OBITUARIES
Johnson City, TN. Obituaries
Local obituaries for Johnson City and Washington County, TN.
Lourine Douglas Simpson
Jul 13, 2020
Lourine Douglas Simpson, 91, of Johnson City, passed away on Monday, July 13, 2020, at The Waters of Johnson City. She is preceded in death by her parents, Leonard W. and Cleoria Cox Simpson, and one daughter, Gwen Story. Survivors include her daughter, Chima Christine Simpson, and a sister, Emma Jean Bricky. A graveside service will be held at 11:00...
Eugene Allen Chapman
Jul 7, 2020
Eugene Allen Chapman, 72, of Piney Flats, passed away following an extended illness on Tuesday, July 7, 2020, at the Johnson City Medical Center. Born in Bristol, Virginia, in 1948, Eugene was a son of the late Gene Clyde Chapman and Virginia Helen Worley Chapman. Growing up, Eugene worked on the family farm tending the tobacco fields with his father...
Christopher Avery Elliott
Jul 6, 2020
Christopher Avery Elliott, age 35 of Johnson City, passed away unexpectedly on Monday, July 6, 2020. He was born on August 25, 1984 in Johnson City. He was the son of Anita E. Kelly Elliott France and the late Dexter Gene Elliott Sr. He was a 2002 graduate of Unicoi County High School. He worked in the plumbing and construction...
Robert Bruce Shields
Jul 5, 2020
Robert Bruce Shields, 55, formerly of Elizabethton, died of cancer Sunday, July 5, 2020, in the Johnson City Medical Center. Robert was born November 1, 1964, in Allentown, Pennsylvania, the son of Rosemarie and Bruce Shields. The family moved to Tuebingen, Germany, and then to Lincoln, Illinois, where Robert graduated from high school. He then earned his bachelor’s degree from...
Bobby Kay Bennett
Jul 4, 2020
Bobby Bennett, age 77, passed away peacefully at home with his family by his side on Saturday, July 4, 2020. Bob is survived by his wife of 52 years, Claudette Honeycutt Bennett. He was adored by his two daughters and their families, Melissa and Bill Price and grandsons, William and Palmer and Lisa and Rob Stout and granddaughters, Abby and...
Dean Alan Rambo
Jul 3, 2020
Dean Rambo, 81, of the Greenwood community of Washington County, stopped farming on Friday, July 3, 2020. Son of the late Leland and Verlin Decker Rambo. Dean grew up farming and playing ball. He was a well known baseball pitcher and his younger brother Bill would catch for him. A lifelong Methodist, he met his future wife, the former Janie...
Beulah Rozella Whitson
Jul 2, 2020
Born on Wednesday, March 31, 1943, Beulah Rozella Whitson went home to be with Jesus on Thursday, July 2, 2020. After having surgery to remove a brain mass on August 18th, 2019, which was later diagnosed as stage 4 glioblastoma (brain cancer), Beulah decided to live life to the fullest with lots of love and laughter with family, old and...
Jennie Lee Ottinger
Jul 1, 2020
Jennie Lee Ottinger, 77 of Johnson City died at Hillview Health Center in Elizabethton on Wednesday, July 1, 2020. She was a native of Johnson City, daughter of the late Wilson McKenney and Sally Isabell DeVault Sims. Jennie was retired transcriptionist. She worked for over thirty years for Johnson City Internal Medicine at this calling. Had been known to say...
Michael Wayne Tuemler
Jul 1, 2020
Michael “Mike” Wayne Tuemler, age 58, of Jonesborough, Tennessee suddenly went to be with the Lord on Wednesday, July 1, 2020. Mike was born in Charleston, West Virginia on August 2, 1961 to Ernest Gene Tuemler and Joyce Hill Tuemler. He spent most of his childhood in West Virginia and Virginia. Mike graduated in 1980 from Lord Botetourt High School...
Mary Elizabeth Markland
Jun 28, 2020
Mary Elizabeth Wilson Markland, age 82, of Johnson City, passed away peacefully Sunday morning, June 28, 2020 at the Johnson City Medical Center. Mary was born June 30, 1938 in Johnson City to Joseph William Wilson and Helen Deyton Wilson. In addition to her parents, Mary was preceded in death by her husband, William Lee “Bill” Markland and brothers-in-law, Harmon...
