CARTER COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - Ruth Evelyn Humphrey, 28 May 2005
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Mrs. Ruth Evelyn Humphrey, 75, formerly of Dry Creek Road, Elizabethton, died
Saturday, May 28, 2005, in the Johnson City Medical Center Hospital following
a lengthy illness. 

Mrs. Humphrey was a native of Washington County and a daughter of the late Sam
H. and Edith Jarrett Chesser. She was a member of the Elizabethton Senior
Citizens, and a member of the First Christian Church in Elizabethton. She was
preceded in death by her husband, Bill Humphrey in 1994; by two sisters, Lois
Laws and Peggy Graybeal and by one great-grandson, Thomas Ryan Johnston. 

Survivors include one son and daughter-in-law, David and Edwina Humphrey,
Elizabethton; one daughter and son-in-law, Kathy and Jerry Douglas, Telford;
one brother, Sam Chesser, Jr., Elizabethton; one sister, Mae Grindstaff,
Elizabethton; one half-brother, Bobby Jarrett, Elizabethton; two grandchildren
and their husbands, Debbie and Scott Johnston and Jerry Sue and Richard
Wallace, all of Telford; two great-grandsons, Joshua Ray Johnston and Shaun
Daniel Johnston, both of Telford; one step-great-granddaughter, Amber Rose
Wallace, Johnson City; a special friend, Elizabeth Padgett, Elizabethton; and
several nieces and nephews. 

Funeral service for Ruth Evelyn Humphrey will be conducted at 8 p.m.
Wednesday, June 1, 2005, in the Sunset Chapel of Hathaway-Percy Funeral Home,
with Mr. Brent Nidiffer, Minister, officiating. Graveside service and
interment will be conducted at 11 a.m. Thursday, June 2, 2005, in Lyons Chapel
Cemetery. Active pallbearers will be Scott Johnston, Richard Wallace, Bruce
Grindstaff, Joey Adams, Troy Graybeal and Michael Graybeal. Honorary
pallbearer will be Mike Townsand. The family will receive friends in the
funeral home from 6-8 p.m. Wednesday, prior to the service. Everyone will meet
at the cemetery at 10:50 a.m. Thursday for the graveside service. For those
who desire, memorials may be made to the Elizabethton Senior Citizens Center,
428 East G Street, Elizabethton, TN 37643. Online condolences may be sent to
the family through our Web site at www.hathawaypercy.com. Arrangements are
under the direction of Hathaway-Percy Funeral Home. 


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