CARTER COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - Mary R. Hopson, 29 Aug 2000
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Mary R. Hopson 

  Mary Ronia Stevens Hopson, 76, 102 Forest Drive, Elizabethton, died 
Tuesday, August 29, 2000, following an extended illness. 
  Mrs. Hopson was a native of Carter County and retired as a cook from 
Hunter Elementary School after 29 years of service. She was also a former 
employee of Hunter First United Methodist Church and Circle Beauty Shop. 
She was a member of Hunter First Baptist Church. 
  Mrs. Hopson was preceded in death by her parents, Alvin and Dora Stevens, 
her husband, William "Bill" Hopson, and by two sisters and two brothers. 
  Survivors include two daughters and a son-in-law, Brenda and Ricky McClure, 
with whom she made her home, and Sue Tipton, Roan Mountain; three sons and a 
daughter-in-law, Grady Barefield, Greeneville, Taylor and Suzie Dulaney, 
Knoxville, and Carry Barefield, Sunrise, Fla.; two brothers, Bill Stevens 
and Clyde Stevens, both of Johnson City; a sister, Mary Elizabeth Grubbs, 
Bluff City; nine grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; four stepchildren;
 and special friends, Rebecca Buckles, Joyce Williams, Louise Puckett, 
Ladies of the Dorcus Sunday School Class and Fellow Cooks of Hunter 
Elementary School. 
  Tetrick Funeral Home, Riverside Chapel, is in charge of arrangements. 
www.Funeral-Plans.com/Tetrick 

  HOPSON -- Funeral services for Mary Ronia Stevens Hopson, 76, 102 Forest 
Drive, Elizabethton, who went to be with our Lord and Savior on Tuesday, 
August 29, 2000, will be conducted at 8 p.m. Thursday, August 31, at 
Tetrick Funeral Home, Riverside Chapel, with the Rev. Eric Eggers and the 
Rev. Jim Storie officiating. Music will be under the direction of Bobby 
Miller, organist. Graveside services and interment will be at 11 a.m. 
Friday, September 1, in the Caldwell Springs Baptist Church Cemetery in 
Elizabethton with the Rev. Burl Garland and Dr. Dennis Deese officiating. 
Active pallbearers will be Roger Lewis, Jim Ferguson, Lawrence Hodge, 
Cecil Eggers, Terry Ward and Todd Smith. Honorary pallbearers will be Dr. 
Jerry Gastineau, Dr. Vance Shaw, Dr. Robert Walter, Richard Taylor, Michael 
Blair, Jackie Ray, Jason Rhea, Mike Street, Michael Street, Eddie Kinser, 
the Rev. Jamie Ferguson, the Rev. Darrell Holly and members of Hunter First 
Baptist Church. Flowerbearers will be the ladies of Hunter First Baptist 
Church and friends. Everyone will meet at the funeral home at 10:15 a.m. 
Friday to go in procession to the cemetery. The family will receive friends 
from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home. Friends may also call at 
the residence of Brenda McClure, 102 Forest Drive, Elizabethton, any time. 
Tetrick Funeral Home, Riverside Chapel, is in charge of arrangements. 
www.Funeral-Plans.com/Tetrick