OBITUARIES
Johnson City, TN. Obituaries
Local obituaries for Johnson City and Washington County, TN.
Helen Williams
Sep 3, 2007
Helen Holder Williams, 91, 260 Main Street Village Drive, Jonesborough, formerly of Faith Circle, Johnson City, passed over to her heavenly place on Sunday, September 2, 2007 at Johnson City Medical Center following a brief illness. Mrs. Williams was a native and lifelong resident of Johnson City and was a daughter of the late Steve and Sarah Estep Holder. She...
Howard Latture Jones
Aug 31, 2007
Howard L. Jones, 88, of 2957 DeVault Bridge Road in Piney Flats, died Friday, August 31, 2007 in the Indian Path Hospital in Kingsport. He was a Piney Flats native, and a son of the late G. W. and Lelia Patton Smith Jones. Mr. Jones was a member of Poplar Ridge Christian Church where he had served as an elder....
Carrick Edward Oldham Hopkins
Aug 30, 2007
C.E. Oldham Hopkins Psalm 139:13,15 You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body, and knit them together in my mothers womb. You were there while I was being formed in utter seclusion. Carrick Edward Oldham Hopkins, baby son of Walter E. Hopkins and wife Patricia C. 'Tish' Oldham of Johnson City, Tennessee, joined his family in heaven Thursday,...
Carrick Edward Oldham Hopkins
Aug 30, 2007
C.E. Oldham Hopkins Psalm 139:13,15 You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body, and knit them together in my mothers womb. You were there while I was being formed in utter seclusion. Carrick Edward Oldham Hopkins, baby son of Walter E. Hopkins and wife Patricia C. 'Tish' Oldham of Johnson City, Tennessee, joined his family in heaven Thursday,...
Laurinda Ruth Booher
Aug 30, 2007
Ruth Booher, 79, of 468 Baywood Drive, Piney Flats, died Thursday, August 30, 2007 at the NHC Health Care Center of Johnson City. She was a native of Sullivan County, daughter of the late, Joseph and Susie Swift Fenner. Ruth was a homemaker and member of the Edgefield United Methodist Church. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in...
Roger Gene Bennett
Aug 29, 2007
Roger Gene Bennett, 47, of 2426 Elizabethton Highway, Johnson City, died Wednesday, August 29, 2007 at the Johnson City Medical Center. He was a native of Washington County, son of the late Ryuko Taga Bennett and Bobby Gene Bennett. Roger was a purchasing agent for the Resp-I-Care Home Medical Services. He was a member of the Otterbein United Methodist Church....
Winnie Elizabeth Sheets
Aug 29, 2007
Winnie E. Sheets, 89, of 618 Spruce Street, Johnson City died Wednesday, August 29, 2007 in the Lakebridge Health Care Center. Mrs. Sheets was a native of Washington County, TN had lived in East Stone Gap, Virginia and St Marie, Michigan. She was a daughter of the late J. Frank and Lockie Osborne Thompson. Mrs. Sheets was a retired LPN...
Lillian Agnes Holmes
Aug 26, 2007
Lillian Agnes Nunez Holmes, 85, 136 Headtown Road, Jonesborough, died unexpectedly, Sunday, August 26, 2007 at the Johnson City Medical Center. Mrs. Holmes was a Johnson City native and had lived most of her life in Jonesborough. She was a daughter of the late Robert E. and Lillie Rae Swift Nunez. Her husband, Clarence Edward Holmes, one sister, Dorothy Ruth...
Etta Mae Leach
Aug 26, 2007
Etta Mae Leach, Johnson City, died Sunday, August 26, 2007 in the North Side Hospital. Ms. Leach was a native of Washington County who had lived most of her life in Johnson City. She was the daughter of the late Joel W. and Maude Walsh Marshall. In addition to her parents two sisters, Fannie Rhea Sienknecht and Martha C. Marshall;...
Carl Edward Bailey
Aug 24, 2007
Carl Edward Bailey, 75, 251 Woodlyn Road, passed away, Friday, August 24, 2007 at Lakebridge Health Care. Mr. Bailey was a Washington County native, grew up in Carter County and attended Central Community and Happy Valley School Systems. He was a son of the late Garth and Polly Lee Gouge Bailey. An infant son, Albin Bailey, one granddaughter, Jennifer Lynn...
