CARTER COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - Bessie J. Cole Deloach, 17 Apr 2004 ----¤¤¤---- Mrs. Bessie J. Cole Deloach, 98, Charity Hill Road, Elizabethton, died Saturday, April 17, 2004, at Lenoir Health Care Center, Lenoir, N.C., following an extended illness. Mrs. Deloach was a native of Carter County and the daughter of the late Cameron and Ada Markland Cole. She was also preceded in death by her husband, Egbert Deloach, in 1960; four brothers, Hugh Cole, Frank Cole, Parrott Cole and Charlie Cole; two sisters, Lou Weaver and Elva Morrell; and two stepdaughters, Nellie McConnell and Ethel Messerschmidt. Mrs. Deloach was retired from the Tennessee Line and Twine Company. She was a charter member of East Side Baptist Church. Survivors include a daughter, Pauline Bradshaw, of the home; a sister, Mary Cole, Elizabethton; a brother, Willie Cole, Elizabethton; a stepdaughter, Ruth Davis, Crystal River, Fla.; and a grandson and his wife, Lee and Linda Bradshaw, Lenoir, N.C. Two great-grandchildren, five great-great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews also survive. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday, April 20, in the Sunset Chapel of Hathaway-Percy Funeral Home with the Rev. Dwight Hobbs officiating. Music will be under the direction of John Brookshire. Interment will follow the service in the family cemetery. Active pallbearers will be the men of East Side Baptist Church. Honorary pallbearers will be Jay Bowers, Gordan Brookshire and John Cornett. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 12:30 until 2 p.m. Tuesday, April 20, or at the residence at any time. To those who desire, memorials in memory of Mrs. Deloach may be made to East Side Baptist Church, 1509 Siam Road, Elizabethton, TN 37643. 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, Elizabethton. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: The Elizabethton Star http://www.starhq.com/ -----------------------------------------------------------------------------