OBITUARIES
Johnson City, TN. Obituaries
Local obituaries for Johnson City and Washington County, TN.
Billie Barnett
Apr 27, 2007
Billie B. Barnett, 87, of 176 Huntland Road, Jonesborough, passed away Friday, April 27, 2007 at her residence. She was a native of Wise, VA but has lived in Washington County for many years. She was a daughter of the late James Willard and Nancy Elizabeth Brickey Begley. She was also preceded in death by her first husband, Harry H....
Maud Nance
Apr 27, 2007
Maude Ferguson Nance (91), of Kingsport, Tennessee, (formerly of Johnson City, Tennessee) entered into the presence of Jesus on Friday, April 27, 2007, after a brief illness. Maude was a loving wife, mother, grandmother and friend who loved the Lord and will be missed by all who knew her. She was a life long member of Watauga First Church of...
Shirley J. Stephens
Apr 26, 2007
Shirley J. Stephens, 64, 758 Austin Springs Road, Johnson City went to be with the Lord on Thursday, April 26, 2007 from the Johnson City Medical Center. Mrs. Stephens was a native and lifelong resident of Johnson City. She was a daughter of the late John and Hattie Feathers Baker. Mrs. Stephens was a former employee of Morflo Industries with...
Robert C. Brannock
Apr 26, 2007
Robert C. Brannock, 87, of Orlando, Florida (formerly of Bel Air, Maryland) passed away on April 26, 2007. He was born June 9, 1919 in Johnson City, son of Colombus and Eliza Keller Brannock. Robert was the beloved husband of the late Mildred A. Brannock. He was a veteran of WWII and Korea having served as a Lt. Colonel in...
Bertha Mae Cox
Apr 25, 2007
Bertha Mae Cox, 88, of 125 Circle Drive, Gray, died Wednesday, April 25, 2007 at her residence. She was a native of Ashford, North Carolina, daughter of the late William 'Folk'? and Elizabeth Mae 'Lizzie'? Hollifield. Bertha was a homemaker and midwife in Sullivan County for over 40 years. She resided in the Watauga community for over 60 years before...
Hazel D. Little
Apr 24, 2007
Hazel D. Little, 79, 280 Mosier Road, went to be with the Lord, Tuesday, April 24, 2007 at her residence. Mrs. Little was a native of Roan Mountain and had lived in Johnson City most of her life. She was a daughter of the late Jesse J. and Teenie Payne Stanley. Mrs. Little was preceded in death by three brothers,...
Gloria Patricia Gifford
Apr 23, 2007
Gloria Patricia Gifford, 84, of Johnson City, died Monday, April 23, 2007 at her residence. She was a native of Akron, Ohio, daughter of the late George Henry and Gertrude Victoria Schwabaugh Friess. She was a member of St. Mary?s Catholic Church and served on the parrish council for three years. While living in Johnson City, Gloria enjoyed working at...
Thelma J. Erwin
Apr 23, 2007
Thelma J. Erwin, 89, 2101 Christian Lane, Johnson City, died Monday, April 23, 2007 in the Johnson City Medical Center following a brief illness. Mrs. Erwin was a native of Hopewell, Virginia who had lived in Port Arthur, Texas until 1947 and Washington, DC from 1970 to 1978 and has since lived in Johnson City. She was the daughter of...
John Myers Huff
Apr 22, 2007
John M. Huff, 74, 414 Highland Ridge Road, Myrtle Beach, SC, died Sunday, April 22, 2007 at Waccamaw Community Hospital, Murrells Inlet, SC. Mr. Huff was a Johnson City, TN native and had lived in Myrtle Beach for the past eleven years. He was a son of the late William and Mae Foister Huff. Mr. Huff was retired from the...
Barbara Lee Bobby Spinnato
Apr 22, 2007
Barbara Lee (Bobbie) Hughes Spinnato age 70, 2700 Indian Ridge Road #10, Johnson City, TN entered into her heavenly father?s home on April 22, 2007 surrounded by her loving family. She will be forever missed. A daughter of the late George and Birdie Hughes, Barbara was born in Johnson City and grew up in Mitchell County, NC. After graduation from...
