Carter County TN Archives Obituaries.....Reece, Gladys C January 21, 2006
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Elizabethton Star 01/23/06
Gladys C. Reece
Gladys Cates Reece, 94, currently of Hixson, Tenn., previously of the
Dennis Cove Community of Hampton, went home to Heaven on Saturday, January 21,
2006, at her residence following a brief illness.
Mrs. Reece was a native of Carter County and a daughter of the late R.C.
and Ida Crowe Cates.
Mrs. Reece retired from Bemberg in 1973. She was the oldest member of
Hampton Christian Church.
In addition to her parents, Mrs. Reece was preceded in death by her first
husband, Arnold Tollett; her second husband, Kermit Reece; a brother, L.D.
Cates; and four sisters, Ruth Campbell, Thelma Cates, Ethel Pierce and Helen
Pierce.
Survivors include three daughters, Betty Tollett Spencer and her husband
Phil of Ringgold, Ga., Ruth Smedley and her husband Randall of Chattanooga, and
Edna Moncrief, Wilmington, N.C.; a son, Joe Reece and his wife Mary Ann of
Chesapeake City, Md.; 10 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren; and a
sister, Leona Stout, Cumberland, Va. Several nieces and nephews also survive.
Funeral services for Mrs. Reece will be conducted at 7 p.m. Monday, January
23, in the Sunset Chapel of Hathaway-Percy Funeral Home with Mr. L.D. Campbell
and Mr. Dwayne Calhoun, ministers, officiating. The family will receive friends
at the funeral home from 5 to 7 p.m. Monday, prior to the service. Graveside
services and interment will be conducted at 10 a.m. Tuesday, January 24, at
Happy Valley Memorial Park. Friends and family are asked to meet at the
cemetery at 9:50 a.m. for that service. Active pallbearers will be grandsons.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Hampton Christian
Church, 810 Deerfield Lane, Hampton, TN 37658. Online condolences may be sent
to the Reece family through our Web site at
www.hathawaypercy.com.
Hathaway-Percy Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
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