OBITUARIES
Johnson City, TN. Obituaries
Local obituaries for Johnson City and Washington County, TN.
Paul Theodore Bonnet
Jan 5, 2013
Paul Theodore Bonnet, age 81 of Gray, passed away on Saturday, January 5, 2013 at the Holston Valley Hospice House. Paul was a resident of Gray TN for the past 32 years. He was a member of Highland Baptist Church, and had retired from Electrolux Inc. as a Mechanical Engineer. He is now in the presence of his Lord and...
Elizabeth Jean Lowe Liz Munsey
Jan 5, 2013
Mrs. Elizabeth Jean 'Liz' Lowe Munsey, age 69, of Johnson City, passed away Saturday, January 5, 2013. Mrs. Munsey was a native of Highland Park, Michigan. She lived in Johnson City in her earlier years and moved to Pennington Gap, Virginia, for twenty-seven years before returning to Johnson City in 1989. She was the daughter of the late Ned Tilley...
Dawna Lynn Herbst
Jan 3, 2013
Dawna Lynn Herbst, 66, of Johnson City, TN, died Thursday, January 3, 2013 at the Christian Care Center of Johnson City. She was a native of Salina, Kansas, daughter of the late James V. Morse and Marian Maxine Chesser. Dawna was a retired social worker and of the Christian faith. She loved animals and gardening but spending time with her...
John Paul Thornton
Jan 2, 2013
Mr. John Paul Thornton, age 58, of Johnson City, passed away Wednesday, January 2, 2013, at his residence. Mr. Thornton was a native of Jesup, Georgia. He was the son of the late Paul Thornton and Doris Jean Walker Thornton. In addition to his parents two sisters, Paula Puccio and Zelda Deloach also preceded him in death. Mr. Thornton was...
Lydia Cattell Johnson
Jan 1, 2013
Lydia Cattell Johnson, 98, passed away on Tuesday, January 1, 2013, at Appalachian Christian Village in Johnson City, Tenn. She was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on August 10, 1914, the daughter of James William and Mary Ellen Cattell. She graduated from Strayer, Bryant and Stratton College in Baltimore and attended Johns Hopkins University. In the 1930s, she worked as an...
Douglas Harman Dr. Crockett
Dec 31, 2012
Dr. Douglas Harman Crockett former Johnson City Eye Hospital Ophthalmologist died on Monday, December 31, 2012 following complications from a stroke. Dr. Crockett was born to Robert V. Crockett and Eva Harman Crockett of Bluefield, Virginia on January 13, 1924. He received a B.S. Degree from Bluefield College and a B.A. Degree from the University of Virginia in 1944 and...
Robert Washington Odham
Dec 29, 2012
Robert Washington Odham, Jr., 89, of Gray, died Saturday, December 29, 2012 at the Holston Valley Medical Center. He was a native of Smyth County, Virginia, son of the late Robert W. Odham, Sr. and Lulzy May Overbay Odham. Robert was a retired heavy equipment operator for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation. He was a member of the Piney Grove Free...
Joe Loren Bradshaw
Dec 27, 2012
Joe Loren Bradshaw, 60, of Piney Flats, died Friday, December 28, 2012 at the James H. Quillen Veterans Affairs Medical Center. He was a native of Johnson City, son of the late Emery E. Bradshaw and Dorothy Mae Barnett Mays. Joe was a painter and had worked for the VAMC and won an award for Historical Restoration for painting the...
Lockey D. Pryor
Dec 27, 2012
Mrs. Lockey D. Pryor, age 85, of Johnson City, passed away December 27, 2012, at her residence. Mrs. Pryor was a native of Sparta, Tennessee but lived in Knoxville, Tennessee until her marriage. She was the daughter of the late Rev. Woods L. Bryant and Annie McBell Bryant. In addition to her parents, her husband, Amos Pryor; one son, John...
