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- "Elizabethton Star," Wednesday, December 21, 1938
JOHN H. CRESS
John H. Cress, 67, died at his home at Mountain City Sunday night after a very short illness.
Funeral services were conducted at Valley View Methodist church yesterday afternoon at 2:30, with the Rev. A. E. Brown officiating. Interment was in the Phillippi Cemetery.
Mr. Cress is survived by his widow, Mrs. Debbie Cress; two daughters, Nellie Cress, Anna Bess Phillippi, both of Mountain City; five sons, Luther, Claude, Morris, Wilmer and Dudley of Mountain City; four sisters, Mrs. J. C. Scott, Bartlow, Va., Mrs. Sam Arnold, Atkins, Va., Mrs. A. J. Prater and T. L. Prather of Marion, Va.; three brothers, D. W. Cress, Harisburg, Va., J. L. Cress, Seven Mile Ford, Va., Joe Cress, Mountain City. He is also survived by eight grandchildren.
Pallbearers were Wiley Wilson, Bryant Lyons, Archie Warren, R. B. Brown, John Smith, Raymond Phillippi.
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1871 - 1938 (67 years)
