Mr. Bobby Joe Griggs, Sr., age 82, of Nashville, TN passed away Wednesday, May 7th, 2025. He was born in Nashville to the late Walter Lewis Griggs and Beatrice Marie Bolin Griggs. Mr. Griggs attended Nashville Central High School and graduated from Nashville Auto Diesel College. He retired from Cumberland International as a shop foreman and service writer. Mr. Griggs worked in the automotive and trucking industry for many decades. He had a great love for automotive mechanics. He had a great love for the Lord most recently attending Christ Church Nashville and Lifepoint Church Smyrna.

Mr. Griggs is survived by his children, stepson, Mark Anderson and his wife Regina; daughter, Tara Rose and her husband Brian; and son, Bobby Griggs, Jr. and his wife Erica; grandchildren, Brittany Anderson Garcia, Cameron Anderson, Hayden Griggs, Makena Griggs, and Zachariah Rose; great grandchildren, John Anderson, River Garcia and Marynah Anderson, and many nieces and nephews.

Mr. Griggs was proceeded in death by his wife, Mrs. Harriett Griggs, who passed on April 24, 2024.

Visitation with the family will be Friday, May 23, 2025, at Woodfin Memorial Chapel, Murfreesboro from 4:30pm until the time of a Celebration of Life service beginning at 6:00pm.