Carter County TN Archives Obituaries.....Meredith, Jean C December 20, 2006
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Elizabethton Star  December 22, 2006
Jean C. Meredith 





    Jean Chesser Meredith, 75, died on Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2006, at Sycamore 

Shoals Hospital from complications of Multiple Sclerosis. She was born March 

21, 1931, to Luther and Cartha Stephens Chesser. She was the longest living 

member of Gap Creek Christian Church at the time of her death. She was active 

in the Ladies Circle. She was a 1949 graduate of Happy Valley High School, 

where she was a member of the girl's basketball team. 





    In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Tony 

Max Meredith, Oct. 25, 2003, and an infant sister, Carla Lynn Chesser, March 

17, 1944. She is survived by two sons and one daughter-in-law, Rick and 

Rosemary Meredith, Elizabethton, and Russell Meredith, Johnson City; two 

grandsons, John David Meredith, Elizabethton, and Triston Lacy, Roan Mountain; 

a niece and nephew, Joi Meredith Dance and Ed and his wife, Cyndie Dance, all 

of Piney Flats; one great-nephew, Alex Dance, Piney Flats; two aunts, Margaret 

Manning, Elizabethton, and Ruth Stephens, Jonesborough. Several cousins and 

three special family friends, Anthony and Karen Lyons and Bud McKeehan, all of 

Elizabethton, also survive. 





    Funeral service for Jean Chesser Meredith will be conducted at 7 p.m. 

Thursday, Dec. 21, 2006, in the Sunset Chapel of Hathaway-Percy Funeral Home, 

with Mr. Leon Langston and Mr. Ray Giles, ministers presiding. Music will be 

under the direction of Mr. Bobbie McGee, soloist. Graveside service and 

interment will be conducted at 10 a.m. Friday, Dec. 22, 2006, in Happy Valley 

Memorial Park. Active pallbearers will be John David Meredith, Alex Dance, Ed 

Dance, Anthony Lyons, Larry Miller and Bud McKeehan. The family will receive 

friends at the funeral home from 5:30-7 p.m. on Thursday, or friends may call 

at the residence of a son and daughter-in-law, Rick and Rosemary Meredith, 305 

Ridgecrest Avenue, Elizabethton, at any time. Everyone will meet at the 

cemetery at 9:55 a.m. on Friday. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to 

Gap Creek Christian Church, 1840 Gap Creek Road, Elizabethton, TN 37643 or the 

Debt Retirement Fund at Grace Baptist Church, 1114 Broad Street, Elizabethton, 

TN 37643. Online condolences may be sent to the family through our Web site at 

www.hathawaypercy.com. Arrangements for the Meredith family have been 

entrusted to Hathaway-Percy Funeral Home, (423-543-8386 fax). 



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