CARTER COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - Mattie Ophelia Avery Wilson, 3 Apr 2002
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Mattie O. Wilson

   Mattie Ophelia Avery Wilson, 91, formerly of 622 Blevins Avenue, 
Elizabethton, and a resident of Life Care Center of Elizabethton, 
died Wednesday, April 3, 2002, at Sycamore Shoals Hospital following 
an extended illness.
   Mrs. Wilson was a native of Carter County and the daughter of the 
late Joe and Maggie Tinner Avery. She was also preceded in death by her 
husband, Millard J. Wilson, in 1993, and a daughter, Leanna Ervin, in 
1996.
   Mrs. Wilson was a member of Phillipi Baptist Church and was a 
homemaker.
   Survivors include three daughters and two sons-in-law, Ruth Aretha 
Myles Bowers, Patricia A. and Paul Bellamy and Tanzy L. and Harry 
McKesson, all of Elizabethton; two sons and a daughter-in-law, Joe N. 
Avery, Johnson City, and Cornelius and Carolyn Avery, Glade Springs, 
Va.; 19 grandchildren, Wilhelmina Turner, Teena Bradley, Forrest Mutts, 
Johnny Victor Mutts, Janssen Cavelli, Jacey M. Mutts, Yona P. Ragin, 
Eric J. Avery, Joy I. Bass, Rhonda Avery, Kim Avery, Velma Avery, April 
Avery, Benjamin Bellamy, Benita P. Bellamy, Barry P. Bellamy, Vico 
McKesson, LaToya McKesson and Freddie Ervin; 27 great-grandchildren, 
14 great-great-grandchildren; and a sister-in-law, Thelma Avery. 
Several nieces, nephews and cousins also survive.
   Tetrick Funeral Home, 211 North Riverside Drive, Elizabethton, 
(423) 543-4917, is in charge of arrangements. Visit our Web site at 
www.Funeral-Plans.com/Tetrick
   
   WILSON -- Funeral services for Mattie Ophelia Avery Wilson, 91, formerly of 
622 Blevins Avenue, Elizabethton, and a resident of Life Care Center of 
Elizabethton, who died Wednesday, April 3, 2002, will be conducted at 4 p.m. 
Sunday, April 7, at Phillipi Missionary Baptist Church with Pastor Tim 
Watterson, the Rev. Dennis Milligan, the Rev. Ron Owens, the Rev. Steve 
Wagner, the Rev. Ernie Widby and the Rev. Joe Hollifield officiating. Music 
will be under the direction of the Community Choir. Graveside services and 
interment will be conducted at 10 a.m. Monday, April 8, at Mountain Home 
National Cemetery. Active pallbearers will be grandsons. Everyone will meet at 
the Phillipi Missionary Baptist Church at 9 a.m. Monday to go in procession to 
the cemetery. The family will receive friends from 3 to 4 p.m. Sunday at 
Phillipi Missionary Baptist Church. Friends may also call at the residence of 
a daughter, Tanzy L. McKesson, 609 Blevins Avenue, Elizabethton, at any time. 
Condolences may be sent to the family via e-mail address tetrick@funeral-
plans.com. Tetrick Funeral Home, Elizabethton, is in charge of arrangements.