Mrs. Jane Hoss Sluder, 77, of Johnson City, Tenn., formerly of Roan Mountain, passed away Monday, July 18, 2016, at Hillview Health Center, Elizabethton, following an extended illness. A native of Carter County (the Shell Creek Community) she was the daughter of Anna Mae Hoss.
Mrs. Sluder was a graduate of the Cloudland High School Class of 1958. She retired as a pharmacy technician from Union Prescription. She was a member of Lower Shell Creek Christian Church and she loved to sew.
In addition to her mother, she was preceded in death by several aunts and uncles.
Those left to cherish her memory include her husband, Winfred “Dink” Sluder, of the home; two daughters, Glenda Kay Miller and husband Roby, Johnson City, and Mary Frances “Ginger” Cobb and husband Edward “Ed,” Elizabethton; two granddaughters, Wendy Thompson Flesher and Kaylee Cobb, both of Elizabethton, and a grandson, Eddie Ray Cobb, Elizabethton; four great-grandsons, Nathaniel Lee Fair, Isiah Flesher, Levi Flesher and Noah Flesher, all of Elizabethton; a half sister, Shirley, and several nieces and nephews, Morganton, N.C.; and two sisters-in-law, Rita Storie, Roan Mountain, and Judy Sluder, Elk Park, N.C. Special friends, J.L. Blackwell, Elizabethton, and Bill Maynard, Gray, also survive.
A service to honor the life of Mrs. Jane Hoss Sluder will be conducted at 7 p.m. Wednesday, July 20, in the Sunset Chapel of Hathaway-Percy Funeral and Cremation Services. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, prior to the service, or at the residence at anytime. The graveside service and interment will be conducted at 10 a.m. Thursday, July 21, at Mountain Home National Cemetery. Active pallbearers will be Jerry Range, Kenneth Hoss, Gary McKinney, Ed Cobb, Roby Miller and Eddie Ray Cobb. Everyone will meet at the funeral home at 9 a.m. Thursday to go in procession to the cemetery. The family would like to express a special thank you to the staff of Hillview Health Center, J.L. Blackwell, Bill Carter, Pat Hopson and J.B. Crumley. Online condolences may be sent to the family and viewed by visiting our website at www.hathawaypercy.com.
Hathaway-Percy Funeral and Cremation Services is serving the Sluder family. Office (423) 543-5544.