Carter County TN Archives Obituaries.....Britt, Beulah L February 7, 2006 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/tn/tnfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Julia Williams Kodak Jkodak@aol.com February 13, 2006, 4:31 pm Elizabethon Star Feb 8, 2006 Beulah L. Britt Mrs. Beulah Lee Britt, 94, formerly of Caleb Avenue, Elizabethton, died Tuesday, February 7, 2006, at Hillview Health Center following an extended illness. Mrs. Britt was a lifelong native of Carter County and the daughter of the late Grover C. and Lillie Bell Large Smith. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Ulysses Grant "Bobby" Britt, in 1991, a son, Herbert U. Britt, in 1928, and by three sisters and a brother. Mrs. Britt was a retired employee of American Bemberg Corporation and a former co-owner/operator of Britt Grocery Store, Gap Creek Community, and Britt Gulf Service Station. She was a very active member of Big Springs Baptist Church and the W.M.U. Survivors include two sons, Tyler Britt, Elizabethton, and Bobby Glen Britt, Johnson City; two daughters and sons-in-law, Mrs. Sherry "Dee" and her husband Farrell Hutchins and Mrs. Sheila and her husband Louis Clark, all of Elizabethton; a brother and sister-in-law, Carmon and Alta Smith, Elizabethton; a sister, Mary Ruth Ledford, Erwin; 11 grandchildren and their spouses, Charles Hutchins, Jeff Hutchins, Karen Barnett and Jon, Sherry Grenchik and Marty, Jenny Blackburn and Rick, Jack Clark and Jennifer, Robert Clark, Amie Kyte and David, Julie Roberts and Jamey, Dan Britt and Megumi and Terry Britt. Fifteen great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews also survive. Funeral services for Mrs. Britt will be conducted at 2 p.m. Friday, February 10, in the Sunset Chapel of Hathaway-Percy Funeral Home with Rev. Kenneth Kyker and Rev. Bill Davis officiating. Music will be under the direction of a granddaughter, Karen Barnett, soloist, Jerry Barnett, soloist, and Scott Reynolds, organist. Interment will follow the funeral service at Happy Valley Memorial Park. Active pallbearers will be grandsons and grandsons- in-law, Charles Hutchins, Jeff Hutchins, Jack Clark, Robert Clark, Terry Britt, Dan Britt and Jon Barnett. Honorary pallbearers will be a very special cousin and his wife, Herman and Wilma Colbaugh, and Gernie and Gene Oaks, Marty Grenchik, Brady Smith, Ronnie Lowe, Tony Mottern, David Kyte, Jamey Roberts, Rick Blackburn, Randall Hutchins, Bill E. Hampton, Henry Britt, Bob Clark, Tony McKeehan, John Holsclaw, Mark Hill, Roger Hamm, Brian Burleson, Richard Tester, Edward "Pink" McKinney, Leroy Brewer, Kenneth Strickland, Elvin Little, Skip Hendrix, Bobby Glover, Kent Williams, the doctors and staff at Johnson City Internal Medicine and the staff of Hillview Health Center. The family wishes to express a special thank you to caregivers, Wilma Colbaugh, Iola Shepherd, Betty Townsend, Effie Joines, Beatrice Gouge and Wanda Hyder. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, February 9. Friends may also call at the residence of a daughter, Sherry "Dee" Hutchins, 2311 Hillrise Avenue, Golf Course Acres, Elizabethton, at anytime. To those who desire memorials may be made to the Tenneseee Baptist Children's Home, Northeast Tennessee Regional Office, 215 University Parkway, Johnson City, TN 37604. Online condolences may be sent to the Britt family through our Web site at www.hathawaypercy.com. Arrangements for the Britt family have been entrusted to Hathaway-Percy Funeral Home. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/tn/carter/obits/b/britt130gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/tnfiles/ File size: 3.9 Kb