OBITUARIES
Johnson City, TN. Obituaries
Local obituaries for Johnson City and Washington County, TN.
Mary Katherine Hopson Foster
May 24, 2015
Mary Katherine Hopson Foster, 81, of Johnson City, left this world for eternal heavenly rest on May 24, 2015. She passed after a lengthy battle with cancer at her residence. She was born in Unicoi to the late Jesse and Rebecca Luttrell Hopson. In addition to her parents, her husband Robert Foster in 2002; four brothers, Vestal, Charlie, Jess, Jr....
Dorothy Anne Beals York Ballew
May 23, 2015
Dorothy Anne Beals York Ballew, 84, of Johnson City, passed away Saturday, May 23, 2015 in the Life Care Center of Gray. Dot was a Johnson City native. She was the daughter of the late Leslie Reginald and Mary Dorothy Dowling Beals. She graduated from Science Hill High School and then went on to attend Mary Baldwin College before receiving...
Max Skip Big'N Arnett
May 22, 2015
Max Skip Big?n Arnett, 63, of Johnson City, passed away Friday, May 22, 2015 at his home. Maxie was a Johnson City native. He was the son of the late Paul and Selma Williams Arnett. Maxie worked as a drywall installer. He was a proud member of the Ghost Riders Motorcycle Club. In addition to his parents, he was preceded...
Betty Jean Mazza
May 20, 2015
Betty Jean Mazza, 80, of Johnson City, died Wednesday, May 20, 2015 at her residence. She was a native of Johnson City, daughter of the late Ernest Harshbarger and Ruth Peoples Harshbarger Roberts. Betty Jean was a retired seamstress. In addition to her parents, her husband, Billy Mazza, a sister, Dottie Cupp, a brother, Bob Harshbarger and a cousin, Barbara...
William R. Bill Reverend Wells
May 20, 2015
Reverend William R. 'Bill' Wells, 77, of Johnson City, passed away on Wednesday, May 20, 2015, at the Johnson City Medical Center. He was the retired senior minister of First United Methodist Church of Johnson City and the current Pastor of Austin Springs United Methodist Church. He served more than a dozen congregations in the Holston Conference over the course...
Christine Hodges Jenkins
May 16, 2015
Christine Hodges Jenkins, age 93, passed away Saturday May 16, 2015 at Life Care Center of Gray. Mrs. Jenkins was born in Sullivan County at her home place May 23, 1921 and was a daughter of the late Henry Homer Hodges and Ina Mae Hodges. In addition to her parents, Mrs. Jenkins was preceded in death by: her husband, William...
Ruth Day Rickman
May 15, 2015
Ruth Day Rickman, 95, Johnson City, passed away Friday, May 15, 2015 at Appalachian Christian Village. Ruth was a native of Johnson City and daughter of the late Harvey and Nannie Byrd Day. She and her husband lived 23 years in Maryland and Florida before moving back to Johnson City. Ruth worked for Home Beneficial Life Insurance Company for many...
Jerry Mitchell Wiggins
May 15, 2015
ArrangementMitchell Wiggins, 97, Johnson City, went home to be with the Lord and his wife, Pauline, on May 15, 2015, surrounded by his family. He was the son of the late Martha Bowman and step- father Henry Bowman. He was a U.S. Army veteran having served in WWII. Mitchell retired from Johnson City Spring & Bedding Company. He was a...
Jennifer Ann Jones
May 12, 2015
Jennifer Ann Jones, 24, Piney Flats, passed away Tuesday, May 12, 2015, in the Johnson City Medical Center due to complications from pneumonia. She was the daughter of Eric and Bridget Lewis Jones. Jennifer was a member of the Boone Trail Baptist Church and loved Five L?s Ladies Ministry. She was a graduate of Sullivan East High School in 2009....
Helen Jean Mrs. Renfro
May 11, 2015
Helen ?Jean' Renfro, 81, of Johnson City, died Monday, May 11, 2015 at her residence following a lengthy illness. She was a native of Kansas City, Missouri, daughter of the late Luther W. and Pearl Ruth Hutchison Lowrey. Jean was a bookkeeper for several pharmacies and was a co-founder of Corner Drug Store in 1967 along with her husband Paul...
