CARTER COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - Haven Pierce, 14 Dec 2000
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Haven Pierce

Mrs. Haven "Jackie" Pierce, 88, of Hillview Nursing Home, formerly of 
1106 DeJarnette Street, Elizabethton, died Thursday, December 14, 2000, at 
the nursing home.
Mrs. Pierce was a native of Carter County and a daughter of the late Aude 
and Lucy McKinney Taylor. She was also preceded in death by her husband, 
Conley Pierce, December 24, 1990, and a brother, Ernest Taylor.
Mrs. Pierce was a member of the Graduation Class of 1931, Elizabethton High 
School, and attended Elizabethton Business College. She was a member of East 
Side Baptist Church, where she was a former president of the Annie Hyder 
Sunday School Class and former superintendent of the Primary Department 
for 35 years.
Survivors include a daughter and son-in-law, Shea and Michael Gass, 
Elizabethton; two grandsons, Travis Lance Gass and Justin Todd Gass, both 
of Elizabethton; two nephews, Jack Scott and Sturgill Lewis, both of 
Elizabethton; four nieces, Tootsie Campbell, Yvonne Fowler and Kathleen 
Glover, all of Elizabethton, and Linda McIntosh, Jonesborough; and special 
friends, Blakeley Brown, Bristol, and Rocie Clark, Hillview Nursing Home.
Memorial Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements.

PIERCE -- Graveside services for Mrs. Haven "Jackie" Pierce, 88, of 
Hillview Nursing Home, formerly of 1106 DeJarnette Street, Elizabethton, 
who died Thursday, December 14, 2000, will be conducted at 2:30 p.m. 
Sunday, December 17, at Happy Valley Memorial Park with Dr. Dwight Hobbs 
and the Rev. Phil Gass officiating. Interment will follow the service. 
Active pallbearers, who are requested to assemble at the funeral home at 
2 p.m. Sunday, will be Justin Gass, Travis Gass, Bill Schaff, Mark Schaff, 
Jack Scott, John R. Campbell, Fred Wetzel, Tom Wetzel, Doyle Smith and 
Bobby Gass. Honorary pallbearers will be Brian Scott, Nathan Goodwin, 
Horace Broome, Rob Carter, Bill Broome, Mary Lou Wetzel, Vicky and Ricky 
Paul Whisenhunt, Sue Peters, Don Peters, Mable and Sam Rogers, Everette 
Lee Gass, Barbara and Claude Duncan, Billie Jean Powell, Mr. and Mrs. 
Ralph Stitt, Mr. and Mrs. Roy McKinney, Lucille Coleman, Cindy Range, 
Dwight and Donna Hobbs, Dr. Eugene Galloway, Goldia Scott, Sylvia Lewis, 
Vicky Chambers, members of the Annie Hyder Sunday School Class, the 
Brownlow Scalf Sunday School Class and all members of East Side Baptist 
Church and employees, staff and residents of Hillview Nursing Home. The 
family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home. 
Friends may also call at the residence of her daughter and son-in-law, 
Shea and Michael Gass, 173 Southgate Drive, Elizabethton. Family and 
friends will assemble at the funeral home at 2 p.m. Sunday to go to the 
cemetery. Memorial Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements.