CARTER COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - George Joe Gobble, 1 May 2002
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George J. Gobble

   George Joe Gobble, 79, 2670 Bob Little Road, Elizabethton, died 
Wednesday, May 1, 2002, at Sycamore Shoals Hospital following an extended 
illness.
   Mr. Gobble was a native of Carter County and the son of the late Roy 
and Cora Martin Gobble. He was also preceded in death by three sons, a 
brother and a sister.
   Mr. Gobble was a former employee of the Highway Department of Grundy, 
Va., and was a U.S. Navy veteran of World War II. He was of the Baptist 
faith.
   Survivors include his wife, Elsie Bradley Gobble, of the home; a daughter, 
Tina Rose, Elizabethton; a son, Ricky Gobble, Elizabethton; a brother, Ernest 
Gobble, Portland, Ore.; and two sisters, Virginia Woods, Portland, Ore., and 
Mary Campbell, Elizabethton. Three grandchildren and six great-grandchildren 
also survive.
   These services entrusted to Hathaway-Percy Funeral Home. www.Funeral-Plans.
com/Hathaway-Percy
   
   GOBBLE -- Funeral services for George Joe Gobble, 79, 2670 Bob Little 
Road, Elizabethton, who died Wednesday, May 1, 2002, will be conducted at 
8 p.m. Friday, May 3, in the Sunset Chapel of Hathaway-Percy Funeral Home 
with the Rev. Lester Guinn officiating. Music will be under the direction 
of R.L. Gobble. Graveside services and interment will be conducted at 11 
a.m. Saturday, May 4, in the Colbaugh Cemetery. Active pallbearers will be 
Shannon Chapman, Terry Rose, Tim Campbell, Gene Wilkerson, Lee Wilkerson, 
Darrell Rose, Benny Ramsey, R.L. Gobble, Robert Gobble Jr. and Eddie Moore. 
Honorary pallbearers will be the doctors at Sycamore Shoals Hospital, the 
doctors at the VA Medical Center and the staff of Life Care Health Center. 
The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday. 
Friends may also call at the residence, 2670 Bob Little Road, Elizabethton, 
at any time. Everyone will meet at the funeral home at 10:30 a.m. Saturday 
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.