OBITUARIES
Johnson City, TN. Obituaries
Local obituaries for Johnson City and Washington County, TN.
Louise Sahlin
May 12, 2005
Louise Jenkins Sahlin, 84, of 348 Keefauver Road, Gray, died Thursday, May 12, 2005 at the Johnson City Medical Center following a brief illness. She was a native and lifelong resident of Washington County and a daughter of the late Benjamin Harrison and Nanny Alice Cox Jenkins. Mrs. Sahlin was a homemaker. She was a Charter Member of Westminster Presbyterian...
Edward Lawson Fish
May 12, 2005
Edward Lawson Fish, 82, of 1310 Baldridge Drive, Johnson City, died Thursday, May 12, 2005, at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center following an illness. A native of Franklin, NC, son of the late Cassie and Anna Jarrett Fish, Mr. Fish spent his childhood in Cocke County before moving to Johnson City in 1946. He was a veteran of WWII having...
Dorothy M. Coogan
May 11, 2005
Dorothy M. Coogan, 97, 2734 E. Oakland Ave., died Wednesday, May 11, 2005 at NHC Healthcare Center, Johnson City, after an extended illness. Mrs. Coogan was a native of Sheridan, NY and was a daughter of the late Anson Henris and Emma Wilkes Henris. She was the widow of Harry E. Coogan and had been a resident of Johnson City...
Margaret Bishop
May 11, 2005
Margaret Gaines Bishop, 88, 117 Marguerite Lane, Johnson City, went to be with the Lord Wednesday, May 11, 2005, at her residence. Mrs. Bishop was a native of Petrolia, Texas, and had lived in Washington County, Tennessee, for seventy-three years. She was a daughter of the late John Merrell and Nellie Sexton Gaines. Mrs. Bishop was a Devoted Christian Mother...
Anthony Dr. Paulantonio
May 10, 2005
Dr. Anthony Paulantonio, 72, 107 Dogwood Lane, Johnson City, went to be with the Lord Tuesday, May 10, 2005 in the Holston Valley Medical Center with his wife at his bedside. Dr. Paul, as he was affectionately called, was a native of New York City and had lived in Johnson City since 1978. He was a son of the late...
James Wilson
May 9, 2005
James Wilson, 80, 764 Ryder?s Church Road, Bluff City, died Monday, May 09, 2005 at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Mr. Wilson was a Carter County native, a former resident of Greene and Washington Counties and had lived in Sullivan County for the past eight years. He was a son of the late John Wilson and Zillia Bowers Wilson and...
Norman Andrew Jr. Hamm
May 7, 2005
Norman Andrew Hamm Jr., 47, 3211 Mayfield Drive, Johnson City, died Saturday, May 7, 2005, in the Veterans Affairs Medical Center at Mountain Home. Mr. Hamm was a native of Fayetteville, N.C., and had lived in Johnson City since 1973. He is a son of Norman A. Hamm Sr. and Betty Jane Bowman Hamm. He was a 1975 graduate of...
Margaret Grace Jones
May 6, 2005
Margaret Grace Jones, 91, 120 Greyland Drive, Gray, died Friday, May 6, 2005, at the Johnson City Medical Center. Mrs. Jones was a native of Knox County and had lived in Gray for the past 25 years. She was a daughter of the late Robert Lee Birdwell and Ella Mae Roberts Birdwell and was also preceded in death by her...
Myrtle Mamaw Moody
May 4, 2005
Myrtle Palmer 'MaMaw' Moody died Wednesday, May 04, 2005 at the Johnson City Medical Center. Mrs. Moody was a native of Butler, TN a former resident of Washington County and had lived in Carter County for the past few years. She was a daughter of the late Richard Palmer and Della Younce Palmer and was also preceded in death by...
Oakes Steven Collis, Jr.
Apr 30, 2005
Steven Collis Oakes, Jr., 67, of Johnson City, died Saturday in the Johnson City Medical Center. He was a native and lifelong Johnson City resident and a son of the late Steven C. Oakes, Sr. and Willie May Young Oakes. Mr. Oakes was a former employee of Raytheon Corporation. He was of the Baptist faith. Survivors include; two sisters, Hilda...
