OBITUARIES
Johnson City, TN. Obituaries
Local obituaries for Johnson City and Washington County, TN.
Charles Edward Campbell, Jr.
Aug 28, 2006
Charles Edward Campbell, Jr., 38, of Elizabethton, died Monday, August 28, 2006 at the Johnson City Medical Center. He was a native of Johnson City and had lived here in the area all of his life. He was a son of Charles Edward Campbell, Sr., Elizabethton, and the late Barbara Edmondson Campbell. Mr. Campbell was a worked in the construction...
Ivah Roberson Conley
Aug 25, 2006
Ivah Roberson Conley, 2703 W. Walnut Street, died Friday, August 25, 2006 at the Johnson City Medical Center following a brief illness. She was a Unicoi County native, but had lived in Johnson City, TN most of her life. She was the daughter of the late William Ervin and Estella Clouse Roberson. Ivah was a member of Central Baptist Church,...
Harry Lynn Greer, Sr.
Aug 23, 2006
Harry Lynn Greer, Sr., 56, 214 Rockhouse Road, died Wednesday, August 23, 2006 at the Johnson City Medical Center. Mr. Greer was a native of Carter County and a lifelong resident of Johnson City. He was a son of the late Wiley and Elva Triplet Greer and was preceded in death by three brothers and one sister. Mr. Greer was...
J. W. Barnes
Aug 22, 2006
J. W. Barnes, age 91, of 3017 Newton Street, Johnson City, died Wednesday, August 23, 2006 at Lakebridge Healthcare in Johnson City. He was a native and lifelong resident of Johnson City, the son of the late William Henry Barnes and the late Clara Daniels Barnes. Mr. Barnes was an employee of Sears for 23 years and from 1965 until...
Dorrine Violet Bowman
Aug 22, 2006
Dorrine Violet Bowman, 76, of 902 Henry Street, Johnson City, died Tuesday, August 22, 2006 at the Johnson City Medical Center. She was a native and lifelong resident of Washington County and a homemaker. Dorrine was preceded in death by her parents and her husband Matt Bowman, three brothers, a sister and a daughter, Juanita. She was of the Baptist...
George Frank Hyatt
Aug 21, 2006
George F. Hyatt, 81, 2508 Park Ave., died Monday, August 21, 2006 at the James H. Quillen Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Mr. Hyatt was a native of Washington County and had lived in Johnson City since 1983. He was a son of the late Bruce and Lena Tallman Hyatt. Mr. Hyatt was preceded in death by his wife Iradia Odom...
Evelyn Cowan Doak
Aug 19, 2006
Evelyn Cowan Doak, 91, of Johnson City, passed away Saturday, August 19, 2006 in Johnson City. Mrs. Doak was born in Los Angles on April 15, 1915 and grew up in Dallas TX. Other than the years of 1941 to 1947, she resided in Shelbyville, KY from 1936 to 1966 where she met her husband of 64 years and raised...
Louise Gray Carmack
Aug 18, 2006
Louise Gray Carmack, formerly of 2012 Sherwood Drive, Johnson City, passed away on Friday, August 18, 2006 at the Appalachian Christian Village. Louise was born on New Year?s Day in 1910. She died in peace in her room at Appalachian Christian Village. She was one of eight children of Dora and Josh Gray who are part of the founding history...
Howard Ray Benfield
Aug 16, 2006
Howard Ray Benfield, 85, of 1209 1/2 Claiborne Street, Johnson City, died Wednesday, August 16, 2006 at the Four Oaks Health Care Center in Jonesborough. He was native of Unicoi County, son of the late Everett and Lily Garland Benfield. Mr. Benfield was retired truck driver for the Smith Freightlines Company, also formerly for Robinson Trucklines. He was a veteran...
Peter Miller
Aug 16, 2006
Peter 'Pete' Miller, 80, of 502 E. 10th Avenue, Johnson City died Wednesday, August 16, 2006 at the Dosher Memorial Hospital in Southport, NC. Pete was a native of Hawkins County, son of the late Samuel Powel and Sydney Hisey Miller. He was a sales clerk for the Hasson-Bryan Hardware Store of Morristown for many years and was a veteran...
