Tara Denese Guider

Tara Rowland Guider, 42, of Etowah gained her Heavenly wings early Thursday, February 22, 2018 at UT Medical Center.  Tara grew up in Benton and was a 1994 graduate of Polk County High School.   She worked for many years at Bowater Employee’s Credit Union.  She also worked briefly at Preferred Pharmacy.  However, it was her most recent job that she found most rewarding; she was a stay at home mom. 

Tara rarely met a stranger.  Her welcoming bright smile lit up any room she entered.  Tara’s big heart and willingness to help anyone made her one of a kind. 

Tara is preceded in death by her parents, Imogene Rowland Brunk and Tommy Rowland.  She is also preceded by her maternal grandparents, Florence Brock Duckett and Hubert Brock and by her paternal grandparents, Nina and Henry Rowland. 

Tara is survived by her husband, Larry Guider, her sons, Christian Rowland and Levi Guider, her cherished step-father, Garry Brunk, Garry’s girlfriend, Gayla White, and her sister and brother-in-law , Trina and Joey Jackson; aunts and spouses, Mary Clayton, Lilly McAlister, Wanda and E.W. Cooley, Margaret and Ralph Bates, and Joyce Reese and Charlie Smith; nephew, Nathan Cobb; great nephew, Selton Cobb;  great niece, Gabria Hubbard and other extended family members.

Tara also leaves behind the women she called her honorary sisters.  Left to cherish Tara’s memory is her cousins Susie Cooley, Pam Merrell, Kim Martin, Rochelle Eddington and Angie Kennedy, and her best friends, Amy Hood, Carmen Ray, and Jeni Lillard-Lawson.  She also leaves behind her honorary brother, her cousin Scott Cooley, her special aunt and uncle, Gladys and Bob Cooley.  Tara will be sorely missed by her special friends at BECU, her friends from Preferred Pharmacy, her nephews, and her host of aunts, uncles and cousins. 

The funeral service will be conducted on Sunday, February 25, 2018, beginning at 4 p.m. in the chapel of Serenity Funeral Home of Etowah. A Graveside service will be Monday, 11 a.m. at the Cog Hill Baptist Church with Reverend Shane Arnold officiating.

The family will receive friends from 2 p.m. – 4 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home.

For online condolences, please visit www.serenityfunerals.com

Serenity Funeral Home and Cremation Center of Etowah is in charge of the arrangements.