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Surviving are her husband, Bill Applegate, Kingsport; one daughter, Linda Chico, Rogersville; four grandsons, John Adams, Doug Adams and Jeff Adams, all of Kingsport, and Gary Adams, Knoxville; two stepchildren, Butch Applegate and Allen Applegate, both of Kingsport; nine grandchildren; nine great- grandchildren; three sisters, Ruth Singleton and Jerry Griffin, both of Abingdon, and Barbara Frazier, Atlanta; and several nieces and nephews. Calling hours are from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Hamlett-Dobson Funeral Homes, Fall Branch. Services will be conducted at 8 p.m. Thursday in the Fall Branch Chapel with Clifford John Pierson officiating. Graveside services will be conducted at 12 noon Friday at Oak Hill Memorial Park. Pallbearers will be Jeff Adams, Travis Adams, Josh Griffin, Olan Walker, Robert Tolliver, Danny Murray and Billy Delancey. Brenda L. Baker BLOUNTVILLE – Family and friends of Brenda L. Baker will meet at the Gunnings Cemetery at 10 a.m. Wednesday for a graveside service. Please visit the family online at www.mem.com to place a tribute. Brenda L. Baker, age 45, went to be with her Lord in Heaven. East Lawn Funeral Home is serving the Baker family. Robert C. Buckles BIG STONE GAP, Va. – Just as he came into the world in a big way, weighing 12 pounds at birth, Robert Claiborne Buckles, 71, left this realm and entered Heaven on Monday, Dec. 27, 2004. A faithful husband and father, Bob, (as he was most often known), blessed all who knew him. Traveling to many countries... Cuba, Africa, Jamaica, Guatemala and Mexico...his ventures were more than just vacations. It was Bob’s heart to share the gospel of Jesus Christ to everyone he knew, having a particular burden for indigenous people. The last two years of his life on earth were spent battling disease that sought to ravage his body. Though his body bore those scars, his spirit never wavered, as he continued to lead people to Jesus. Bob served his country proudly as a member of the U.S. Air Force in Waco, Texas. It was there that he met his first wife, Thalia Ann Burnell, the mother of daughter, Tracy. Following her death in 1962, Bob was blessed three years later to meet and marry his wife of 39 ½ years, Mary Faye Fowler, mother of daughter, Dawn. A lifelong athlete, having played sports in high school and later at Emory & Henry College, it was this kind of discipline that influenced his life and that of his family. Bob exemplified the adage, "when the going gets tough, the tough get going." Many people would not know that singing was also a part of Bob’s life. In his teens, he sang with the "Southlanders," later lending his voice to the praise and worship of God as a member of East Stone Gap United Methodist Church. Since 1978, Bob was actively involved in his church community. Because of his commitment to his church family and to missions, his family requests that any donations be contributed to the Robert C. Buckles Memorial Mission Fund at East Stone Gap United Methodist Church, P.O. Box 186, Big Stone Gap, VA 24219. Visitation will be held at his church on Thursday, Dec. 30, from 5-8 p.m., with service following. Interment will be on Friday at 11 a.m. at Powell Valley Memorial Gardens. Family and friends will meet at church at 10:30 a.m. Friday to go in procession. Online condolences may be sent at holding@compunet.net Holding Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Bruce W. Carrier BLUFF CITY – Funeral services for Bruce W. Carrier will be held on Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2004, at 11 a.m. in the Weaver Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Jim Manis officiating. Interment will follow at Shipley Cemetery. Pallbearers will be Allen Carrier, Charles Scott, James Davis, Roger Buchanan, Mitch Crusenberry, Eric Rhymer and Mike Rhymer. Honorary pallbearers include: Dr. Thomas Johnson and Dr. Maria Becka. Online condolences may be registered at www.weaverfuneralhome.net Bruce