JOHNSON COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - Mary Smith Oliver, 30 Aug 2004
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Mary Smith Oliver, 83, died Monday, August 30, 2004, in the town of 
March, Cambridgeshire County in the United Kingdom.
Mrs. Oliver was a native of Johnson County, Tenn., and the daughter of 
the late James Blaine and Lottie Shoun Gentry. In addition to her parents, 
she was preceded in death by two husbands, James Franklin Smith and James 
L. Oliver, and three brothers, Paul, Alton and Braxton Gentry.
Mrs. Oliver attended Watauga Academy for two years, was a 1937 graduate 
of Johnson County High School, and graduated from East Tennessee State 
University in 1962. She taught at the Andrew Johnson Elementary School 
in Kingsport for three years and at Harold McCormick School in Elizabethton 
for 17 years, retiring in 1983. She was an active member of First Baptist 
Church in Elizabethton and recently, a member of First Baptist Church in 
Leesburg, Fla.
Survivors include a daughter, Linda Smith Prior, in the United Kingdom, 
and two grandsons, Marc Kinza Johnson, Fort Campbell, Ky., and Alex Wayne 
Johnson, a junior at Rollins College in Winter Park, Fla.
A memorial service for Mrs. Oliver will be held at the First Baptist Church 
of Elizabethton on Friday, November 26, 2004. Condolences may be sent to 
125 Upwell Road, March, Cambs., PE 15 ODE, UK or online at 
pedal-dancer@hotmail.com.
Memorial Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements.


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