Herman Toad Harkleroad
Apr 30, 2005
Herman 'Toad' Harkleroad, 76 of 324 Hicks Road, Piney Flats, died Saturday, April 30, 2005 at the Johnson City Medical Center following an extended illness. Mr. Harkleroad was a native of Bluff City, son of the late John and Pearl Maness Harkleroad, and had lived in Piney Flats since 1964. He was a retired parts salesman for Stowers Machinery Corporation....
Frances Jane Mcintyre
Apr 30, 2005
Frances Jane McIntyre, 81, died Saturday, April 30, 2005, at her residence following a lengthy illness with cancer ? which she battled bravely, never complaining. She was a native of Johnson City and the daughter of the late Thomas William, Sr. and Geneva Mae Carathers McIntyre. Living most of her life in Johnson City, working as a caregiver, she was...
Charles William Baker
Apr 26, 2005
Charles William Baker, 79, of 4 Fairway Lane, Johnson City, died Tuesday, April 26, 2005, at the Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center following an illness. He was a native of Piatt County, Illinois, son of the late, Jesse and Lucile Warmoth Baker. Mr. Baker was a retired construction supervisor for the A.E. Staley Manufacturing Company of Decatur, Illinois, after 40...
Charles William Barlow
Apr 26, 2005
Charles William Barlow, 73, 352 Knob Creek Dock Road, died Tuesday, April 26, 2005 at Northside Hospital. Mr. Barlow was a native and lifelong resident of Washington County. He was a son of the late Charles Preston and Barbara Baker Barlow and was also preceded in death by one brother, Joe Barlow. Mr. Barlow was a US Army veteran. He...
Millard E Phipps
Apr 23, 2005
Millard E. Phipps, 72, 1817 Mary Street, Johnson City died Saturday, April 23, 2005 in the Johnson City Medical Center. Mr. Phipps was a native of Johnson City, had lived in Chicago for fifteen years and returned to Johnson City in 1969. He was a son of the late Will and Ethel Jilton Phipps. Mr. Phipps was a retired dockhand...
John Clifton Curtis
Apr 23, 2005
John Clifton Curtis, 85, of Piney Flats, died Saturday, April 23, 2005 at Johnson City Medical Center. A native of Piney Flats, he was a son of the late Rowie Viola Day Curtis and the late Maynard Dee Curtis. Mr. Curtis was preceded in death by two brothers, James and Ernest Curtis, two sisters, Amelia Curtis and Dorothy Barnes, and...
Earl Mclemore
Apr 22, 2005
Earl McLemore, 75, 1018 Knob Creek Road, died Friday, April 22, 2005 at the Johnson City Medical Center. Mr. McLemore was a native of Unicoi County and had lived most of his life in Washington County. He was a son of the late Nathan McLemore and Minnie Honeycutt McLemore and was also preceded in death by four sisters, Norma McLemore,...
Ernest Griffith Cook
Apr 21, 2005
Ernest G. Cook, age 86, of 1403 East Oakland Ave, Johnson City, Tennessee died Thursday, April 21st, 2005 at Life Care Center of Elizabethton. Mr. Cook was a native of Monroe, North Carolina, the son of the late Mary Norman Cook and T. B. Cook. He was retired, having been the director of industrial relations at North American Rayon Company...
Linda Gail Webster Saylor
Apr 21, 2005
Linda Gail Webster Saylor, 54, 716 E. Maple Street, Johnson City, went to be with the Lord on Thursday, April 21, 2005, in the Indian Path Medical Center in Kingsport. Mrs. Saylor was a native of Washington, D.C., and had lived in Johnson City since 1952. She was a daughter of the late Roland E. and Jessie Marie Carter Webster....
Nellie Myrtle Phipps Heaton
Apr 21, 2005
Nellie Myrtle Phipps Heaton, age 95, of Johnson City, went home to be with her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, Thursday, April 21, 2005 at Johnson City Medical Center. Myrtle was born May 19, 1909, in Johnson County, Tennessee and until just recently was able to recount a lot of stories of her life for the last 96 years. Myrtle...
