- Alice Stout, age 86, of Mountain City, Tennessee passed away on Tuesday, October 14, 2014 at the Lake Norman Regional Medical Center in Mooresville, NC. She was a Johnson County native and was born on February 22, 1928 to the late William R. “Bill” Hicks and Sarah Evelyn Davis Hicks. In addition to her parents, Alice was preceded in death by her husband of 67 and ½ years, Carroll E. Stout, who passed away on July 12, 2014; infant daughter, Rita Diane Stout, sisters: infant Helen Hicks, Hazel Adams, Rose Stamper, Bessie Swanay and Winnie Harper, brothers: Wayne Hicks, Fred Hicks, Frank Hicks, Herb Hicks, J.T. Hicks and Lester Hicks. She was the last survivor out of a family of twelve children.
She loved to work in her flowers, enjoyed quilting, and also liked to travel. She retired from Timberland Shoe Company after 35 years of service. Alice loved her family, especially her grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and will truly be missed by those who knew her.
She was a member of the Doe Valley United Methodist Church.
Alice is survived by her daughter, Linda Stansbery of Mountain City, TN; sons: Dennis Stout and wife Kathy of Mountain City, TN, and Wayne Stout and wife Judy of Elizabethton, TN; grandchildren: Mitchell Stansbery and wife Penny, Stephani Jarnigan and husband Josh, and Michael Stout, great-grandchildren: Carlisle and Jansen Jarnigan, and Joe Stansbery, sister-in-laws, Geraldine Hicks and Judy Hicks, special friends, Hilah Coleman and Gail Miller, and several special nieces and nephews.
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