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Subject: [TNCAMPBE-L] Obits From The Knoxville News Sentinel 9 Jun 2003
Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2003 20:37:13 EDT
>From The Knoxville News Sentinel 9 Jun 2003
BRIDGES, ELEANOR CRESWELL McCONKEY ALLRED - age 94,
NELSON, JAMES B. - age 57, Jacksboro,
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BRIDGES, ELEANOR CRESWELL McCONKEY ALLRED - age 94, passed away Saturday,
June 7, 2003, at Atria Weston Court. She was preceded in death by husband, Carl
B. Bridges, Sr.; daughter, Maxine Noe Thompson and grandson, Darryl Thompson.
Survived by sons, Robert C. McConkey, Sr. and John E. McConkey, both of
Knoxville; sisters, Beulah Mason Kerr Nobel of Texas, and Edna C. Byers of Boston,
Mass.; grandchildren, John E. McConkey, II, Laury McConkey Hembree, Valerie
McDaniel, Randy Thompson, Scott Thompson, Tracy Thompson, Cathy McConkey Morrison,
Robert C. McConkey, Jr., Michael E. McConkey, Douglas R. McConkey, Nancy
McConkey Nolen and Cindy McConkey Cox; twenty-two great- grandchildren, and three
great-great grandchildren. She was the daughter of the late Atty. General,
E.E. Creswell and Polly Ogle Creswell of Sevierville. Eleanor and the late former
husband, Robert L. McConkey owned and operated McConkey Drug Store on Clinton
Hwy. for many years. She was a charter member of Wallace Memorial Baptist
Church and a Saints Alive Member. Ms. Bridges was also employed by the Y- 12
Plant in Oak Ridge during World War II. Family and friends will meet at the
mausoleum chapel of Woodhaven Memorial Gardens on Edgemoor Rd. in Claxton at 10:45
a.m. on Tuesday, June 10, 2003, for an 11 a.m. entombment service with Rev.
Carl Bridges, Jr. officiating. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to
Leukemia Lymphoma Society, Tenn. Chapter, 446 Metroplex Dr. Suite A, 200 Nashville,
Tenn. 37211-3112. Friends may call at their convenience on Monday June 9,
2003, at Mynatt Funeral Home.
NELSON, JAMES B. - age 57, of 191 Willow Tree Lane, Jacksboro, passed away
Sunday, June 8, 2003, at his home. He was of the Baptist faith. Mr. Nelson was a
member of the Stooksbury Masonic Lodge #602 F&AM, Scottish Rite Mason of
Knoxville. He loved fishing and four wheeling. He was preceded in death by mother,
Bertha Nelson and brother, Veldon Nelson. Mr. Nelson is survived by wife,
Anna Nelson; daughters, Patricia Nelson Damewood, and Laura Hatfield, all of
Jacksboro; father, Millard Nelson of LaFollette; brothers, Glen, Ronald, and
Marshall Nelson, all of LaFollette, Rev. Donald Nelson of Jacksboro, Johnny and
Vernon Nelson, both of Mt. Orab, Ohio, Virgil and Laddie Nelson of Center, Ky.;
sisters, Kathleen Reynolds of LaFollette, Janice Suggs of Dayton, Ohio, Reva
McGurk of West Chester, Ohio; grandchildren, T. J., Kristine, and Jennifer
Hatfield, Kimberly Damewood, and several nieces, nephews. and a host of other
relatives and friends. Funeral services will be 11 a.m. Wednesday, June 11, 2003,
in the Chapel of Martin Wilson Funeral Home with Rev. Bobby Franklin
offciating. Interment will follow in Bakers Forge Cemetery. The family will receive
friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday night with a Masonic Funeral to follow at 8 p.m.
by the Stooksbury Masonic Lodge. Martin Wilson Funeral Home, of LaFollette, is
in charge.
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