Mary Alice Nolen
July 26, 2017
Date of Service: July 30, 2017
Entombment Location: Mausoleum of Hope
Mary Alice McQueen Nolen, 89, Elizabethton, went to be with her Lord Wednesday, July 26, 2017 at the Johnson City Medical Center. A native of Butler, she was a daughter of the late Samuel Guy McQueen Sr. and Nelia Kathleen Dishman McQueen. Mary was a 1945 graduate of Watauga Academy. She was retired from the New River Valley Center for the Aging. She was a member of the Valley Forge Christian Church. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by a daughter: Mary Elizabeth White, a great grandson: Robert Garcia, her brother: Sam McQueen, a sister: Remona Gregg and a step-daughter: Judy Nolen Surratt.
Survivors include her children: Robert “Bob” White & Wife Linda P White, Bessimer, Alabama, Phil Dean White, Elizabethton, Judy McKinney & husband Larry, Elizabethton, Susan Loyal Limb, Elizabethton, Patsy Merryman of New Mexico and Kelly Cannon, Livingston, La.. 17 Grandchildren, 9 Great Grandchildren and 7 Great Great Grandchildren. Her Step-Children: Terry Craig, Cocoa, Fla., Robert Nolen, Rainsville, W. VA And James Nolen, Spencer, Va.. 9 Step-Grandchildren and 18 Step-Great Grandchildren. Several nieces & nephews.
Funeral Services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Sunday July 30, 2017 in Memorial Funeral Chapel with Mr. David Siebenaler, Minister and Rev. Doug Hartley officiating. Entombment will follow in the Mausoleum of Hope, Happy Valley Memorial Park. Music will be provided by Sherry Hicks. Active Pallbearers will be Grandsons. Honorary Pallbearers will be: Her friends from Nancy & Wayne’s Kitchen, Harold Hicks, Bob Bice, and former students of Watauga Academy. The family would like to express a special “Thank You” to Valley Forge Christian Church, the staff of ICU and the 6200 wing of Johnson City Medical Center. The family will receive friends from 12 noon Sunday until the service hour. Friends may also visit with the family at the residence of Judy & Larry McKinney. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made in memory of Mary to the Sheppard’s Inn, P.O. Box 2214, Elizabethton, Tenn. 37644. Condolences may be sent to the family at our web-site www.memorialfcelizabethton.com.
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