Obituary - Buena (Bowser) Fleenor

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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.