CARTER COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - Ossie Range Meredith, 13 Nov 2003
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Ossie Meredith
 
Mrs. Ossie Range Meredith, 95, Jim Elliott Road, Elizabethton, 
died Thursday, November 13, 2003, in the Hermitage Health Care. A 
native of Carter County, she was a daughter of the late Abraham and 
Etta Pearce Range. Mrs. Meredith was a retired employee of North 
American Rayon Corporation. She had been an active member of the Gap 
Creek Christian Church for 70 years, having taught Sunday school, 
served as the church treasurer and involved in the Ladies Circle of 
the church. She was preceded in death by her husband, James Lawrence 
Meredith, October 25, 1976, and by six sisters. 
Survivors include three sons and two daughters-in-Law, Larry and 
Lesley Meredith, Rio Vista, Calif., Gary Meredith, Elizabethton, and 
Carroll and Gail Meredith, Johnson City; three sisters, Kate Sams and 
Gretchen Whittemore, both of Elizabethton, and Nellie Pospeich, 
Inverness, Fla.; five grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; one 
great-great-grandson; several nieces and nephews. 
Funeral services were conducted at 8 p.m. Saturday in the Gap Creek 
Christian Church, 1840 Gap Creek Road, Elizabethton, with Mr. Ray 
Giles, Mr. Rocky Maines and Mr. Roland Whittimore officiating. 
Graveside Service and interment will be at 2 p.m. Sunday in Happy 
Valley Memorial Park. Mr. Bobby McGee will provide the music. Active 
pallbearers, who are requested to assemble at the church at 7:50 p.m. 
Saturday and the funeral home at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, will be Anthony 
Lyons, Larry Miller, Bobby McGee, John McGee, Steve Meredith, Mark 
Meredith, Rick Meredith and Russell Meredith. Honorary pallbearers 
will be her church family, the staff of Hermitage Health Care, Dr. 
Charles Allen, friends and neighbors. The family received friends 
from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday in the Gap Creek Christian Church. Friends 
may also call at the residence of Gary Meredith, 135 Jim Elliott 
Road, Elizabethton. For those who prefer, memorials may be made in 
memory of Mrs. Meredith to the Gap Creek Christian Church Building 
Fund, 1840 Gap Creek Road, Elizabethton, TN 37643. Family and friends 
will assemble at the funeral home at 1:30 p.m. Sunday to go to the 
cemetery. Condolences may be e-mailed to mfc@chartertn.net. Memorial 
Funeral Chapel is in charge of the arrangements. 

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