OBITUARIES
Johnson City, TN. Obituaries
Local obituaries for Johnson City and Washington County, TN.
Coy Argil Phipps
Jan 14, 2013
Coy Argil Phipps, 87, of Johnson City, died Monday, January 14, 2013 at the Johnson City Medical Center. He was a native of Johnson County and son of the late John and Amanda Wilkins Phipps. Coy was a veteran of WWII having served in the U. S. Navy on the U. S. S. Halford. He attended Milligan College, was a...
Richard Charles Calcatera
Jan 12, 2013
Richard Charles Calcatera, 90, of 763 Old Elizabethton Highway, Bluff City, died Saturday, January 12, 2013 at 2 p.m. at his residence. He was a native of Grosse Pointe, Michigan, a former resident of Florida and lived with his son Kevin in Bluff City for the past eight years. Richard was a son of the late Charles A. and Mary...
Harry Hyder Shoun
Jan 10, 2013
2nd Timothy 7: I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith. Harry Hyder Shoun, 86, went peacefully to be with the Lord on Thursday, Jan. 10. He was a native of Johnson City, Tenn. Mr. Shoun was the son of the late Robert Stacy and Anna Lee Shoun. He was the youngest...
Peggy Ann Bentley
Jan 6, 2013
Peggy Ann Bentley, 74, of Gray, passed away Sunday, January 6, 2013 in the Johnson City Medical Center. She was a native of McDowell County, West Virginia and a daughter of the late Beverly Bower and Thelma Williams. Mrs. Bentley was a retired Registered Nurse having worked at the Washington County Detention Center before retirement. Survivors include; three children, Peggy...
Paul Theodore Bonnet
Jan 5, 2013
Paul Theodore Bonnet, age 81 of Gray, passed away on Saturday, January 5, 2013 at the Holston Valley Hospice House. Paul was a resident of Gray TN for the past 32 years. He was a member of Highland Baptist Church, and had retired from Electrolux Inc. as a Mechanical Engineer. He is now in the presence of his Lord and...
Elizabeth Jean Lowe Liz Munsey
Jan 5, 2013
Mrs. Elizabeth Jean 'Liz' Lowe Munsey, age 69, of Johnson City, passed away Saturday, January 5, 2013. Mrs. Munsey was a native of Highland Park, Michigan. She lived in Johnson City in her earlier years and moved to Pennington Gap, Virginia, for twenty-seven years before returning to Johnson City in 1989. She was the daughter of the late Ned Tilley...
Dawna Lynn Herbst
Jan 3, 2013
Dawna Lynn Herbst, 66, of Johnson City, TN, died Thursday, January 3, 2013 at the Christian Care Center of Johnson City. She was a native of Salina, Kansas, daughter of the late James V. Morse and Marian Maxine Chesser. Dawna was a retired social worker and of the Christian faith. She loved animals and gardening but spending time with her...
John Paul Thornton
Jan 2, 2013
Mr. John Paul Thornton, age 58, of Johnson City, passed away Wednesday, January 2, 2013, at his residence. Mr. Thornton was a native of Jesup, Georgia. He was the son of the late Paul Thornton and Doris Jean Walker Thornton. In addition to his parents two sisters, Paula Puccio and Zelda Deloach also preceded him in death. Mr. Thornton was...
Lydia Cattell Johnson
Jan 1, 2013
Lydia Cattell Johnson, 98, passed away on Tuesday, January 1, 2013, at Appalachian Christian Village in Johnson City, Tenn. She was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on August 10, 1914, the daughter of James William and Mary Ellen Cattell. She graduated from Strayer, Bryant and Stratton College in Baltimore and attended Johns Hopkins University. In the 1930s, she worked as an...
Douglas Harman Dr. Crockett
Dec 31, 2012
Dr. Douglas Harman Crockett former Johnson City Eye Hospital Ophthalmologist died on Monday, December 31, 2012 following complications from a stroke. Dr. Crockett was born to Robert V. Crockett and Eva Harman Crockett of Bluefield, Virginia on January 13, 1924. He received a B.S. Degree from Bluefield College and a B.A. Degree from the University of Virginia in 1944 and...
