CARTER COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - William Ross Shell, 22 Jul 2004
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William Ross Shell, 95, Hartley Road, Elizabethton, died Thursday, 
July 22, 2004, at the James H. Quillen Veterans Administration Medical 
Center at Mountain Home, TN.
Mr. Shell was a Carter County native, born June 10, 1909, to the late 
Noah and Dora Shell as one of six children. In addition to his parents 
and siblings, he was preceded in death by his first wife, Zana Elizabeth 
Dobbs Shell, in 1967, and his second wife, Pauline Yates Shell, in 2001.
Mr. Shell retired in 1971 as a Bemberg/North American Rayon shift supervisor. 
He was a World War II veteran, serving in the Army's Signal Corps in the 
Pacific Theater. He was a member of East River Park Christian Church.
Survivors include a daughter, Helen Carol Shell, Elizabethton; a son, 
Jerry Shell, Bristol; two stepdaughters, Tonya Kay Woods, Elizabethton, 
and Rebekah Hunt, Johnson City; a granddaughter, Michelle Hershey, 
Elizabethton; a great-granddaughter, Savannah Hershey, Elizabethton; a 
step-granddaughter, Paula Flack, St. Cloud, Fla.; a step-grandson, Andy 
Woods, Noblesville, Ind.; and two step-great-grandchildren, Logan Woods, 
Pendleton, Ind., and Alyssa Woods, St. Cloud, Fla.
Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Sunday, July 25, in the 
Sunset Chapel of Hathaway-Percy Funeral Home with Mr. John Smith, minister, 
officiating. Music will be under the direction of Mrs. Mary Smith. Entombment 
will follow the funeral service in the Mausoleum of Peace at Happy Valley 
Memorial Park. Active pallbearers will be Michael Peters, Robert Pilk, 
Richard Pilk, Don Woods, Andy Woods, Brian Hershey, James Hunt and Tim 
Perkins. Honorary pallbearers will be the Wal-Mart Coffee Club and his 
church family. Friends may call at Hathaway-Percy Funeral Home at anytime 
on Saturday or Sunday up to the service hour. To those who desire, memorials 
may be made to the East Tennessee Christian Children's Home, 517 Allen 
Avenue, 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, Elizabethton.


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