CARTER COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - Wanda Lee Hammer Colbaugh, 22 Mar 2005
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Mrs. Wanda Lee Hammer Colbaugh, 73, High Tower Road, Elizabethton, died
Tuesday, March 22, 2005, at Sycamore Shoals Hospital following a lengthy
illness.

Mrs. Colbaugh was a native of Washington County and the daughter of the late
Rev. S.D. and Sarah Austin Hammer. She was also preceded in death by her
husband, Bobbie Colbaugh, in 1988, an infant sister, and three brothers,
Roland Hammer, Dwight Hammer and Bill Hammer.

Mrs. Colbaugh was a homemaker and a past employee of J.C. Penney and Kress
Department Stores. She was a member of Central Free Will Baptist Church of
Johnson City and a member of the Eastern Star Local No. 163 and the Auxiliary
of the Shrine Band.

Survivors include four sons and daughters-in-law, Chris and Carol Carter,
Gray, Bobby and Pam Colbaugh and Benny and Dani Colbaugh, all of Elizabethton,
and Randy and Robin Lady Colbaugh, Bluff City; three brothers, Ernie Hammer
and Earl Hammer, both of Johnson City, and Charles Hammer, Flint, Mich.; a
granddaughter, Hannah Colbaugh, Elizabethton; two step-granddaughters, Brandi
Deloach, Elizabethton, and Courtney Trail, Bluff City; and three special
friends, Carolyn Colbaugh, Thelma Colbaugh and Christine Carriger, all of
Elizabethton. Several nieces and nephews also survive.

Funeral services for Mrs. Colbaugh will be conducted at 8 p.m. Friday, March
25, in the Sunset Chapel of Hathaway-Percy Funeral Home with Rev. Bobby Stout
and Rev. Ken Hauser officiating. Music will be under the direction of the
Harvey Family. Graveside services and interment will be conducted at 1 p.m.
Saturday, March 26, in the Colbaugh Cemetery. Active pallbearers will be Ted
Colbaugh, J. Harold Ray, Harold Range, Bill Hammer, Mike Hammer, Pete Slagle,
Steve Burrough and Dale Smalling. Honorary pallbearers will be Greg Tester,
Phillip Hyder, Sam Colbaugh, Roy Colbaugh, Tom Colbaugh, members of the
Watauga Volunteer Fire Department, members of the Carter County Rescue Squad
and members of the Carter County Sheriff's Department. The family will receive
friends at the funeral home from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday. Friends may also call at
the residence of a son, Benny Colbaugh, 137 Grandview Circle, Elizabethton, at
anytime. Everyone will meet at the funeral home at 12:15 p.m. Saturday to go
in procession to the cemetery. Online condolences may be sent to the family
through our Web site at www.hathawaypercy.com. Arrangements are under the
direction of Hathaway-Percy Funeral Home.

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