UNICOI COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - Minnie Lydia Robinette, 15 Jul 2003 ----¤¤¤---- Minnie L. Robinette Mrs. Minnie Lydia Robinette, age 97, Unicoi County Memorial Hospital Long Term Care Unit, formerly of Sciota Road, Unicoi, died Tuesday, July 15, 2003 at her residence. Mrs. Robinette was a Wise County, Va. native, having lived most of her life in Unicoi County. She was a daughter of the late James and Berta Holbrook Derifield. Mrs. Robinette was a homemaker. She was a charter member of Unicoi Church of God. Other than her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Dewey Robinette, Sr. in 1971, and three sisters, Nettie Powers, Alma Hall, and Jama Peters. Survivors include three sons and two daughters-in-law, Earnest Robinette, Dewey and Shirleen Robinette, and Leonard and Mary Robinette, all of Unicoi; four daughters and one son-in-law, Irene Tolley, Mildred Morton, Emma Jean and Edison Wallin, all of Unicoi; Ethel Byrd, of Elizabethton; 25 grandchildren; 59 great grandchildren, and 15 great great grandchildren. Several nieces and nephews also survive. Unicoi Funeral Home, 4428 Unicoi Drive, Unicoi, is in charge of funeral arrangements. ROBINETTE -- Funeral services for Minnie Lydia Robinette, 97, Unicoi County Memorial Hospital Long Term Care Unit, who died Tuesday, July 15, 2003, will be held at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 16, 2003 from the Unicoi Funeral Home Chapel. Reverend Ronnie Holloway will officiate. Music will be provided by LuAnne Powers and Inez Chandler. Graveside services and interment will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday, July 17, 2003 in Roselawn Memory Gardens, Johnson City. Family, minister, and friends may gather at the cemetery by 9:50 a.m. Thursday. The family will receive friends from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home and other times at the residence of a daughter, Mildred Morton, 249 Sciota Road, Unicoi. Those wishing may make memorial contributions to the American Diabetes Association, Memorial and Honor Program, P.O. Box 680, North Canton, OH 44720, or the National Kidney Foundation, P.O. Box 1135, Blountville, TN 37617. Unicoi Funeral Home, 4428 Unicoi Drive, Unicoi, is in charge of funeral arrangements. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: The Elizabethton Star http://www.starhq.com/ -----------------------------------------------------------------------------