Tom Ulysses Sawyer, age 88, of Clinton, passed away Friday, April 14, 2000, at St. Mary\u2019s Medical Center in Knoxville.<\/p>\n
He was a member of Hillvale Baptist Church. He retired from Norris Creamery as a truck driver.<\/p>\n
He was born March 20, 1912 in Cocke County.<\/p>\n
Preceded in death by: parents, William and Sara Jane Solemon Sawyer; son, James Sawyer.<\/p>\n
Survivors: wife, Edna Walker Sawyer of Clinton; daughter, Ada and Bill Woods of Clinton; sons, Ralph and Sue Sawyer of Clinton, Lloyd and Phyllis Sawyer of Nashville, Billy and Mary Ruth Sawyer of Clinton, Howard Sawyer of Knoxville; daughter-in-law, Wanda Sawyer of Clinton; 15 grandchildren; 24 great-grandchildren; two great-great-grandchildren; several nieces and nephews.<\/p>\n
The family will receive friends 4-7 pm Sunday, April 16, 2000 at Holley-Gamble Funeral Home in Clinton with funeral service following at 7 pm in the chapel with the Rev. Clifford Fraker and the Rev. Calvin Braden officiating.<\/p>\n
Interment will be held 10:30 am Monday, April 17, 2000, at Norris Memorial Gardens.<\/p>\n
Holley-Gamble Funeral Home in Clinton in charge of arrangements.<\/p>\n
Clinton Courier News, <\/em>16\/17 April\u00a02000<\/p>\n (Courtesy of Renee Scarbrough)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Obituary of Tom Ulysses Sawyer, 2000: Tom Ulysses Sawyer, age 88, of Clinton, passed away Friday, April 14, 2000, at St. Mary\u2019s Medical Center in Knoxville. He was a 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":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries-q-t"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3011","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=3011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4798,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3011\/revisions\/4798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}