CARTER COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - Elsie Kyker, 21 Jan 1999
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Elsie Kyker
01/25/99 
   Mrs. Elsie Kyker, 72, 825 N. Walnut Street, Elizabethton, died 
Thursday, January 21, 1999, at Ivy Hall Nursing Home following a 
lengthy illness.
   Mrs. Kyker was a lifelong resident of Elizabethton and a daughter 
of Alice D. Bailey, Elizabethton, and the late George Bailey. She was 
also preceded in death by her husband, Robert Sherrill Kyker, in 1992.
   Mrs. Kyker was a homemaker. She was a member of Big Springs Baptist 
Church.
   Survivors, in addition to her mother, include three sons, Robert Lynn 
Kyker, Eddie Kyker and Richard Kyker, all of Elizabethton; a daughter, 
Karen Sue Proffitt, Elizabethton; two brothers, Stanley and Julian Bailey, 
both of Elizabethton; three sisters, Betty Ford, Elizabethton, Mary Calhoun, 
Cleveland, Ohio, and Cleo Kelly, Johnson City; four grandchildren, Amy 
Perry, Eddie Kyker Jr., Robert Alan Kyker and Richard Steven Kyker, all of 
Elizabethton; several nieces and nephews; and special friends, Seffie 
Dugger, Elizabeth Canny, Rosalee Stevens, Carolyn White, Pat Church, Linda 
Hughes, Hilda Winans and the Staff of Ivy Hall Nursing Home.
   Hathaway-Percy Funeral Home, Sunset Chapel, is in charge of arrangements.

   KYKER -- Funeral services for Mrs. Elsie Kyker, 72, 825 N. Walnut Street, 
Elizabethton, who died Thursday, were held at 8 p.m. Saturday at Hathaway-
Percy Funeral Home, Sunset Chapel, with Rev. Steve Burleson and Rev. 
Kenneth Kyker officiating. Graveside services and interment will be at 2 
p.m. Sunday at Happy Valley Memorial Park. Active pallbearers will be Sam 
Hopson, Gene Bowman, Albert Oliver, Bobby Bailey, Jonathan Wilcox, Jimmy 
Kelly, Josh Arnold and Billy Lockner. Honorary pallbearers will be Earl 
Treadway, Howard Kyker, Charlie Rains, Dr. Jonathan Bremer, Lester Kelly 
and Danny Fillers. The family, friends, ministers and pallbearers will 
assemble at the funeral home at 1:30 p.m. Sunday to go in procession to 
the cemetery. The family received friends at the funeral home Saturday 
evening. Friends may also call at the residence any time. Hathaway-Percy 
Funeral Home, Sunset Chapel, is in charge of arrangements.