Johnson City, TN. Obituaries

Dec 18, 2005

Margaret Parker, 89, 1111 Ridgecrest Road, Johnson City died Sunday December 18, 2005 at her residence. Mrs. Parker was a native of Pittsburgh, PA and had lived in Johnson City since 1976. She was a daughter of the late William and Nancey Laugrey Smith. Mrs. Parker was a homemaker and of the Presbyterian faith. She is preceded in death by...

Dec 17, 2005

Mollie Shelton Collins, 99, 2336 West Brooklane, Johnson City died Saturday, December 17, 2005 at the residence. Mrs. Collins was a native of Marshall, NC and lived most of her life in Johnson City. She was a daughter of the late Bayless and Isabelle Shelton. Mrs. Collins was a faithful, longtime member of the Brookmeade Church of Christ. She retired...

Dec 16, 2005

Stanley Eugene Hicks, 66, Johnson City, died Friday, December 16, 2005 at his residence. Mr. Hicks was a native and lifelong resident of Washington County. He was a son of the late Bert and Mae Mitchell Hicks and was also preceded in death by one sister, Joan Hicks. Mr. Hicks was a bank courier. He was a member of the...

Dec 15, 2005

Greyson Leggett Burks, infant, three days, died Thursday, December 15, 2005 at the Johnson City Medical Center. She is survived by her parents, Christopher A. and Mary 'Stephanie' Perdue Burks of Johnson City; her twin sister, Madison Ramsey Burks of the home; paternal grandparents, Paul H. and Carol L. Burks of Kingsport; maternal grandparents, Claude Perdue of Maryville and Mary...

Dec 15, 2005

Carrie L. Elrod, 85, 1403 Knox Street, Johnson City died Thursday, December 15, 2005 in the Center on Aging and Health in Erwin. Mrs. Elrod was a native of Spruce Pine, NC and had lived in Johnson City most of her life. She was a daughter of the late James and Alice Honeycutt Peterson. Mrs. Elrod was a homemaker and...

Dec 12, 2005

Jeanette Gray Holden, 81, 2422 Stone Drive, died Monday, December 12, 2005, at Johnson City Medical Center after an extended illness. Mrs. Holden was a Washington County native. She was a daughter of the late Grover Cleveland and Myrtle Jackson Gray. She was of the Baptist faith. Mrs. Holden taught piano, worked in the retail grocery industry, and was employed...

Dec 12, 2005

Myra Reynolds Pinyard, 80, 205 Main Street Drive, Jonesborough, TN died Monday, December 12, 2005 at her residence. Mrs. Pinyard was a Pensacola, FL native and had lived in Jonesborough, TN for the past five years. She was a daughter of the late Jesse Lee Reynolds and Dora Morgan Reynolds and was also preceded in death by several brothers and...

Dec 11, 2005

John 'Cooter' Estep, 80, of Johnson City, went home to be with the Lord on Sunday, December 11, 2005, at the Johnson City Medical Center following a lengthy illness. He was a native of Carter County and had lived there most of his life. He had lived in Johnson City for the past 32 years. Mr. Estep attended the River...

Dec 9, 2005

Mary Alice Sanders, 89, of 116 Valley Drive, Jonesborough, entered the gates of Heaven, Friday, December 9, 2005 at her residence following an illness. She was a native of Nashville, daughter of the late Richard W. and Mary Landys Hay. She was retired from the East Tennessee State University bookstore since 1978 and a resident of the area since 1935....

Dec 8, 2005

Dorothy Good Roberts, 87, 3209 Bristol Highway, Johnson City died Thursday, December 08, 2005 at NHC Healthcare of Johnson City. Mrs. Roberts was a lifelong resident of Washington County, a daughter of the late Rev. John and Nancy Caroline Price Good. She retired in 1961 from Rolphe?s cafeteria and was a member of the Skyline Heights Baptist Church. In addition...

Dec 4, 2005

Mary Beeson Ellison, daughter of Donald Richard and Elma Rankin Beeson, died Sunday, December 4, 2005, in Winter Park, Florida. She was born in Johnson City, Tennessee, on September 9, 1916. She received her A.B. degree from Tusculum College, Greeneville, Tennessee, her M.A. from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY, and her PH.D. from the University of Miami...

Dec 4, 2005

Beatrice Hamilton Hays, 88, formerly of 501 South Center Street, died Sunday, December 04, 2005 at Lakebridge Health Care Center. Mrs. Hays was a native and lifelong resident of Washington County. She was a daughter of the late George Houston and Mary Jane Harrison Hamilton and was also preceded in death by her husband, Harold D. Hays and two half...

Dec 4, 2005

Bertha Mae Maricle, 93, Johnson City, died Sunday, December 4, 2005 at Appalachian Christian Village. Mrs. Maricle was a native of Johnson City, a former resident of Tampa, FL and had moved back to Johnson City in 1994. She was a daughter of the late Charles William Wright and Alice S. Moore Wright and was also preceded in death by...

Dec 3, 2005

Bertha Rose Alfonso, formerly of 104 Ridgemont Road, Johnson City went to be with her Lord when she died at Lakebridge Health Care Center on December 3, 2005. Her death came a few days short of her 104th birthday. She was preceded in death by her husband, Robert R. Alfonso , her parents, John and Josephine (Reinhart) Schmitt, a sister...

Dec 3, 2005

Dec 2, 2005

Joe Clark Shipley, Jr., 71, 477 Sportsman Boat Dock Road, Piney Flats, died Friday, December 2, 2005 at the James H. Quillen VA Medical Center. Mr. Shipley was a native of Elkhorn City, KY and had lived all of his life in Johnson City. He was a son of the late Joe Clark Shipley, Sr and Fay Anderson Shipley and...

Dec 1, 2005

Ougrita Belle Cash, 92, formerly of 619 Hamilton Street, died Thursday, at the Appalachian Christian Village, December 1, 2005. Ougrita was a daughter of the late George W. Little, Sr and the late Maude Kerney Little. She married Robert Taylor Cash, 21 December, 1940 in the First Presbyterian Church, Johnson City. Their first and only home was located at 619...

Nov 30, 2005

Oscar D. ' Buzz ' Gilliam, 84, 1301 Rock Garden Road, Johnson City died Wednesday, November 30, 2005 in the Lakebridge Health Care Center. Mr. Gilliam was a native of Scott County, VA, spent his childhood years in Kingsport, and had lived in Johnson City since 1951. He was a son of the late Haburn and Louise Bowens Gilliam. He...

Nov 29, 2005

Jack Walter Davenport, 70, Jonesborough, died Tuesday, November 29, 2005 at the James H. Quillen VA Medical Center. Mr. Davenport was a native of Jonesborough, a former resident of Chicago, IL and had moved back to Jonesborough earlier this year. He was a son of the late Walter D. Davenport and Mae McIntosh Davenport and was also preceded in death...

Nov 28, 2005

Earl E. Carden, Jr., of 56, of 2088 Haystack Way, Myrtle Beach, SC, formerly of Johnson City, died Monday, November 28, 2005 in Myrtle Beach. He was a native of Johnson City and had lived in Myrtle Beach for the past 7 years. He was a son of the late Earl E. and Virginia Ford Carden. Survivors include; one sister,...