Services for Mae Groom Summar, a long-time resident of Murfreesboro, who died Nov. 27 at the Camilla Retirement Home, Camilla, Ga., will be Sat., Dec. 6, at St. Pauls Episcopal Church, Murfreesboro. She was 102 on Aug. 28 of this year. The funeral will begin at 11 a.m. Officiating will be The Rev. Gene Wise of St. Pauls. Burial will be in Roselawn Memorial Gardens. The family will receive friends at Woodfins Funeral Chapel, Fri., Dec. 5, between 5:00 and 7 oclock. Mrs. Summar moved to Albany, Ga., in late 2000 to live with her only son, Dwayne Summar, a public relations consultant, who survives. She moved from Albany to Camilla in January 2002. She had lived at 1216 E. Main St. in Murfreesboro for 53 years before moving to Nashville in May 1997. She is the daughter of the late Bertha Hancock and Rass Groom of Auburntown, which is in Cannon County, Tenn. She was educated in the public schools of Cannon County and nearby Wilson County. On Nov. 27, 1926, Mae Groom was married at her familys home in Auburntown to Bernice Henderson Summar, then of Walter Hill, a Rutherford County community. Mr. Summar, who retired from Southeastern Greyhound in 1970, died in October 1992. A long-time member of the First Baptist Church, Murfreesboro, she was a former president of the Missionary Society, was once superintendent of the churchs Sunday School Intermediate Department, and was a member of the Joy Sunday School class. A member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Col. Hardy Murfree Chapter, Mrs. Summar was the granddaughter of the late Richard Ramsey Hancock, the author of Hancocks Diary, sub-titled A History of the Second Tennessee Confederate Cavalry, published in 1887. Mrs. Summar was a long-time member of the Womans Club in Murfreesboro. She also was an active garden club member in the 1940s and 50s. In addition to her son, she is survived by one brother, Hamilton Groom, Gallatin; and one sister, Sue Crocker, Columbia. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by one brother, James Groom, Long Beach, Calif.; and five sisters, Eva Black, Milton; Frances Brandon, Woodbury and Murfreesboro; Pauline Summar, Murfreesboro; Nelda Keaton, Lebanon; and Christine Bragg, Columbia. Pallbearers will be Lee Bettis, Albany and Santa Rosa Beach, Fla.; Buddy Black, Woodbury; Hubert Black, Murfreesboro; Sam Black, Milton; Don Keaton, Lebanon; and Ronnie Norton, Columbia. Kimbrell-Stern Funeral Directors, Albany, and Woodfin Funeral Chapel, Murfreesboro, are in charge. Suggested recipients of memorial gifts, in addition to ones favorite charities, are First Baptist Church, Murfreesboro; St. Pauls Episcopal Church, Albany; and Albany Community Hospice. www.woodfinchapel.com