OBITUARIES
Johnson City, TN. Obituaries
Local obituaries for Johnson City and Washington County, TN.
Robert Caldwell
May 17, 2005
Robert Calloway, 67, 1605 Lynnwood Drive, Johnson City died Tuesday, May 17, 2005 in the Johnson City Medical Center. Mr. Calloway was a native and lifelong resident of Washington County, Tennessee . He was a son of the late Robert L. and Sarah Hughes Calloway. He was a retired paving machine operator with Summers-Taylor Paving Co. with thirty-five years of...
Sam O. Mosier
May 17, 2005
Sam O. Mosier, 76, 107 Austin Springs Road died Tuesday, May 17, 2005 at his home. He was a native of Piney Flats and had lived most of his life in Johnson City. Mr. Mosier was a son of the late Worley and Maggie Hyatt Mosier and was also preceded in death by two sons, Bobby Lee and Richard J....
Catherine T. Canary
May 16, 2005
Catherine T. Canary, 72, of 301 Old Embreeville Road, Jonesborough, died , Monday, May 16, 2005 at the Johnson City Medical Center. She was a native of Troy, New York and had lived in Jonesborough the past few months. She was a retired employee of the Lee County Florida School District. Mrs. Canary is survived by her husband, Chester Canary;...
Jeffery Dean Showman
May 15, 2005
Jeffery Dean Showman, age 55, of 302 Willowbrook Drive, Morganton, North Carolina died Sunday, May 15, 2005 at his residence. He was a native of Johnson City and had lived there until moving to Morganton in 2003. He was the son of the late Lonnie L. Showman and Hazel Rebecca Ramsey Showman. Mr. Showman had been employed as a respiratory...
Stephen Hinton Adams
May 15, 2005
Stephen H. Adams, 52, 926 Tester Hollow Road, Piney Flats, died Sunday, May 15, 2005. Mr. Adams was a native of Charlotte, N.C., was a former resident of Atlanta, and had lived in Johnson City since 1990. He was a security guard with Murray Security, Inc. and was a former District Manager with Ryder, Inc. in Gray, TN. He was...
Sue Lyle
May 14, 2005
Sue Lyle, of Johnson City, died Saturday, May 14, 2005 at the Appalachian Christian Village. She was a native and lifelong resident of Johnson City, daughter of the late J. Raymond and Sue Thomas Lyle. Ms. Lyle was a retired interior decorator and former owner of The Drapery Shop. She was a member of the Watauga Avenue Presbyterian Church, the...
Milner Collins
May 13, 2005
Mrs. Milner McNees Collins , 86, Johnson City, Tennessee, died May 13 in Johnson City Medical Center following a brief illness. She was a member of Central Baptist Church. She was the corporate Secretary of the Alabama Bankers Association in Montgomery, Alabama for many years, a member of The Monday Club of Johnson City, the Beta Sigma Phi Social Sorority,...
Thomas M. Gardner
May 12, 2005
Thomas M. Gardner, 74, 152 Hudson Drive, Gray, passed away unexpectedly on Thursday, May 12, 2005, in the Veterans Affairs Medical Center at Mountain Home. Mr. Gardner was a native of Johnson City and was a son of the late Grace Gardner Nave, who passed away in 2000. Mr. Gardner was a graduate of Science Hill High School. He was...
Edward Lawson Fish
May 12, 2005
Edward Lawson Fish, 82, of 1310 Baldridge Drive, Johnson City, died Thursday, May 12, 2005, at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center following an illness. A native of Franklin, NC, son of the late Cassie and Anna Jarrett Fish, Mr. Fish spent his childhood in Cocke County before moving to Johnson City in 1946. He was a veteran of WWII having...
Louise Sahlin
May 12, 2005
Louise Jenkins Sahlin, 84, of 348 Keefauver Road, Gray, died Thursday, May 12, 2005 at the Johnson City Medical Center following a brief illness. She was a native and lifelong resident of Washington County and a daughter of the late Benjamin Harrison and Nanny Alice Cox Jenkins. Mrs. Sahlin was a homemaker. She was a Charter Member of Westminster Presbyterian...
