MITCHELL COUNTY, NC - OBITUARIES - Briscoe Peterson, 25 Jun 2001
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BRISCOE PETERSON 

BAKERSVILLE – Briscoe Peterson, 91, of Poplar Road, died Monday, June 25, 2001
in the Unicoi County Nursing Center. He was the son of James W. and Alice
Honeycutt Peterson, and husband of the late Kate G. Peterson. He was also
preceded in death by a son, Buster Peterson. He had been an employee in the
maintenance department of Clinchfield Railroad, and was a member and deacon of
Bailey Brethren Church. 

Survivors include four daughters, Atlas Hughes, Lorene Adkins and Etta Murphy,
all of Green Mountain, and Alice Whitson of Erwin, TN; one son, Gene Peterson
of Burnsville; three sisters, Eula Laws of Burnsville, Carrie Elrod of Johnson
City, TN, and Pansy Haggie of Kingsport, TN; two brothers, Park Peterson of
Green Mountain, and Raymond Peterson of Unicoi; 16 grandchildren; 30 great
grandchildren; and three great great grandchildren. 

Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Thursday at Bailey Brethren Church. Revs.
Randy Griffith, Jimmy Griffith and Chad Hensley officiated. Burial followed in
Bennett Cemetery. The family received friends from 6-8 p.m. in the chapel of
Henline-Hughes Funeral Home in Bakersville. Memorial donations may be made to
the American Diabetes Association, 434 Fayettville Street Mall, Two Hannover
Square, Suite 1600, Raleigh, NC 27601-1764.