OBITUARIES
Johnson City, TN. Obituaries
Local obituaries for Johnson City and Washington County, TN.
Anthony Eugene Tipton
Sep 5, 2005
Anthony Eugene Tipton, 58, 120 Jarrett Buck Loop, died Monday September 5, 2005 at the Johnson City Medical Center. Mr. Tipton was a native of Washington County and had lived most of his life in Johnson City. He was a son of the late Eugene Tipton and Maedell Bradley Tipton and was also preceded in death by his son, Paul...
Nathanael Seth Keck
Sep 4, 2005
Nathanael Seth Keck, our precious 18-year-old son and brother departed this temporary home and was ushered into glory to spend eternity with his redeemer, Jesus Christ. Sadly, he has left behind those who loved him to mourn. These include his parents Kenny and Lori of Jonesborough, his little brothers, Elijah and Noah, his baby sisters, Haven and Olivia and his...
Jeannette Salyer
Sep 3, 2005
Miss Jeannette Salyer, of 2009 Sherwood Drive, Apt. 3, has gone to her heavenly home on Saturday, September 3, 2005, at her residence. She was born in Castlewood, Virginia, on January 8, 1908, to the late John and Bessie Nickels Salyer. Jeanette lived most of her life in Kingsport and Bristol, moving to Johnson City in 1990. She had an...
Manuel Ernest Mutt Dillow
Aug 31, 2005
Manuel Ernest 'Mutt' Dillow Jr., age 87, of Johnson City, died Wednesday, August 31, 2005, in Johnson City. Mr. Dillow was a native and lifelong resident of Washington County and a son of the late Manuel E. Dillow Sr. and Mary Ann Maupin Dillow. Mr. Dillow was a retired employee of Holston Defense in Kingsport with 34 years of service....
Wiley James Hamby
Aug 30, 2005
Wiley James Hamby, 87, 385 Grassy Valley Road, died Tuesday, August 30, 2005 at the James H. Quillen Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Mr. Hamby was a native of Johnson County and had lived in Johnson City most of his life. He was a son of the late Charlie C. Hamby and Callie Dowell Hamby and was also preceded in death...
Pearl W Campbell
Aug 25, 2005
Pearl W. Campbell, 79 , 108 Terrace Court , Johnson City died Thursday, August 25, 2005 at her residence. Mrs. Campbell was a native and lifelong resident of Johnson City and was a daughter of the late William and Myrtle Calhoun Whitson. She was a devoted wife, a loving mother and Granny. Mrs. Campbell was a former employee of the...
Belle Whitson Greene
Aug 24, 2005
Belle Whitson Greene, 85, of 122 O?Dell Circle, Johnson City, went to be with her precious Lord on August 24, 2005. She died at her residence after an extended illness. She was of the Holiness faith. Mrs. Greene was born June 10, 1920, in Bakersville, N.C. to the late James and Texie Garland Whitson,. Mrs. Greene was also preceded in...
Beverly Gauthreaux Moore
Aug 23, 2005
Beverly Gauthreaux Moore, 77, 806 Hillmoor Drive, Johnson City, TN, died Tuesday, August 23, 2005 at the Johnson City Medical Center. Mrs. Moore was a native of Destrehan, LA and had lived in East Tennessee for the past 57 years. She was a daughter of the late Joseph Edward Gauthreaux and Ludivine Millet Gauthreaux and was also preceded in death...
Nelson Hobert Brown, Jr.
Aug 21, 2005
Nelson Hobert Brown, Jr., 75, 308 E. Grande Ave. Extension, died Sunday, August 21, 2005 at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Mr. Brown was a native and lifelong resident of Washington County. He was a son of the late Nelson H. Brown, Sr. and Sarah Guffey Brown and was also preceded in death his wife, Treva Campbell Brown, one daughter,...
Gladys Elvira Taylor
Aug 21, 2005
Gladys E. Taylor, 86, of Spring Hill, Florida died Sunday at her residence. Mrs. Taylor was a native of Carter County, Tennessee, lived in Johnson City For many years, in Baltimore, Maryland for forty five years, and had resided in Florida for the past three years. She was a daughter of the late Benjamin Franklin Vanhuss, Sr and Florence Vest...
