OBITUARIES
Johnson City, TN. Obituaries
Local obituaries for Johnson City and Washington County, TN.
Mary Ruth Simerly
Sep 26, 2006
Mrs. Mary Ruth Simerly, 84,Piney Flats, died Tuesday, September 26, 2006 at her brother, Walter?s, residence in Lawrenceville, GA. Mrs. Simerly was a native of Rogersville, had lived in Baltimore, MD for many years and in Piney Flats for the past few years. She was daughter of the late James Robert Bass and Elizabeth Lane Bass. Mrs. Simerly was preceded...
Sara Lee Hayes
Sep 19, 2006
Sara L Hayes, 82, of 703 E. Maple St., Johnson City, died Tuesday, September 19, 2006 at her residence. She was a native of Chesterfield, SC and had lived in Johnson City and Kannapolis, NC most of her life. She was a daughter of the late Harold L. and Fannie Gaskins. She was also preceded in death by her husband,...
Charles L. Carter
Sep 19, 2006
Charles L. Carter, 69, Johnson City, died Tuesday, September 19, 2006 at his residence. Mr. Carter was a native of Sanford, N.C. and had lived in Johnson City since 1968. He was a son of the late David L. and Bertha Tickle Carter. Mr. Carter was a retired truck driver and a U.S. Army veteran. He was a member of...
Dorothy Ruth Hogan
Sep 16, 2006
Dorothy R. Hogan, 81, formerly of Johnson City, passed away Saturday, September 16, 2006 in the Gaston Memorial Hospital in Gastonia, NC. She was a native of New Orleans but had lived in Johnson City most of her life before moving to Dallas, NC. She was a daughter of the late Robert and Lillian Swift Nunez. Mrs. Hogan was a...
Linkes J. Leonard
Sep 15, 2006
Linkes J. Leonard, 90, formerly of 221 Malone Hollow Road, Jonesborough, died Friday, September 15, 2006 at the Appalachian Christian Village in Johnson City. He was a native and lifelong Washington County resident, and a son of the late Jake and Bertha Andes Leonard. He was also preceded in death by three brothers, Hobart S. Leonard, Robert W. Leonard and...
Manford Lee
Sep 14, 2006
Manford Lee, Jr. 79, of 325 Bennett Road, Jonesborough, died Thursday, September 14, 2005 at the Johnson City Medical Center. He was a native of Alva, Kentucky, son of the late Manford and Fannie Saylor Lee. Manford was a veteran of WWII having served in the U. S. Navy on the USS Cread stationed out of Guantanamo Bay. He was...
William H. Adams
Sep 13, 2006
William H. Adams, 79, 1302 Iris Avenue, Johnson City died Saturday, September 9, 2006 in the James H. Quillen Veterans Affair Medical Center at Mountain Home. Mr. Adams was a native of Smithville, NC and had lived in Johnson City for the past ten years. He was a son of the late William G. and Katharine Hinton Adams. Mr. Adams...
David O. Lowe
Sep 12, 2006
David Lowe, 68, of 1018 Pleasant Hill Road , Johnson City, passed away, Tuesday, September 12, 2006 at his residence. He was a native of Bluefield, West Virginia and had lived in Johnson City the past 5 years. He was a son of the late, Chat and Myrtle Bailey Lowe. Mr. Lowe was a retired employee of R.T. Electric Co....
Hoyat R. Barnett
Sep 12, 2006
Hoyat R. Barnett, 60, died on Tuesday, September 12, 2006 at his residence in the arms of his beloved soulmate Rhoda. He was a native of Kentucky, son of the late Botany and Audrey Barnett. Hoyat was a truck driver for the city of Johnson City and was of the Baptist faith. In addition to his parents he was preceded...
Mabel M Bowling
Sep 12, 2006
Mabel M. Bowling, 90, of 4130 Cherokee Road, Jonesborough, died Tuesday, September 12, 2006 at the NHC Healthcare Center on Bristol Highway. She was a native of Carter County and had lived most of her life in Washington, County. Mabel was a daughter of the late Robert F. and Ollie Shell Wood and was a retired homemaker. She was the...
