UNICOI COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - Mrs. Ellene Goodin Sawyer, 3 Feb 1998
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Mrs. Ellene Goodin Sawyer

Mrs. Ellene Goodin Sawyer, age 93, 1812 North Main Avenue, died Tuesday,
February 3, 1998 at Colonial Hills Health Care.

Mrs. Sawyer was a native of Limestone and a daughter of the late Thomas
Elliott, Senoir and Glenna Hall Goodin. A graduate of Science Hill High
School, she attended East Tennessee State Normal School and graduated from
American College, Chicago. She lived in Maynard, Mass. until September 1942,
when she moved back to Erwin.

Mrs. Sawyer taught school in the Kingsport, Washington County, and Unicoi
County school systems for 30 years until her retirement, and thereafter worked
as a substitute teacher for 20 years. She was a memeber of the Teacher's
Retirement Associaiton, Southern Dames, the Erwin Unaka Chapter of the
Daughters of the American Revolution, Eastern Star, Magdalene Chapter,
Maynard, Illinois, GFWC, Erwin Monday Club and Gamma Delta Chapter of Kappa
Delta sorority, ETSU. Mrs. Sawyer was also a member of Centenary United
Methodist Church.

She was precede in death by her husband, Reginald P. Sawyer in December 1968.
Survivors include: one daughter and son-in-law, Glenna Sawyer and Curtis P.
Riley, Sr.; one brother, John Goodin, Johnson City; three grandchildren, Ellen
R. Sewell, Erwin, Curtis R. Riley, Jr. and Glenna L. Riley, both of Mobile,
Alabama; four great-grandchildren, Christopher Sewall, Justin Riley, Jennifer
Riley and Jessica Riley; and several nieces and nephews. Mrs. Sawyer is
interred at Urbana Cemetery, Limestone.