CARTER COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - James L. "Jim" Ferguson, 5 Jun 2002
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James L. Ferguson

   James L. "Jim" Ferguson, 89, West G Street, Elizabethton, died 
Wednesday, June 5, 2002, at the James H. Quillen VA Medical Center 
Hospital following a lengthy illness.
   Mr. Ferguson was a native and lifelong resident of Carter County and 
the son of the late W. Everett and Linnia Roe Ferguson. He was also 
preceded in death by a son, Phillip D. Ferguson, in 1978, and by three 
brothers and a sister.
   Mr. Ferguson was retired from North American Rayon Corporation and was 
a U.S. Army Veteran of World War II. He was a member of First Christian 
Church of Elizabethton.
   Survivors include his wife, Ruby I. Richardson Ferguson, of the home; 
three sons and daughters-in-law, James E. and Sonja Ferguson, Sam L. and 
Carolyn Ferguson and David R. and Kristy Ferguson, all of Elizabethton; 
two sisters, Sarah Grindstaff, Elizabethton, and Maude Nance, Johnson City; 
and four grandchildren, Wendy Campbell, Johnson City, Jamie Ferguson, 
Carolee Ferguson and Phillip Ferguson, all of Elizabethton.
   These services entrusted to Hathaway-Percy Funeral Home. 
www.Funeral-Plans.com/Hathaway-Percy
   
   FERGUSON -- Funeral services for James L. "Jim" Ferguson, 89, 105 West 
G Street, Elizabethton, who died Wednesday, June 5, 2002, will be conducted 
at 8 p.m. Thursday, June 6, in the Sunset Chapel of Hathaway-Percy Funeral 
Home with Dr. Don Marshall and the Rev. Jamie Ferguson officiating. Music 
will be by Jerry Barnett and Mrs. Patti Hodge, soloists. Graveside services
 and interment will be conducted at 10 a.m. Friday, June 7, in the Highland 
Cemetery with Military Honors accorded by the Captain Lynn H. Folsom VFW 
Post #2166. Active pallbearers will be Joe Nance, Bob Miller, Rick Campbell, 
Phillip Ferguson, Robert Medley, Donald Medley, Michael Medley, Joseph D. 
Ferguson, Chip Shuler and Johnny Burchett. 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 7 to 8 p.m. Thursday. 
Friends may also call at the residence, 105 West G Street, Elizabethton, at 
any time. Everyone will meet at the funeral home at 9:30 a.m. Friday to go 
in procession to the cemetery. Condolences may be e-mailed to the family at 
hathaway-percy@funeral-plans.com. These services entrusted to Hathaway-Percy 
Funeral Home. www.Funeral-Plans.com/Hathaway-Percy