Johnson County TN Archives Obituaries.....Greer, Arvil O April 21, 2007
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Elizabethton Star  April 22, 2007
Arvil O. Greer 





    Mr. Arvil O. Greer, 76, of 403 W. G Street, Elizabethton, died Saturday, 

April 21, 2007, in the James H. Quillen Veterans Administration Medical Center 

Hospital, Mountain Home following an extended illness. He was a native of 

Mountain City, and a son of the late Wiley and Elva Triplett Greer. He was 

preceded in death by four brothers, Truett Greer, Butler Greer, Glen Greer and 

Harry Greer; by four sisters, an infant sister, Gladys Blackburn, Irene Greer 

and Mary May; by two step-granddaughters, Wendy Masingale and Robin Brooks; 

and by two step-sons, Randy Brooks and Frank Brooks. 





    Mr. Greer was a member of Pleasant Beach Baptist Church. He was a retired 

employee of Nunley's Furniture and was a former bus driver for the church. He 

was a U.S. Army veteran in the Korean Conflict. 





    Survivors include his wife, Maxine Greer, of the home; three sons and 

daughters-in-law, Dean and Brenda Greer, Gray, Gene and Shelby Greer, and 

Frankie and Brenda Greer, all of Johnson City; three daughters and two sons-in-

law, Diana and Bob Bowman, Elizabethton, Tracy Hamrick, Bluff City, and Lisa 

and Brian Cradic, Johnson City; one step-son, Michael Brooks and his wife 

Diane, of Helena, Ala.; four step-daughters, Lois Perry, Elizabethton, Brenda 

and her husband Paul Wilson, of Piney Flats, Jean and Jerry Houston, Elk Park, 

N.C., Norma and her husband Darty Johnson, Elizabethton; nine grandchildren, 

four great-grandchildren, 19 step-grandchildren, 24 step-great-grandchildren, 

five step great-great grandchildren; three brothers, Tom Greer, Bristol, Herb 

Greer, Johnson City, and Richard Greer, Jonesborough. Several nieces and 

nephews also survive. 





    Funeral service for Mr. Arvil O. Greer will be conducted at 8 p.m. Monday, 

April 23, 2007, in the Sunset Chapel of Hathaway-Percy Funeral Home with the 

Rev. Bobby Stout and the Rev. Phil Poston officiating. Music will be under the 

direction of Jim Hill and the Rev. Phil Poston. Graveside service and 

interment will be conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Mountain Home National 

Cemetery. Military honors will be accorded by Capt. Lynn H. Folsom V.F.W. Post 

#2166. Active pallbearers will selected from family and friends. Honorary 

pallbearers will be Henry Hicks, the staff of Ivy Hall Nursing Home and the 

staff of Fresenius Dialysis Center. The family will receive friends in the 

funeral home from 6-8 p.m. Monday, prior to the service. Everyone will meet at 

the cemetery at 1:55 p.m. Tuesday for the graveside service. For those who 

desire, memorials may be made to the National Kidney Foundation of East 

Tennessee, P.O. Box 1135, Blountville, TN 37617. Online condolences may be 

sent to the family through our Web site www.hathawaypercy.com. Arrangements 

for the Greer family have been entrusted to Hathaway-Percy Funeral Home.





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