OBITUARIES
Johnson City, TN. Obituaries
Local obituaries for Johnson City and Washington County, TN.
Gwen Lee Walden
Apr 12, 2006
Gwen Lee Walden, 56 of Johnson City, was found deceased at his residence on Wednesday, April 12, 2006. He was a native and lifelong resident of Johnson City, son of the late Chester Lee Walden and Mrs. Peggy Ruth Woodruff. He was an employee of American Water Heater for 38 years and was of the Baptist faith. In addition to...
Gertrude B. Toncray
Apr 10, 2006
Gertrude B. Toncray, age 83, died Monday, April 10, 2006 at Asbury Center. The daughter of the late Gertrude Clark Toncray and the late George W. Toncray, Sr., Mrs. Toncray was born in Unicoi County but lived most of her life in Johnson City. She had graduated from ETSU with a BS degree and had graduate work in English at...
John W. Cretsinger, Sr.
Apr 9, 2006
John W. Cretsinger, Sr. 59, 112 Miller Hill Road, Johnson City, TN. died Sunday, April 9, 2006 at his residence. Mr. Cretsinger was a native and lifelong resident of Washington County and a son of the late Raymond E. and Rosland Baker Cretsinger. Mr. Cretsinger was a auto mechanic and a Army veteran of the Vietnam War. He is preceded...
William Earl John D Miller
Apr 8, 2006
William Earl ?John D. 'Miller, 87, of 1101 Persimmon Ridge Road, Jonesborough, died Saturday, April 8, 2006 in Four Oaks Health Care Center in Jonesborough. Mr. Miller was a native and lifelong resident of Washington County and a son of the late William Alexander and Emma Ethel Miller. He was a farmer and a member of the McCarty?s United Methodist...
Barbara Ellen Oliver
Apr 8, 2006
Barbara Oliver, 72, 540 Washington Ave., died Saturday, April 8, 2006 at the Johnson City Medical Center. Mrs. Oliver was a native of Roan Mountain, TN and had lived most of her life in Johnson City. She was a daughter of the late Landon and Doshie Hartly McKinney and was also preceded in death by two sisters, one brother and...
Eva Smith
Apr 7, 2006
Eva Pollock Smith, 87, Appalachian Christian Village, died Friday, April 7, 2006 at the Johnson City Medical Center. Mrs. Smith was a native of Johnson City and a resident of Florida for twenty-nine years before returning to Johnson City in 1991. She was a daughter of the late Benjamin L. and Flora Trent Pollock. Mrs. Smith was preceded in death...
Patricia Ann Truelove Underwood
Apr 6, 2006
Patricia Ann Truelove Underwood, 68, of 856 Dry Creek Road, Johnson City, died Thursday, April 6, 2006 in the Johnson City Medical Center. She was the daughter of the late William Hill and Gladys Oliver Truelove. She was also preceded in death by one son, Donnie Knicely and two daughters, Debbie Walker and Tammy Colyer. Ms. Underwood was of the...
Iva Lee Gibson
Apr 5, 2006
Iva Lee Gibson, 78, of 282 Austin Springs Road, Johnson City, passed away Wednesday, April 5, 2006 at her residence. She was a daughter of the late Bob and Lula Shell. She was also preceded in death by her husband, Billie Joe Gibson in June of 2005 and by 5 sisters and 1 brother. Mrs. Gibson was of the Baptist...
Edith Jobe
Apr 5, 2006
Edith Patrick Jobe, 71, 6 Parwood Court, Johnson City, died Wednesday, April 5, 2006 at the Johnson City Medical Center. Mrs. Jobe was a native of Sullivan County and had lived most of her life in Washington County. She was a daughter of Nannie Myers Patrick, Gray and the late Noah Patrick. Two brothers, J.C. Patrick and Howard Patrick, preceded...
Roger Ramsey
Apr 4, 2006
Roger Ramsey, 64, Gray, Tn., died Tuesday, April 4, 2006 at the Johnson City Medical Center, after a courageous battle with cancer. Mr. Ramsey was a Carter County native and had lived most of his life in Washington County. He was a son of the late Dana Harmon Ramsey, Sr. and Zella Lee Haire Ramsey and was also preceded in...