Louise E. Payne
Aug 24, 2007
Louise H. Payne, 87, 3422 Greenwood Drive, died Friday, August 24, 2007, at her residence. Mrs. Payne was a native and lifelong resident of Washington County, TN. She was a daughter of the late William R. and Margaret Catherine Thompson Huff. Mrs. Payne was a homemaker, loving and giving wife, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. She was a member of Greenwood...
Joseph William Conrey
Aug 21, 2007
Joseph William 'Jay'? Conrey of 1916 Sherwood Drive, Johnson City, died Tuesday, August 21st, 2007 at his residence surrounded by his family. He was a native of Central City, Kentucky and had lived in Johnson City since 1958. He was the son of the late Virgil I. Conrey and the late Laura Craig Conrey. Before his retirement, Mr. Conrey worked...
Mary Ruth Ellis
Aug 21, 2007
Mary Ruth Kelly Ellis, 49, of 111 Beecham Lane, Johnson City, died at her residence on August 21, 2007. She was a native of Washington County, daughter of the late Donald and Eleanor Crowder Justice Kelly, Jr. Mary Ruth was a homemaker and attended the East Pine Grove Park United Methodist Church. In addition to her parents, she was preceded...
Pauline Bowman
Aug 20, 2007
Pauline Bowman, 80, of 1808 Mary Street, Johnson City, passed away, August 19, 2007 at Lakebridge Health Care Center in Johnson City. She was a West Virginia native having lived in Johnson City most of her life. She was a daughter of the late, J. C. and Maggie Plaster Browning. She was also preceded in death by one sister, Anna...
Denice R. Thornton
Aug 19, 2007
Denice R. Thornton, 53, 2 Earl Circle, Johnson City was called home to be with her Lord on Sunday, August 19, 2007. Mrs. Thornton was a native of El Paso, Texas and moved to Johnson City initially in 1973. From 1978 until her husbands retirement in 1991, she lived at various U.S. Army posts. She was a daughter of James...
Charles H. Rich
Aug 17, 2007
Charles Herbert Rich, Sr., of 54 Sterling Court, North Johnson City, was called home to be with his Lord on Friday, August 17, 2007 in Johnson City. He was the son of the late Charles Sidney Rich and Kate Thompson Rich. Charles was born in Buffalo, NY on August 19, 1920 and has been living in Johnson City since 1943....
Margaret Ann Edwards
Aug 16, 2007
Margaret Ann Edwards, 79, 2913 Chatham Drive, Johnson City died Thursday, August 16, 2007 in the Johnson City Medical Center. Mrs. Edwards was a native of Johnson City and a daughter of the late Willie J. and Arizona Oaks Gouge. She was a retired staff person in the Comptrollers Office at East Tennessee State University. Mrs. Edwards was a member...
Rodney D. Oakes
Aug 14, 2007
Rodney D. Oakes, age 72, of Johnson City, died Tuesday afternoon at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center from complications resulting from severe burns suffered in a boating accident at Watauga Lake on August 10. Oakes, a committed Christian, invested his life in helping others and serving churches as youth minister in Florida, Kansas, Tennessee and Illinois. He was also a...
Carl P. Black
Aug 14, 2007
Obituary: Carl P. Black (with photo) Carl P. Black, 78, 305 Lisa Lane, Piney Flats went to be with his Heavenly Father and join his wife of fifty-four years, Margaret Stevens Black in Heaven on Tuesday, August 14, 2007. He passed to his next journey surrounded by his loved ones at the Johnson City Medical Center following a heart attack...
Matthew Wade Mcqueen, Jr.
Aug 13, 2007
Matthew Wade McQueen, Jr., infant son of Matthew Wade McQueen ,Sr. and Angel Higgins of Jonesborough died Monday, August 13, 2007 at the Johnson City Medical Center. Matthew was preceded in death by his Paternal grandparents, Wade and Mary Ellen McQueen. Survivors other then the parents include: the Maternal grandparents, Jeffery and Lahoma Carver of Johnson City; the Maternal Great...
