Obituaries
Jack Lawson
Oct 30, 2011
Jack Lawson, 67, of Kingsport, died Sunday, October 30, 2011 at Wellmont Holston Valley Medical Center. He was born in Duffield, Virginia and had resided in Kingsport for the past several years. Jack was an acoustical mechanic in addition to working at other jobs.He had lived in various parts of the U.S. and had a great love for Colorado. Jack...
Lance Compton
Oct 29, 2011
Lance Compton, 41, Kingsport, went to be with the Lord on Saturday, October 29, 2011 at Vanderbilt Medical Center. Born in Kingsport, he had resided here most of his life. Lance was a graduate of Sullivan North High School and an honors graduate of Belmont University in Nashville. He was a member of Kingsley United Methodist Church. Lance traveled the...
Catherine Bell House Long
Oct 29, 2011
Catherine Bell House Long, 79, died Saturday morning, October 29, 2011, at Wellmont Holston Valley Medical Center in Kingsport after battling cancer. Catherine was born in 1932 in Cleveland, Tenn. and grew up in Cleveland, Chattanooga and Knoxville. She graduated with honors from Knoxville High School and the University of Tennessee, where she was president of Alpha Delta Pi Sorority...
Jane Madden Snyder
Oct 28, 2011
Jane Madden Snyder, age 79, died at the Holston Valley Medical Center October 28, 2011.For over ten years, she fought a long hard battle against a rare cancer. She never showed any self-pity, never was discouraged and never lost her sense of humor.Jane received her bachelor's degree in elementary education in 1953 from Flora MacDonald College. She was an educator...
John D. Manis
Oct 28, 2011
John D. Manis, 67, of Kingsport, died Friday morning at Wellmont Holston Valley Medical Center after an extended illness. Born in Cumberland, KY, he had resided in Kingsport most of his life. He served in the U.S. Army during the Beirut Conflict. John had worked at the Kingsport Foundry for several years.He was preceded in death by his friend, Jonathan...
Jeremy Damon Krajeck
Oct 27, 2011
Jeremy Damon Krajeck, 33, of Kingsport, died Thursday morning, October 27, 2011, at his home after complications from a seizure. Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Jeremy moved to Kingsport in 1998 and started raising his family. He had worked for Fresenius Medical Care for 10 years where he made many friends that he would consider family. His greatest joys were worshipping...
Bradley Joseph Perkey
Oct 26, 2011
Bradley Joseph Perkey, 2 days old, went home to be with the Lord, Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee.He was preceded in death by great-uncle, Bradford Dean Woods and great-grandfather, Kenneth Eugene Troutman.Bradley is survived by parents, Alisha Smith and Richard Perkey; grandparents, Kevin Smith and wife, Amy and Tammy Laws and fiancé, Ronnie Hyder;...
Shirley Marie "Sis" Watts
Oct 26, 2011
For God so loved the world, that he gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.John 3:16Shirley Marie "Squirrel" Watts, 50, Kingsport was called home suddenly to be in the arms of Jesus, Wednesday morning, October 26th, 2011. Shirley was born in Kingsport, where she had lived her entire life. She...
Betty Chapman Freels
Oct 25, 2011
Betty Anita Chapman Freels, 74, Kingsport, TN, died Tuesday, October 25, 2011, at Indian Path Medical Center.She was born in LaFollette, TN. Betty had a special interest in accounting, music, and games including Mahjong and Bridge. She was of the Baptist faith.Betty was preceded in death by her husband, Dr. Kenneth Freels, Kingsport, TN; and parents, James Elbert and Adra...
George E. Ledbetter
Oct 24, 2011
George E. Ledbetter, 78, passed away on Monday, October 24, 2011 at Indian Path Medical Center after a short illness.He served his country in the U.S. Air Force, enjoyed being a farmer and for many years was the Manager of Farmer's Market in Kingsport. George was an employee of the Kingsport Press for a number of years. He was a...
