OBITUARIES
Johnson City, TN. Obituaries
Local obituaries for Johnson City and Washington County, TN.
Paul J. Hackbarth
May 22, 2005
Paul J. Hackbarth Jr., age 81, 4 Wilmar Circle, Johnson City, died Sunday, May 22, 2005, at North Side Hospital. Mr. Hackbarth was born August 7, 1923, in Detroit, Michigan to the late Katherine Doran and Paul James Hackbarth Sr. He lived most of his life in Ann Arbor, Michigan, before relocating to the Johnson City area forty years ago...
Marilyn Mitchell Black
May 21, 2005
Marilyn Mitchell Black, 59, 2822 Brown?s Mill Road, died Saturday, May 21, 2005 at Holston Valley Medical Center. Mrs. Black was a Kingsport native and had lived in Johnson City for the past 23 years. She was a daughter of the late Ralph C. Mitchell and Dorothy Smith Mitchell. Mrs. Black was retired from Eastman after 37 years of service....
Leonard Stiltner
May 20, 2005
Leonard Stiltner, 83, 166 Hicks Acres Drive, died Friday, May 20, 2005 at his residence. Mr. Stiltner was a native of Grundy, VA and had lived in Gray since 2000. He was a son of the late D.C. Stiltner and Pearly Stiltner. Mr. Stiltner was also preceded in death by his wife, Lestel Mullins Stiltner, six brothers, Ralph Stiltner, Amos...
Robert Carver
May 20, 2005
Robert Carver, 69, 111 Clark Drive, Johnson City died Friday, May 20, 2005 in the NHC Healthcare in Johnson City. Mr. Carver was a native and lifelong resident of Carter County and a son of the late J.C. and Hazel Simpson Carver. He was a retired employee of Burlington Industries. Mr. Carver was of the Baptist faith. He is preceded...
Alice S. Webb
May 20, 2005
Alice S. Webb, 95, 110 Boone Drive, Gray, died Friday, May 20, 2005 at Asbury Place. Mrs. Webb was a native of Wilmington, NC and had lived in Johnson City since 1935. She was a daughter of the late Theo Stancel and Minnie Agnes Sellers Simmons and was also preceded in death by her husband, Darrell E. Webb in 1985,...
Agnes Aileen Clark
May 19, 2005
Agnes 'Aileen' Clark, 73, formerly of 503 Wendover Road, died Thursday, May 19, 2005 at the home of her son at 3215 McKinley Road, Johnson City. A native and lifelong resident of Washington County, daughter of the late Ben Collins and Mrs. Mollie Shelton Collins. A retired employee of the Kingsport Press, she had been a plate maker, proofer and...
Carroll Good
May 18, 2005
Carroll 'Bud' Good, 69, of 5602 Kingsport Highway, Gray, died Wednesday, May 18, 2005 at the Johnson City Medical Center. A native of Washington County, son of the late Walter A. and Ruth E. Good. Mr. Good was also preceded in death by one brother, Richard R. Good and one sister, Carolyn Weaver. He was a retired employee of Klopman...
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...