Margaret Bishop
May 11, 2005
Margaret Gaines Bishop, 88, 117 Marguerite Lane, Johnson City, went to be with the Lord Wednesday, May 11, 2005, at her residence. Mrs. Bishop was a native of Petrolia, Texas, and had lived in Washington County, Tennessee, for seventy-three years. She was a daughter of the late John Merrell and Nellie Sexton Gaines. Mrs. Bishop was a Devoted Christian Mother...
Dorothy M. Coogan
May 11, 2005
Dorothy M. Coogan, 97, 2734 E. Oakland Ave., died Wednesday, May 11, 2005 at NHC Healthcare Center, Johnson City, after an extended illness. Mrs. Coogan was a native of Sheridan, NY and was a daughter of the late Anson Henris and Emma Wilkes Henris. She was the widow of Harry E. Coogan and had been a resident of Johnson City...
Anthony Dr. Paulantonio
May 10, 2005
Dr. Anthony Paulantonio, 72, 107 Dogwood Lane, Johnson City, went to be with the Lord Tuesday, May 10, 2005 in the Holston Valley Medical Center with his wife at his bedside. Dr. Paul, as he was affectionately called, was a native of New York City and had lived in Johnson City since 1978. He was a son of the late...
James Wilson
May 9, 2005
James Wilson, 80, 764 Ryder?s Church Road, Bluff City, died Monday, May 09, 2005 at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Mr. Wilson was a Carter County native, a former resident of Greene and Washington Counties and had lived in Sullivan County for the past eight years. He was a son of the late John Wilson and Zillia Bowers Wilson and...
Norman Andrew Jr. Hamm
May 7, 2005
Norman Andrew Hamm Jr., 47, 3211 Mayfield Drive, Johnson City, died Saturday, May 7, 2005, in the Veterans Affairs Medical Center at Mountain Home. Mr. Hamm was a native of Fayetteville, N.C., and had lived in Johnson City since 1973. He is a son of Norman A. Hamm Sr. and Betty Jane Bowman Hamm. He was a 1975 graduate of...
Margaret Grace Jones
May 6, 2005
Margaret Grace Jones, 91, 120 Greyland Drive, Gray, died Friday, May 6, 2005, at the Johnson City Medical Center. Mrs. Jones was a native of Knox County and had lived in Gray for the past 25 years. She was a daughter of the late Robert Lee Birdwell and Ella Mae Roberts Birdwell and was also preceded in death by her...
Myrtle Mamaw Moody
May 4, 2005
Myrtle Palmer 'MaMaw' Moody died Wednesday, May 04, 2005 at the Johnson City Medical Center. Mrs. Moody was a native of Butler, TN a former resident of Washington County and had lived in Carter County for the past few years. She was a daughter of the late Richard Palmer and Della Younce Palmer and was also preceded in death by...
Herman Toad Harkleroad
Apr 30, 2005
Herman 'Toad' Harkleroad, 76 of 324 Hicks Road, Piney Flats, died Saturday, April 30, 2005 at the Johnson City Medical Center following an extended illness. Mr. Harkleroad was a native of Bluff City, son of the late John and Pearl Maness Harkleroad, and had lived in Piney Flats since 1964. He was a retired parts salesman for Stowers Machinery Corporation....
Oakes Steven Collis, Jr.
Apr 30, 2005
Steven Collis Oakes, Jr., 67, of Johnson City, died Saturday in the Johnson City Medical Center. He was a native and lifelong Johnson City resident and a son of the late Steven C. Oakes, Sr. and Willie May Young Oakes. Mr. Oakes was a former employee of Raytheon Corporation. He was of the Baptist faith. Survivors include; two sisters, Hilda...
Frances Jane Mcintyre
Apr 30, 2005
Frances Jane McIntyre, 81, died Saturday, April 30, 2005, at her residence following a lengthy illness with cancer ? which she battled bravely, never complaining. She was a native of Johnson City and the daughter of the late Thomas William, Sr. and Geneva Mae Carathers McIntyre. Living most of her life in Johnson City, working as a caregiver, she was...
