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- Josephine Ritchie Williams, age 94, of Elizabethton, passed away on Tuesday, January 21, 2014, in the Pine Ridge Care Center, following an extended illness. Josephine was a native of Carter County and the daughter of the late Barnal Allen and Mary Ettie Nichols Ritchie. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Clarence C. Williams; an infant brother; three sisters, Ethel Robinson, Beulah Smith and Anna Lee Lewis; and a special grandson by marriage, Billy Wayne Hilton.
Mrs. Williams was a homemaker and was of the Baptist faith. She enjoyed gardening and flowers.
Survivors include three sons, Ed Williams and wife Charlotte, Darrell Williams and wife Barbara, and Harold Williams, all of Elizabethton; three grandchildren, Kathy Hilton and her friend, George Shoun, Ann Andrews and husband James, and Darrell Wayne Williams and wife Donna, all of Elizabethton; four great grandchildren, Jeffery “Skeeter” Bowers, Billy “Peanut” Hilton, Kelly JoMae Hilton, and Jamie Andrews. Several nieces and nephews also survive.
The family requests the comfort and honor of your presence at the funeral service for Mrs. Josephine Williams on Friday, January 24, 2014 at 7:00 PM in the Riverside Chapel at Tetrick Funeral Home, Elizabethton with Rev. Carl Grindstaff and Rev. Brian Smith, officiating. The family will receive friends from 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM in the funeral home chapel, prior to the service on Friday; or at the residence of a son and daughter-in-law, Ed and Charlotte Williams, 112 Crestview Drive, Elizabethton, at anytime.
The graveside service will be conducted at 11:00 AM on Saturday, January 25, 2014 in the Pearl Bowers Cemetery. Active pallbearers will be Jerry Shepard, Billy Hilton, George Shoun, Jacob Wilson, James Andrews, and Paul Scalf, Jr. Honorary pallbearers will be all her neighbors and friends in Black Bottom.
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1919 - 2014 (94 years)