Gladys E. Smith
Aug 21, 2005
Gladys E. Smith, 84, a former resident of Appalachian Christian Village, Johnson City, died Sunday, August 21, 2005 at the nursing home of the James H. Quillen V. A. Medical Center. Miss Smith was born the fifth child of the late Ed and Laura Smith on May 9, 1921 in Fowler, California. When the Smith family returned to the family...
Joyce Evelyn Johnson
Aug 17, 2005
Joyce Evelyn Johnson, age 70, 346 Conklin Road, Jonesborough, died Wednesday, August 17, 2005, at her residence. Mrs. Johnson was a Washington County, TN native who had lived in Maryland prior to returning to Washington County thirty years ago. She was the daughter of the late John Tip and Jeanette Jennings Bawgus. Mrs. Johnson was a homemaker. She was a...
Karen Evelyn Bailey
Aug 17, 2005
Karen Evelyn Bailey, of Winston - Salem, NC, formerly of Johnson City, TN, died unexpectedly August 17, 2005 at the Forsythe Medical Center. Karen was a human resource manager for Amerisource Inc. for more than 15 years, retired to Myrtle Beach, SC, then found a challenge in Winston - Salem, NC and has been the editor and publisher for a...
Ethel K Clark
Aug 17, 2005
Ethel K. Clark, 93, formerly of 163 Chock Creek Road, Johnson City, died Wednesday, August 17, 2005 at the Life Care Center of Elizabethton. She was a native of Hot Springs, NC, daughter of the late Phillip and Alice Graham Keller and had lived most of her life in Johnson City. Ethel was a retired homemaker and member of the...
Nola Dean Tipton
Aug 17, 2005
Nola Dean Tipton, 71 of 261 Horseshoe Bend Road, Jonesborough, died Wednesday, August 17, 2005 at the John M. Reed Nursing Home. She was a native of Johnson City, daughter of the late John W. and Nellie C. Gobble Tipton, and had lived most of her life here. Mrs. Tipton was a retired homemaker and gardener who loved her flowers....
Gary E. Miller
Aug 14, 2005
Gary E. Miller, 50, 1909 Indian Ridge Road, died Sunday, August 14, 2005, at the Johnson City Medical Center. Mr. Miller was a native of Carter County and had lived in Johnson City for the past 8 years. He was a son of Nancy Catherine Grindstaff Pendlebury, Elizabethton, and the late J.B. Miller. Mr. Miller was a self-employed carpenter. Survivors,...
Earnest James Barnard, Sr
Aug 13, 2005
Ernest James Barnard, Sr., 827 W. Maple Street, died Saturday, August 13, 2005 at James H. Quillen Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Mr. Barnard was an East Tennessee native born near Tazwell, TN, taught in a one room school house at Howard?s Quarter near Tazwell. He was a graduate of the University of Tennessee. He served as Captain in the Armored...
Michael Brandon Mottern
Aug 13, 2005
Michael Brandon Mottern, age 25, of 158 Briggs Road, Jonesborough, died Saturday, August 13, 2005. He was a native of Nashville, Tennessee but lived the majority of his life in Johnson City, Tennessee. He was a 1998 graduate of Science Hill High School. Michael, who was known as Brandon, was a very loving young man with lots of family and...
Darrell Sproles
Aug 12, 2005
Darrell Franklin Sproles, 46, 135 Pansy Street, died Friday, August 12, 2005 at Vanderbilt Medical Center. Mr. Sproles was a native and lifelong resident of Johnson City. He was a US Army Ranger veteran. Mr. Sproles was a former employee of Alemite. He was preceded in death by his mother, Mabel Blevins, grandmother, Ruby Blevins and one brother, Benny Sproles....
Iva Long
Aug 11, 2005
Iva Long, 71, of 1404 Knox Street, Johnson City died Thursday, August 11, 2005 in the Johnson City Medical Center. Mrs. Long was a native of Ashe County, North Carolina and was raised in Washington County, Tennessee. She was a daughter of the late Thomas Alvin and Carrie Tyree Stevens. She was a homemaker and of the Baptist faith. Mrs....
