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- ROAN MOUNTAIN – It is with extreme sadness and broken hearts that we announce the passing of our mother Sarah J. Whitehead, 88, Roan Mountain, who passed away Monday June 1, 2009, in the Roan Highland Nursing Center after an extended illness.
She was a native of Carter County and a daughter of the late Jacob and Blanche Arnett Guinn.
Sarah loved to work in her flowers and vegetable garden. She freely shared her bounty with friends and neighbors and family, whatever their needs may be. She was a member of the Little Mountain Baptist Church.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Charlie Whitehead; and a brother, George Guinn.
Survivors include a son and daughter-in-law: Leon & Louise Whitehead, Roan Mountain; Two Daughters and One Son-In-Law: Della Whitehead, Elizabethton, Loretta and Jim McKinney, Roan Mountain; Grandsons: Michael McKinney and wife, Raquel, Piney Flats, Chris Whitehead and wife Shannon, Roan Mountain, and Mark McKinney and wife, April, of Knoxville; Two Great Grandsons; Hunter McKinney and Blake Whitehead; Three Great Granddaughters: Lilly Kate McKinney, Maggie & Rachael McKinney; Four Sisters: Myrtle Elliott, Roan Mountain, Mae Pate, Johnson City, Lea McKinney, Elk Park, North Carolina, and Dorothy Forbes, Elizabethton; Two Brothers: Tommy Guinn, Roan Mountain, and Otis Guinn, Elizabethton; Several Nieces & Nephews.
Funeral Services will be conducted at 8 p.m. Wednesday in Memorial Funeral Chapel with the Pastor Delaney Berry officiating.
Graveside Service and Interment will be at 10 a.m. Thursday in Happy Valley Memorial Park. Music will be provided by Edna Woodby, Soloist. Active Pallbearers who are requested to assemble at the funeral home at 9:30 a.m. Thursday will be: Jessie Dean McKinney, Jerry McKinney, Byran McKinney, Troy Whitehead, Tony Whitehead, Jeremey Cole, Ed Johnson, Cecil Largent, Raymond Hill, Tommy Roberson Jr., Jim Frye, Mike Blevins, Chris Whitehead, Mark McKinney and Michael McKinney. Honorary Pallbearers will be: Estel Whitehead, Byrl Whitehead, Bill Forbes, Bill Pate, J.D. McKinney, Bernie Hill, Bobby Hill, Jerry Cole and Charles Jones.
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1920 - 2009 (88 years)
