CARTER COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - Marie L. Millsaps, 4 Apr 2005
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Mrs. Marie L. Millsaps, 81, Treadway Street, Elizabethton, died Monday, April
4, 2005, at Sycamore Shoals Hospital.

Mrs. Millsaps was a native of Carter County and the daughter of the late
Wilburn G. and Fannie White Lewis. In addition to her parents, she was
preceded in death by her husband, Alvin H. Millsaps, in 1977, two brothers,
Don Lewis and Ivan Lewis, and two sisters, Dorothy Miller and Dove Williams.

Mrs. Millsaps was a former Director of the Neighborhood Service Center through
the Carter County Human Development Service Agency. She was a member of Doe
River Baptist Church and the W.M.U. of Doe River Baptist Church and was a
member of the Eastern Star.

Survivors include two daughters and a son-in-law, Alvina Thompson,
Elizabethton, and Cindy and Ed Dance, Piney Flats; a son and daughter-in-law,
Eddie and Amy Millsaps, Johnson City; a sister, Wilma White, Elizabethton;
seven grandchildren, Donna Buchanan, Mark Strong, Sheila Ferguson, Sarah
Presnell and Rachel Williams, all of Elizabethton, Alex Dance, Piney Flats,
and Austin Millsaps, Johnson City; and five great-grandchildren, Zachary
Ensor, Nicki Ferguson, Heather Strong, Josh Strong and Daniel Strong, all of
Elizabethton. Several nieces and nephews also survive.

A memorial service for Mrs. Millsaps will be conducted at 8 p.m. Thursday,
April 7, in the Sunset Chapel of Hathaway-Percy Funeral Home with the Rev. Jim
Lindsay officiating. Music will be under the direction of John Williams,
soloist, and Trilla Little, organist. Honorary pallbearers will be her special
caretaker and friend, Marie Strong, Dr. Alan Forbush and his nurse, Gail, Dr.
David Hecht and all the I.C.U. Staff of Sycamore Shoals Hospital and all
friends and neighbors on Treadway Street, Elizabethton. The family will
receive friends at the funeral home from 6 until 8 p.m. Thursday. Friends may
also call at the residence at anytime. A private inurnment service will be
held on Friday. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to the Doe River
Baptist Church, 113 Avon Street, Elizabethton, TN 37643. Online condolences
may be sent to the family through our Web site at www.hathawaypercy.com.
Arrangements are under the direction of Hathaway-Percy Funeral Home.

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