Donald E. Jackson
Dec 26, 2012
Donald E. Jackson, 76, Johnson City, died Wednesday, December 26, 2012, at the James H. Quillen VA Medical Center. Mr. Jackson was a native and life long resident of Johnson City and a son of the late William Johnson and Sarah Elizabeth Head Jackson. He was an active member of First Freewill Baptist Church. In addition to his parents, Mr....
Mary Alice Hammitt
Dec 23, 2012
Mary Alice Hammitt, 84, of Johnson City, went home to be with family and loved ones on Sunday, December 23, 2012 at the Johnson City Medical Center. She was a native of Washington Co., TN and a daughter of the late, Joseph and Minnie Wilson Norris. She was also preceded by her husband John D. Hammitt Sr., one son, Joseph...
Frederick John Wentworth
Dec 23, 2012
Frederick J. 'Fred'? Wentworth, 71, of Mountain City, TN, died Sunday, December 23, 2012 at the Appalachian Christian Village in Johnson City. He was a native of Elizabeth, NJ, son of the late John and Ruth Sorge Wentworth. He spent most of his young life in Linden and Piscataway, NJ. Fred was a machinist in the tool and die industry....
Jessie Marie Bennett
Dec 23, 2012
Mrs. Jessie Marie Delk Sifford Bennett, of Johnson City passed away on Sunday, December 23, 2012 in the Johnson City Medical Center. Mrs. Bennett was born in Johnson City a daughter of the late John Delk and Mollie Shelton Delk. She was a homemaker and attended Tacoma Church of God. Mrs. Bennett was preceded in death by her first husband,...
Joseph Smith J.S. Murray, Jr.
Dec 22, 2012
Mr. Joseph Smith Murray, Jr. (J.S.) of Jonesborough passed away peacefully on Saturday, December 22, 2012. Mr. Murray was born in Spartanburg, SC. in 1920. His parents, Joe and Ella Murray, his first wife, Evelyn and his brother Hunter, preceded him in death. Surviving is his loving wife of forty-seven years, Geneva Baskett Murray. Also surviving are his daughter, Dianne...
Margaret Ellen Hancock
Dec 20, 2012
Margaret Ellen Hancock, 78, of Jonesborough, closed her eyes peacefully to wake in Gods New Heaven Sheltered in the Arms of God on Thursday morning, December 20, 2012 at her residence. She was born in Vivian, Louisiana, a daughter of the late Edwin P. Grafton and Elsie Lee Ouzts Hancock. Ms. Hancock was a teacher for eleven years in San...
Katherine Irene Peeks
Dec 19, 2012
Mrs. Katherine Irene Peeks, age 88 of Jonesborough, passed away Wednesday, December 19, 2012, at her residence. Mrs. Peeks was a native of St. Elmo, Illinois. She was the daughter of the late Charles Edward Stine and Minnie Bauer Stine. Mrs. Peeks was a homemaker and a member of the Pleasant Beach Baptist Church. Survivors include her loving husband of...
Kelly Gibson
Dec 19, 2012
Mr. Kelly Gibson, age 80, of Johnson City, passed away Wednesday, December 19, 2012, at his residence. Mr. Gibson was a native of Greeneville, TN. He was the son of the late Kelly Thomas Gibson, Sr. and Margaret McAmis Gibson. Mr. Gibson proudly served his country in two tours in Vietnam in the U.S. Army. He retired from the U.S....
Marie M. Campbell
Dec 19, 2012
Marie M. Campbell 92, of Johnson City, died Wednesday, December 19, 2012 at her residence. She was a native of Johnson City, daughter of the late Henry and Ethel May Clark Mohler. Marie was a member of the Way of the Cross Church and attended the Fountain of Life Bible Church. She was a sales clerk at K-Mart in her...
Dimple Tomlinson Moody
Dec 18, 2012
Dimple Tomlinson Moody, 87, of Johnson City passed away on Tuesday, December 18, 2012 after a brief illness. She was a native of Hampton, TN and a daughter of the late Benjamin Grover Tester and Bessie Odom Tester. Mrs. Moody was also preceded in death by her first husband, Wayne Tomlinson and her second husband, Stewart Moody; three brothers, Benjamin...
