Reba Patterson, 84 of Oliver Springs died Sunday in Methodist Medical Center of Oak Ridge.<\/p>\n
A life-long Oliver Springs resident, she was a charter member of Tuppertown Baptist Church. Mrs. Patterson enjoyed playing music, raising flowers and gardening.<\/p>\n
She was preceded in death by her parents, Thomas Tinker and Laura Dotson Tinker; husband, Nickey Patterson; four children, Darlas, Eddie, and Thomas Patterson and Jackie Thomason; three brothers, Bill, Luther and Sanford Tinker; and two sisters, Ruth Idles and Lois Stripling.<\/p>\n
Survivors include six children: Ruth Estep of Cincinnati, OH; Pat Patterson and David Patterson, both of Oliver Springs; Wanda Coffey and Johnny Patterson, both of Oak Ridge and Opal Sloan of Harriman; two sisters, Mabel Davis and Evelyn Bolden, both of Oliver Springs; 24 grandchildren; five great-grandchildren.<\/p>\n
Funeral service was Monday in Sharp Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Johnny Randolph and the Rev. Bryson Pride officiating. Burial and graveside service was Tuesday in Mineral Springs Cemetery.<\/p>\n
Clinton Courier News, <\/em>14 December 1994<\/p>\n [Courtesy of Renee Scarbrough]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Obituary of Reba Patterson, 1994: Reba Patterson, 84 of Oliver Springs died Sunday in Methodist Medical Center of Oak Ridge. A life-long Oliver Springs resident, she was a charter member Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries-m-p"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5128,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions\/5128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}