OBITUARIES
Johnson City, TN. Obituaries
Local obituaries for Johnson City and Washington County, TN.
Josephine West
Mar 28, 2020
Josephine West, 93 of Johnson City died peacefully on March 28, 2020. She was born July 22, 1926 to Joseph Flynn Sullivan and Esther McHann Sullivan in Webb, Mississippi. She was preceded in death by a son, John Edward West, Jr. killed in action in Vietnam 1969 and by her husband of 62 years John Edward West, Sr. in 2006....
Chester A. Reed
Mar 26, 2020
Chester A. Reed, 87, of Johnson City died Thursday, March 26, 2020 at Lakebridge Nursing Home. He was a native of Washington County, son of the late James Byrd and Sue Elizabeth Decker Reed. Chester was a retired (1987) firefighter for Johnson City. He was a member of Bethesda United Methodist Church. Chester loved to hunt and fish and spend...
Robert Lynn Walden
Mar 26, 2020
Robert Lynn Walden, age 64, of Johnson City, Tennessee, passed away at his home on Thursday, March 26, 2020. There will be no public services at this time.
Harriet Rothbart Luster
Mar 20, 2020
Harriet Rothbart Luster passed away on March 20, 2020 at Brookdale Senior Living in Kingsport. She was born in Johnson City, TN, in 1931 where she lived most of her life. She attended school in Johnson City and was graduated at Highland Manor in West Long Beach, NJ. Mrs. Luster was preceded in death by her parents Albert and Pearl...
Gloria Jean Cloyd
Mar 19, 2020
Gloria Jean Vance Cloyd, 62, of Jonesborough, passed away at her home on Thursday, March 19, 2020, in the care of her family. She was a daughter of the late Dewey Dale Vance and Mary Ann Holder Vance. Gloria loved to serve the veterans, taking extra care with them in her time as a chef at the Quillen VA Medical...
Tori Lynn Scherer
Mar 15, 2020
Tori Lynn Scherer, 25, of Elizabethton, passed away on Sunday, March 15, 2020, at the Johnson City Medical Center. She was born in Rockford, Illinois, a daughter of John Scherer and Sandra Kay Arthur Scherer. Tori was a kind person with a big heart, who enjoyed working with children in her role as a social worker. She also enjoyed spending...
Diane Louise Mitchell
Mar 13, 2020
Diane Louise Mitchell, age 81, of Johnson City, Tennessee, passed away on Friday, March 13, 2020 in the loving and compassionate care of station 2 and 1 nursing staff at NHC Healthcare in Johnson City. Diane was born on June 4, 1938 to Thomas “Tom” Edward Mitchell and Thelma Sell Mitchell in Johnson City. She proudly attended Cumberland University and...
James Edgar Reed
Mar 12, 2020
James Edgar “Jim” Reed, 90, Johnson City, TN, went peacefully to join his Lord, Jesus Christ, and his wife, Ruth, on Thursday, March 12, 2020 following a brief illness. Jim was born in Jonesborough, TN to the late William Edgar Reed and Emma Lowe Reed. He was a member of Pinecrest Baptist Church where he served many years as a...
Jay Zachary Slomka
Mar 11, 2020
Jay Slomka, 72, of Jonesborough, passed away on March 11, 2020, at the Johnson City Medical Center following an extended illness. He is survived by his loving wife of over 50 years, Gilda Nowes Slomka; daughter Shari Slomka Hough and her husband Mathew; son, Seth Slomka; and grandchildren, twins Aiden Hough and Peyton Hough, age 10, and Kayla Slomka, age...
Herman Herbert Church
Mar 11, 2020
Herman H. Church, 90, passed away Wednesday, March 11, 2020 in the Johnson City Medical Center. He was born on February, 7, 1930 and was a native of Avery County, NC. He had lived in Evansville, IN; Kansas City, KS, and Johnson City, TN since 2000. Mr. Church was a son of the late Marion and Hildreth Lewis Church and...
