213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}