CARTER COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - Virginia C. Gouge, 16 Jul 2001
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Virginia C. Gouge

  Mrs. Virginia Clark Gouge, 79, 940 Parkway Blvd., Elizabethton, Tenn., 
died Monday, July 16, 2001, in the Sycamore Shoals Hospital following a 
lengthy illness.
  A Carter County, Tennessee, native, she was the daughter of the late Robert 
N. and Marguerite Young Clark. She was preceded in death by one brother, Paul 
Clark.
  She was a retired elementary school teacher with the Carter County School 
System, having taught at Happy Valley, Range, and Southside Elementary Schools. 
She was a member of First Christian Church, Elizabethton, where she was a 
church circle member. She was a former pianist at the Southside Christian Church. 
She was a member of the Carter County Retired Teachers and a former member of 
the Eastern Star and the American Legion Auxiliary.
  Survivors include her husband, Vernon H. Gouge, of the home, one son, Lee 
Gouge, Johnson City, Tenn., two sisters, Wilma Owens and Dorothy Pearson, both 
of Elizabethton, Tenn., and several nieces and nephews.
  Hathaway-Percy Funeral Home, Sunset Chapel, is in charge of arrangements.

  GOUGE -- Funeral services for Mrs. Virginia Clark Gouge, 79, 940 Parkway 
Blvd., Elizabethton, Tenn., who died Monday, will be conducted at 7:30 p.m. 
Tuesday, July 17, 2001, in the Sunset Chapel of Hathaway-Percy Funeral Home 
with Messers Don Marshal, Paul Knapp and Richard Thomason, ministers, officiating. 
Music will be by Mr. Kenneth Miller, soloist. The graveside service will be 
held at 11 a.m. Wednesday, July 18, 2001, in the Masonic Garden of Happy 
Valley Memorial Park. Active pallbearers will be Dr. James Pearson, Dr. 
Kenneth Clark, Bill Young, Carmon Dugger, Troy Thomason, Tom Hughes, Millard 
Fitzsimmons, John "Bud" Gouge, Joe Gouge and Frank Greene. Honorary 
pallbearers will be members of the Southside Christian Church of Elizabethton, 
members of the Southside Christian Church, teachers of the Carter County 
School System, friends and neighbors. A special thank-you for the wonderful 
care by the staff, nurses and aides at the Life Care Center of Elizabethton
and the Sycamore Shoals Hospital, and Dr. Jerry L Gastineau. Mrs. Virginia 
Clark Gouge showed her love, loyalty, devotion and compassion to her church
and students. She had beauty, intelligence and talent. Her former students 
still came to her and thanked her for helping them in school. The family 
will receive friends in the funeral home chapel from 6-7:30 p.m. on Tuesday 
prior to the service. Friends may call at the residence at any time. 
Everyone will meet at the cemetery for the graveside service at 10:50 a.m. 
on Wednesday. For those who desire, memorial gifts may be made to the 
youth department of First Christian Church, 513 Hattie Ave., Elizabethton, 
TN 37643. Hathaway-Percy Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.