Washington County TN Archives Obituaries.....Rossiter, Grace P August 21, 2007
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Elizabethton Star  Aug 22, 2007
Grace P. Rossiter 





    Grace Pierce Rossiter, 78, Ivy Hall Nursing Home, formerly of Mayfield 

Drive, Elizabethton, died Tuesday, August 21, 2007, at Sycamore Shoals 

Hospital. 





    A native of Washington County, she was a daughter of the late Henry Joseph 

and Mamie Lula Nave Pierce. 





    Mrs. Rossiter was a graduate of Science Hill High School and Steed 

Business College. She worked for several years with the Navy Department in 

Washington, D.C., and was a retired employee of the Raytheon Corporation of 

Bristol. She was a member of First Baptist Church of Elizabethton. 





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

Gerald J. Rossiter, and two sisters, Novella Pierce Ferguson and Margaret 

Ellen Pierce. 





    Survivors include two sisters and brothers-in-law, Desserree and Clifford 

Osborne of Johnson City and Henrietta and Paul May of Elizabethton; three 

nieces, Alicia A. May, Cassidy Blevins and Emily May; and two nephews, Joe May 

and Billy Ray Blevins. 





    Funeral services for Mrs. Rossiter will be conducted at 8 p.m. Thursday, 

August 23, at Memorial Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Bob Polk officiating. 

Entombment services will be conducted at 11 a.m. Friday, August 24, in the 

Mausoleum of Peace at Happy Valley Memorial Park. Active pallbearers, who are 

requested to assemble at the funeral home at 10:30 a.m. Friday, will be George 

Lowe, Lawrence Pierce, Harry Ford, Joe May, Dave Honeycutt and John Hardin. 

Honorary pallbearers will be her cousins. The family will receive friends from 

6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home. Friends may also call at the 

residence of Henrietta and Paul May, 213 West H Street, Elizabethton. Family 

and friends will assemble at the funeral home at 10:30 a.m. Friday to go to 

the cemetery. Online condolences to the Rossiter family may be e-mailed to 

mfc@chartertn.net. 





    Memorial Funeral Chapel is in charge of the arrangements.





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