CARTER COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - Lillie A. Groce, 27 Feb 2000
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Lillie A. Groce
2/29/00 
   Mrs. Lillie Aleen Lewis Groce, 86, of Village East Apartments, 200 
N. East Street, Elizabethton, died Sunday, February 27, 2000, at Johnson 
City Medical Center following a brief illness.
   Mrs. Groce was a lifetime resident of Carter County and the daughter of 
the late Landon T. Lewis and Lena Lewis Brooks Elliott. She was also 
preceded in death by an infant daughter, Roberta C. Groce, October 14, 
1940; her husband, Robert A. Groce, July 21, 1973; two sons-in-law, Captain 
Roy H. Wilson and Rev. Charles E. Manning; two sisters, Nina Lewis and 
Virgie Lewis Groce; and a brother, Omer Lewis.
   Mrs. Groce was a member of Pleasant Beach Baptist Church and was a 
homemaker.
   Survivors include a son, Robert A. Groce Jr., Johnson City; three 
daughters and two sons-in-law, Carol and Don Hardin, Mildred and Bill 
Isaacs and Loretta J. Wilson, all of Elizabethton; two sisters, Mable Lewis 
Teague, Roan Mountain, and Mary Lewis Richesin, Elizabethton; two brothers, 
Earl Lewis and Freeman "Hoover" Lewis, both of Elizabethton; nine 
grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; and a special friend, Eva Shelton, 
Erwin. Several nieces and nephews also survive.
   Tetrick Funeral Home, Riverside Chapel, (423) 542-2232, is in charge 
of arrangements. www.Funeral-Plans.com/Tetrick

   GROCE -- Funeral services for Mrs. Lillie Aleen Lewis Groce, 86, of 
Village East Apartments, 200 N. East Street, Elizabethton, who died Sunday, 
February 27, 2000, will be conducted at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 1, at 
Tetrick Funeral Home, Riverside Chapel, with Rev. Bobby Stout and Rev. Ray 
Colbaugh officiating. Music will be under the direction of the New Liberty
Free Will Baptist Church Quartet and Jon Shell, bagpiper. Graveside 
services and interment will be conducted at 11 a.m. Thursday, March 2, 
at Caldwell Springs Cemetery. Active pallbearers will be grandsons and 
great-grandsons: Joseph Carpenter, Johnathon Wilson, Steve Wilson, 
Josh Hardin, Andy Hardin, Randy Hardin, Timmy Hardin, Todd Manning 
and Matt Manning. Honorary pallbearers will be employees of 
Amerisource Corporation of Johnson City, friends at Village East 
Apartments, Willard Collins, Internal Medical Group of Johnson City, 
special neighbors of the Hunter Community, James H. and Cecile C. 
Quillen Rehabilitation Hospital, Rev. Floyd Walker Roberson and 
Rev. Howard Messer. The family will receive friends at the funeral 
home from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday. Friends may call at the 
residence of a daughter and son-in-law, Carol and Don Hardin, 
1620 Highway 91, Elizabethton, any time. The family, friends, 
ministers and pallbearers will meet at the funeral home at 
10:15 a.m. Thursday to go in procession to the cemetery. For those 
who prefer, memorials in lieu of flowers may be made to the Carter 
County Rescue Squad, P.O. Box 682, Elizabethton, Tenn. 37644. 
Tetrick Funeral Home, Riverside Chapel, (423) 542-2232, is in 
charge of arrangements. www.Funeral-Plans.com/Tetrick