CARTER COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - Rometta McKinney Barnett, 29 Apr 2004
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Rometta Barnett

Mrs. Rometta McKinney Barnett, 78, Scalf Rd., Hampton, died 
Thursday, April 29, 2004 in the Erwin Health Care Center.
A native of Carter County, she was a daughter of the late Phillip 
and Rose Hyder McKinney.

She was a retired employee of North American Rayon Corporation.
She was a member of the Piney Grove Free Will Baptist Church but 
attended the Simerly Creek True Holiness Church.
Mrs. Barnett was preceded in death by a sister, Alzora Morton and a 
brother, Roland McKinney.

Survivors include her husband, Robert J. Barnett; three sisters and 
two brothers-in-law, Wanda and Hensley Stevens, Roan Mtn.; Zelda and 
Lindburg Estep, Elizabethton, and Phyllis Houser, Newland, N.C.; a 
brother-in-law, Mack Morton, Hampton; a sister-in-law, Velma McKinney, 
Hampton; three brothers and sisters-in-law, Ronda and JoAnn McKinney; 
Ronnie and Judy McKinney and Barney and Betty McKinney, all of Hampton; 
seven nieces, Carolyn Byrd, Yvonne McMahan, Grace Ann Estep, Ginger Guy, 
Lisa Salvage, Sherry Shoals and Lena Peters; three nephews, Eddie Morton, 
Lindy Phillip Estep and Phillip Stewart; several great nieces, nephews 
and cousins.

Funeral services will be conducted at 8 p.m. Sunday, May 2, 2004 in 
Memorial Funeral Chapel with the Rev. B.F. McKinney, Jr., and Rev. Randy 
Gobble officiating. The graveside service and burial will be held at 11 
a.m. Monday, May 3, 2004 in the National Cemetery, Mountain Home. The 
Heavenly Echoes will provide the music. Active pallbearers, who are 
requested to assemble at the funeral home at 10:15 a.m. Monday, will be 
Eddie Morton, Harlen Guinn, Chris Collins, Michael Scalf, Mitchell Morton 
and Curtis Hyder. Honorary pallbearers will be Sheriff John Henson, 
friends and neighbors. The family would like to express a special 
"thank you" to the Unicoi County Hospital staff and the Erwin Health Care
staff and Dr. Collinger. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. 
Sunday in the funeral home. Friends may also call at the residence. Family 
and friends will assemble at the funeral home at 10:15 a.m. Monday to go 
to the cemetery. Condolences may be e-mailed to mfc@chartertn.net.
Memorial Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements. 
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