Wert Allen Bud Pace, Jr
May 10, 2015
Wert Allen ?Bud' Pace, Jr., 77, Jonesborough, TN, passed away Sunday, May 10, 2015 in the James H. Quillen VA Medical Center. Bud was a native of Dizney, KY. He was a son of the late Wert Allen Pace, Sr. and Hazel Ruth Steele Pace. Bud proudly served in the U. S. Army. He was a graduate of Evarts High....
Deborah Ann Obele
May 10, 2015
Deborah Ann Obele, 54, of Johnson City, passed away Sunday, May 10, 2015 in the Johnson City Medical Center. Deborah was a native of New York, NY. She was a daughter of the late Leroy and Beverly Delores Hale. To some of us she was our mother, to others she was our grandmother or a great aunt, but most of...
Helen Loucile Wright
May 7, 2015
Mrs. Helen Loucile Wright, 83, of Johnson City, passed away May 7, 2015, at NHC Healthcare Center, Johnson City. Mrs. Wright was the daughter of the late Mary Kathleen Walters Waddell and Roy L. Waddell of Johnson City. She was preceded in death by her husband of sixty years, William Henry Wright, Jr. She was a graduate of East Tennessee...
Oran T. Austin
May 7, 2015
The gates of heaven opened up at 4:30 a.m. on May 7th, 2015, for Oran T. Austin, 93, a true Christian man. Born Nov.14, 1921 in Johnson City, to parents Howard and Mary Austin. He was a lifelong resident of Johnson City and served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War, stationed in India where he also contracted Malaria....
Hazel Mae Virginia Baker Wilson
May 6, 2015
Mrs. Hazel Wilson, 92, of Johnson City, passed away Wednesday, May 6, 2015, in the Christian Care Center of Johnson City. Mrs. Wilson was a native of Washington County. She was a daughter of the late Samuel and Eva Carter Baker. Mrs. Wilson was a homemaker. In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by: her husband, Bill...
Arthur Joe Holmes
May 6, 2015
Arthur Joe ?Bo' Holmes, 51, of Johnson City, died Wednesday, May 6, 2015 at his home. Bo was a Washington County native. He was a son of Walter Oliver Holmes and the late Mary Lee Vanover Holmes. Bo had worked as a security guard. In addition to his mother, he was preceded in death by his brother, Eddie Holmes; sister,...
Conley Norman Jones
May 4, 2015
Chief Conley Jones, 83, of Johnson City, went to be with family and friends in Heaven on May 4, 2015 in the Johnson City Medical Center, following a brief illness. Chief Jones was a native of Elizabethton. He was a son of the late James and Pauline Duncan Jones. Conley was a graduate of Elizabethton High School. Conley proudly served...
Clarence Honeycutt
May 3, 2015
Clarence Honeycutt, 86, Johnson City, died Sunday, May 3, 2015 at the NHC Healthcare of Johnson City. He was a native of Mitchell County, NC, son of the late Carl and Kansas Street Honeycutt. He was of the Pentecostal faith. In addition to his parents, Clarence was preceded in death by his wife of 57 years, Mary Ruth Norris Honeycutt...
Carlton Shef Dr. Villier
May 3, 2015
Dr. Carlton ?Shef' Villier, 71, of Johnson City, passed away Sunday, May 3, 2015 in the Johnson City Medical Center, following an extended illness. Dr. Villier was a native of Fitchburg, Massachusetts. He was a son of the late Arthur Carlton and Florence Mastin Villier. Dr. Villier proudly served in the U. S. Army. His education included the Mayo Clinic...
Ronney Keith Sells
Apr 30, 2015
Mr. Ronney Keith Sells, 61, of Gray, passed away Thursday, April 30, 2015, in the Greystone Health Care Center. Mr. Sells was a lifelong resident of Washington County. He was the son of the late John Harrison and Ada Addison Tyree Sells. Mr. Sells had twenty-seven years of service for Halls Farms in Greene County. In addition to his parents,...
