CARTER COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - Ralph C. DeVault, 10 Dec 2002
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Ralph C. DeVault

Ralph C. DeVault, 78, 2116 Old Lewis Road, Johnson City, died Tuesday, 
December 10, 2002, at Johnson City Medical Center following a brief 
illness.
Mr. DeVault was a native of Carter County and the son of the late Troy 
Eugene and Molly Gouge DeVault. He was also preceded in death by his 
wife, Jody DeVault, January 28, 2001; three brothers, John DeVault, 
Sam DeVault and Rex DeVault; and five sisters, Annie DeVault, Loy Bennett, 
Ella Lewis, Sally Sims and Ruth Cole.
Mr. DeVault was retired from the Budd Corporation as a Tool and Dye 
Maker. He was a member of First Christian Church of Elizabethton and 
was a Mason.
Mr. DeVault was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II, having served in 
the European Theater. He was wounded during the Battle of the Bulge in 
Germany on December 19, 1944 and was awarded the Purple Heart and the 
Bronze Star.
Survivors include two sons and daughters-in-law, Ed and Carolyn DeVault, 
Elizabethton, and Sam and Susan DeVault, Jonesborough, and three 
grandchildren, Kimberly DeVault, Jonesborough, Christopher DeVault, 
Elizabethton, and Ben DeVault, Jonesborough. Several nieces and 
nephews also survive.
These services entrusted to Hathaway-Percy Funeral Home. www.Funeral-
Plans.com/Hathaway-Percy

DeVAULT -- Funeral services for Ralph C. DeVault, 78, 2116 Old Lewis 
Road, Johnson City, who died Tuesday, December 10, 2002, will be 
conducted at 8 p.m. Thursday, December 12, in the Sunset Chapel of 
Hathaway-Percy Funeral Home with Mr. Don Marshall and Mr. Eddy Craft, 
ministers, officiating. Music will be by Jerry Barnett, soloist, and 
Gene Estep, organist. Graveside services and interment will be 
conducted at 10 a.m. Friday, December 13, at Roselawn Memory Gardens. 
Active pallbearers will be Kenneth Calloway, James Montgomery, Gary 
White, Bill Gentry, Jim Kent, Monte Walker, Delbert Loudermilk and 
Sonny Fletcher. Honorary pallbearers will be the Men's Sunday School 
Class of First Christian Church of Elizabethton. The family will 
receive friends at the funeral home from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday. Friends 
may also call at the residence, 2116 Old Lewis Road, Johnson City, at 
any time. In lieu of flowers, those who desire may make memorials to 
the Building Fund of First Christian Church, 513 Hattie Avenue, 
Elizabethton, TN 37643 or the Elizabethton Church of Christ, 137 East 
C Street, Elizabethton, TN 37643. Everyone will meet at the cemetery 
at 9:50 a.m. Friday. Words of sympathy may be sent to the family via 
e-mail address condolences@hathawaypercy.com. These services entrusted 
to Hathaway-Percy Funeral Home. 
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