W. Carrier, age 73, of 300 Big Spring Road, (Hickory Tree Community), went to be with the Lord Sunday, Dec. 26, 2004. Treman L. Cassell CHILHOWIE – Treman Luther Cassell, age 86, died Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2004, at his home. Survivors and funeral arrangements will be announced later by Seaver-Brown Funeral Service and Crematory. Martha V. Denton Funeral services for Martha Victoria Denton will be conducted at 11 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 30, 2004, in Akard Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Tony Hutchinson officiating. Burial will follow in Mountain View Cemetery. Pallbearers will be Mike Eldreth, Ralph Hoskins, Tim Elkins, Conley Shaffer, Tommy Baker and Garry Ringley. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2004, at Akard Funeral Home. Condolences may be sent to the family of Mrs. Denton by visiting our Website at www.akardfuneralhome.com Martha Victoria Denton, age 94, formerly of Bristol Virginia, died Saturday, Dec. 25, 2004, in St. Joseph Hospital, East, in Lexington, Ky., after a long illness. Akard Funeral Home, 1912 West State St., Bristol, TN 37620, (423) 989-4800, is serving the family of Mrs. Denton. Charles Hutchins Jr. BRISTOL, Va. – Charles Hugh Hutchins Jr. age 71, 13514 Cartwright Lane, Lot 23, died Saturday, Dec. 25, 2004, in Wellmont Bristol Regional Medical Center. He was a native of Sullivan County and son of the late Charles H. Hutchins Sr. and Minnie Carter Hutchins. He was a retired carpenter and a member of Charity Pentecostal Church. Survivor’s include his wife, Charlotte Ann Brown Hutchins; daughters, Theresa Hutchins and Karen Hutchins; son, Bryan Hutchins; and stepsons, Bobby Wade, Tim Wade, Johnny Pruitt and Kevin Pruitt. Funeral services will be conducted 11 a.m. Thursday in Weaver Funeral Home with Brother Jimmy Epperson officiating. Burial will follow in Rooty Branch Cemetery. Military honors will be conducted by Patton-Crosswhite VFW Post 6975. Pallbearers; Johnny Pruitt, Tim Wade, Gary Wade, Raymond Reynolds, Jackie Reynolds and Fred Gross. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday in Weaver Funeral Home. Weaver Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Russell Jones NORTON – Funeral services for Russell Jones will be conducted at 1 p.m. Wednesday at the Hagy & Fawbush Funeral Home in Norton with the Rev. Mike Hunsucker and Pastor Monroe Jones Jr. officiating. Burial will be in the Hill Family Cemetery on Guest River. Online condolences may be made by visiting www.hagyfawbush.com Russell Jones, 63, died Thursday, Dec. 23, 2004, at his home on Guest River. Marie McCroskey Graveside services for Marie "Willie" McCroskey will be 11 a.m. Wednesday in Valley View Cemetery. Pallbearers: Jim Goodman, Spurgeon McCroskey, David Murray, William Robert Widener, Alex Stophel, Brad Stophel and Adam Stophel. A procession will leave the funeral home at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday. Expressions of sympathy may be registered at www.weaverfuneralhome.net Marie "Willie" McCroskey, age 76, a resident of Cambridge House, Bristol Tennessee, died Sunday, Dec. 26, 2004. Weaver Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Agnes Mumpower APPALACHIA, Va. – Funeral services for Agnes "Granny" Mumpower will be conducted at 2 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 30, at the Roy A. Green Funeral Home Chapel, with the Dr. Nick Brewer officiating. Burial will follow in the Powell Valley Memorial Gardens Cemetery. