Elsie Guinn

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Elsie Guinn Tolley, 87, 1008 Marbleton Road, Unicoi, went home to be with the Lord, Monday, January 12, 2015, in the Unicoi County Hospital Long Term Care.
She was a native of Mitchell County, NC, and was a daughter of the late Luther and Nancy Jane Whitehead Guinn.
Mrs. Tolley had worked for Industrial Garments, V.A. Center and North American Rayon. She was a charter and founding member of the Fork Mountain Freewill Baptist Church in Roan Mountain.
Mrs. Tolley was a wonderful and loving wife, mother, grandmother and great grandmother. She loved the Lord and her family. She will truly be missed by all who knew her.
In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by six brothers, Blaine Whitehead, Oliver, Bob, Dan, Jack and Howard Guinn; seven sisters, Julie Roberts, Posie Tolley, Liza Guinn, Mabel Ingram, Vicie Tolley, Lillian Jones and Mary Whitehead; two grandsons, Raymond B. Tolley Jr. and Tommy Joe Tolley; a granddaughter, Stacy Yarber; a great-grandson, T.J. Yarber.
Survivors include her loving husband of 69 years, Blake Tolley; four children, Phyllis Tolley, of Unicoi, Margaret Gregg and husband, Dallas, of Unicoi, Bruce Tolley and wife, Goldie, of Elizabethton, and Raymond Tolley, of Unicoi; a sister, Effie Carver, of Hampton; nine grandchildren; twenty great-grandchildren; three great-great-grandchildren; also many nieces and nephews.
Funeral services for Mrs. Tolley will be conducted at 7:00 PM Thursday, January 15, 2015, in the New Hope Freewill Baptist Church, Marbleton Road, with Rev. Kenneth Grindstaff and Rev. Norman Loveless officiating.
The family will receive friends at the church from 5:00 PM until the service hour. Other times at the home of her daughters, Margaret, 1008 Marbleton Road, Unicoi, and Phyllis, 117 Village Lane, Unicoi.
Graveside services will be held at 11:00 AM Friday, January 16, 2015, in the Guinn Cemetery in Hampton with Rev. Donnie Harris officiating. Active pallbearers will be Anthony and Dwight Gregg, Holden Tolley, Steve Nelson, Jerry Gill, Marcus Wilcox, David Cigarro and B.J. Tolley. Honorary pallbearers will be Jim Carver, Roy, David, Joe, Keith and Kent Tolley, Doyle Jones, Dalton Gill. Cody Pyron and Caleb Arrwood. For those attending the graveside service you are asked to meet at the church Friday by 10:10 AM to go in procession to the cemetery.
The family would like to express their sincere thanks to Dr. Jason Colinger, Vikki Bryant, Candace Short and the entire staff of the Unicoi County Hospital Long Term Care for the loving care and kindness they provided.

Elsie married Blake Daniel Tolley about 1945 in Carter County, , , Tennessee. Blake (son of Ely Joseph Tolley and Minnie Elizabeth Byrd) was born about 1928 in Carter County, , , Tennessee; died on 15 Feb 2018 in Washintgon County, , , Tennessee; was buried in Guinn Cemetery, , Carter County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Raymond Tolley, age 63, Unicoi, passed away unexpectedly at his residence on Thursday, July 28, 2016. He was a Carter County native and lived in North Carolina for twenty-five years before moving to Unicoi in 1964. Mr. Tolley retired from PTI Transportation where he was employed as a truck driver. He was a member of Marbleton Free Will Baptist Church.
Mr. Tolley was preceded in death by his mother, Elsie Guinn Tolley in 2014 and his son, Raymond Blake Tolley, Jr. in 1980.
He leaves behind to cherish his memories, his father, Blake Daniel Tolley of Johnson City; one daughter, Jennifer Haire of Myrtle Creek, OR; one brother, Bruce Tolley of Elizabethton; one sister, Phyllis Tolley of Unicoi; two grandsons: David Cigarroa and Kaleb Arrowood; three granddaughters: Autumn Arrowood, Brooklynn Arrowood and Ella Haire.
A private graveside service will be held for Mr. Tolley.

Raymond married Nell Marie Story on 18 Jul 1974 in Unicoi County, , , Tennessee. Nell (daughter of Julian Hobert Story and Gladys Louise McNabb) was born about 1951 in Unicoi County, , , Tennessee; died on 3 Nov 2021 in Washington County, , , Tennessee; was buried in Mountain Home National Cemetery, , Washington County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]