Carrie Pearl "Granny" Dugger

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Carrie Pearl “Granny” Dugger age 84 of 919 Medical Park Drive, Mountain City, Tennessee passed away very peacefully Saturday morning November 7, 2009 in the Mountain City Care Center. She was a daughter of the late Thomas Brownlow Reece and Martha Elizabeth Oliver Reece. Granny was a member of the Sugar Grove Baptist Church where she was a Sunday school teacher and sang in the choir. She loved quilting, sewing and cross stitching and was a member and officer of the Eastern Star in Butler, TN.  In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband of 44 years J.R. Dugger; son Lester Robert Dugger and twin sons; sisters, Mary Bowman and husband Don, and Daisy Laing and husband Willie; one brother, Stanley Reece; and brother-in-law, Frank Cook.

 

Survivors include: two daughters; Barbara Tester and husband Larry, Butler, TN and Sue Fox and husband Don, Banner Elk, NC. Sisters; Bonnie Ruth Wright and husband Harold and Lillian Dugger and husband Jack of Mountain City, TN; Mollie Greenwell and husband Gervis of Butler, TN,;Minnie Cook of Chicago, IL; Sue Hayes and husband Johnny of Boone, NC, Phyllis Dugger and husband Ronnie of Cleveland, OH. Brothers: Lester Reece and wife Janet and Lee Reece and wife Pat both of Zionville, NC, Ted Reece of Chicago, IL. Sister-in-law: Roxie Reece of Zionville, NC. Grandchildren: Karen Wimberly, and husband Randy Newton, NC., Cherie Adams and husband Steve of Conover, NC;  Donna Pennell and husband Wayne of Zionville, NC;  Leslie Wilson and husband Brad of Mountain City, TN;  Anita Presnell and husband Eric Banner of Elk, NC;  great grandchildren; Manning and Nathan Wimberly, Holly and Dallas Adams, Carrie and Colby Pennell, Kayn Greene, Nick, Shelby, and Donovan Presnell, and Troy Wilson.

 

Special Friends include her roommate of five years Gwen Marion, Ginger Peters and all the staff of Mountain City Care Center. 

 

Funeral Services for Carrie Pearl ‘Granny” Dugger will be conducted at 3 p.m. Sunday November 8, 2009 at the Sugar Grove Baptist Church with Dr. Ray Sorrells and her brother Lee Reece to officiate. Music will be provided by the Sugar Grove Baptist Church Choir and John Shook. Graveside service and interment will follow at the Dry Hill Cemetery. Active Pallbearers will be Randy Manning, Nathan Wimberly, Steve and Dallas Adams, Wayne and Colby Pennell, Brad Wilson, Eric Presnell and Kayn Greene.

Honorary Pallbearers; will be past and present deacons of Sugar Grove Baptist Church, Claude Gregg, Charles Norris, Clinton Winters, Dr. John Whitlock and staff, along with Doug Hornsby and the staff of the Mountain City Care Center. The family will receive friends from 1:30- 3:00 pm. prior to the funeral service.

 

In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to the Gideons International or WMU of Sugar Grove Baptist Church.

 

Friends may call at the residence of her daughter Barbara and husband Larry Tester at 662 Meal Camp Road, Butler, TN at any time.

 

Online condolences may be sent to the family and viewed through our website at www.huxlipfordteaguefh.com

 

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serving the Dugger family.