Edith Irene Lane
Aug 13, 2006
Irene Lane, 98, 1501 Strawberry Lane, Johnson City died Sunday, August 13, 2006 in the Johnson City Medical Center. Mrs. Lane was a native of Joplin, Missouri, lived in Tulsa, OK for sixty years and had lived in Johnson City since 1989. She was a daughter of the late Stephen Robert and Mabel Rose Underwood Briggs. She was a homemaker...
Paul Eugene Ray
Aug 10, 2006
Paul Eugene Ray, 88, of Naples, FL passed away Tuesday, August 8, 2006. He married Frances Anna Street on March 10, 1944. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army serving in WWII. After the war in 1946 Paul and Frances moved to Johnson City, TN. He was co-owner of Ray and Street Grocery Store from 1947 until January 1950....
William Henry Pavluk
Aug 5, 2006
Bill Pavluk, 59, of 506 N. Lee Circle, Johnson City, died Saturday, August 5, 2006 at his residence. He was a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, son of the late, William Robert and Marie MacNeal Branyan. Mr. Pavluk was a maintenance supervisor for the Johnson City Health and Fitness Center, was a Native American and had resided in Johnson City since...
Virginia E. Hayes
Aug 4, 2006
Virginia E. Hayes, 81, of 903 Lower Higgins Creek Road, Erwin, died Friday, August 4, 2006 at the Unicoi Memorial Hospital. Formerly of Loudenville, Ohio for 46 years, she was a native of Greenup County, Kentucky, daughter of the late John Hayes and Molly LeMaster. Ms. Hayes was of the Free Will Baptist faith and had worked as laborer in...
Billy Jack Grindstaff
Aug 2, 2006
Billy 'Jack' Grindstaff, 56, of 1205 Edgewood Street, Johnson City died Tuesday, August 2, 2006 at the Johnson County Medical Center in Mountain City. Mr. Grindstaff was a native of Washington County, TN and a son of the late Bill and Georgia Pierce Grindstaff. He owned Grindstaff Painting and Remodeling for 30 years . Mr. Grindstaff was a member of...
Elizabeth Vander Kaden
Aug 1, 2006
Elizabeth Vander Kaden, 93, passed away Tuesday, August 1, 2006 in Knoxville, at Shannondale Health Care Center. Elizabeth was a former resident of Appalachian Christian Village. She was born in Schiedam, the Netherlands and was the widow of Willem Vander Kaden. Elizabeth and her husband were active in the underground during the Second World War when the Nazi occupied and...
Ruetta Howell Bryant
Aug 1, 2006
Ruetta Howell Bryant, 89, formerly of Unicoi, died Tuesday, August 1, 2006, at Erwin Memorial Hospital. She was a native of Yancey County, NC, but had lived in Unicoi for most of her life. She was a daughter of the late James Curtis and Hezzie Burdella McCoury Howell. She had worked for Industrial Garment and Casket Company in Erwin, before...
Joseph Preston Price, Jr.
Aug 1, 2006
Joseph Preston Price Jr., 85, 220 North Gilmer Park, Johnson City, TN, died Tuesday, August 1, 2006. He was the son of the late Joe 'Lumber' Price and Wilma Bell Price. Mr. Price was a 1st Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II, serving as a P-38 Lightning pilot with the 475th Fighter Group in the...
Mamie Mills Feathers
Jul 31, 2006
Mamie Mills Feathers, 93, of Greeneville, passed away Monday July 31, 2006 at the Crestview Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Home in Lancaster, OH. She was a native of Baileyton, TN, and had resided in Greeneville and Johnson City except for a 15 year period in Daytona Beach with her 2nd husband. She was preceded in death by two husbands, her...
Harvey Ray Oxendine
Jul 30, 2006
Harvey R. Oxendine, 84, 589 Old Embreeville Road, Jonesborough, TN died Sunday, July 30 ,2006 at his residence. Mr. Oxendine was a native of Roan Mountain and had lived in Jonesborough since 1962.He was a son of the late George Washington Oxendine and Eva Jane Morgan Oxendine. Mr. Oxendine is preceded in death by his first wife and the mother...
