OBITUARIES
Johnson City, TN. Obituaries
Local obituaries for Johnson City and Washington County, TN.
Nelson Hobert Brown, Jr.
Aug 21, 2005
Nelson Hobert Brown, Jr., 75, 308 E. Grande Ave. Extension, died Sunday, August 21, 2005 at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Mr. Brown was a native and lifelong resident of Washington County. He was a son of the late Nelson H. Brown, Sr. and Sarah Guffey Brown and was also preceded in death his wife, Treva Campbell Brown, one daughter,...
Gladys Elvira Taylor
Aug 21, 2005
Gladys E. Taylor, 86, of Spring Hill, Florida died Sunday at her residence. Mrs. Taylor was a native of Carter County, Tennessee, lived in Johnson City For many years, in Baltimore, Maryland for forty five years, and had resided in Florida for the past three years. She was a daughter of the late Benjamin Franklin Vanhuss, Sr and Florence Vest...
Gladys E. Smith
Aug 21, 2005
Gladys E. Smith, 84, a former resident of Appalachian Christian Village, Johnson City, died Sunday, August 21, 2005 at the nursing home of the James H. Quillen V. A. Medical Center. Miss Smith was born the fifth child of the late Ed and Laura Smith on May 9, 1921 in Fowler, California. When the Smith family returned to the family...
Joyce Evelyn Johnson
Aug 17, 2005
Joyce Evelyn Johnson, age 70, 346 Conklin Road, Jonesborough, died Wednesday, August 17, 2005, at her residence. Mrs. Johnson was a Washington County, TN native who had lived in Maryland prior to returning to Washington County thirty years ago. She was the daughter of the late John Tip and Jeanette Jennings Bawgus. Mrs. Johnson was a homemaker. She was a...
Karen Evelyn Bailey
Aug 17, 2005
Karen Evelyn Bailey, of Winston - Salem, NC, formerly of Johnson City, TN, died unexpectedly August 17, 2005 at the Forsythe Medical Center. Karen was a human resource manager for Amerisource Inc. for more than 15 years, retired to Myrtle Beach, SC, then found a challenge in Winston - Salem, NC and has been the editor and publisher for a...
Nola Dean Tipton
Aug 17, 2005
Nola Dean Tipton, 71 of 261 Horseshoe Bend Road, Jonesborough, died Wednesday, August 17, 2005 at the John M. Reed Nursing Home. She was a native of Johnson City, daughter of the late John W. and Nellie C. Gobble Tipton, and had lived most of her life here. Mrs. Tipton was a retired homemaker and gardener who loved her flowers....
Ethel K Clark
Aug 17, 2005
Ethel K. Clark, 93, formerly of 163 Chock Creek Road, Johnson City, died Wednesday, August 17, 2005 at the Life Care Center of Elizabethton. She was a native of Hot Springs, NC, daughter of the late Phillip and Alice Graham Keller and had lived most of her life in Johnson City. Ethel was a retired homemaker and member of the...
Gary E. Miller
Aug 14, 2005
Gary E. Miller, 50, 1909 Indian Ridge Road, died Sunday, August 14, 2005, at the Johnson City Medical Center. Mr. Miller was a native of Carter County and had lived in Johnson City for the past 8 years. He was a son of Nancy Catherine Grindstaff Pendlebury, Elizabethton, and the late J.B. Miller. Mr. Miller was a self-employed carpenter. Survivors,...
Earnest James Barnard, Sr
Aug 13, 2005
Ernest James Barnard, Sr., 827 W. Maple Street, died Saturday, August 13, 2005 at James H. Quillen Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Mr. Barnard was an East Tennessee native born near Tazwell, TN, taught in a one room school house at Howard?s Quarter near Tazwell. He was a graduate of the University of Tennessee. He served as Captain in the Armored...
Michael Brandon Mottern
Aug 13, 2005
Michael Brandon Mottern, age 25, of 158 Briggs Road, Jonesborough, died Saturday, August 13, 2005. He was a native of Nashville, Tennessee but lived the majority of his life in Johnson City, Tennessee. He was a 1998 graduate of Science Hill High School. Michael, who was known as Brandon, was a very loving young man with lots of family and...
