CARTER COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - Denver M. Blevins, 28 Apr 1999
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Denver M. Blevins
04/29/99 
   Denver Malcolm "Doc" Blevins, 84, 119 S. 8th Street, Watauga, died 
Wednesday, April 28, 1999, at Johnson City Medical Center following a 
lengthy illness.
   Mr. Blevins was a native and lifelong resident of Watauga and a son of 
the late Henry Allen and Lilly Belle Feathers Blevins. He was also preceded 
in death by five brothers and a sister.
   Mr. Blevins was employed as a Heavy Equipment Operator with Summers-Taylor 
for 44 years. He was a member of Watauga Christian Church, where he was a 
former deacon and had served as Chairman of Deacons.
   Survivors include his wife, Lilly Helen Hayes Blevins, of the home; two 
daughters and a son-in-law, Barbara Blevins, of the home, and Penny and Dale 
McCracken, Watauga; a sister and brother-in-law, Bertha and Howard Trent, 
Central Community; three grandchildren, Celena Rasnake, Gray, Eric McCracken, 
Piney Flats, and Janella Laughren, Boones Creek; a great-granddaughter, 
Miraia Rasnake, Gray; a special friend, Charles Henry Berry, Elizabethton; 
and special cousins, Mildred and Brown Phipps, Watauga. Several nieces and 
nephews also survive.
   Morris-Baker Funeral Home, 2001 Oakland Avenue, Johnson City, (423) 282-
1521, is in charge of arrangements.

   BLEVINS -- Funeral services for Denver Malcolm "Doc" Blevins, 84, 119 S. 
8th Street, Watauga, who died Wednesday, will be conducted at 8 p.m. Friday 
at Morris-Baker South Chapel with Mr. Tony Duncan officiating. Interment will 
follow graveside services at 11 a.m. Saturday at Monte Vista Burial Park. 
Family and friends will meet at the cemetery. Honorary pallbearers will be the 
men of Watauga Christian Church, Mr. Blevins' nephews and great-nephews. The 
family will receive friends at the funeral home from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday. 
Morris-Baker Funeral Home, 2001 Oakland Avenue, Johnson City, is in charge 
of arrangements.