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- Caleb Tolley, 79, 738 Piney Grove Road, Hampton, died Monday, November 22,
1999, at the James H. Quillen VA Medical Center after an extended illness.
Mr. Tolley was a native of Carter County and a son of the late Dempsey and
Lodema Tolley.
Mr. Tolley was a retired employee of North American Rayon Corporation. He
entered the service January 1942, took training at the Jackson Air Base,
Jackson, Miss., and served in the European Theater. He was a recipient of Seven
Bronze Stars, The Good Conduct Medal and The Good Conduct Ribbon. He received
the European Theater Ribbon. While in service he attended the St. James Church
in Florence, Italy and other churches in Italy. He was a Disabled American
Veteran.
He was a member of the Fairview Free Will Baptist Church but attended the
Piney Grove Free Will Baptist Church, where he received a 14-year perfect
attendance in Sunday School.
Survivors include his wife, Kate Stevens Tolley; four daughters, Brenda
Simerly and Barbara Moffett, both of Hampton, Helen Blevins and Janice Stout,
both of Elizabethton; two sisters, Mae Woodby, Unicoi, and Bertha Woodby,
Hampton; a brother, Joshua Tolley, Elizabethton; 12 grandchildren, Denise Norris,
Lisa White, Angelia Smith, Scott Simerly, April Townsend, Kim Simerly, Kristi
Simerly, Randy Woodby, Kevin Woodby, Tawana Holland, LaDanna Boone and Bobby
Stout Jr.; seven great-grandchildren, Katie Jo Norris, Andrea Smith, Alexis
Townsend, Morgan Guy, Taylor Julian, Tyler Woodby and Emrie Boone; also
special friends, Tonya Buchanan, George Stanley and Gwyn Cole. Several nieces and
nephews also survive.
Memorial Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements.
TOLLEY -- Funeral services for Caleb Tolley, 79, 738 Piney Grove Road,
Hampton, who went to be with his Lord Monday, November 22, 1999, will be
conducted at 8 p.m. Wednesday at Memorial Funeral Chapel with Rev. Bobby Stout and
Rev. Dexter Brummitt officiating. The Pleasant Beach Quartet and Tawana
Holland, soloist, will provide the music. Entombment services will be conducted at
10 a.m. Friday in the Mausoleum of Peace at Happy Valley Memorial Park.
Military Honors will be conducted by the American Legion Hammond Post #3,
Kingsport. Active pallbearers, who are requested to assemble at the funeral home at
930 a.m. Friday, will be Bobby Stout Jr., Ken Woodby, Byrl McKinney, Tip
Smith, Arthur Blevins, Kenneth Randy Woodby, Kevin Lee Woodby, Lance Harsh,
Stephen Harsh, Robert Barnett Jr., George Stanley and Scott Simerly. Honorary
pallbearers will be Earl Jones, Vic Harrison, Kenny McKinney, Dennis Clark, Hayes
Woodby, Allen Holtsclaw, Vernon Holtsclaw, Stanley Hill, Carl Stevens,
Conley Woodby, William Cole, Ronnie McKinney, Barney McKinney, Cecil Hyder, C.L.
Woodby and Albert Ellison. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m.
Wednesday at the funeral home. Friends may also call at the residence. Family
and friends will assemble at the funeral home at 930 a.m. Friday to go to the
cemetery. Memorial Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements.
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Abt 1919 - 1999 (~ 80 years)
