CARTER COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - Lettie J. Pilkton, 7 Aug 1999
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Lettie J. Pilkton
08/09/99 
   Mrs. Lettie J. Pilkton, 89, 109 Hathaway Court, Elizabethton, died 
Saturday, August 7, 1999, at her residence following an extended illness
   Mrs. Pilkton was a native of Carter County and the daughter of the 
late William Luther and Nattie Bunton Luther Tester. She was also 
preceded in death by a brother, Ray Luther, and two sisters, Grace 
Blevins and Mae Buck.
   Mrs. Pilkton was a member of Elk River Baptist Church. She attended 
Watauga Academy at Butler and was a homemaker.
   Survivors include three daughters and sons-in-law, Dorothy and Paul 
Authenreith and Mildred and Russ Spetrino, all of Akron, Ohio, and Ruth 
and Bert Walsh, Watauga; two sons and daughters-in-law, Frank and Barbara 
Pilkton and Dean and Carolyn Pilkton, all of Elizabethton; two step-brothers 
and their wives, Carroll and Rosemary Tester, Butler, and Harvey and Stella 
Tester, Elizabethton; six grandchildren, Billy Pilkton, Atlanta, Ga., Karen 
Pilkton, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., Kim Walsh Yarbrough, Houston, Texas, Gary 
Walsh, Watauga, Shawna Pilkton and Apryl Pilkton, both of Elizabethton; and 
a great-grandchild, Aaron Richards, Port Charlotte, Fla. Several nieces and 
nephews also survive.
   Tetrick Funeral Home, Riverside Chapel, is in charge of arrangements.

   PILKTON -- Funeral services for Mrs. Lettie J. Pilkton, 89, 109 Hathaway 
Court, Elizabethton, who died Saturday, will be conducted at 8 p.m. Tuesday at 
Tetrick Funeral Home, Riverside Chapel, with Rev. Ray Green and Rev. Randy 
Johnson officiating. Music will be under the direction of Ray Don Markland and 
Wendy Potter. Entombment and committal services will be conducted at 11 a.m. 
Wednesday in the Mausoleum of Peace at Happy Valley Memorial Park. Active 
pallbearers will be selected from family and friends. Honorary pallbearers
 will be Dr. William R. Kincaid, Dr. Tony Ketras, Dr. James Mahoney, Dr. 
Kyle T. Colvett and the Hospice Staff. The family will receive friends 
from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home. Friends may also call at the 
residence, 109 Hathaway Court, Elizabethton, any time. The family, friends, 
ministers and pallbearers will meet at the funeral home at 10:15 a.m. 
Wednesday to go in procession to the cemetery. Tetrick Funeral Home, 
Riverside Chapel, is in charge of arrangements.