OBITUARIES
Johnson City, TN. Obituaries
Local obituaries for Johnson City and Washington County, TN.
Lexie Phipps Garland
Apr 4, 2008
Lexie Phipps Garland, age 89, of Johnson City, died Friday, April 4, 2008. Lexie was born Friday, January 24, 1919 in Johnson County, TN, having lived most of her life in Johnson City. She was a member of Keystone Freewill Baptist Church where she was a former deacons wife and Sunday school teacher. She was formerly employed at Bemberg, Elizabethton,...
Helen Morley
Apr 4, 2008
Helen Blevins Morley passed away Saturday, April 5, 2008 at the Johnson City Medical Center after a lengthy illness. She was born in Shady Valley, TN to Chester and Sue Mock Blevins. After graduating from Steed College she worked for Paty Lumber Company for forty years. Helen was very active with the Credit Women of Johnson City. She served as...
Florence Jones
Apr 4, 2008
Florence Jones, 81 of Piney Flats died Friday, April 4, 2008 in the Indian Path Medical Center in Kingsport. Mrs. Jones was a native and lifelong resident of Sullivan County and was a daughter of the late Charles and Alice Kidd Smith. She was a homemaker and a member of the Poplar Ridge Christian Church. Mrs. Jones is preceded in...
Horace Blount, Jr.
Apr 1, 2008
Horace 'Phil'? Blount, Jr., 87, of Johnson City died Tuesday evening, April 1, 2008 in the Johnson City Medical Center. Mr. Blount was a native and lifelong resident of Johnson City. He was a son of the late Horace Phil 'Doc'? Blount, Sr. and Margaret Elizabeth Henritz Blount. Mr. Blount retired from the Veterans Administration at Mountain Home in 1979...
Mary Matney
Mar 29, 2008
Mary Matney, 76, of #7 Caitlin Court, Johnson City, died Saturday, March 29, 2008 at the Appalchian Christian Village. She was a native of Fort Gay, West Virginia and a daughter of the late Ronald and Helen Montgomery Ratliff. Mary was a retired credit manager for 15 years at Memorial Hospital and and agent for the Eqitable Life Insurance Agency...
Mildred Eva Lunsford
Mar 28, 2008
Mildred Eva Lunsford, age 93, of 148 Winchester Court, Johnson City, Tennessee, died Friday, March 28, 2008 at her home. She was a native of Washington County and had lived all of her life in the area. Her parents were the late Dollie Eva McCurry Pate and the late Robert Pate. Her grandchildren and her beloved church, Lighthouse for Jesus...
Patsy Jean Stansberry
Mar 28, 2008
Patsy Jean Stansberry, 66, 2025 North Lane, Johnson City, died Friday March 28, 2008 at her residence.Mrs. Stansberry was a native and life long resident of Johnson City. She was the daughter of the late Geter and Pauline Greene. In addition to her parents, she was also preceded in death one brother, Bobby Greene; one granddaughter, Michelle Gouge.She was a...
Richard Alan Broyles
Mar 28, 2008
Richard Alan 'Rick'? Broyles, 55, of 201 Holland View Drive, Jonesborough, went home to be with the Lord , March 28, 2008 at the Johnson City Medical Center after a lengthy illness.He was a native of Johnson City and a son of the late, Albert Louis Broyles and Naomi Ruth White Broyles.Mr. Broyles was a member of Jonesborough United Methodist...
Merle Virginia Price
Mar 27, 2008
Merle Virginia Price, formerly of of 420 Highland Avenue, Johnson City, died Thursday, March 27, 2008 at the Asbury Place. She was a native of Lenoir City and daughter of the late Earl Homer and Lora Malone Price. Merle was a graduate of Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville. She was a member of the Central Baptist Church where she had...
Patricia M. Smith
Mar 26, 2008
Patricia M Smith, 70, 1505 Lynnwood Drive, Johnson City, died Wednesday March 26, 2008 in the Johnson City Medical Center. Mrs. Smith was a native and life long resident of Johnson City. She was the daughter of the late Fred and Frankie Mitchell. She was a cook for the East Tennessee Human Resource Agency. She was a member of the...
Hazel B. Myers
Mar 25, 2008
Hazel B. Myers, 86, 1809 Broadmoor Road, died Tuesday, March 25, 2008 at Northside Hospital. Mrs. Myers was a native and lifelong resident of Washington County. She was a daughter of the late Lode. E. and Effie Townsend Dykes. She was a loving wife to her husband, Walter Myers, married 64 years and was a devoted mother to her two...
T N H. Myers
Mar 22, 2008
TN Myers, 82, of 705 Woodhaven Drive, Johnson City died Sunday, March 23, 2008 at his residence. Mr. Myers was a native and lifelong resident of Johnson City and a son of the late Henry D. and Cora Shoun Myers. He attended elementary and junior high in Johnson City and graduated from Science Hill High School. He also graduated from...
Robert Bob Hughes
Mar 21, 2008
Robert J. 'Bob'? Hughes, 73, 134 Hilldale Ave., Gray, died Friday, March 21, 2008 at his residence. Mr. Hughes was a native and lifelong resident of Washington County. He was a son of the late Reverend Hobart and Ida Belle Vance Hughes. Mr. Hughes was preceded in death by four brothers and one sister. He was retired from Giant Food...
Lee A. Lindsley
Mar 21, 2008
Lee A. Lindsley, 93, Johnson City, died Friday, March 21, 2008 at Northside Hospital. Mr. Lindsley was a native of Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin and had lived in Johnson City for the past several years. He was a son of the late Louis and Carrie Davis Lindsley and was also preceded in death by his wife, Doris Meador Lindsley. Mr....
Danford Grace Bowman
Mar 19, 2008
Danford Grace Bowman, 91, died Wednesday March 19, 2008 in the Hillview Health Care Center, Elizabethton, Tennessee. Mrs. Bowman was a native of Cater County who had lived in Johnson City since 1942. She was the daughter of the late William M. and Pearl B. Potter. In addition to her parents she was also preceded in death by her husband,...
Robert Louis Giles
Mar 19, 2008
Robert Louis Giles, 44, 152 Gray Station Road, died Wednesday, March 19, 2008 at the Johnson City Medical Center. Mr. Giles was a native and lifelong resident of Washington County. He was a son of the late Grover and Mildred Hurdt Giles. His grandparents, James Wiley and Biddie Giles and James and Ruth Hurdt, preceded Mr. Giles in death. He...
Billy G. Dugger
Mar 19, 2008
Billy G. Dugger, 69, 2884 South Roan Street, Johnson City died Wednesday, March 19, 2008 in the North Side Hospital. He was a native of Elk Park, North Carolina, son of the late Gurney and Dora Davis Dugger. Billy was a drywall installer and had lived most of his life in Johnson City. In addition to his parents, he was...
Tommie Joe Humphreys
Mar 18, 2008
Tommie Joe Humphreys, 61, 614 Riverview Drive, Johnson City, died Tuesday, March 18, 2008 in the Johnson City Medical Center. Mr. Humphreys was a native of Johnson City who had lived all of his life in Johnson City. He was the son of the late CL and Hazel Penix Humphreys. In addition to his parents he was also preceded in...
Norbert A. Meert
Mar 17, 2008
Norbert A. Meert, 90, of 2734 E. Oakland Avenue A-1, Johnson City died Monday, March 17, 2008 at his residence. Mr. Meert was a native of Green Bay, Wisconsin and had lived in Johnson City for the past seventeen years. He was a son of the late Alphonse and Louise Tuyls Meert. Mr. Meert was a retired owner-operator of a...
Willie Frances Rich
Mar 17, 2008
Willie Frances Cox Rich, 2016 Sherwood Drive #115, Johnson City was called home to be with her Lord on Monday, March 17, 2008 in Johnson City. She was a daughter of the late E. B. Cox, Sr and Maude Alley Cox. Willie was born in Kingsport, Tennessee on April 30, 1921, and has been living in Johnson City since 1943....
