Carter County TN Archives Obituaries.....Shell, Christine  October 23, 2007
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Elizabethton Star  Oct 25, 2007
Christine Shell 





    Christine Shell, 85, 110 Tom Birchfield Road, Roan Mountain, died Tuesday, 

October 23, 2007, at Johnson City Medical Center following a lengthy illness. 





    A native of Carter County, she was a daughter of the late Henry Gordan and 

Mamie Mosley Shell and had lived most of her life in the Heaton Creek 

Community. 





    Mrs. Shell was a homemaker and a member of Roan Park Baptist Church. 





    In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her first 

husband, Henry Johnson; a sister, Arthene Holtsclaw; and a brother, John Henry 

Shell. 





    Survivors include her husband, Verl Shell; a step-daughter and her 

husband, Donna and Joey Hughes, Johnson City; two step-sons, Bill Shell and 

Ted Shell, both of Damascus, Va.; her granddaughters, Haley Hughes, Johnson 

City, Wendy Shell and Jessica Shell, both of Elizabethton, and Heather 

Presnell-Gibson, Kingsport; her grandsons, Cody Shell and Justin Shell, both 

of Elizabethton; and three sisters, Paulene Turbyfield, Fort McCory, Fla., 

Maelene Street, Roan Mountain, and Lucille Pitcher, Baltimore, Md. Several 

nieces and nephews also survive. 





    Funeral services for Mrs. Shell will be conducted at 8 p.m. Thursday, 

October 25, at Memorial Funeral Chapel with Mr. Todd Wolfe and Rev. Cecil 

Largent officiating. Graveside services and interment will be at 11 a.m. 

Friday, October 26, at Johnson Cemetery (Crabtree Community). Active 

pallbearers, who are requested to assemble at the cemetery at 10:50 a.m. 

Friday, will be Kenneth Holtsclaw, Mike Holtsclaw, Raymond Dugger, Andrew 

Dugger, Adam Dugger, Dennis Street, Stacy Street and Bob Timmons. Honorary 

pallbearers will be Don France, W.L. Morgan, Murrell Holtsclaw, Leroy 

Holtsclaw, Tracy Holtsclaw, Myron Phillips and Walt Stewart. The family will 

receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home. Friends may 

also call at the residence of her step-daughter, Donna Hughes, 915 Smalling 

Road, (Central Community), Johnson City. Family and friends will assemble at 

the cemetery at 10:50 a.m. Friday. Condolences to the Shell family may be e-

mailed to mfc@chartertn.net. 





    Memorial Funeral Chapel is in charge of the arrangements.



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