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 6 to 9 p.m. Wednesday. Sons will serve as pallbearers. In lieu of flowers, the family ask that donations be made to the Big Stone Gap Rescue Squad, Big Stone Gap, VA. Agnes "Granny" Mumpower, 100, was born Aug. 4, 1904. She left home here on earth to meet Jesus and her late husband, Charles B. Mumpower Sr. on Thursday, Dec. 23, 2004. Roy A. Green Funeral Home, Appalachia, is in charge of arrangements. Hadley A. Pobst BRISTOL, Tenn. – Hadley Armistead Pobst, age 77, went to be with the Lord Monday, Dec. 27, 2004. Hadley was born Jan. 10, 1927, in Tazewell, Va. He has been a resident of Bristol for the last 50 years. Mr. Pobst served in the Army during World War II. He was elder emeritus at Edgemont Presbyterian Church. Mr. Pobst taught mathematics in area schools, was assistant professor at Virginia Highlands Community College until his retirement in 1990 and was a member of Bristol Organization of Model Builders. He loved the Lord, his family, the outdoors and building and flying model airplanes. Survivors include: wife of 54 years, Betty Quillin Pobst; children, George Hadley Pobst and wife Peggy of Murfreesboro, Tenn., and their children, Jonathan Ryan, Tim and Ben, Eileen Elizabeth White and husband Alan of Kingsport and their children, Brian, Kristin and Andrew, Laura Jean Correll and husband Rick of Calhoun, Ga., and their children, Robert, Beth and Aubree, Theodore Quillin Pobst of Nashville, Tenn., Eleanore Jane Womac and husband Alvin of Alcoa, Tenn., and their children, Austin and Adrian, and Susan Joyce Pobst of Columbia, Tenn. Funeral services will be conducted on Thursday, Dec. 30, 2004, at 2 p.m. at Edgemont Presbyterian Church with Rev. Larry Stallard and Rev. Jerry Shibley officiating. Interment will follow at Glenwood Cemetery. Pallbearers will be deacons and elders at Edgemont Presbyterian Church. The family will receive friends on Thursday from 12-1:45 p.m., prior to the service. Online condolences may be registered at www.weaverfuneralhome.net Weaver Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. C.K. Russell CAPRON, Va. – C.K. Russell, age 79, went to be with the Lord Saturday, Dec. 25, 2004. Mr. Russell was a native of Bluefield, W.Va., a resident of Hawkins County, Tenn., the son of the late Elbert and Mattie Lawson Russell, and attended Saltville Baptist Church. He was a U.S. Navy veteran, where she had served in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II. He was preceded in death by one sister, Ruby Bratton, three brothers, E.N. Russell Jr., Herschel Russell and Emmitt Russell. Survivors include his wife of 26 years, Barbara Dawn Russell; two sisters, Betty Overstreet of Havana, Fla., and Pauline Taylor of Bradenton, Fla.; one brother, Elford Russell of Palm City, Fla. Funeral services will be conducted at 10 a.m. Friday, Dec. 31, 2004, in the Weaver Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Wayne Sheridan, Rev. Cass Farrior and Rev. Jack Bowery officiating. Graveside services will be conducted at 11 a.m. Monday, Jan. 3, 2005, in the National Cemetery, Mountain Home, Tenn. There will be no formal visitation held at the funeral home and the family requests, in lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Weaver Funeral Home, 630 Locust St., Bristol, TN 37620 to help with the funeral expenses. E-mail condolences may be sent to the family at www.weaverfuneralhome.net Weaver funeral home is serving the family of Mr. Russell. Dorothy B. Sadler A memorial service for Dorothy "Dot" Biscoe Sadler will be conducted at 7 p.m., Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2004, at Edgemont Presbyterian Church with Rev. Larry Stallard officiating. The family will receive friends at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at the church. For those desiring, memorial contributions may be made to Edgemont Presbyterian Church, 1013 Edgemont Ave., Bristol, TN 37620; or the American Alzheimer’s Association, 207 N. Boone St., Johnson City, TN 37604. Condolences may be sent to the family by visiting our Website at www.akardfuneralhome.com Dorothy "Dot" Briscoe Sadler, age 87, formerly of Harriman, Tenn., went to be with the Lord, Sunday, Dec. 26, 2004. Akard Funeral Home, 1912 West State St., Bristol, TN 37620, (423) 989-4800, is serving the family of Mrs. Sadler. Peggy P. Shumaker BRISTOL, Tenn. – The entombment service for Peggy Peters Shumaker will be conducted at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 29, in Tri-Cities