CARTER COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - Phillip Haynes McKeehan, 11 Jun 2005
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Phillip Haynes McKeehan, 81, Tester Road, Elizabethton, died Saturday, June
11, 2005, at his residence. 

Mr. McKeehan was a native of Carter County and a son of the late Henry and
Amanda Dugger McKeehan. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death
by six brothers and three sisters. 

Mr. McKeehan was a faithful member of Oak Grove Christian Church and was a
Military Policeman with the United States Air Force during World War II. While
in the Service, he served in the following places: England, Belgium, France,
Holland and Germany. 

Survivors include his wife of 54 years, Jettie Garver McKeehan; two daughters
and sons-in-law, Janice and Ray Lyons Sr. and Amanda and Jeff Holt, all of
Elizabethton; his grandchildren, Ray Lyons Jr., Molly Lyons, Rachel and Blake
Taylor and Travis and Jennifer Holt; his great-grandchildren, Macie MacKenzie
and Josie Lyons, Galen White, Sydney Lee and Jackson Taylor and Dakota Holt;
his sisters, Phoebe Love Ford, Elizabethton, and Eliza Kyte, Chesapeake, Va.;
and his sister-in-law, Minnie McKeehan, Elizabethton. Many nieces and nephews
also survive. 

Funeral services for Mr. McKeehan will be conducted at 8 p.m. Monday, June 13,
at Memorial Funeral Chapel with Dr. Robert Shannon officiating. Graveside
services and interment will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday, June 14, in the Freedom
Garden of Happy Valley Memorial Park. Active pallbearers, who are requested to
assemble at the funeral home at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, will be Ray Lyons Jr.,
Travis Holt, Bud McKeehan, Terry McKeehan, Howard Lee McKeehan, Sam Lyons Sr.,
Jack Chambers and Keith Douglas. Honorary pallbearers will be Galen White,
Blake and Jackson Taylor, Dakota Holt, Joe Ford, John McKeehan and his nieces
and nephews. The family would also like to express a special "Thank You" to
his caregiver and friend, Debbie Eyster; also to Nina B. Phillips, Kenneth and
Pearl Jones, Dr. Smalligan, Dr. Stephen Loyd, his nurses at the Johnson City
Medical Center, his friends and neighbors and especially his church family.
Military Honors will be provided by the Tennessee National Guard. To those who
prefer, memorials may be made in memory of Mr. McKeehan to the Michael J. Fox
Foundation for Parkinson's Research, Grand Central Station, P.O. Box 4777, New
York, NY 10163, Phone (800) 708-7644 or the Oak Grove Christian Church
Building Fund. Family and friends will assemble at the funeral home at 10:30
a.m. Tuesday to go the cemetery. Condolences to the McKeehan family may be e-
mailed to mfc@chartertn.net. 
Memorial Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements. 


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