Darrell Sproles
Aug 12, 2005
Darrell Franklin Sproles, 46, 135 Pansy Street, died Friday, August 12, 2005 at Vanderbilt Medical Center. Mr. Sproles was a native and lifelong resident of Johnson City. He was a US Army Ranger veteran. Mr. Sproles was a former employee of Alemite. He was preceded in death by his mother, Mabel Blevins, grandmother, Ruby Blevins and one brother, Benny Sproles....
Iva Long
Aug 11, 2005
Iva Long, 71, of 1404 Knox Street, Johnson City died Thursday, August 11, 2005 in the Johnson City Medical Center. Mrs. Long was a native of Ashe County, North Carolina and was raised in Washington County, Tennessee. She was a daughter of the late Thomas Alvin and Carrie Tyree Stevens. She was a homemaker and of the Baptist faith. Mrs....
Ruby Elnora Knipp
Aug 9, 2005
Elnora Neas Knipp, 91, formerly of 400 N. Boone Street, Johnson City died Tuesday, August 9, 2005 in the Asbury Center, Johnson City. Mrs. Knipp was a native of Greene County and had lived in Johnson City since 1956. She was a daughter of the late Tubal Cain and Odessa Davis Neas. She was a homemaker and a charter member...
Buster T Penix
Aug 5, 2005
Buster T. Penix, 77, 320 Cripple Creek Loop, Watauga, TN died Friday, August 5, 2005 in the Johnson City Medical Center. Mr. Penix was a native of Sullivan County and had lived in Watauga since 2003. He was a son of the late Elbert and Lula Barr Penix. Mr. Penix was a retired employee of North American Rayon Corporation with...
Ellen Louise Via
Aug 4, 2005
Her loving heart touched many. May this Precious Soul Rest in Peace! Ellen Louise Via, 57, of 1514 Chickees Street, Johnson City, died Thursday, August 4, 2005 at Vanderbilt Medical Center Hospital. Ellen was a native of Phoenix, Arizona, daughter of the late Oscar DeWitt and Alice Weber Bounds. She was a registered nurse at the Veteran Affairs Medical Center...
Richard Wesley Winters
Aug 1, 2005
Richard Wesley Winters, 63, 419 Linda Circle, Elizabethton, died Monday, August 01, 2005 at the Johnson City Medical Center. Mr. Winters was a native of Eldon, Missouri,a former resident of Campbellsburg, Indiana and had lived in Elizabethton since 1999. He was a son of the late Richard C. and Helen Winters. Mr. Winters was an employee of Exide Batteries. He...
Iii Campbell James D.
Jul 31, 2005
James 'Jimmy' D. Campbell, III, 27, of Gray, died Sunday, July 31, 2005 at the Johnson City Medical Center following an automobile accident. He was a native of Johnson City who had lived here all his life, son of James D. Campbell, II and Mrs. Donna L. Tester. Jimmy was a chef at the Peerless Restaurant and attended the Lynnwood...
Joyce Evans
Jul 30, 2005
Joyce Ely Evans, 57, 714 Sunset Drive, died Saturday, July 30, 2005 at her residence. Mrs. Evans was a native of Stone, KY and had lived in Johnson City since 1960. She was a daughter of Lillian Spaid Ely, Gray and the late T. J. Ely and was also preceded in death by one son, Joe Hayes and one brother,...
Art Ivari Aadu Wahlbon
Jul 26, 2005
Art (Aadu) Ivari Wahlbon, Kingsport, TN, died July 26, 2005, at Hillside Manor Nursing Home, Kingsport, following a long battle with Alzheimer?s. Mr. Wahlbon was born May 25, 1939, in Bronx, NY and moved to Rockland County, NY in 1954 then to Orange County in 1967, leaving in 1975 to live in Florida and Tennessee. He returned to Orange County...
Kay Michele King
Jul 26, 2005
Kay Michele King, 47, 130 Wood Creek Lane, Fayetteville, GA, died July 26, 2005 at Atlanta Medical Center, from injuries sustained in an automobile accident. Mrs. King was a native of New Orleans, LA, a former resident of Johnson City and had lived in Fayetteville for the past six years. She was a daughter of Eugene Orville Lockhart, Sr., Johnson...