Memory Gardens. Pallbearers will be Harold Newland, Hobert Carr, Fred Birdwell, Ed Booker, Gary Booker, Dan Bettis, Phillip Hughes and Paul Gebhardt. In lieu of flowers, those who wish may make memorial contributions to Blountville Christian Church, Building Fund, 1680 Blountville Boulevard, Blountville, TN 37617 or to their favorite charity in memory of Peg Shumaker. Condolences may be sent to the family by visiting our website at www.akardfuneralhome.com Peggy Peters Shumaker, age 75, went to be with the Lord, Friday, Dec. 24, 2004, at her residence. Akard Funeral Home, 1912 West State St., Bristol, TN 37620, (423) 989-4800, is serving the family of Mrs. Shumaker. Connie Mack Steele DAMASCUS – Connie Mack Steele, age 64, of 533 Docie St., passed away on Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2004, at his residence. He was a lifelong resident of Damascus and was a son of the late William McKinley Steele and Holly Lee Morefield Steele. Connie Mack was a member of the Damascus United Methodist Church, a veteran of the U.S. Air Force, a retired sheriff’s deputy from Washington County Sheriff’s Department, a past bailiff of Washington County Court System, a member of the Damascus Liberty Hall Masonic Lodge No. 104, a member of the American Legion Post No. 135, a past vice- chairman of Washington County Park Authority, past player-agent for Damascus Little League Baseball for 15 years, instructor at Southwest Policy Academy, of Bristol Virginia, a member of the Zoning and Appeals Committee in Damascus, an active member of the Holston High School Booster Club for several years and a lifelong supporter of the Alabama Crimson Tide football team. Survivors are one daughter, Keri Steele Sheets and her husband, R. C., of Glade Spring; one son, Robert W. "Rob" Steele, of San Francisco; one sister, Janice Sutter and her husband, Danny, of Johnson City, Tenn.; one granddaughter, Makenzie Carson Sheets; one grandson, Brycen Steele Sheets; three nieces, Jennifer Bates and her husband Gary, Dana Brown and her husband Jim Bob, and Holly Sutter. The funeral service will be conducted at 8 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 30, 2004, in the Damascus United Methodist Church with Rev. Helen Phillips officiating. The committal service and interment will be at 11 a.m. Friday, Dec. 31, 2004, at Sunset Memorial Park. Graveside rites will be conducted by the Washington County Sheriff’s Department Honor Guard. Honorary pallbearers will be members of the Washington County Sheriff’s Department, Ron Davis, Judge Charles H. Smith Jr., Judge T.L. Hutton Jr., Harold Ellis, Douglas Ellis, Lawrence Lewis and Dr. Martin Monahan. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be sent to the Damascus Volunteer Fire Department, P.O. Box 426, Damascus, VA 24236; or to the Damascus Volunteer Rescue Squad, P.O. Box 458, Damascus, VA 24236. The family will receive friends from 5 until 7:45 p.m. Thursday, prior to the funeral service at Damascus United Methodist Church, Damascus. Condolences may be sent through our Web site at www.garrettfunerahome.com Garrett Funeral Home, Damascus, is serving the family of Connie Mack Steele. Milan Ogden Sutherland CLINTWOOD – Funeral services for Milan Ogden Sutherland will be conducted at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 29, in the Mullins Funeral Home Chapel with clergyman Robbie Hay officiating. Burial will be in the Dyers Cemetery, Stratton. VFW graveside services will be conducted by Clintwood VFW Post 8979, DAV Chapter 35 and American Legion Post 227. Active pallbearers: Billy Joe Blanton Jr., Michael David Blanton, Adam Daniel Flack, John Clayton Flack, Jesse Sutherland, Michael Sutherland, Hugh Sutherland and Noel Dean Fletcher. Honorary pallbearers: Jess Carrington Sutherland, Danny Sutherland, Harry Sutherland and Kelly Sutherland. Milan Ogden Sutherland, age 92, passed away Sunday, Dec. 26, 2004, at Dickenson Community Hospital in Clintwood. Mullins Funeral Home and staff are serving the Sutherland family.