Olive Rhea Davis

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She was the daughter of the late John A and Cora Coldiron Davis. She was also preceded in death by three brothers and four sisters.

She was a member of the First Baptist Church of Elizabethton. Mrs. Cole was a former employee of North American Rayon Corporation where she worked in the Reeling Department. She had also worked as a special duty nurse at Carter County Memorial Hospital.

Funeral service for Mrs. Olive Cole, age 88, was conducted at 10:00 AM Thursday, February 27, 2003 in the Sunset Chapel of Hathaway Percy Funeral Home. Interment followed in Happy Valley Memorial Park.

Olive married Abraham Clay Cole about 1940 in Carter County, , , Tennessee. Abraham (son of Isaac Lutheran Cole and Venia E. Lowe) was born on 30 Aug 1912 in Johnson County, , , Tennessee; died on 31 Dec 2003 in Carter County, , , Tennessee; was buried in Happy Valley Memorial Park, , Carter County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Dr. Douglas Cole, 76, of Elizabethton, passed away Sunday evening, November 11, 2018, at Johnson City Medical Center following a lengthy illness. Dr. Cole was born June 3, 1942 in Elizabethton and was the son of the late A C and Olive Rey Davis Cole.
Dr. Cole was a 1961 graduate of Elizabethton High School, a graduate of the University of Tennessee-Knoxville and the University of Tennessee Dental School-Memphis. He was the past president of the First Tennessee Dental Society and a recipient of the Tennessee Dental Association Fellowship Award in 1983.
Dr. Cole was a member of First Baptist Church of Elizabethton and had served as a deacon and chairman of the Deacon Board. He was a former member of the church choir and taught Sunday School.
He was a veteran of the U.S. Navy, serving in the Dental Corps on the USS Franklin Roosevelt in the Mediterranean Sea.
He was a former member of the Elizabethton City Council and the Elizabethton Rotary Club. He was a member and past Worshipful Master of Dashiell Masonic Lodge #238 F&AM, and a York Rite and Scottish Rite Mason.
He had many hobbies, including wood-working, hunting, sailing, golf, stained glass artistry, painting, and loved to travel. Dr. Cole was well known for his culinary skills.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his sister, Betty Sue Hahn.
He is survived by his wife, Vickie Graybeal Cole, of the home; four daughters, Kelly (Dustin) Walters and Emily (Erik) Morganstern, both of Johnson City, Tenn., Melissa Graybeal of Atlanta, and Daphne (Shane) Seybert of Grayson, Ga.; and seven grandchildren, Cole Morganstern, Caroline Morganstern, Kate Walters, Emma Walters, Parke Walters, Sam Seybert and Sawyer Seybert.