Sullivan-Carter County TN Archives Obituaries.....Clemons, Goldie Carrier August 21, 2006
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Elizabethton Star  August 22, 2006
Goldie Carrier Clemons 



    Goldie Carrier Clemons, 88, 113 Basin Road, Elizabethton, departed this 

life and entered her heavenly home unexpectedly in the Johnson City Medical 

Center on Monday, August 21, 2006, to join her husband, Isaac "Ike" Clemons, 

who died November 20, 1998. 



    Mrs. Clemons was the fifth of 13 children born to John Alex and Bessie 

Belle Birchfield Carrier. Born in Sullivan County, she lived most of her life 

in Carter County. 





    Mrs. Clemons was a member of Unaka Baptist Church and until recently, the 

Harmony Baptist Church. She was an active member of Harmony WMU and loved her 

many friends from both churches. She made many beautiful quilts and lovely 

crocheted doilies. She loved and cared for her family, as they did for her. 





    In addition to her parents and husband, she was preceded in death by a 

son, Floyd Ike Clemons, three sisters, Mattie Lovelace, Grace Greenwell and 

Myrtle Blevins, five brothers, Tom, Clinton, Albert, Rev. Bill and Omer 

Carrier, and a great-grandson, Eli Clemons. 





    Survivors include a daughter and son-in-law, Gail and Walter Carrier, 

Elizabethton; two sons, Wayne Clemons and wife Sherry and W.A. Clemons, all of 

Elizabethton; her former daughter-in-law, Jan Sparrow, Johnson City; seven 

grandchildren, Jennifer and husband Dr. Jeff Hopland, Johnson City, Kirk and 

wife Valerie Carrier and Berley Wayne Clemons, all of Elizabethton, Candace 

and husband Ben McNabb, Unicoi, Nikki and husband Mimi Pirvu, Johnson City, 

Natalie Clemons, Johnson City, and Rebecca and husband Bruce Parlier, 

Montezuma, N.C., and 11 great-grandchildren. Mrs. Clemons is also survived by 

four sisters and one brother-in-law, Mary Broyles, Life Care Center of 

Elizabethton, Ruth Reece, Ester Stout and Violet and Rev. Horace Bowers, all 

of Elizabethton; and special friend and "phone buddy," Mary Peeks, 

Elizabethton. Several nieces and nephews also survive. 





    The funeral service for Mrs. Clemons will be conducted at 2 p.m. Thursday, 

August 24, at Harmony Baptist Church with Rev. Walker Roberson officiating. 

Music will be under the direction of Ruth and Rev. Harold McNabb, Kirk Carrier 

and Rachel Grindstaff. Interment will follow at Emmert Cemetery, Elizabethton, 

with Rev. Jerry Lyons and Rev. Horace Bowers officiating. Active pallbearers 

will be grandsons and grandsons-in-law, Berley Clemons, Kirk Carrier, Dr. Jeff 

Hopland, Ben McNabb, Ryan Mick, Ricky Parlier and special friend, Paul Beal. 

Honorary pallbearers will be Mimi Pirvu, Bruce Parlier, Dan Rash, friends, 

neighbors, nephews and her church family at Harmony and Unaka Baptist 

Churches. The family will receive friends at Tetrick Funeral Home from 6 to 8 

p.m. Wednesday, August 23. Friends may also call at the residence at other 

times. Messages of condolence may be sent to the Clemons family through our 

Web site at www.tetrickfuneralhome.com. 





    Tetrick Funeral Home of Elizabethton is serving the Clemons family. 

Obituary Line: (423) 543-4917. Office: (423) 542-2232. 





     



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