Barbara M Frye
Jun 28, 2020
Barbara Maupin Frye, of Blountville, reported for a new assignment in heaven on June 28, 2020, at the age of 88. She was born in Chuckey, Tennessee, a daughter of the late Paul K. Maupin and Ella M. Maupin. Barbara was a member of the Blountville United Methodist Church. She graduated from East Tennessee State University with a master's degree...
Norma Jean Neal
Jun 27, 2020
Norma Jean Bates Neal, 89, of Johnson City, passed away on Saturday, June 27, 2020, at the Johnson City Medical Center. She was a native of Sullivan County, and daughter of the late John W. and Ida Rich Bates. She lived most of her life as a resident of Johnson City. Norma Jean was a christian of the pentecostal faith,...
Doyle Gene Tipton
Jun 26, 2020
Doyle Gene Tipton, 74, of Unicoi, passed away on Friday, June 26,2020 at Duke University Hospital in Durham, North Carolina with his family by his side. He exchanged this life of suffering and pain for an eternal life with Jesus. He was a native of Unicoi, and a son of the late William McKinley Tipton and Myrtle Moore Tipton. Doyle...
Vincent J. Digregorio
Jun 26, 2020
Vincent John DiGregorio, 94, Johnson City, Tennessee passed away June 26, 2020. Vincent was born in Brooklyn, New York May 22, 1926 to Salvatore and Mildred DiGregorio. He received his bachelor’s degree from St. John’s University Brooklyn and was a Veteran from the United States Navy where he served his country for three years during World War II. He retired...
Billy George Smith
Jun 25, 2020
Bill G. Smith, 89, of Johnson City, died Thursday, June 25, 2020 at Cornerstone Village. He was a native of Appalachia, VA, son of the late Ernest Malcom and Frances Irene Sell Smith. Bill was retired salesperson for Brandeis Machinery of Louisville, KY for twenty years. He was a veteran of the Korean War having served in the U. S....
Sylvia Petrella
Jun 25, 2020
Sylvia Williams Petrella, 68, of Johnson City, died June 25, 2020 at the Johnson City Medical Center. She was a Huntsville, AL native who adventured to East Tennessee years ago with a friend. She was a daughter of the late Harry Sylvester and Frances Griffin Williams. Sylvia worked as an administrative assistant at ETSU. She was proud of her work...
Amy Elizabeth Willingham
Jun 24, 2020
Amy Elizabeth Willingham slipped from her friends and family into the loving arms of the heavenly beyond on Wednesday, June 24, 2020. She had just celebrated her 50th birthday on June 6, surrounded by many of those who loved her. In that short 50 years, Amy touched many lives and left indelible marks on everyone she encountered. Her amazing blue...
Helen June Mckay Ellis Shanks
Jun 24, 2020
Helen June McKay Ellis Shanks, of Johnson City, passed away on June 23rd, 2020, at the age of 94. June was born in Chuckey, Tennessee, a daughter of the late Phillip Ray McKay and Frances Maupin McKay. June belonged to Munsey Memorial United Methodist Church. She graduated from ETSU with a BS Degree in Home Economics. She married James Garvin...
Larry Edward Nolen
Jun 22, 2020
Larry Edward Nolen, 68, of Elizabethton, passed away on Monday, June 22, 2020 surrounded by close friends and furbabies. He was a native of Roanoke, Virginia, son of the late Thalus Edward and Sue Richardson Nolen. Larry was of the Christian faith. He is best remembered for his life’s work as a nurse at the Johnson City Medical Center, which...
Phyllis Ann Davis
Jun 22, 2020
Phyllis Ann Davis, 83 of Johnson City, TN passed away peacefully Monday, May 22, 2020 at the Modern Caregivers Facility in Piney Flats, TN. Phyllis was born on March 06, 1937 in Ashland, Kentucky to George M. and Mary Olive McAllister. She graduated from Ashland High School in 1955. After graduation she moved to Washington, D.C. where she ended up...
