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- Mrs. Nell Ward Dugger, 100, 121 Tester Road, Elizabethton, died Tuesday, September 17, 2002. Dugger was a native of Ashe County, N.C. and had resided in Carter County since 1905. She was the daughter of the late William and Laura Shaw Ward. Dugger was a homemaker and a member of Zion Baptist Church.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Stephen "Jett" Dugger in 1962; one son, Clarence Dugger; one daughter, Virginia Wilson; one sister, Clide Ward; one brother, Honard Ward; three grandsons, Ralph and Jimmy Whitehead and Louie Pate; and one great-great granddaughter, Sierra Dawn Waycaster.
Survivors include one son, James Dugger, Elizabethton; five daughters, Joyce Sue Dugger, Artha Loveless, Anna Pate, Hannah Whitehead, and Laura Taylor, all of Elizabethton; eight grandchildren, Terry Whitehead, Steve Whitehead, Gary Dugger, Barbara Taylor, Joann Whitehead, Phyllis Merritt, Elaine Wilson, and Kathy Lethcoe, also of Elizabethton; twelve great-grandchildren, David Taylor, Chris Whitehead, Marc Merritt, Travis Whitehead, Tim Whitehead, Joshua Pate, Lance Riddle, Shane Riddle, Gavin Dugger, Susan Whitehead, Amy Jones and Jordan Dugger; three great-great grandsons, Chris Whitehead, Caleb Riddle and Hunter Jones; and two great-great granddaughters, Falin Whitehead and Norhe Riddle.
Hathaway-Percy Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. www.Funeral-Plans.com/Hathaway-Percy.
DUGGER -- Funeral services for Mrs. Nell Ward Dugger, 100, 121 Tester Road, Elizabethton, who died Tuesday, will be conducted at 8 p.m. Thursday, September 19, 2002 in the Sunset Chapel of Hathaway-Percy Funeral Home with Rev. C.W. Snodgrass officiating. Graveside services and interment will be conducted at 11 a.m. Friday, September 20, 2002 in the Hyder Cemetery. Active pallbearers will be Terry Whitehead, Steve Whitehead, David Taylor, Tom Jones, Gary Dugger, Kenny Lethcoe, Ralph Ward, Raymond Ward, Christopher Whitehead, David Jones, Lynn Greenwell and Ray Loveless. Honorary pallbearers will be Zane Loveless, Nicholas Loveless, Bobby McKeehan, Steve Hyder, Marc Merritt, Shane Riddle, Lance Riddle, Gavin Dugger, Housecall and Adventa Hospice, and special friends Betty Ellis and Myrtle Heaton. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 6 to 8 p.m. on Thursday or at the residence of a daughter, Hannah Whitehead, 2128 Gap Creek Road, Elizabethton, at any time. Everyone will meet at the funeral home at 10:15 a.m. on Friday to go in procession to the cemetery.
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1901 - 2002 (100 years)
