Clara Lee Brummitt Greene

Published 3:14 pm Friday, September 11, 2020

Clara Lee Brummitt Greene, 88, Elizabethton, went to her Heavenly home on Thursday, September 10, 2020. She was born August 30, 1932 in Elizabethton to the late Floyd Brummitt Sr. and Myrtle Lyons Brummitt.

She was a homemaker. Mom loved cooking meals for her family, she enjoyed gardening and canning food. She loved feeding and watching the birds. She loved her dogs and having birthday parties for them. She enjoyed phone conversations with her friends. Most of all her greatest passion was going to church and serving her Lord and Savior.

Mrs. Greene was a life-long member of Green Mountain Free Will Baptist Church. She loved her church family.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Linville Greene, who passed away April 20, 1993; her brothers, Floyd Brummitt Jr. and James Brummitt; and her sisters, Josephine Brummitt, Thelma Miller, Hazel Head and Jeanette Rose.

Survivors include her daughters, Janice (Jamie) Clark, Elizabethton, and Shirlene Miller Odom, Johnson City; granddaughters, Jessica (James) Huff, Knoxville, and Jamie Lee Clark, of the home; two great-granddaughters, Jacinda Huff and Jaliyn Huff of Knoxville; a brother, Hubert Brummitt; sisters, Wanda Lyons and Marie (Ronnie) Davis; a special buddy, Wyatt Phipps; her beloved great-granddogs, Frick and Frank; and several nieces and nephews.

Funeral services will be conducted at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, September 13, at Memorial Funeral Chapel with Rev. Danny Osborne and Rev. Dexter Brummitt officiating. Music will be provided by the Friendship Free Will Baptist Church Quartet and Carl Gasser. Interment will follow at Lyons Cemetery. Active pallbearers will be Wyatt Phipps, Jamie Clark, James Huff, Ricky Miller, Sonny Miller and Mark Clark. The family would like to express a special “Thank You” to the staff of Amedisys Hospice, Wilma, Carl and Debbie and Megan Long of Blue Ridge Family Medicine. The family will receive friends from 1:30 until 2:30 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home. Condolences may be sent to the family at our website, www.memorialfcelizabethton.com. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic we are mandating that all citizens wear masks or facial coverings in public and social distancing recommendations must be observed.

Memorial Funeral Chapel is serving the Greene family.