CARTER COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - Caleb Tolley  22 Dec 1999
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Caleb Tolley
11/24/99 

Caleb Tolley, 79, 738 Piney Grove Road, Hampton, died Monday, 
November 22, 1999, at the James H. Quillen VA Medical Center 
after an extended illness.

Mr. Tolley was a native of Carter County and a son of the late 
Dempsey and Lodema Tolley.

Mr. Tolley was a retired employee of North American Rayon Corporation. 

He entered the service January 1942, took training at the Jackson 
Air Base, Jackson, Miss., and served in the European Theater. He was 
a recipient of Seven Bronze Stars, The Good Conduct Medal and The 
Good Conduct Ribbon. He received the European Theater Ribbon. While 
in service he attended the St. James Church in Florence, Italy 
and other churches in Italy. He was a Disabled American Veteran.

He was a member of the Fairview Free Will Baptist Church but 
attended the Piney Grove Free Will Baptist Church, where he received 
a 14-year perfect attendance in Sunday School.

Survivors include his wife, Kate Stevens Tolley; four daughters, 
Brenda Simerly and Barbara Moffett, both of Hampton, Helen Blevins 
and Janice Stout, both of Elizabethton; two sisters, Mae Woodby, 
Unicoi, and Bertha Woodby, Hampton; a brother, Joshua Tolley, 
Elizabethton; 12 grandchildren, Denise Norris, Lisa White, Angelia 
Smith, Scott Simerly, April Townsend, Kim Simerly, Kristi Simerly, 
Randy Woodby, Kevin Woodby, Tawana Holland, LaDanna Boone and Bobby 
Stout Jr.; seven great-grandchildren, Katie Jo Norris, Andrea Smith, 
Alexis Townsend, Morgan Guy, Taylor Julian, Tyler Woodby and Emrie 
Boone; also special friends, Tonya Buchanan, George Stanley and Gwyn 
Cole. Several nieces and nephews also survive.

Memorial Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements.