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- Mary Lenos Trivett, 78, Brown Avenue, Johnson City, died Saturday, February
19, 2005, at Johnson City Medical Center.
Mrs. Trivett was a native of Avery County, N.C., and a daughter of the late
John Bunyan Trivett Sr. and Vana McGuire Trivett. She was also preceded in
death by her husband, Ulysses G. Trivett Sr., and by two brothers, a sister
and a stepson.
Mrs. Trivett graduated from Cranberry High School in North Carolina and moved
to Johnson City to work and live. After a short time at American Optical
Company, she worked for the Kingsport Press. During this time she married
Ulysses G. Trivett Sr.
Mrs. Trivett attended business college in Johnson City and earned a
certificate in stenography. She attended night classes at East Tennessee State
University, studying real estate, and then helped her husband incorporate
Trivett's Inc., and they along with U.G. Trivett Jr., built apartments
throughout the southeast. By this time she and her husband had other real
estate holdings, which she helped manage. Mrs. Trivett attended management
seminars at Appalachian State University and Georgia State University. She
earned her registered apartments manager certification and continued to manage
until the mid 1980s.
Mrs. Trivett was listed in Personalities of the South in the '70s on two
different occasions. She was past president of the Altrusa International of
Johnson City, the American Legion Auxiliary, National Conference of Women in
Chambers of Commerce, a member of the American Business Women's Association,
past officer in the Washington County Republican Women and the Tri-Cities
Apartment Association. She was a member of Central Baptist Church.
Survivors include a son, Melvin Trivett, Nashville; a daughter, Sherri Trivett
Kay, Johnson City; two brothers, Vernon Trivett, Pensacola, Fla., and Clark
Trivett, West End, N.C.; and three sisters, Georgia Marston, Peoria, Ill.,
Jewel Nunley, Elizabethton, and Judy Lynn, Newton, N.C.; and a grandson,
Michael Blake Trivett, Johnson City. A step-granddaughter, a step-grandson and
several nieces and nephews also survive.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday, February 22, from the East
Chapel of Appalachian Funeral Home with Rev. Randy Hensley, Rev. Willard
Warfield and Rev. James Dampier officiating. Graveside services will follow at
Monte Vista Burial Park.
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1926 - 2005 (78 years)
