Carter County TN Archives Obituaries.....Estep, Ray M June 8, 2006
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Elizabethton Star July 10, 2006
Ray M. Estep 





    Ray Marvin Estep, 73, of Elizabethton, died Saturday, July 8, 2006, at 

Sycamore Shoals Hospital of an apparent heart attack. 





    Mr. Estep was a native of Carter County and a son of the late William 

Thomas and Fannie Mae Parker Estep. In addition to his parents, he was 

preceded in death by four brothers, Earl, Billy Jack, Nathaniel and Alfred 

Estep. 





    Mr. Estep was a retired Inspector for Highway Construction from the State 

of Tennessee Department of Transportation after 35 years of service. He was a 

member of Biltmore Baptist Church. He was an avid fisherman. 





    Survivors include his wife of 51 years, Betty Danner Estep; two sons and a 

daughter-in-law, Ralph Estep, Marion, N.C., and his fiancée, Susie Johns, 

Elizabethton, and Danny Ray and Liesa Estep, Johnson City; a granddaughter, 

Leah Erin Estep, Asheville, N.C.; a foster grandson, Nicholas McCloud, Johnson 

City; a sister, Daisy Estep, Hampton; a brother and two sisters-in-law, David 

and June Estep and Georgia Estep, all of Elizabethton; several nieces and 

nephews; special friends, Carol and Jim DuBose and Chip and Ellen Bailey; and 

a host of friends and neighbors. 





    Funeral services for Mr. Estep will be conducted at 7 p.m. Tuesday, July 

11, at Memorial Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Mark Grubb and the Rev. Jesse 

Wooten officiating. Music will be provided by Gladys Burrough and Shellia 

Faust. Graveside services and interment will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday, July 12, 

at Happy Valley Memorial Park. Active pallbearers, who are requested to 

assemble at the funeral home at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, will be James Clyde 

Lyons, Chip Bailey, Allen Lyons, Ralph Davis, Robert Buck, Tom Stevenson, John 

Snavely, Jasper Williams, Joe Hart and Jim Williams. Honorary pallbearers will 

be Fornie Danner, Don Williams, Clint Bowers, Charles Danner, Alfred Estep, 

Billy Brock, Bobby Whitson, Jack Williams, James Glover, Norman Oliver, Luther 

Norris, Herman Rains, Jack Love, Eddie Carley, James Cable, Lynn Montgomery, 

Bobby Merritt, Jed Ward, Chris Bonta, David Mascioli, his church family, and 

his Fishing and Breakfast Buddies. To those who prefer, memorials may be made 

in memory of Mr. Estep to Biltmore Baptist Church, 1181 Bristol Highway, 

Elizabethton, TN 37643. The family will receive friends from 5 to 7 p.m. 

Tuesday at the funeral home. Friends may also call at the residence. Family 

and friends will assemble at the funeral home at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday to go to 

the cemetery. Online condolences to the Estep family may be e-mailed to 

mfc@chartertn.net. 



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