- Virginia B. Feathers
Virginia Brumit Feathers, 95, Elizabethton, passed away Friday, January 15, 2010, at Ivy Hall Nursing Home.
A native of Washington County, Va., she was a daughter of the late Robert Alexander and Mayme Ryden Brumit.
Mrs. Feathers had lived in Carter County for a number of years. She was a 1933 graduate of Elizabethton High School and a member of the first class of Practical Nursing given by the Vocational School of Johnson City, receiving her license in 1959. She was an employee of Johnson City Memorial Hospital for 13 years and was a former pink lady at Carter County Memorial Hospital and Sycamore Shoals Hospital.
Mrs Feathers was a member of Range Community Christian Church.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Wiley James Feathers, in 1983; a sister, Ruth Brumit Owens; and three brothers, Harold Ryden Brumit, Sam A. Brumit and Paul Lewis Brumit.
Survivors include a sister-inlaw, Bonnie Williams Brumit, Elizabethton; her cousins, June Davis, Betty Jo and Wallace Barrett and Mary Frances Morrell; several nieces and nephews; and her special friends, Mary Lunceford and Debbie Miller.
Graveside services for Mrs. Feathers will be conducted at 2 p.m. Monday, January 18, in the Morning View Cemetery, Bluff City, with Samuel Brumit, minister, officiating. Active pallbearers, who are requested to assemble at the funeral home at 1:30 p.m. Monday, will be Devin Pierson, Hunter Pierson, Clint Mays, Jerry Carr, Gary Townsend and Matthew Townsend. Honorary pallbearers will be Ken Calloway, R.J. Hart, Wayne Smith and Jim Adams. The family would like to
express a special "thank you" to the staff of Ivy Hall Nursing Home for their excellent care. In lieu of flowers memorials may be made in memory of Mrs. Feathers to the Range Community Christian Church. Family and friends will assemble at the funeral home at 1:30 p.m. Monday to go to the cemetery. Condolences to the Feathers family may be e-mailed to mfc@chartertn.net. Memorial Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements.
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