A celebration to honor the life of Mary Amanda Endsley, 37, of Fayetteville, Tennessee, will be held at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 31, 2025, at the Fayetteville-Lincoln County Arts Center. There will be a time of visitation from 2 p.m. until 3 p.m. At 3 p.m. a Celebration of Life service will begin by those who wish to speak and share Amanda and her legacy. It will be a time for gathering together enjoying one another for her and in her memory as well as a time to bring out the laughter, joy, and energy she brought to life. Amanda would say dress casual, colorful, and happy. She would say come to have a good time.

Mary Amanda Endsley was born on July 2, 1988. She was a daughter, a sister, a mother, a friend, and a nurse.  Her entire life professionally and personally was dedicated to caring for others. On Aug. 20, 2025, our Father in Heaven, in his mercy, decided that she had given all of the care that was required of her, and he brought her guided into the rest that she had earned. The name Amanda means “worthy of love,” and love is never felt so strongly as when it’s lost. We take comfort in the memories of her life and in the love she had for each of us. Every day we will remember her as we strive to remain worthy of the love shown to us by our daughter, mother and sister.

“Blessed are the pure of heart; for they shall see God.”

Amanda graduated Motlow College with an associate degree in 2007 a few weeks before graduating Lincoln County High School. She graduated from the University of Tennessee Knoxville in 2011. She received her Motlow College nursing degree 2013, and received her master’s degree in nursing in 2013 from the University of Alabama in Huntsville.  She was a nurse practitioner at Highpoint Family Wellness.

Amanda loved. She loved her children. She loved family and friends. She loved her coworkers and patients. She loved to meet new people. She loved her pets. She loved all animals. She loved learning, music of all eras, and cooking with her son. She loved a debate. She loved embracing and exploding all the energies that life gave her. She wrapped herself and those she loved with her spirit that lived within and emanated from her.

She is survived by her cherished sons, Houston George and Wyndal Spangler; her parents, Ritchie and Cindy Lewis and Michael and Tracy Endsley; brother, Ben (Marie) Endsley; her bonus siblings, Barrett Lewis and Rielly (Tommy) Lewis; her special love, Lyle Corder and his children, Coy and Josey; her niece, Kiera Endsley; her nephews, Kain (Angel) Endsley, Logan Endsley, Jake Endsley, and Gabe Endsley; her aunts, Anna Bradley (Dwight), Billie Jo Kennedy, Kathy Endsley, Freddie (Ricky) Knowles, Joan (Jerry) Warren, Tina (Dale) Rogers, Lagatha (Rick) Schmehl, Lisa (Kevin) Brown; her uncle, Tommy Wright; her bonus nieces, Annie, Celee and Jocelyn; her bonus nephews, Tuffy, Lake and Abram; and first cousins, Ann-Heather, Rush, Elly, Grad, Will, Jason, Tara, Heather, Josey, Shanna, Tyler, Austin, Sarah, Ashley, Meghan, Brittany and Morgan. Amanda was blessed with a large cherished extended family and relatives.

To honor her legacy of caring, memorial donations may be made to the Humane Society of Lincoln County, PO Box 37, Fayetteville, TN 37334.

Higgins Funeral Home is honored to serve the family of Mary Amanda Endsley.