Inez Laverne Branscomb
Apr 2, 2006
LaVerne Hawkins Branscomb, 88, of the NHC Healthcare Center, died Sunday, April 2, 2006. Mrs. Branscomb was a native of Roswell, GA and had lived in the Johnson City area since 1978 and was a daughter of the late Thomas Earl and Myrtle C. King Hawkins. She was a retired homemaker and member of the Cherokee United Methodist Church. In...
Jimmy Lee Johnson
Apr 2, 2006
Jimmy L. Johnson, 61, of Claude Simmons Road , Johnson City died Sunday, April 2, 2006 at the James H. Quillen Veterans Affairs Medical Center at Mountain Home. Mr. Johnson was a native of Jonesborough and had lived most of his life in Johnson City. He was a son of Willie Fay Vaughn Johnson of Johnson City and the late...
Ruth Curd
Apr 1, 2006
Ruth Shell Curd, 84 of Watauga, died April 1, 2006 in the Sycamore Shoals Hospital, Elizabethton. She was a native and lifelong resident of Carter County, daughter of the late, Ollie E. and Nellie Humphrey Shell. Mrs. Curd was a homemaker and dedicated wife and mother. She was a member of the Lick Creek Christian Church and had served the...
Howard Yelton
Apr 1, 2006
Mr. Howard Yelton, 94, of Johnson City, passed away, Friday, March 31, 2006 at the Center on Aging and Health in Erwin, where he and our mother was very well taken care of for about two years. Howard was a native of Mitchell County, NC and had lived in Johnson City since 1944. He was a son of the late...
Nellie Campbell
Mar 31, 2006
Nellie Riddle Campbell, age 77, died Monday, March 31, 2006, at Pine Ridge Nursing Home, Elizabethton, Tennessee. She was a native and lifelong resident of Johnson City, the daughter of the late Charles Nelson Riddle and Nora Price Riddle. Mrs. Campbell had attended One Way Baptist Church. She was preceded in death by her husband, Clarence Campbell; four brothers and...
William Joseph Braly
Mar 30, 2006
William J. Braly, 53 , 127 Hawk Lane, Gray, TN died Thursday, March 30, 2006 at his residence after a lengthy illness. Mr. Braly was a native of Hampton and had lived in Johnson City for the past thirty three years. And was the son of the late John Howard and Virginia Rose Blevins Braly. Mr. Braly retired from Snap-On...
Richard Bennett
Mar 27, 2006
Richard Bennett, 84, 109 Jim McNeese Road, Johnson City died Sunday, March 26, 2006 in the Life Care Center of Elizabethton. Mr. Bennett was a native and lifelong resident of Washington County and a son of the late Harrison and Georgia Pearl Arnett Bennett. He was a veteran of WW II serving in the Marine Corp. Mr. Bennett was a...
Ellen Pocahontas Neale
Mar 27, 2006
Mrs. E. Pocahontas Neale, 95, of 2018 Sherwood Drive, Johnson City, passed away on Monday March 27, 2006 at North Side Hospital. She was a native of Richmond, Virginia, and had lived in Johnson City since 1951. She was the daughter of the late James Malone Edwards and Mary Frances Rush Edwards of Richmond. She was preceded in death by...
Minnie B. Blankenship
Mar 25, 2006
Minnie B. Blankenship, 88, 115 Woodlawn Drive, died Saturday, March 25, 2006 at the Johnson City Medical Center. Mrs. Blankenship was a Johnson County native and had lived most of her life in Johnson City. She was a daughter of the late Floyd Conley Hicks and Sadie Luster White Hicks and was preceded in death by her husband, Thomas Glen...
Jeanette Rev. Carver
Mar 23, 2006
Rev. Jeanette Carver, age 40, of 301 W. 3rd Avenue, Watauga, died Thursday, March 23, 2006 at her residence. She was a native of Russell County, Virginia but had lived in Watauga the past 8 years. She was a daughter of Edna May Dean Jessee and the late Robert Blaine Jessee. She was also preceded in death by one brother,...
