OBITUARIES
Johnson City, TN. Obituaries
Local obituaries for Johnson City and Washington County, TN.
A C Bud Cress
Sep 24, 2015
Mr. A C ?Bud' Cress, 79, of Johnson City, passed away Thursday, September 24, 2015 at NHC HealthCare, in Johnson City. Mr. Cress was a Johnson County native and the son of the late Clyde and Dorothy Payne Cress. He was preceded in death by sons, Mark and Michael, and a brother, Allen Cress. Mr. Cress retired from the Air...
Linda Karolin Gjellum
Sep 19, 2015
Linda Karolin Gjellum, 62, of Johnson City, died Saturday, September 19, 2015 at Appalachian Christian Village. She was a native of Birmingham, Alabama, daughter of the late Gene Bennett Leslie and Elizabeth ?Liz' Hall Beringer. Linda was a retired Registered Nurse with the University of Alabama at Birmingham Medical Center. Linda was a graduate of UAB and the Jefferson State...
Pete Zannis
Sep 18, 2015
Pete Zannis, 62, Johnson City, passed away Friday, September 18, 2015 at his residence surrounded by his family. He was born August 10, 1953 in Birmingham, Alabama and resided in Johnson City most of his life. Pete graduated from ETSU where he played on the tennis team and won the Intercollegiate Singles and Doubles titles. He continued to play competitively...
Herbert Waymon Mumpower
Sep 18, 2015
Mr. Herbert ?Waymon' Mumpower, 86, Johnson City, passed away on Friday, September 18, 2015 at Christian Care Center of Johnson City. Mr. Mumpower was an Appalachia, VA native and son of the late Charles B and Agnes Mumpower. He was born on December 8, 1928. Mr. Mumpower graduated from Appalachia, VA High School and attended East Tennessee State University. He...
Rachel Eleanor Hopson
Sep 17, 2015
Rachel Eleanor Hopson, 78, of Johnson City, died Thursday, September 17, 2015 in Johnson City surrounded by her family. She was a native of Johnson City, daughter of the late Dillow and Mary Alice Hay Sanders. Rachel was a retired seamstress. She was a member of the First Church of the Brethren. In addition to her parents, she was preceded...
Maude Dickenson
Sep 17, 2015
Maude Dickenson, 87, Johnson City, passed away Thursday, September 17, 2015 at Appalachian Christian Village. Ms. Dickenson was a Big Stone Gap, VA native and daughter to the late Ralph and Mary Roberts Dickenson. Ms. Dickenson worked in office management of Park Avenue Hospital of Norton, VA and was an assistant at Norton Community Hospital. She attended Princeton Presbyterian Church....
Kittie Kate Silvers Bradford
Sep 16, 2015
Kittie Kate Silvers Bradford, 97, of Jonesborough, died Wednesday, September 16, 2015 at the Johnson City Medical Center surrounded by her loving family. She was a native of Yancey County, NC, daughter of the late Joe and Ruth Phillips Silvers. Kittie was a homemaker and farmed alongside her husband while raising eleven children. She was a Charter member of the...
Darla Defoor Roy
Sep 15, 2015
Darla DeFoor Roy, 75, of Erwin, TN, passed away Tuesday, September 15, 2015 in Johnson City, TN, following an illness. Darla was born in Palestine, TX to Coy DeFoor and Noveline Turner DeFoor on May 3, 1940. She attended Tyler Junior College and Louisiana State University. In 1962 she married Samuel Roy of Natchitoches, LA. They lived in Baton Rouge,...
Elvie Alexander L.V. Harmon
Sep 13, 2015
Elvie ?L.V.' Alexander Harmon, 93, of Piney Flats, died Sunday, September 13, 2015 in the Appalachian Christian Village. He was reunited with his wife of 69 years, Violet Elzira Harmon, who passed away on September 7th. L.V. was born in Greene County, but had lived in Piney Flats for most of his life. He was a son of the late...
Adah Robertson
Sep 10, 2015
Adah Miriam Farnor Robertson, aged 96, died in Johnson City on September 10th, 2015. ?Aunt Adah,' as she was affectionately known to her family, was born in Erwin on February 4th, 1919. The youngest daughter of R. E. and Bertha Alice Farnor (n?e Carter), she was raised in the Clear Branch community of Unicoi County. She graduated from Asheville Normal...
