CARTER COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - Jessie Pearman White, 13 Oct 2004
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Jessie Pearman White, 90, Elizabethton Highway, Johnson City, 
died Wednesday, October 13, 2004 in the North Side Hospital after a 
brief illness.
A native of Wythe County, Virginia, she was a daughter of the late 
Robert Emmett and Laura Kemp Pearman.
She had lived most of her life in Elizabethton.
She was a graduate of Elizabethton High School where she was a member 
of the 1930-1931 Betsy Flashers Basketball Team.  She also served as a 
cheerleader.
Mrs. White was a retired employee of the Elizabethton Electric System 
where she was employed for 38 years.
She was a member of the Watauga Point United Methodist Church.
She was an active member of the Elizabethton Women's Club and a past 
member of the Elizabethton Business and Professional Women's Club.
She was preceded in death by her first husband, Joe M. Brooks; her second 
husband, Noble R. White; one step-daughter, Loraine Katsis; four sisters; 
one brother and a half sister.
Survivors include a daughter and son-in-law, Margaret and Gary A. Campbell, Elizabethton; a grandson, Jonathan Campbell, and several nieces and nephews.Funeral services will be conducted at 8 p.m. Saturday, October 16, 2004 
in Memorial Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Margaret Owens-yates and Rev. 
Mack Houston officiating. Burial services will be conducted at 3 p.m. 
Sunday, October 17, 2004 in the Mausoleum of Peace, Happy Valley Memorial 
Park. Rosemary Meredith, organist, will provide the music. Active pallbearers, 
who are requested to assemble at the funeral home at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, will 
be Jonathan Campbell, Gary Campbell, Ed Alexander III, Robert Strickland, 
Isaiah Broome, John Pilkton and Kenneth Nave. Honorary pallbearers will be 
her church family, Max Taylor, Shannon Long, Tim Street, John R. Campbell 
and Randy Campbell. The family would like to express a special "thank you" 
to the nurses of the 2400 Wing, Johnson City Medical Center and the 600 Wing 
of North Side Hospital and Dr. Denise Sibley. The family will receive friends 
from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday in the funeral home. Friends may also call at her 
residence. Family and friends will assemble at the funeral home at 2:30 p.m. 
Sunday to go to the cemetery. Condolences to the White family may be e-mailed 
to mfc@chartertn.net.
Memorial Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements. 


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