CARTER COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - Bessie P. Lewis, 19 Mar 2000
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Bessie P. Lewis
3/21/00 

   Bessie Pearl Oliver Lewis, 82, 308 Watauga Avenue, Elizabethton, died 
Sunday, March 19, 2000, at Ivy Hall Nursing Home following an extended illness.
   Mrs. Lewis was a native of Carter County and the daughter of the late Jim 
and Janice Estep Oliver. She was also preceded in death by her husband, Barney 
Lewis.
   Mrs. Lewis was a member of the Dungan Chapel Baptist Church.
   Survivors include two daughters, Betty Blevins and Marie Bradley, both of 
Johnson City; a son and daughter-in-law, Terry and Debbie Lewis, Elizabethton; 
three sisters, Nora Wilkerson, Emma Richardson and Rose Benezue, all of 
Elizabethton; and four grandchildren, Chelsea and Jesse Lewis, Elizabethton, 
Tina Brown, Jonesborough, and Jerry Bowers, Highpoint, N.C. Several nieces 
and nephews also survive.
   Tetrick Funeral Home, Riverside Chapel, (423) 542-2232, is in charge of 
arrangements. www.Funeral-Plans.com/Tetrick

   LEWIS -- Funeral services for Bessie Pearl Oliver Lewis, 82, 308 Watauga 
Avenue, Elizabethton, who died Sunday, March 19, 2000, will be conducted 
at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 21, at Tetrick Funeral Home, Riverside Chapel, 
with Pastor Rick Shelton officiating. Graveside services and interment 
will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday, March 22, at Caldwell Springs Cemetery. 
Active pallbearers will be Johnny Bowman, Doug Bernardi, David Sellers, 
Bill Mosley, Steve Fine, Steve Cornett, Larry Scalf and Carroll Mick. 
Honorary pallbearers will be Jack Pippin, Leroy Fleenor, Judy Deloach 
and Employees of Ivy Hall Nursing Home, 3rd Floor Nurses at Sycamore 
Shoals Hospital, members of First Church of the Nazarene of Elizabethton, 
Buford Neal, Sterlin Blevins, Charles Hicks, Dale Blevins, Woodrow 
Richardson, Roy Richardson, Floyd Richardson, Tommy Carrier, Danny Napier, 
members of Carter County Rescue Squad and the Rescue Squad personnel who 
transported Mrs. Lewis to and from Johnson City. Everyone will meet at the 
funeral home at 10 a.m. Wednesday to go in procession to the cemetery. The 
family will receive friends at the funeral home from 6 to 7 p.m. Tuesday. 
Tetrick Funeral Home, Riverside Chapel, (423) 542-2232, is in charge of 
arrangements. www.Funeral-Plans.com/Tetrick