Nelson Francis
Sep 12, 2006
Nelson Francis, age 79, of 340 Oliver Edwards Road, Jonesborough, Tennessee, died Tuesday, September 12, 2006 at his residence. The son of the late Thomas G. Francis and Hattie Forbes Francis, Mr. Francis was born in Buladean, North Carolina but lived almost all of this life in Washington County, Tennessee. He was raised by his father and his wife, Dovie...
Martha Eileen Carver
Sep 10, 2006
M. Eileen Carver, 86, formerly of Colonial Hill Health Care Center, Johnson City died Sunday, September 10,2006 in the Johnson City Medical Center. Mrs. Carver was a native and lifelong resident of Washington County and a daughter of the late Robert Tayler and Dora Belle Nichols Weaver. She was a retired Sewing machine operator at Dinese Lingerie. She was a...
Hildred M. Starnes
Sep 10, 2006
Hildred M. Starnes, 64, 1404 Stormer Road, Sale Creek, TN died Sunday, September 10 2006 at her residence. Mrs. Starnes was a native of Johnson City and had lived in Sale Creek for the past thirty-six years. She was a daughter of the late Robert and Reable Loudy Swanner. Mrs. Starnes was a homemaker and a member of the Sale...
Mary Agnes Booth
Sep 9, 2006
Mary Donnelly Booth, age 94, formerly of 400 Sunset Drive, Johnson City, passed away Sunday, September 3, 2006 at NHC following a long illness. Born on January 10, 1912, in Mountain City, Mrs. Booth was the daughter of the late Major, James Donnelly and the late Rose Brogan Donnelly. Mrs. Booth was preceded in death by her husband William Howard...
Frances Colleen Shull
Sep 9, 2006
Frances Colleen Shull, 80, 1303 West Lynwood Circle, died Saturday, September 9, 2006 at her residence. Mrs. Shull was a Washington County native, a former resident of Asheville, NC and had lived most of her life in Johnson City. She was a daughter of the late Emory P. and Bertha Lawson Rose. Mrs. Shull was preceded in death by one...
David Edward Phillips
Sep 9, 2006
David Edward Phillips, 37, 169 Patton May Road, Jonesborough, died Saturday, September 9, 2006 at his residence. Mr. Phillips was a native and lifelong resident of Washington County. He was a son of Orville Phillips and his wife, Donna, Johnson City and Tersia White Hill and her husband and David?s other father Ed L. Hill, Jonesborough. Mr. Phillips was a...
David Thomas Grindstaff, Sr.
Sep 9, 2006
David Thomas Grindstaff, Sr. 81, 726 Georgia Street, died Friday, September 8, 2006 at the Johnson City Medical Center. Mr. Grindstaff was a native of Carter County and had lived most of his life in Washington County. He was a son of the late Johnson and Sabrina Grindstaff. Mr. Grindstaff was preceded in death by his wife, Shirley Ann Grindstaff,...
Faye G. Smith
Sep 8, 2006
Faye G. Smith, 76, 204 Bettie Street, Johnson City died Friday, September 8, 2006 in the Johnson City Medical Center. Mrs. Smith was a native and lifelong resident of Washington County, TN and a daughter of the late James Wiley and Biddie Ellen Simerly Giles. Mrs. Smith was a retired nurses aide from Range Hall Nursing Home and the Johnson...
Stephenson Girard Thomas, Jr.
Sep 7, 2006
Stephenson Girard Thomas, Jr., age 90, of Skyland Drive, Kingsport, TN died Thursday, September 7, 2006 in the Life Care Center in Elizabethton. Mr. Thomas was a native and lifelong resident of Sullivan County and was a son of the late Stephenson Girard Thomas, Sr. and Fannie St. John Thomas. Mr. Thomas was a retired electrician for Mead Corporation with...
James R. Weems
Sep 7, 2006
James R. 'Jr.' Weems, Sr. 77, 508 Lamont Street, died Thursday, September 7, 2006 at Northside Hospital. Mr. Weems was a native and lifelong resident of Washington County. He was a son of Ada Copas Weems and the late Carl E. Weems. Mr. Weems was also preceded in death by a son Larry 'Bucky ' Alan and a brother Carl...
