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- TOLLEY, Phillip
“Elizabethton Star,” Friday, June 25, 1948
PVT. PHILLIP TOLLEY
The body of Pvt. Phillip Tolley, who was killed March 5, 1944, at Cape Gloucester, New Britain, arrived in Johnson City this morning.
Pvt. Tolley was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Dave Tolley of Hampton.
He attended grammar school at Tiger Valley and high school at Hampton. He was employed at American Bemberg Corp. spinning room at the time he went into the Army. Pvt. Tolley entered service on Dec. 29, 1942, and took his training at Camp David and Fort Fisher, N.C. He was sent overseas September 1943, with the Hq. Batry, 469th Coast Artillery and was with the 469 until his death.
Survivors are the parents; two brothers, Zeke and Raymond Tolley of Hampton; one sister, Ethel Tolley, Hampton; maternal grandmother, Mrs. Betty Holman, Roan Mountain.
Funeral services will be conducted at the Little Doe Baptist Church Sunday afternoon at 2:00 o'clock with the Rev. W. W. Bean officiating.
Active pallbearers will be selected from the American Legion Post No. 49 and Capt. Lynn Folsom Post No. 2166 of Veterans of Foreign Wars. Full military honors will be rendered at the grave by these two posts.
Flower bearers will be Misses Voretta Whitehead, Martha Robinson, Jean Townsend, Jewel Sells, Sally Cates, Jean Whitehead, Cartha Hill and Mesdames Byrd Clark, Carl Teague, Dox Street, Monta Hill, Hensley Clark, Wayne Carlton, Joe Whitehead and Oscar Cox.
The body will be returned to the home of his parents at Route 1 Hampton, this afternoon. Roy Hathaway Funeral Home is in charge.
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Abt 1922 - 1944 (~ 22 years)