John H. Webb
Apr 22, 2007
John H. Webb, 79, 622 Lamont Street, Johnson City diedSunday, April 22, 2007 at his residence.Mr. Webb was a native of Mitchell County, North Carolinaand had lived in Johnson City for most of his life. He wasa son of the late Charles Curtis and Ida Mae Buchanan Webb.He was a retired employee of the Chair Factory. Mr. Webb is also...
Joseph B. Furches
Apr 20, 2007
Joseph B. Furches, 85, 4801 North Roan Street, died Friday, April 20, 2007 at the Johnson City Medical Center. Mr. Furches was a native of Greene County and had lived most of his life in Johnson City. He was a son of the late Charles Edward Furches and Rebecca Edwards Boone Furches. Mr. Furches was preceded in death by five...
Dustin Aulden Hyatt
Apr 20, 2007
Dustin Aulden Hyatt, age 22, of 108 Watson Road, Johnson City, TN died Friday, April 20th, 2007. Mr. Hyatt was a native of Johnson City and had lived most of his life there.He was the son of Sherry Beth Cozad Broyles and William A.'Gomer' Hyatt. He was employed by ABS Plastics.Survivors are his father, William A. 'Gomer' Hyatt of Laura,...
Frances Louise Hammer
Apr 20, 2007
Frances Louise Hammer, 87, 1315 Woodside Drive, died Friday, April 20, 2007 at the Johnson City Medical Center. Mrs. Hammer was a Greene County native and had lived in Johnson City most of her life. She was a daughter of the late Thomas Edgar Sauls and Della White Sauls. Mrs. Hammer was preceded in death by her husband, Clyde Hammer...
Anna Virginia Spaller
Apr 20, 2007
Anna Spaller, 94, 2012 Sherwood Drive, Johnson City died Friday, April 20, 2007 in the Appalachian Christian Village.Miss Spaller was a native of Banner Elk, North Carolina and had lived in Johnson City since her childhood. She was a daughter of the late Frank and Cora Belle Ramsey Spaller. Miss Spaller was a retired bookkeeper with Press, Inc. with twenty-six...
Betty Frances Barnett
Apr 18, 2007
Betty F. Barnett, 70, of Gray, departed to be with her Lord on Wednesday, April 18, 2007 at the Johnson City Medical Center. She was a native of Nashville, daughter of the late Thomas and Mildred Jackson Duncan. Betty was former employee in the Deli at K-Mart and had worked at the Roadrunner on Princeton Road. She was of Baptist...
Isham I.G. Shell
Apr 17, 2007
Isham 'I.G.' Shell, 70, 602 Southview Drive, Johnson City, died Tuesday, April 17, 2007 in the Johnson City Medical Center. Mr. Shell was a native of Asheville, North Carolina who had lived most of his life in Johnson City. He was the son of the late Isham Greene Shell, Sr. and Ollie Ora Dalton Shephard. In addition to his parents...
James A. Lunceford
Apr 16, 2007
James Allen Lunceford, 64, of Limestone died Monday, April 16, 2007 at his residence after an extended battle with cancer. A Washington County native, he was the son of Nancy Arizona Price of Kannapolis, NC and the late Clint Allen Lunceford. He attended Pleasant Grove Missionary Baptist Church in Limestone. Mr. Lunceford was retired from Local 1607, where he worked...
Louise Nancy Thompson
Apr 14, 2007
Louise N. Thompson, 86, of 515 Pardee Street, Johnson City, died Saturday, April 14, 2007, at the Lakebridge Health Care Center. She was a native of Yancey County, North Carolina, daughter of the late Sam and Vista Troutman Street, SR. Louise was a homemaker and longtime member of the Keystone Freewill Baptist Church. In addition to her parents she was...
Pearline Rush
Apr 14, 2007
Pearline Bowman Blevins Moore Rush, 84 of 1905 Preston Road, Johnson City, departed to meet her Lord on Saturday, April 14, 2007 at Hillview Healthcare Center in Elizabethton following an extended illness. Mrs. Rush was born in Mosheim, TN on May 29, 1922 and was the daughter of the late, John Thomas Bowman and Rachel Crowell Bowman. She worked for...
