Vena Alice Pierce

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"The Tomahawk," Wednesday, August 19, 1970
DEATHS
Mrs. Vena Alice Pleasant, 79, of Rt. 3, Butler, died Monday, 8:10 p.m. at her residence after an illness of 18 months. She was a native of Johnson County, a daughter of the late Nelson and Cordia Mullins Pierce. She was preceded in death by her husband, R. B. Pleasant, who died Feb. 9, 1936, and a daughter, Ola Pleasant Kyte, who died Feb. 26, 1939. She was a member of the Little Doe Baptist Church.
Survivors include six sons, Kyle, Karl, Kale, and Klan, all of Butler, King, Haywood, Calif., and Keys, Knoxville; two daughters, Mrs. Ona Gentry and Mrs. Ova Stalcup, both of Butler; two brothers, George Pierce and Joe Pierce, both of Mountain City; 20 grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be conducted Thursday, 2 p.m., from the Little Doe Baptist Church with the Rev. Tom Biggar, and Rev. Warren Montgomery to officiate. Burial will be in the Rambo Cemetery.
Pall-bearers[sic] will be grandsons.
Flower-bearers will be ladies of the church and neighbors.
Lewis Gentry Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Vena married Roderick Butler "Judge" Pleasant on 11 Feb 1906 in Johnson County, , , Tennessee. Roderick (son of William Henry Pleasant and Martha L. Howard) was born on 16 May 1884 in Johnson County, , , Tennessee; died on 9 Feb 1937 in Johnson County, , , Tennessee; was buried in Rambo Cemetery, , Johnson County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Kyle married Gertrude Long about 1938 in , Giles County, Tennessee, . Gertrude (daughter of Cornelius Rowan "C. R." Long and Eliza E. Stout) was born about 1909 in Johnson County, , , Tennessee; died on 3 Sep 1954 in Washintgon County, , , Tennessee; was buried in Pleasant Family Cemetery, , Carter County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Kyle married Hazel Nell DeLoach on 18 May 1955. Hazel (daughter of Roscoe Conklin DeLoach and Estella Jeanette Grindstaff) was born on 18 May 1930 in Johnson County, , , Tennessee; died on 5 Nov 2004 in Carter County, , , Tennessee; was buried in Pleasant Family Cemetery, , Carter County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ola married Holland James Kite about 1930 in Johnson County, , , Tennessee. Holland (son of Mr. Kite and Margaret E. "Minnie" Maggie" Stalcup) was born about 1908 in Johnson County, , , Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Living married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Living married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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BUTLER — Klan Butler “Jiggs” Pleasant, 79, 649 Old Highway 67, Butler, went to be with the Lord on Tuesday, November 16, 2004, at James H. Quillen V.A. Hospital. A lifelong resident of the Doevile Community, he was the youngest son of the “O.K.” Pleasant family. Jiggs was born May 29, 1925, to the late Roderick Butler and Vena Alice Pierce Pleasant. He was a member of Little Doe Baptist Church and retired as an electrician from North American Rayon Corporation. Mr. Pleasant served in the South Pacific in the Navy as a motor Mechanist. He received the Philippine Operation Medal, a Victory Bronze Star, American Theatre Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Medal during World War II. He served in the Johnson County Rescue Squad for twelve years. He was preceded in death by a son, Randy Butler Pleasant; two sisters: Ola Kyte and Ova Stalcup; five brothers: Kyle, King, Karl, Kale and Keys Pleasant. Survivors include his wife, Faye Robinson Pleasant, of the home; two Daughters and Sons-In-Law: Diana and Earl Howard Jr., of Shady Valley, Evelyn and Mark Thomas, of Meadowview, VA.; four grandchildren: Wayne Thomas and wife, Guia; and Tuesday Pope and her husband, Nat, Randy Pleasant Jr. and Joseph Howard; One Sister: Ona Long, of Butler; Two Sisters-In-Law and One Brother-In-Law; Several Nieces and Nephews. A Celebration of Life Service will be conducted at 2:00 p.m. Saturday, November 20, 2004, in the Little Doe Baptist Church with Rev. Kreg Smith and Dr. Willie Malone officiating. Music will be provided by the Church Choir. Pallbearers will be Truett Pleasant, Dick Pleasant, David Pleasant and Mike Pleasant. Honorary Pallbearers will be his Church Family, Friends and Neighbors. Graveside Services will follow at Rambo Cemetery with the Johnson County Honor Guard providing military honors. The family will receive friends from 12 noon until the service hour at the church. In lieu of flowers contributions may be made to the Little Doe Baptist Church Benevolent Fund or to the Johnson County Rescue Squad.

