2nd Timothy 4-7: “I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, and I have kept the faith.”
Sherry Grindstaff Monk, 65, of Elizabethton, passed away Tuesday, November 24, 2015, at Johnson City Medical Center following an extended illness.
A native of Johnson County, she had lived a number of years in Elizabethton. She was a 1968 graduate of Johnson County High School and East Tennessee State University with a degree in nursing.
Sherry was employed for 19 years at Gordon-Ruffin-Hillman & Miller in Johnson City and in the Birthing Center at Sycamore Shoals Hospital. She was a member of Happy Valley Baptist Church and former member of Little Doe Baptist Church, Butler.
She was preceded in death by her father, Ross Grindstaff, October 1993.
Survivors include two sons, Brad Proffitt and wife Sarah, Unicoi, and Jeremy Proffitt, Elizabethton; two grandchildren, Dylan Proffitt and Kimberly Ann Proffitt; her mother, Ruth Stout Grindstaff, Elizabethton; a sister and brother-in-law, Melody and David Crockett, Elizabethton; two uncles, Jack Grindstaff and wife Welma, Columbia, S.C., and Billy Grindstaff and wife Carolyn, Creedmoor, N.C.; her aunt, Barbara Grindstaff, Okeechobee, Fla.; two nieces, Xandi Crockett and Jessica Eller; a number of cousins; and her special friends, Jane Evans, Martha Buck and employees of Heavenly Sunshine Home Health Care.
Funeral services for Sherry Grindstaff Monk will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday, November 28, at Memorial Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Jack Lloyd, the Rev. Nathan Jennings and Rev. Mike Richards officiating. Music will be provided by Jamie Schaff. Interment will follow at Sunset Memorial Park, Mountain City. Active pallbearers will be Ethan Boles, Zac Boles, Brandon Treadway, Everett Brown, Mark Grindstaff, Jeff Grindstaff, Scott Grindstaff and Randy Cook. Honorary pallbearers will be members of the 1968 Graduating Class of Johnson County High School and employees of the 5th District, Tennessee Highway Patrol. To those who prefer, memorials may be made in memory of Sherry to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, P.O. Box 1000. Dept. 142, Memphis, TN 38101-990. The family will receive friends from 1 until 2 p.m. Saturday, prior to the service. Friends may also visit with the family at the residence of her sister and brother-in-law, Melody and David Crockett. Condolences may be sent to the family at our website at www.memorialfcelizabethton.com.
Memorial Funeral Chapel is serving the Monk family.