Joann Proffitt

JoAnn Proffitt, age 80, of 919 Medical Park Drive, Mountain City, TN passed away Saturday, February 27, 2010 at Watauga Medical Center in Boone, NC. She was the daughter of the late Charlie Proffitt and Betty Allen Proffitt Owens. Joann was a member of Wesley Chapel Church. She loved traveling to the Smokey Mountains and Cherokee, loved animals and once had a pet groundhog named “Bud”. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by a sister, Lima Owens, and a brother, Odee Allen. Her special friends include her Aunt Grace Eller, cousin Daphne Meadows and her deceased Aunt Minnie Smith and her deceased cousin Bernice McFadden.

 

Survivors include: Aunt Grace Eller and several cousins, nieces and nephews.

 

Funeral services for JoAnn Proffitt will be conducted at 8:00 p.m. Tuesday, March 2, 2010 from the Eastside Memory Chapel of Hux~Lipford~Teague Funeral Home with Rev. Douglas R. Stidham officiating. Graveside service and interment will be held at 2:00 p.m. Wednesday, March 3, 2010 in Wesley Chapel Cemetery. Active pallbearers will be Lonnie Owens, Frankie Owens, Mark Carlson, Doyle Carlson, Robbie Carlson, Randy Meadows and Phil Owens. Honorary pallbearers will be Doug Hornsby and the staff of Mountain City Care Center. The family will receive friends from 6:00-8:00 p.m. prior to the funeral service.

 

At other times friends may call the home of Aunt Grace Eller, 891 Shingletown Road, Mountain City, Tennessee.

 

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

 

Hux~Lipford~Teague Funeral Home and Cremation Services is honored to be serving the JoAnn Proffitt family.