OBITUARIES

Michael R Smith

Oct 20, 2022

Michael R Smith, 63, of Bristol, TN, passed away on Thursday, October 20, 2022. Services will be private. Trinity Memorial Centers Funeral Home (423-723-8177) is honored to serve the family.

Ruby Brown

Oct 19, 2022

Ruby Jean Brown, 65, of Kingsport, TN, passed away on Wednesday, October 19, 2022.

Ruby was native to the Kingsport area, where she raised her family. She loved visiting Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge. Ruby had a passion for cooking and enjoyed the holidays. She also loved shopping, especially for candles. You could find Ruby, her...

Ronnie Dale Falin

Oct 18, 2022

Ronnie Dale Falin, age 71, passed away on Tuesday, October 18, 2022.

Arrangements are incomplete at this time.

Trinity Memorial Centers Funeral Home (423-723-8177) is honored to serve the Falin family.

John Hall

Oct 17, 2022

John Howard Hall Jr., 63, of Kingsport, TN, passed away on Monday, October 17, 2022.

Born in Sullivan County, John spent his life in East Tennessee where he worked in janitorial service. John was an avid fisherman and enjoyed coon hunting. He also enjoyed tinkering with lawn mowers. He was married to Teresa Parker-Hall and...

Earnest Williams

Oct 16, 2022

Ernest Williams, 67, of Kingsport, TN, passed away on Sunday, October 16, 2022.

Ernie was born in Wise, VA in 1955. He got his CDL license and spent most of his life driving trucks for several different companies, in the last few years it was Englander. He loved his job, when he wasn’t home that...

Ronald Newton

Oct 16, 2022

Ronald Edward Newton, age 55, passed away on Sunday, October 16, 2022.

Arrangements are incomplete at this time.

Trinity Memorial Centers Funeral Home (423-723-8177) is honored to serve the Newton family.

Paul Mayfield

Oct 15, 2022

Paul Mayfield, 72 , passed away on Saturday, October 15th, 2022.

Arrangements are incomplete at this time.

Trinity Memorial Centers Funeral Home (423-723-8177) is honored to serve the Mayfield family.

Mereda Ratliff

Oct 14, 2022

Mereda Pauline Ratliff, 83, of Kingsport, TN, passed away on Friday, October 14, 2022.

Mereda was born in Kingsport, TN on September 7th, 1939 where she resided her whole life. After graduating from Sullivan West High School (Class of 1958) she worked briefly and then was married. Mereda loved her family and loved her friends....

Robert Lee Wilson

Oct 14, 2022

Robert Lee Wilson, 66, of Church Hill, Tennessee, went to be with the Lord on Friday, October14, 2022.

Robert was a proud retired army veteran of the 101st Airborne Division. He attained the rank of Sergeant and specialized in the Army’s Special Operation Unit, the Rangers.

Robert was an active child...

Leslie Ann Wallen

Oct 12, 2022

Leslie Ann Wallen, 54, of Rogersville, TN, passed away on Wednesday, October 12, 2022.

Leslie is preceded in death by her grandparents, Chester and Sarah Light, Jesse and Sarah Wallen; father, Fred Hubert Wallen; stepfather, Kenneth Frank Phillips; the father of her children, Claude Parsons Jr.

She is survived by her...

Gertrude “Trudy” Leigh Creagh

Oct 11, 2022

Gertrude “Trudy” Leigh Creagh, age 75, passed away on Tuesday, October 11, 2022.

Services will be private.

Trinity Memorial Centers Funeral Home (423-723-8177) is honored to serve the Creagh family.

Betty Lou Dockery

Oct 11, 2022

Betty Lou Dockery, 78, of Kingsport, TN, passed away on Tuesday, October 11, 2022.

Born in Russell County, Virginia, Betty met and married Troy Baldwin. The couple was happily married for over thirty years. After Troy passed, Betty married Howard Dockery. Betty loved going to church and singing in her church. Most recently she attended...

Shirley J. Mowdy

Oct 11, 2022

Shirley Jene Mowdy, 76, of Kingsport, TN, passed away on Tuesday, October 11, 2022.

She left this earth suddenly to travel to her next life. She was a sweet, caring, and loving wife, mother, sister, daughter, and grandmother. She loved anytime family visited, but her favorite time was when we all could get together at...

Jeanette Kay Ervin

Oct 8, 2022

Jeanette Kay Ervin, 61, of Gate City, VA, passed away at Bristol Regional Medical Center on Saturday, October 8, 2022.

Born in Fort Smith, Arkansas, to Paul and Sue Deheart, Jeanette spent most of her life in Northeast Tennessee/SW Virginia, where she met and married the love of her life, Steve Ervin. The couple was...

Anna Elizabeth Kerr

Oct 7, 2022

Anna Elizabeth Kerr, 82. Of Gray TN. Went home to heaven on Friday, October 7, 2022, at her home surrounded by loved ones. Peacefully in her sleep.

Anna has been reunited with loved ones who have gone home before her. Her Father Russell Hirschfeld, and her mother Mary Hirschfeld. Her younger brother Herbert, young sister...

Test Record

Oct 4, 2022

Mary Robertson

Oct 3, 2022

Mary “Sam” Norburn Robertson, 75, of Rogersville, TN, passed away on Monday, October 3, 2022.

Born in Asheville, North Carolina, Sam attended Pellissippi State to study engineering. She was a well traveled woman who went as far as the Outback and the highlands of Scotland. She loved to pirate films and had a massive collection....

Sallie Ann Castle

Oct 2, 2022

Sallie Ann Castle, 71, of Duffield, VA, went to be with the Lord on Sunday, October 2nd, 2022.

She is preceded in death by her fiance, Gene Phillips; ex-husband, Emory “P-Nut” Castle; grandson, Ty Gibson; parents, Ethel and Hugh James Castle; and brother, Jr. Castle.

Left to cherish her memories are...

Timothy Grills

Oct 1, 2022

Timothy Lynn Grills, 56, passed away at his home in Elizabethton, Tennessee, on Saturday, October 1, 2022.

Born in Sullivan County, Tim worked in the grocery industry, but he especially enjoyed hunting and fishing.

He is preceded in death by his grandparents, George and Margaret Grills, who raised him.

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Nola Childers

Oct 1, 2022

Nola Childers, 79, of Kingsport, TN, passed away on Saturday, October 1, 2022. She was a wonderful woman who practiced her faith daily. She is now in the hands of the Lord.

Nola was born in Virginia in 1943. She moved to Kingsport as a child. She met her husband, Charles, in high school. They...