Robert Washington Odham
Dec 29, 2012
Robert Washington Odham, Jr., 89, of Gray, died Saturday, December 29, 2012 at the Holston Valley Medical Center. He was a native of Smyth County, Virginia, son of the late Robert W. Odham, Sr. and Lulzy May Overbay Odham. Robert was a retired heavy equipment operator for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation. He was a member of the Piney Grove Free...
Joe Loren Bradshaw
Dec 27, 2012
Joe Loren Bradshaw, 60, of Piney Flats, died Friday, December 28, 2012 at the James H. Quillen Veterans Affairs Medical Center. He was a native of Johnson City, son of the late Emery E. Bradshaw and Dorothy Mae Barnett Mays. Joe was a painter and had worked for the VAMC and won an award for Historical Restoration for painting the...
Lockey D. Pryor
Dec 27, 2012
Mrs. Lockey D. Pryor, age 85, of Johnson City, passed away December 27, 2012, at her residence. Mrs. Pryor was a native of Sparta, Tennessee but lived in Knoxville, Tennessee until her marriage. She was the daughter of the late Rev. Woods L. Bryant and Annie McBell Bryant. In addition to her parents, her husband, Amos Pryor; one son, John...
Donald E. Jackson
Dec 26, 2012
Donald E. Jackson, 76, Johnson City, died Wednesday, December 26, 2012, at the James H. Quillen VA Medical Center. Mr. Jackson was a native and life long resident of Johnson City and a son of the late William Johnson and Sarah Elizabeth Head Jackson. He was an active member of First Freewill Baptist Church. In addition to his parents, Mr....
Mary Alice Hammitt
Dec 23, 2012
Mary Alice Hammitt, 84, of Johnson City, went home to be with family and loved ones on Sunday, December 23, 2012 at the Johnson City Medical Center. She was a native of Washington Co., TN and a daughter of the late, Joseph and Minnie Wilson Norris. She was also preceded by her husband John D. Hammitt Sr., one son, Joseph...
Frederick John Wentworth
Dec 23, 2012
Frederick J. 'Fred'? Wentworth, 71, of Mountain City, TN, died Sunday, December 23, 2012 at the Appalachian Christian Village in Johnson City. He was a native of Elizabeth, NJ, son of the late John and Ruth Sorge Wentworth. He spent most of his young life in Linden and Piscataway, NJ. Fred was a machinist in the tool and die industry....
Jessie Marie Bennett
Dec 23, 2012
Mrs. Jessie Marie Delk Sifford Bennett, of Johnson City passed away on Sunday, December 23, 2012 in the Johnson City Medical Center. Mrs. Bennett was born in Johnson City a daughter of the late John Delk and Mollie Shelton Delk. She was a homemaker and attended Tacoma Church of God. Mrs. Bennett was preceded in death by her first husband,...
Joseph Smith J.S. Murray, Jr.
Dec 22, 2012
Mr. Joseph Smith Murray, Jr. (J.S.) of Jonesborough passed away peacefully on Saturday, December 22, 2012. Mr. Murray was born in Spartanburg, SC. in 1920. His parents, Joe and Ella Murray, his first wife, Evelyn and his brother Hunter, preceded him in death. Surviving is his loving wife of forty-seven years, Geneva Baskett Murray. Also surviving are his daughter, Dianne...
Margaret Ellen Hancock
Dec 20, 2012
Margaret Ellen Hancock, 78, of Jonesborough, closed her eyes peacefully to wake in Gods New Heaven Sheltered in the Arms of God on Thursday morning, December 20, 2012 at her residence. She was born in Vivian, Louisiana, a daughter of the late Edwin P. Grafton and Elsie Lee Ouzts Hancock. Ms. Hancock was a teacher for eleven years in San...