Ida Lee Garland Kelly
Sep 10, 2015
Mrs. Ida Lee Garland Kelly, age 85, of 116 Hawthorne Church Rd., Johnson City, went to join her loving husband and heavenly Father on Thursday, September 10, 2015. Ida Lee was born in Johnson City, TN., on February 21,1930, a daughter of the late Ezekiel and Myrtle Garland. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her...
John E. Holloway
Sep 8, 2015
Mr. John E. Holloway, 87, of Piney Flats, passed away Tuesday, September 8, 2015, in the James H. Quillen VA Medical Center. Mr. Holloway was a native and lifelong resident of Sullivan County. He was a son of the late James and Lucy Harvey Holloway. Mr. Holloway served in the US Army Air Corps. He had worked for Ford Motor...
Violet Elzira Harmon
Sep 7, 2015
Violet ?Elzira' Harmon, 90, of Piney Flats, died Monday, September 7, 2015 in the Appalachian Christian Village. Mrs. Harmon was born in Bluff City and had lived in Piney Flats all of her life. She was a daughter of the late Joseph ?Jody' and Belle Nickles Morrell. Mrs. Harmon was employed at Tennessee Eastman and North Electric. She was a...
Robert E. Buck Carver
Sep 6, 2015
Robert E. ?Buck' Carver, 81, of Jonesborough, passed away on Sunday, September 6, 2015 at the Johnson City Medical Center. He was a native of Washington County, son of the late Charlie Erwin and Mary Ingram Carver. Buck was of Baptist faith. He served his country in the Korean War in the United States Marine Corps. Buck was a truck...
Kathryn Lee Miller Hobson
Sep 4, 2015
Kathryn Lee Miller Hobson, 93, formerly of Johnson City, passed away on September 4, 2015 at the VITAS Hospice Unit in Stockbridge, GA. Born in Telford, she moved at a young age to Johnson City, where she resided until moving a year ago to be near family members in the Atlanta area. Kathryn was married to Clarence Hobson for 55...
Orba Mae Carr
Sep 4, 2015
Orba Mae ?Cade' Carr, 80, went home to be with Jesus on Friday, September 04, 2015. Orba was born on May 3, 1935 in Sulphur Springs, TN to the late Carl M. and Clara Mae South Cade. Orba accepted Jesus as her personal Savior on August 17, 1952 at Happy Valley Baptist Church and was baptized in September 1952. She...
Richard Hegler
Sep 2, 2015
Richard Hegler, 100, Johnson City, died Wednesday, September 02, 2015 at Johnson City Medical Center due to complications from kidney failure. Richard was born in Washington Courthouse, Ohio, on January 19, 1915. He is the son of the late Orris and Etta Marie Carey Hegler. Mr. Hegler was the former owner of Hegler Business Machines and Happy Hours Clocks. He...
James C. Jim Forbes
Sep 2, 2015
James (Jim) C. Forbes, 73, of Unicoi, TN, passed away Wednesday, September 2, 2015, in the Johnson City Medical Center. Jim was survived by his wife of fifty-three years, Carol. Other survivors include his son Kevin and his wife Shirleen and their sons Ian and Patrick Hinch of Churchville, MD; his daughter Michelle Koehler and her husband, Kirk and their...
Charles David Wise
Sep 2, 2015
Charles David Wise, 81, passed away on September 2 at the Community Living Center Hospice , James H. Quillen Veterans Administration Medical Center, after a long and courageously fought battle with cancer. Mr. Wise was born in Choctaw County, Mississippi on November 9, 1933. He was the son of the late Guy and Mary Wise. David also was preceeded in...
Georgia L. Morgan
Aug 30, 2015
Grace, grace, God?s amazing grace has safely called me home! Georgia L. Morgan, 91, of Johnson City, was called to Heaven early Sunday, August 30, 2015 in the Johnson City Medical Center. Georgia was a native of Stoney Creek, TN. She was a daughter of George Wiley and Annie Blevins Lowe. Georgia graduated from Science Hill High School in 1941....