Klan married Faye Robinson about 1946. Faye was born about 1930 in Johnson County, , , Tennessee; died on 26 Apr 2008 in Johnson County, , , Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Our Be-loved Mother, Grand-mother, Great-Grand-mother, Aunt and won-der-ful Friend, Ona Gen-try Long, 87, long-time res-i-dent of But-ler, Ten-nes-see, passed away peace-fully in her sleep af-ter an ex-tended ill-ness on May 21, 2015, in Murfrees-boro, Ten-nes-see, with her Fam-ily.
She was born on May 26, 1927, and was the last mem-ber of the OK Pleas-ant fam-ily that dates from 1884. Be-sides her par-ents, Roder-ick But-ler Pleas-ant and Vena Alice Pierce Pleas-ant, she was pre-ceeded in death by two sis-ters, Ola Kyte, Ova Stal-cup, and six broth-ers: Kyle, King, Karl, Kale, Keys and Klan. Her lov-ing Veteran Hus-bands, Robert Gen-try and John Long, also pro-ceeded her death.
Sur-vi-vors in-clude her daugh-ter, Judy Wag-ner; her hus-band, Larry, Grand-son, Robby Wag-ner and wife, Ca-sey, and 5 Great Grand-chil-dren: An-n-abel, Avery, Elly, Wes and Jon, all of Murfrees-boro, Ten-nes-see. Also her son, Tone Long and wife, Anna Marie, Grand-sons, Paul, Carl and Mark, and Great Grand-chil-dren, all of Os-ce-ola, In-di-ana. She has nu-mer-ous won-der-ful nieces and neph-ews. A very spe-cial ex-tended Fam-ily is Dar-rell and Sue Ward and Fam-ily. She was known to all as "MeMe O." And like her Mother, Mom Pleas-ant, she was our "Pleas-ant Rock."
She was grad-u-ated from John-son County High School in 1946 and en-joyed her life-time friend-ships. Ona was a ded-i-cated mem-ber of Cobbs Creek Bap-tist Church in But-ler, Ten-nes-see, the Amer-i-can Le-gion Aux-il-iary #61 in Moun-tain City, Ten-nes-see, Past Wor-thy Matron and Char-ter mem-ber of the Order of Eastern Star #218 in But-ler, Ten-nes-see, and was re-tired af-ter 31 years of ser-vice at the But-ler Post Of-fice.
She was an avid stamp col-lec-tor, loved cook-ing, and help-ing her com-mu-nity in many ways. She was de-voted to her Fam-ily and spe-cial Friends, and was stead-fast in her be-lief in God, Coun-try, Friends and Fam-ily.
On Satur-day, May 30th, the vis-i-ta-tion will be held at the Me-mo-rial Funeral Chapel in Eliz-a-beth-ton, Ten-nes-see, at 1:00 p.m. with the ser-vice im-me-di-ately fol-low-ing at 2:00 p.m. Of-fi-ci-at-ing Min-is-ters will be Rev. Den-nis Peter-son, Rev. Terry Ward, and Rev. A.J. Pot-ter.
In-ter-ment will fol-low the ser-vice at the But-ler Me-mo-rial Ceme-tery in But-ler, Ten-nes-see. Ac-tive Pall-bear-ers are Larry Wag-ner, Robby Wag-ner, Dar-rell Ward, Jamie Ward, Tone Long and Truett Pleas-ant. Honor-ary Pall-bear-ers are Boyd Peter-son, her church fam-ily, Sid Smith-deal, Ken Rain-bolt, co-work-ers of the But-ler Post Of-fice, L.B. Rainey, H.R. Long, Mike Long and the Neph-ews and Grand Neph-ews of the Fam-ily.

Ona married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Living married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Living married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Myrtle married Herbert Norman Moody about 1950. Herbert (son of Dallas Lionel Moody and Matha J. White) was born on 15 Jan 1929 in Carter County, , , Tennessee; died on 28 Jan 2007 in , Johnson County, Tennessee, ; was buried in Lakeview Cemetery, , Carter County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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