Pearl Caroline Byrd

Pearl married Frank Blevins on 20 Mar 1926 in Carter County, , , Tennessee. Frank (son of William M. Blevins and Lockie Garland) was born in Jun 1892 in Carter County, , , Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Carl Blevins, 89, of Roan Mountain, Tenn., passed away Tuesday, January 9, 2018, at Sycamore Shoals Hospital. A native of Elizabethton, Tenn., he was the son of the late Frank and Pearl Byrd Blevins.
Mr. Blevins was retired as a carpenter. He attended Hopson Chapel Freewill Baptist Church. He enjoyed doing yard work.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his wife of 56 years, Iva Lee Blevins, and his brothers, Kenneth Blevins, William "Bill" Blevins and Leonard Blevins.
Those left to cherish his memory include a son, Junior Blevins and his wife Deszmer; a grandson, Travis Blevins; four sisters, Pauline Brown, Georgia Tolley, Frances Hollands and Arlene Guinn; three step-grandchildren, Amanda Vance and husband David, Jana Lethcoe and husband Travis, and Noah Cole and wife Macey; and five step-great-grandchildren, Andrew Vance, Olivia, Blakeley, Tristin and Nola Cole, all of Elizabethton.
A service to honor the life of Carl Blevins will be conducted at 7 p.m. Thursday, January 11, in the Sunset Chapel of Hathaway-Percy Funeral and Cremation Services with Rev. Jimmy Holtsclaw and Rev. Charlie Trivette officiating. Music will be under the direction of Scott Whitson, Sean Smith and Kevin Lester. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, prior to the funeral service, or at the residence of his son and daughter-in-law at other times. The graveside service and interment will be conducted at 11 a.m. Friday, January 12, in the Dotson Cemetery, Roan Mountain. Active pallbearers will be Jackie Triplett, Bunn Potter, Sam Potter, Billy Brown, Travis Blevins and Noah Cole. Honorary pallbearers will be Carl Royer, Bill Street, Bud Smith, David Heaton, Kevin Lester and Kenny Blevins.

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Georgia Ray Tolley, 75, loving mother and grandmother, entered into eternal rest with our Lord on Tuesday, August 11, 2021, peacefully at her home in the Fairview Community of Hampton, Tenn.
Growing up as a child in the Tiger Creek Community, Georgia was the daughter of Frank and Pearl Caroline Byrd Blevins. She married the love of her life, Cecil, at the age of 16, and they moved to the Simerly Creek Community of Fairview. The couple was married 54 years and parents to five children.
Georgia was of the Freewill Baptist Faith, a homemaker and caregiver. She loved to farm, garden and quilt, grow crops of tobacco/flowers and care for her many animals over the decades such as dogs/cats, chickens, goats, and doves. Many a family member or neighborhood friend was welcome to eat a meal, tell a story or drink a cup of coffee, especially during the holidays. She never met a stranger and always wanted to make people laugh.
In her later years, she was an avid collector of Cabbage Patch dolls and enjoyed making them new again for “Granny’s Cabbage Patch Garden.” She cared for her ailing husband for more than 20 years and her youngest granddaughter Courtney with whom she shared a special bond.
Georgia was preceded in death by her husband Cecil in 2016, her much loved dog “Bubba” and her granddaughter Victoria Faith McQueen.
Georgia is survived by the couple’s children, Betty and Jobe Tolley, Kitty (Marshall Simerly) Tolley, son Cecil Wayne Tolley, all of Hampton, and daughters Shelby and David McQueen and Annie and Danny McQueen of Elizabethton; her granddaughters, Danielle (Bobby Furches) and Abigail Bates, Alexandria McQueen (Logan) Craft, Katarina McQueen (David) Finney and Izabella Sue Davida McQueen, Courtney Tolley, and a grandson Jobe Tolley “JT”, as well as her great-grandchildren, Elana and Joshua Furches, Lucas Bates and Nathan Peters. Special friends/family, Mabel Tolley, Brenda Tipton, Junior Blevins, Norman Coffey, Freddie Jack Davis, and Landon Lingerfelt, her first son-in-law, with whom she shared many a cup of Nescafe coffee and a joke with, survive along with extended siblings and family members.
A graveside service will take place on Saturday, August 14, at 11 a.m. at the Tolley-Cornett Cemetery in the Fairview Community located off Whittemore Road. The Rev. Shane Whittemore will officiate with some of Georgia’s favorite songs of “I’ll Fly Away,” “Gathering Flowers For The Master’s Bouquet,” and “Life’s Railway to Heaven” being played. The family requests that anyone attending the service please wear a mask. Pallbearers will be Danny McQueen, David McQueen, Logan Craft, David Finney, Robert Potter, Bobby Furches and Landon Lingerfelt.

Georgia married Cecil Tolley on 26 May 1962 in Carter County, , , Tennessee. Cecil (son of James Tolley and Mary Elizabeth "Posie" Whitehead) was born about 1940 in Carter County, , , Tennessee; died on 26 Jul 2016 in Carter County, , , Tennessee; was buried in Tolley Cemetery, , Carter County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]