CARTER COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - Fanny S. Suggs, 28 Jun 1999
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Fanny S. Suggs
06/30/99 
   Mrs. Fanny Sharp Suggs, of Florence, S.C., died Monday, June 28, 1999, 
at Elizabeth House, the hospice residence in Hendersonville, N.C., after a 
lengthy illness.
   Mrs. Suggs was born in Elizabethton in 1931. She was a daughter of the 
late James Kelly and Amanda Kate Fleming Sharp and was also preceded in 
death by her husband, Bobby Earl Suggs.
   Mrs. Suggs began her teaching career as a high school band director in 
Tennessee, and went on to teach public school music and private music lessons 
in Florida, North Carolina and South Carolina. She directed and sang with 
many church choirs. She was most recently a member of Central United Methodist 
Church, Florence, S.C., where she once directed the children's choirs and was 
a member of the Chancel Choir. She was active in the United Methodist Women 
as a circle leader and past president, and served as a delegate to the SC 
United Methodist Church Annual Conference. She served on the board of and 
performed with the Masterworks Choir.
   Mrs. Suggs enjoyed gardening, birding, boating and crafting. A skilled 
seamstress, she designed and created a series of liturgical banners for 
Central United Methodist Church. She also served on the Board of Directors 
of Hospice of the Pee Dee.
   Survivors include two daughters, Amanda Suggs Libbey, Seattle, Wash., 
and Rebecca Suggs Williams, Hendersonville, N.C.; two grandchildren, Greer 
Katherine Libbey and Bennett Morgan Williams; and three sisters, Mary, 
Alice and Corrine Sharp, all of Elizabethton.
   Courtesy of Hathaway-Percy Funeral Home, Sunset Chapel

   SUGGS -- A memorial service for Mrs. Fanny Sharp Suggs, of Florence, S.C., 
who died Monday, will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at Central United Methodist 
Church, Florence, S.C., and will be followed by a reception and celebration 
of her life in the church fellowship hall. The family will receive friends 
at her home this evening, June 30. Memorials may be made to Central United 
Methodist Church, Florence, S.C. (Building or Music Funds), Hospice of the 
Pee Dee, Florence, S.C., or Four Seasons Hospice, Hendersonville, N.C. 
Courtesy of Hathaway-Percy Funeral Home.