1. | Mollie H. McQueen was born in Jan 1882 in Johnson County, , , Tennessee; died on 11 Feb 1969 in Washintgon County, , , Tennessee; was buried in Happy Valley Memorial Park, , Carter County, Tennessee. Notes:
"The Tomahawk," Wednesday, February 12, 1969
DEATHS
Mrs. Mollie Cress, 87, Rt. 7, Elizabethton (Lincoln Drive) died in Johnson City Memorial Hospital at 11:45 p.m. Tuesday after an illness of three weeks.
Mrs. Cress was a native of Johnson County, having resided in Elizabethton for the past 33 years. She was the daughter of the late Alfred S. and Augusta Rainbolt McQueen. She was preceded in death by her husband, Rufus G. Cress in 1955. She was a member of the Baptist Church and the last charter member of the Cobb's Creek Church at Butler.
Survivors include six daughters, Mrs. Floy Baily, Roanoke, Va., Mrs. Loretta Miller, Gary, Ind., Mrs. Winnie Ornduff, Elizabethton, Mrs. Sally Jones, Covington, Va., and Mrs. Ruby Wenzel and Mrs. Jean Wenzel, both of the home; two sons, Blake of Hattisburg, Miss., and James, Elizabethton; 34 grandchildren and 49 great-grandchildren.
Funeral services wee conducted from the Hathaway-Percy Funeral Home Chapel, Friday, 2:00 p.m. with the Rev. Henry Colvard and the Rev. W. W. Ward officiating. Mrs. Georgia Cox was the organist, and the Younce Brothers were in charge of the music. Burial was in the Happy Valley Memorial Park.
Active pall-bearers[sic] were the grandsons, Gilbert Ornduff, Delmore Ornduff, Donald Ross, Kenneth Kelley.
Flower-bearers were friends and neighbors.
Hathaway-Percy was in charge of arrangements.
Mollie married Rufus Greenmore Cress about 1901 in Johnson County, , , Tennessee. Rufus (son of George Washington Cress and Mary Loretta Stout) was born on 22 Nov 1874 in Johnson County, , , Tennessee; died on 3 Jul 1955 in Carter County, , , Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 2. Floy G. Cress was born about 1904 in Johnson County, , , Tennessee.
- 3. Loretta A. "Rettie" Cress was born about 1910 in Johnson County, , , Tennessee; died on 17 Feb 2010 in Carter County, , , Tennessee; was buried in Happy Valley Memorial Park, , Carter County, Tennessee.
- 4. Winnie K. Cress was born about 1911 in Johnson County, , , Tennessee.
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