CARTER COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - Lou Ella S. Leonard, 19 Jun 2002
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Lou Ella S. Leonard

   Mrs. Lou Ella S. Leonard, 92, Spring Street, Hampton, died Wednesday, 
June 19, 2002, at Life Care Center of Elizabethton following a long illness.
   Mrs. Leonard was a native of Carter County and the daughter of the late 
Manley E. and Myrtle Lambert Sorrell. She was also preceded in death by her 
husband, Ernest Robert Leonard, in 1982; two sons, James Norman Leonard and 
Donald Franklin Leonard; two brothers, James I. Sorrell and Lambert V. 
Sorrell; and a sister, Lois Harvey.
   Mrs. Leonard was a former employee of American Bemberg Corporation and 
a member of Hampton First Baptist Church. She was also a member of the 
Hampton Garden Club and the Hampton Chapter #470 Order of the Eastern Star.
   Survivors include three brothers, Lon E. Sorrell, Winston-Salem, N.C., 
and twin brothers, Luther Sorrell, Ocala, Fla., and Lewis Sorrell, Sun City, 
Calif.; a sister, Lorraine Baker, Elizabethton; a daughter-in-law, Mrs. Norman 
Leonard, Hampton; and three grandchildren, Teresa Hyder, Unicoi, Angela 
Williamson, Jonesborough, and James Norman Leonard II, Erwin. Seven great-
grandchildren, seven great-great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews 
also survive.
   These services entrusted to Hathaway-Percy Funeral Home. www.Funeral-Plans.
com/Hathaway-Percy
   
   LEONARD -- Funeral services for Mrs. Lou Ella S. Leonard, 92, Spring 
Street, Hampton, who died Wednesday, June 19, 2002, will be conducted at 8 p.m. 
Saturday, June 22, in the Sunset Chapel of Hathaway-Percy Funeral Home with 
the Rev. James Archer and the Rev. Mickey Beal officiating. Music will be by 
Jerry Barnett, soloist. Graveside services and interment will be conducted at
2:30 p.m. Sunday, June 23, at Happy Valley Memorial Park. Active pallbearers 
will be Matthew Hyder, Marion Hyder, Jeff Williamson, Johnathen Woods, James 
Woods, Gary Leonard, Dewayne Calhoun and Terry Brumitt. Honorary pallbearers 
will be Steve Sorrell, Charles Gilbert, Clyde Fuller, Kenneth Leonard, Paul 
Leonard, Cecil Hyder, Larry Hyder, James Norman Leonard II, the Rev. Haskel 
Ingram, the Rev. Bobby Stout, Walter Teague, members of Hampton Chapter #470 
of the Order of the Eastern Star and Lent Ellington. The family will receive 
friends at the funeral home from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday. Friends may also call 
at the residence of a granddaughter, Teresa Hyder, 6011 Simerly Creek Road, 
Unicoi, at any time. Everyone will meet at the funeral home at 2 p.m. Sunday 
to go in procession to the cemetery. Condolences may be e-mailed to the family 
at hathaway-percy@funeral-plans.com. These services entrusted to Hathaway-
Percy Funeral Home. www.Funeral-Plans.com/Hathaway-Percy 


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