Carter County TN Archives Obituaries.....Tolley, Helen M. December 11, 2005
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Elizabethton Star 12/13/2005
Helen M. Tolley
Helen Marie Tolley, 70, 139 Hyder Street, Hampton, went to be with the Lord
on Sunday, December 11, 2005.
Mrs. Tolley was a native of Carter County and the daughter of the late
Ralph and Myrtle Birchfield McKinney. In addition to her parents, she was
preceded in death by her husband, Paul Tolley, and two brothers, Ray McKinney
and Jack McKinney, both of Roan Mountain.
Mrs. Tolley retired from East Tennessee State University after managing
Sugar Mountain Ski Slopes Food Services. She was of the Baptist faith and will
be greatly missed as a mother, friend and neighbor.
Survivors include two sons and a daughter-in-law, R.L. and Juanita
McKinney, Elizabethton, and Darrell Lee Tolley, of Indiana; two daughters and
sons-in-law, Tina and Freddie Callahan, Elizabethton, and Shannon and Carlos
Posada, Hampton; two sisters and brothers-in-law, Beulah and Dillard Street and
Louise and Bob Baldwin, Roan Mountain; a brother and sister-in-law, Lee and
Joyce McKinney, Roan Mountain; and her honorary family, Donald and Lee Naille.
Four grandsons, six granddaughters, one great-granddaughter, one great-great-
grandson and several nieces and nephews also survive.
Funeral services for Mrs. Tolley will be conducted at 8 p.m. Tuesday,
December 13, at Memorial Funeral Chapel with Rev. Randy English officiating.
Music will be under the direction of Charlotte Smith. Graveside services and
interment will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday, December 14, at Happy Valley Memorial
Park. Active pallbearers will be Carlos Posada, Freddie Callahan, Andrew
McKinney, Donald Naille, Sammy Hughes, Brandon Dugger, Ralph McKinney, Tim
McKinney, Tommy McKinney, Darrell Tolley Jr. and Cody Walsh. Honorary
pallbearers will be Paul Johnson, Roy Street, Bob Baldwin, Dillard Street and
Matthew McKinney. The family would like to express a special "Thank You" to the
Sycamore Shoals Hospital Nursing Staff, Adventa Hospice, Dr. Jan Tillman, Dr.
Justin Digby, the Medicine Shoppe and the Carter County Rescue Squad. The
family will receive friends at the funeral chapel from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday,
prior to the service hour. Friends may also call at the residence at anytime.
Pallbearers, family and friends will assemble at the funeral chapel at 9:15
a.m. Wednesday to go to the cemetery. Online condolences to the Tolley family
may be made at mfc(a)chartertn.net.
Memorial Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements.
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