Unicoi County TN Archives Obituaries.....McLaughlin, Richard E September 20, 2005
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Elizabethon Star 9/21/05
Richard E. McLaughlin 

Richard E. McLaughlin, 85, 311 Scott Road, Unicoi, died Tuesday, September 20, 

2005, at the James H. Quillen VA Medical Center. 

Mr. McLaughlin was a lifelong resident of Unicoi County and a son of the late 

Bob and Alta Helmick McLaughlin. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in 

death by three brothers, Walter McLaughlin, Ray McLaughlin and Bobby Jack 

McLaughlin, and three sisters, Anna Sachs, Mayme Carmichael and Vennie 

Duckworth. 

Mr. McLaughlin was a U.S. Army veteran of WWII, having served with "M" Company 

35th Infantry Division. He received the Asiatic-Pacific Theater Campaign Ribbon 

and the American Defense Service Ribbon. He was a member of Unicoi Freewill 

Baptist Church. 

Survivors include four sons and daughters-in-law, Joel and Beverly McLaughlin, 

Tracy and Joyce McLaughlin and Rev. Todd and Amy McLaughlin, all of Unicoi, and 

Kevin and Stevie McLaughlin, Elizabethton; two brothers and a sister-in-law, 

Harold and Nell McLaughlin, Unicoi, and Don McLaughlin, Orange County, Calif.; 

a sister, Edna Gallagher, Orange County, Calif.; two grandchildren, Ashley 

McLaughlin and Alyssa McLaughlin, both of Unicoi; and three step-grandchildren, 

Cody Bowling and Cory Bowling, both of Elizabethton, and Rachael Hendricks, 

Erwin, Several nieces, nephews, cousins and friends also survive. 

Funeral services for Mr. McLaughlin will be held at 8 p.m. Thursday, September 

22, from the Unicoi Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Todd McLaughlin and Rev. 

Thurman Sullivan officiating. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. 

Thursday at the funeral home. Family members will serve as active pallbearers. 

Jim Britt and D.H. Garland will serve as honorary pallbearers. Committal 

service will be held at 10 a.m. Friday, September 23, at Roselawn Memory 

Gardens. Full military grave rites will be rendered by the Tennessee Army 

National Guard and American Legion Post #3265. Family, ministers, pallbearers 

and friends are requested to assemble at the funeral home by 9:15 a.m. Friday 

to go in procession to the cemetery. Condolences may be sent to the family at 

www.ledfordfuneralhome.com. 

Unicoi Funeral Home, 4428 Unicoi Drive, Unicoi, (423) 743-1381 or (423) 928-

4595, is in charge of the arrangements.



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