Johnson-Carter County TN Archives Obituaries.....Dickens, Blanche P March 17, 2006
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Elizabethton Star March 20, 2006
Blanche P. Dickens 





    Blanche Payne Dickens, 89, 341 Jenkins Hollow Road, Elizabethton, went to 

be with the Lord on Friday, March 17, 2006, at Hermitage Health Care Center. 





    Mrs. Dickens was a native of Johnson County and a daughter of the late 

George W. and Nancy Anderson Payne. In addition to her parents, she was 

preceded in death by her husband, Robert "Bob" Dickens, November 6, 1996, and 

by four brothers and two sisters. 





    Mrs. Dickens had lived most of her life in Carter County and was a 

homemaker. She was a member of the Meadowview Baptist Church, but attended 

Valley Forge Church of God. 





    Survivors include two daughters and a son-in-law, Irene B. Williams, Gray, 

and Virginia Maude and Harold Grindstaff, Elizabethton, and three 

granddaughters, Angie Riley, Tammy and husband Dr. Shawn Pridemore and Summer 

Johnson. Four great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews also survive. 





    Funeral services for Mrs. Dickens will be conducted at 8 p.m. Monday, March 

20, at Memorial Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Richard Bawgus officiating. Music 

will be provided by Richard and Teresa Bawgus. Graveside services and interment 

will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday, March 21, at Roselawn Memory Gardens. Active 

pallbearers, who are requested to assemble at the funeral home at 1:15 p.m. 

Tuesday, will be Randy Sizemore, Ronnie Payne, Rodney Payne, Randy Payne, Danny 

Ray Elliott, Shane Laws and Roy Lee Honeycutt. The family will receive friends 

from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday at the funeral home. Friends may also call at the 

residence of a daughter and son-in-law, Virginia Maude and Harold Grindstaff, 

355 Jenkins Hollow Road, Elizabethton. The family would like to express a 

special "Thank You" to the nursing staff of Hermitage Health Care Center and to 

Dr. Robert Walter and Dr. Daniel Paul. Family and friends will assemble at the 

funeral home at 1:15 p.m. Tuesday to go to the cemetery. Online condolences to 

the Dickens family may be e-mailed to mfc@chartertn.net. 





    Memorial Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements. 



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