WASHINGTON COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - Rosa Dean Keplinger, 29 Oct 2004
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Rosa Dean Keplinger, 81, Keplinger Lane, Jonesborough, died Friday, 
October 29, 2004, at Johnson City Medical Center.

Mrs. Keplinger was a native of Washington County and a daughter of the 
late Walter and Dora Keplinger. She was also preceded in death by a son, 
a daughter, a grandchild, a great-grandchild, three sisters and four 
brothers.

Mrs. Keplinger was a member of Cherry Grove Baptist Church, Jonesborough.
Survivors include a daughter and son-in-law, Wilma J. and Ken Adams, 
Watauga; four sons, Eddie Keplinger, Johnson City, Jerry Keplinger, 
Homosassa Springs, Fla., Sherrill Keplinger, Erwin, and William Keplinger, 
Jonesborough; two brothers, Walter Keplinger Jr., Erwin, and Curtis 
Keplinger, Daytona Beach, Fla.; a sister, Elsie Huskins, Erwin; and 10 
grandchildren, Jessica Deloach and Christopher Smith, both of Telford, 
Benjamin Smith, Inverness, Fla., Rebecca Smith, Johnson City, Lahome 
Keplinger, Eddie Keplinger Jr., Lewis Keplinger and Gary Presnell, all 
of Jonesborough, Tina Gibson, Mooresburg, and Patsy Childress, Elizabethton. 
Fifteen great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews also survive.

Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday, November 2, at 
Cherry Grove Baptist Church, Arnold Road, Lamar Community, with Rev. Eddie 
Childress and Rev. Dean Presnell officiating. Music will be by Patsy 
Childress, Tina Gibson and Sierra Presnell. Interment will follow in the 
Keplinger Cemetery, Cherry Grove Road, Jonesborough. Active pallbearers 
will be Gary Presnell, Christopher Smith, Eddie Childress and Silas Gibson. 
Honorary pallbearers will be her sons and Gene Lockner, Hazen Arnold and Jim 
McNeal. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday, November 1, 
in the Sunset Chapel of Hathaway-Percy Funeral Home. Friends may call at the 
residence of her daughter, Wilma J. Adams, 168 Maple Tree Lane, Watauga, at 
any time. Online condolences may be sent to the family through our Web site 
at www.hathawaypercy.com. Arrangements are under the direction of 
Hathaway-Percy Funeral Home.


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