Ross Patrick Johnson
Oct 23, 2011
Ross Patrick Johnson, born June 24, 1921, died peacefully in his sleep on October 23, 2011, at the age of 90. Ross, born in Clinchport, Virginia, was the son of the late Arthur Lee Johnson, Sr. and Eliza Jane Lawson Johnson. Ross graduated from Shoemaker High School in 1940 and then honorably served in the U.S. Navy during WWII on...
Nina Bruner Trivette
Oct 23, 2011
Nina Bruner Trivette of Kingsport passed away on Sunday, October 23, 2011.She was born in Speers Ferry, VA, and worked as a Front End Manager at Food City, Colonial Heights since February, 2010. She treasured the friendships of the Food City Family. She was a member of Homeland Baptist Church.She was preceded in death by her parents, Luther "Smokey" Bruner...
Dianne Elizabeth Donaldson Hamblen
Oct 22, 2011
Dianne Elizabeth Donaldson Hamblen, 62, of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, passed away unexpectedly Saturday, October 22, 2011.Dianne was born to Raymond and Ora Anderson Donaldson in Atlanta, Georgia on September 30, 1949 and grew up in Kingsport, Tennessee, where she was a member of Sigma Kappa sorority. She was also a member of the UT band, where she met the love...
Anne Brooks Shaffer Anderson
Oct 22, 2011
Anne Brooks Shaffer Anderson was born on Aug. 24, 1923 in Hamblen Co. TN. She graduated from Sullivan High School in 1941 and in 1943 she joined the U.S. Navy Waves. During WW II, she tracked enemy submarines by radio signals. She married Jim Shaffer in 1947 deceased 1986 and adopted his two sons. She worked at Eastman for 38...
Lawrence Clayton Wheatley
Oct 21, 2011
I Corrinthians 15:52In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible and we shall be changed.Lawrence Clayton Wheatley, 91, of Kingsport, went home to be with the Lord on Friday, October 21, 2011 at his home, with his family by his side after an...
Cecil Moore Frye
Oct 21, 2011
Cecil M. Frye died Friday, October 21, 2011 of lung cancer. He was the son of the late Dr. Chas. G. Frye and Freda Covey Frye. Cecil was 82. He was born and raised in Kingsport, graduating from Dobyns-Bennett High School and East Tennessee State College. He served in the US Navy during the Korean War. Cecil worked for Foote...
Glen Clayton Smith
Oct 20, 2011
Glen Clayton Smith died peacefully at home on Thursday, October 20, 2011 following a three year battle with Acute Myeloid Leukemia. He was born on October 18, 1936 in Valdosta, GA, the son of Ruth McCrimmon Smith and Clayton Perry Red Smith. He graduated from Decatur GA High School in 1954, and earned degrees from Georgia Tech in 1958 Mechanical...
Pamela Michelle Gunning
Oct 18, 2011
Pamela Michelle Gunning, 50, Kingsport, passed away Tuesday, October 18, 2011 at approximately 11:45am at Indian Path Medical Center.She was preceded in death by her father, William S. Gunning, Jr.; grandparents Claude M. Kilgore and Opal Pauline Arnold Kilgore; William S. Gunning, Sr. and Emma Clayton Gunning.Pamela is survived by one daughter, Rachael Michelle Wilcox of Kingsport; one son, Dustin...
Jon Thomas Moore
Oct 17, 2011
Jon Thomas Moore passed away unexpectedly Monday, October 17, 2011. He was born November 25, 1943, the son of George Ray Sr. and Anna Belle CalhounMoore and grew up in Mt. Carmel.He graduated from Dobyns-Bennett High School, received a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from Georgia Tech, an MS in Electrical Engineering from University of Tennessee and a Ph.D. in Physics...
Jerome A. Eaton
Oct 17, 2011
Jerome A. "Jerry" Eaton, 2012 Timbers Edge Ct., Kingsport, passed away Monday, October 17, 2011 at Indian Path Medical Center following a brief illness. He was born in Fitchburg, MA., to Clayton and Cecille Eaton on May 24, 1940.He served in the U.S. Navy from 1958 to 1962, and participated in Operation DEEP FREEZE in the Antarctic.Jerry owned and operated...
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