CARTER COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - Vertie Alice Little, 28 Sep 2003
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Vertie A. Little

Vertie Alice Little, 101, Hermitage Health Care Center, 
Elizabethton, died there Sunday, September 28, 2003.
A native of Carter County, she was a daughter of the late 
Jimie and Mollie Holly Little.
She was a homemaker. In June, 1988, while a resident of the 
Hermitage Health Care Center, she was named to the Tennessee 
Health Care Association's "Who's Who in Tennessee Nursing Homes".
Blind since childhood, Ms. Little spent a lot of time doing hand 
crafts making rag dolls and braided rugs. She can also do 
needlework.
She was a member of Little Mountain Baptist Church.
She was preceded in death by 20 brothers and sisters.
Survivors include a daughter, Edna Sorrell Williams and her 
husband, Jack Williams, Elizabethton; a granddaughter, Jeanette 
Tyree, and her husband, Thomas Tyree, Elizabethton; a great 
grandson, James Tyree and his wife, Christy, Elizabethton; four 
great great grandchildren, Taylor, Bailey, Hunter and Remington 
Tyree, and one brother, Thomas Little and his wife, Ruby, of 
Bartlett, Tenn. Several nieces and nephews also survive. 
Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later. 
Memorial Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements.

Vertie A. Little
Graveside services for Vertie Alice Little, age 101, Hermitage 
Health Care Center, Elizabethton, who died Sunday, September 28, 
2003, will be conducted at 11 a.m. Thursday, October 2, 2003 in 
the Holly Hill Cemetery (Whitehead Hill Community) with the Rev. 
Stephen Witt officiating. Honorary pallbearers will be Kyle Chambers, 
Earl Shubert White, Jerry Barnett, Ralph Gardner, Dr. Jerry Gastineau 
and Ray Richardson. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8:30 
p.m. Wednesday, October 1, 2003 in the funeral home. Friends may also 
call at the residence of her daughter, Edna Sorrell Williams, 600 
Pine Hill Rd., Elizabethton. Family and friends will assemble at the 
funeral home at 10:15 a.m. Thursday to go to the cemetery. Condolences 
may be e-mailed to the Little family at mfc@chartertn.net. Memorial 
Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements.


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