Carter County TN Archives Obituaries.....Hughes, Thlema J. April 12, 2008
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Elizabethton Star  April 14, 2008
Thelma J. Hughes 


    Mrs. Thelma J. Hughes, 93, Hermitage Health Care, Elizabethton, passed 
away Saturday, April 12, 2008, at Johnson City Medical Center. 


    A native of Carter County, she was a daughter of the late Silas H. Stepp 
and Bessie Mae Reynolds. 


    Mrs. Hughes was a retired employee of East Tennessee Undergarment Company 
and TPI Inc. She was a member of Fairview Baptist Church but attended First 
Free Will Baptist Church. 


    In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, 
Charles Raymond Hughes, September 13, 1957, a daughter, Jenny Lou Hopson, and 
a sister, Viola Elliott. 


    Survivors include two daughters and sons-in-law, Delores and Bill Craig, 
Johnson City, and JoAnn and James "Bo" Campbell, Elizabethton; a son, Ted R. 
Hughes, Johnson City; two sisters, Mrs. Jewel Elliott, Johnson City, and Mrs. 
Bonnie Freeman of Mexico; her grandchildren, Cathy Curtis, Jo Ellen Pierson, 
Marc Campbell, Jena Collins, Tommy Starnes, Lee Starnes, Brad Craig and Billy 
Craig; 12 great-grandchildren; one great-great-granddaughter; and a sister-in-
law, Eileen Hughes Klebenow, Knoxville. 


    A Service to Celebrate the life of Thelma Hughes will be conducted at 7 
p.m. Monday, April 14, at Memorial Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Phil Poston 
officiating. The Eulogy will be given by the Rev. Mark Collins. Music will be 
provided by her granddaughters, Cathy Curtis and Jena Collins. Graveside 
services and interment will be at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, April 15, at Happy 
Valley Memorial Park. Active pallbearers, who are requested to assemble at the 
funeral home at 11 a.m. Tuesday, will be grandsons and great-grandsons, Marc 
Campbell, Tommy Starnes, Lee Starnes, Brad Craig, Andy Curtis, Ryan Curtis and 
Hunter Pierson. Honorary pallbearers will be Glen Elliott, Jerry Elliott, Jim 
Hastings, Bob Reynolds, John Parlier and Wayne Scott. The family would like to 
express a special "thank you" to the Hermitage Health Care and the Nurses on 
the 6200 Wing of Johnson City Medical Center for their care of our mother and 
also to her special friends, Rhea Baker, Connie Hyder, Kathy Clawson, Mary Lee 
Hilton, Charlotte Montgomery and Liz Whitson. The family will receive friends 
from 5 to 7 p.m. Monday at the funeral home. Friends may also call at the 
residence of a daughter and son-in-law, JoAnn and James "Bo" Campbell, 111 
Messimer Lane, Elizabethton. To those who prefer, memorials may be made in 
memory of Mrs. Hughes to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude 
Place, Memphis, TN 38105-1942 or The Gideons International, P.O. Box 1951, 
Elizabethton, TN 37644. Family and friends will assemble at the funeral home 
at 11 a.m. Tuesday to go to the cemetery. Condolences to the Hughes family may 
be e-mailed to mfc@chartertn.net. 


    Memorial Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements. 


     



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