Carter County TN Archives Obituaries.....Church, Nellie D February 19, 2007
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Elizabethton Star  Feb 20, 2007
Nellie D. Church 





    Nell (Net) Church, formerly of Treadway Street in Elizabethton, died at 

the John Reed Home in Limestone on Monday, February 19, 2007. 





    Nell was the sixth child of Eldran Catherine Bunton Church and Wiley 

Charlton Church of the Poga Community in Carter County, Tenn. Nell wanted it 

known that she was delivered by Aunt Ann Trivette, a midwife, for 25 cents on 

a cold day, December 10, 1920; but that she had tried to warm the hearts of 

all she knew, and that she tried to make her life count and be worth all she 

could. She worked at the local rayon plants for 40 years and two of those 

years she kept her aged parents in the home, made a garden and mowed the yard, 

canned garden products and kept up the home on Treadway Street. 





    Claiming kin to everyone she could brought great joy to Nell Church; in 

truth, she probably was blood kin to half of Carter County before the TVA 

brought new blood. She was descended from about 50 lines from North Carolina 

and Tennessee, among which were the Buntons, Duggers, Greenes, Hatleys, 

Harmons, McBrides, Trivettes and Church families. 





    Though Nell never married, she leaves 22 nieces and nephews, many great-

nieces and great-nephews and thousands of cousins. 





    Nell was preceded in death by brothers and sisters: Howard, Stella, 

Luther, Della, Gordie, Doris and Ray. Only Chester Allen, of the home place in 

Poga, survives. 





    Funeral services for Nell (Net) Church will be conducted at 11 a.m. 

Thursday, February 22, at Hathaway-Percy Funeral Home with interment to follow 

at Happy Valley Memorial Park near her parents and sisters. Friends may call 

at the funeral home Wednesday, February 21, from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. and on 

Thursday, February 22, from 8 a.m. until the service. Cousin Martha Query will 

give the family memorial, Rev. Jim Hawk, pastor of Doe River Baptist Church, 

will conduct the funeral service, and music will be provided by the Beech 

Mountain Baptist Church Singers. Organ music will be provided throughout the 

service. Honorary pallbearers will be the members of Doe River Baptist Church. 

The family wants to thank everyone who helped Nell, especially Hospice and the 

good workers at John Reed and all of her former neighbors on Treadway Street 

with special thanks to Ivalisa S. Bachman. Online condolences may be sent to 

the family through our Web site at www.hathawaypercy.com. 





    Arrangements for the Church family have been entrusted to Hathaway-Percy 

Funeral Home.





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