Drake Carter Southerland

Drake Carter Southerland, age 10, of Corbin, Kentucky, passed away on Tuesday, February 13, 2024.

Drake was a fourth-grade student at Corbin Elementary. He was an active child who loved playing football, basketball, baseball, but he especially loved football. His favorite team was the Miami Dolphins. Drake enjoyed listening to music and playing video games and achieved Diamond Level status on Fortnite. He liked sea turtles and was fascinated by Pterodactyls. But his favorite pastime was being with his family and friends and teasing his siblings.

He was preceded in death by his brother, Noah McWhorter; grandmother, Angela Bays; great grandparents, Lena Sawyers, Carol Shinkle, Annie Chapman, and Roy and Arlene Southerland, and by his great great grandmother, Sally Shinkle.

Drake is survived by his parents, Justin and Tashie Southerland and Stephanie and Cody Smith; siblings, Cameron Southerland, Joshua McWhorter, Makenzie McWhorter, Brianna Coffey, Carson Smith, Camryn Smith, Maverick Smith, and Myla Smith; grandparents, Greg and Melissa Southerland, Roger and Barbara Coffey, and Patty "Mimi" Campbell; great grandmother, Shirley Taylor; aunts and uncles, Kevin Southerland, Keisha French, Payten and Summer Walters, Tabitha Coffey, Dylan Coffey, Vanessa and Robert Massey,  Dylan Southerland, Sarah and Garrett Johnson, and Paige Ramey; and by numerous cousins, family, and friends who all loved him.

Visitation for Drake will be on Sunday, February 18, 2024, from 4pm until 7pm at Immanuel Baptist Church, Browning Acres Road in Corbin, Kentucky. His funeral service will be held at 2pm on Monday, February 19th at Immanuel Baptist Church, with Rev. Vince Mullins officiating.

Burial will follow in the Locust Grove Cemetery in Keavy, Kentucky.

Arrangements by the Vankirk-Grisell Funeral Home.