Obituary - Buena (Bowser) Fleenor
Buena Fleenor
KINGSPORT -- Buena Bowser Whetsel Fleenor, 69, 2408 Little Valley Road,
departed this life at 9:30 p.m. Sunday, July 27, 2003, to be with her
Heavenly Father after a long and courageous battle with cancer.
She was born in Sullivan County on Aug. 8, 1933, and lived in the Sullivan
Gardens area all of her life. Buena was a member of Pilgrim's Rest Baptist
Church.
Mrs. Fleenor worked for I.T.T. and North Electric for 12 1/2 years. She was
a wonderful wife, mother, sister, grandmother and a friend to all who knew
her.
She will be greatly missed by all.
Preceding her in death were her father and mother, Herman and Ida Hunt
Bowser; sister, Leta Chase; grandparents, Sam and Kattie Bowser, and several
aunts and uncles.
Surviving are her husband and soulmate, Earnest (Gene) Fleenor; daughter,
Judith Whetsel, Kingsport; two sons, Alan Whetsel and wife Waunetta,
Kingsport, and Jimmy Eric Whetsel and wife Gaylia, Johnson City;
stepdaughter, Melissa Fleenor, Charlotte, N.C.; two sisters, Burlie Hammonds
and Naomi Depew and one brother, H. C. Bowser, all of Kingsport; three
grandsons, Mike Whetsel, Eric Whetsel and Nicholas Whetsel; one
step-grandson, Tyler Bachman, and her best and dearest lifetime friend and
sister-in-Christ, Pat Wolfe.
Calling hours are 6-8 p.m. Tuesday evening at the Hamlett-Dobson Funeral
Home, downtown Kingsport chapel, and any time at her home on Little Valley
Road.
Services will be conducted at 8 p.m. Tuesday in the funeral home chapel,
with Rev. Lawrence Wolfe and Rev. Kelly Dykes officiating.
Graveside services will be 11 a.m. Wednesday at Tri-Cities Memory Gardens.
Pallbearers are Jim Lane, Larry Calhoun, Hank Green, Mack Summey, Tom
Gallaway, Bob Standley, Johnny Sells and Mike Bowser.
The family would like to thank all the caregivers at hospice and her
doctors, Dr. Edwin McElroy and Dr. David Franzus, for all the wonderful care
she was given.
In lieu of flowers, please make memorial contributions to Wellmont Hospice
House, 280 Steele's Road, Bristol, TN 37620 or Pilgrims Rest Baptist Church,
3120 Atoka Lane, Kingsport, TN 37660.