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Submitted: 7/31/20 • Approved: 7/31/20 • Last Updated: 8/3/20 • R197336-G197334-S3
John Avery Carney
December 29, 1891 - January 5, 1970
Married December 17, 1922
*Obituary
CARNEY, JOHN AVERY, 78, Graysville, Tenn., died Monday morning in Rhea County Hospital.
Survivors, one daughter, Mrs. Kenneth Smith, Hopkinsville, Ky.; one son, Clark Carney, Hixson, Tenn., five grandchildren; two brothers, Will Carney, Chattanooga; Mynatt Carney, Dayton, Tenn., several nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 11 a.m. at Old Washington Baptist Church with the Rev. J.L. Gates and the Rev. J.E. Cunningham officiating.
Interment in Rhea Memory Gardens. Sawyers, Dayton in charge."
Source: Chattanooga Times, 7 Jan 1970
Cora Lee Clarke Carney
December 4, 1892 - April 21, 1968
*Obituary
CARNEY, MRS. CORA L., 75, Graysville, Tenn., lifelong resident of Rhea County,
died early Sunday night in a Rhea County hospital. She was the daughter of the late James and Elizabeth Montgomery Clark. She was a member of the Old Washington Baptist church and a former school teacher of Rhea County.
She is survived by her husband, J. A. Carney, Graysville; one daughter, Mrs. Kenneth Smith, Hopkinsville, Ky.; one son, Clark Carney, Hixson, Tenn., five grandchildren; one sister, Mrs. I. L. Mathis, Graysville; two brothers, Jeff Clark, Dayton; Fred Clark, Hixson; several nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her brother, Ernest Clark.
The funeral will be Tuesday at 2:30 from the Old Washington Baptist Church with the Rev. J. L. Gates and Don Nelms officiating. The body will lie in state at the church one hour before the service.
Burial in Rhea Memory Gardens. Active pallbearers will be Bill Pefrey, Raso Polston, Fred Mullins, Oscar Sharp, Ray Perry and Lee Paylor. Honorary pallbearers will be E. L. Tipps, Melvin Green, Dr. J. J. Rodgers, J. M. Abel, Earl Garrison, Finley Taylor, Grover Aikman, Ed Hicks, Ed Pierce, Fred Dennis and Spurgeon Harrison.
The body is at the funeral home. Sawyers, Dayton in charge."
Source: Chattanooga Times, April 23, 1968
*Photo courtesy of Dean Wilson
Contributed on 7/31/20
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