CARTER COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - Mary Lee Blevins Hopson, 17 Feb 2003
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Mary Hopson

Mrs. Mary Lee Blevins Hopson, 82, 371 Tiger Creek Road, Roan Mountain, 
died Monday, February 17, 2003 in the Hermitage Health Care Center 
following a brief illness. 
A native of Carter County, she was the daughter of the late James and 
Arizona Miller Blevins. She had been a substitute teacher with the Carter 
County School System, the Head Start Program, and had also been an 
employee of the Upper East Tennessee Human Development Agency for nineteen 
years. She was of the Freewill Baptist faith.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Cecil Hopson; one sister, Maude 
Walton, and one brother, Lon Blevins.
Survivors include two daughters and sons-in-law, Sherry and Jerry Freeman, 
Elizabethton, and Sandy and Roger Banks, Johnson City; one brother, Luther 
Blevins, Tiger Creek Community, Roan Mountain; three grandchildren, Brian 
Freeman and Drew Freeman, both of Elizabethton, and Scott Simerly, 
Jonesborough; two great grandchildren, Seth Simerly and Sage Simerly, both 
of Jonesborough, and a special friend, Raybon Wallace, Elizabethton.
These services entrusted to Hathaway-Percy Funeral Home. Visit our Web site 
at www.Funeral-Plans.com/Hathaway Percy.

HOPSON -- The funeral service for Mrs. Mary Lee Blevins Hopson, 82, 371 
Tiger Creek Road, Roan Mountain, who died Monday, February 17, 2003, will 
be conducted at 8 p.m. Wednesday, February 19, 2003 in the Sunset Chapel of 
Hathaway-Percy Funeral Home with the Rev. Joe Manis officiating. Music will 
be under the direction of Kathryn Collins, Marilyn Bowers, and Jo Ann 
Perkins. Graveside services and interment will be conducted at 11 a.m. 
Thursday, February 20, 2003 in the James Blevins Cemetery in the Tiger Creek 
Community. Active pallbearers will be Dexter Perkins, Frank Highsmith, Jack 
Simerly, Jeff Simerly, Jeff Depew, Lester Simerly, and Ben Johnson. Honorary 
pallbearers will be Dr. Charles Allen, Dennis Blackburn, Jack Roberts, John 
Henry Simerly, Paul Blevins, Ray McNeil, Ricky Simerly, Ralph Mitchell, 
William "Bill" Roberts, and Roy Honeycutt. The family will receive friends 
at the funeral home from 6 to 8 p.m. on Wednesday or at the residence of a 
daughter, Sherry Freeman, 168 Carden Drive, Elizabethton, at any time. 
Everyone will meet at the funeral home at 10 a.m. Thursday to go in procession 
to the cemetery. Words of sympathy may be sent to the family via e-mail 
address condolences@hathawaypercy.com. These services entrusted to Hathaway 
Percy Funeral Home. 

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