James Stanford Carder
Mar 10, 2020
James S. Carder, 81 of Johnson City went to his Heavenly Home on Tuesday, March 10, 2020 at the Johnson City Medical Center, surrounded by his wife and family. Mr. Carder was a native of Washington County, TN a son of the late Allen and Edith Walker Carder. In addition to his parents, a sister, Edna Carder Watson and husband,...
Kenneth Wayne Jefferson
Mar 8, 2020
Kenneth Wayne Jefferson, age 86, of Johnson City, Tennessee died Sunday, March 8, 2020 at the Johnson City Medical Center. Kenneth was born May 7, 1933 in the District of Columbia to Witmer Jefferson and Ola “Mae” Kidwell Jefferson. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Electronic Engineering from ETSU. Kenneth also served in the United States Air...
Elizabeth Ann Hodges
Mar 8, 2020
Elizabeth “Tibby” Ann McMackin Hodges, age 94, of Johnson City, Tennessee, died Sunday, March 8, 2020 at the Johnson City Medical Center. Tibby was born on October 31, 1925 in Johnson City to Harry W. McMackin and Josephine Hilborn McMackin. She graduated from Science Hill High School. Tibby was a lifelong active member, and the oldest living member, of Central...
James Buchanan Clark, Jr.
Mar 7, 2020
James Buchanan Clark, 96, formerly of Johnson City, died Saturday, March 7, 2020, in Houston, TX. He was a native of Abingdon, VA who had lived in Johnson City since 1987. He was a son of the late James and Bessie Maiden Clark. In June 1951, he married the love of his life, June Hale Clark of Morristown, TN. They...
Marie "Louise" Clemons
Mar 7, 2020
Marie “Louise” (Chaisson) Clemons - 09/08/1923 - 03/07/2020 Beloved Louise Clemons went to be with her heavenly Father on Saturday, March 7, at the age of 96 years and six months. Hers was a life well-lived. She was the daughter of the late Amar Morris Chiasson/Chaisson and Esther (Estee') Marie Verret; born in Lacassine, LA. She was preceded in death...
Julian Robert Combs
Mar 7, 2020
Robert Combs, age 57, of Johnson City, Tennessee died Saturday, March 7, 2020. He was a native of Bristol who had lived in Johnson City for forty years. He was a son of Robert and Genevive Combs. He was a graduate of Sullivan Central High School. Robert and his family owned and operated Roto-Rooter for over 40 years. He was...
Ella Mae Burton
Mar 6, 2020
Ella Mae McGlamery Burton, 92, Piney Flats, TN was welcomed home to see the face of her Savior on March 6, 2020. Ella was born in Mountain City, TN October 18,1927 to the late Ellis and June McGlamery. She was a loving wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother. One of her greatest joys was caring for everyone she met. She was a...
Sara Saylor Torbett
Mar 6, 2020
Sara Saylor Torbett, 86, of Piney Flats, died Friday, March 6, 2020 at The Courtyards Senior Living, Johnson City. She was a native and lifelong resident of Piney Flats and a daughter of the late George and Amy Saylor. She was a graduate of Mary Hughes school and Emory and Henry College. As a member of Piney Flats United Methodist...
Boyd Lewis
Mar 5, 2020
Boyd Lewis, Sr., 95, formerly of Johnson City, died Thursday, March 5, 2020 at Symphony of St. Augustine, in St. Augustine, FL. He was a Poplar, NC native who lived most of his life in Johnson City. He was a son of the late William and Cora Webb Lewis. Mr. Lewis was a U. S. Army veteran who served in...
Charlcie Lee Turner
Mar 5, 2020
Charlcie Lee Turner, 72, passed away on the morning of March 5th. She went peacefully sleeping in her forested home of over thirty years, surrounded by trees and early signs of spring. The youngest child of Clarence Albert Hord and Nelle Billings Hord, Charlcie was born and raised in Johnson City alongside her brother and sister. She attended Science Hill...
