Squire Con Massey Dies After Attack --
Con Smith Massey of the Kelso community, a retired teacher and a member of Lincoln County Court, died early Wednesday morning of an apparent heart attack. He was 67 years old.
Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Friday at Ralston Chapel with the Rev. R. E. Burroughs officating. Burial will follow in Mulberry Cemetery.
In addition to his service as a county magistrate, Mr. Massey was a member of the Lincoln County Hospital board of directors, a director of the Fayetteville-Lincoln County Chamber of Commerce, and an elder in Kelso Cumberland Presbyterian Church.
A native of Lincoln County, Mr. Massey was the son of the late John Wilson and Etta Lavonia Stiles Massey.
He taught at Holman School in Lincoln County in 1925-26. Following graduation from the University of Tennessee in 1931, Mr. Massey taught one year in Campbell County and two years in Claiborne County.
Until 1940, he was soil erosion agent for Knox County. From 1940-48 he was service representativefor Security Mills in Greene County.
In 1948, he returned to Lincoln County as vocational agriculture teacher at Flintville High School. He retired from that position in 1973. He also operated a farm in Lincoln County.
He was elected to County Court in 1966 and to the hospital board in 1972.
Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Dorothy Maxey Massey; three sons, Lt. Col. John Porter Massey with the U. S. Army Infantry in Ft. McPherson, Georgia; Con Smith Massey, Jr., Southern territorial agent for Sears, Atlanta, Georgia, and Major George M. Massey, an instructor in Vanderbilt University's Reserve Officer Training Corps, Nashville, Tennessee; a sister, Mrs. Charles Bledsoe of Fayetteville; and ten grandchildren.
Source:
The Elk Valley Times
Fayetteville, Tennessee
Con Smith Massey of the Kelso community, a retired teacher and a member of Lincoln County Court, died early Wednesday morning of an apparent heart attack. He was 67 years old.
Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Friday at Ralston Chapel with the Rev. R. E. Burroughs officating. Burial will follow in Mulberry Cemetery.
In addition to his service as a county magistrate, Mr. Massey was a member of the Lincoln County Hospital board of directors, a director of the Fayetteville-Lincoln County Chamber of Commerce, and an elder in Kelso Cumberland Presbyterian Church.
A native of Lincoln County, Mr. Massey was the son of the late John Wilson and Etta Lavonia Stiles Massey.
He taught at Holman School in Lincoln County in 1925-26. Following graduation from the University of Tennessee in 1931, Mr. Massey taught one year in Campbell County and two years in Claiborne County.
Until 1940, he was soil erosion agent for Knox County. From 1940-48 he was service representativefor Security Mills in Greene County.
In 1948, he returned to Lincoln County as vocational agriculture teacher at Flintville High School. He retired from that position in 1973. He also operated a farm in Lincoln County.
He was elected to County Court in 1966 and to the hospital board in 1972.
Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Dorothy Maxey Massey; three sons, Lt. Col. John Porter Massey with the U. S. Army Infantry in Ft. McPherson, Georgia; Con Smith Massey, Jr., Southern territorial agent for Sears, Atlanta, Georgia, and Major George M. Massey, an instructor in Vanderbilt University's Reserve Officer Training Corps, Nashville, Tennessee; a sister, Mrs. Charles Bledsoe of Fayetteville; and ten grandchildren.
Source:
The Elk Valley Times
Fayetteville, Tennessee
Squire Con Massey Dies After Attack --
Con Smith Massey of the Kelso community, a retired teacher and a member of Lincoln County Court, died early Wednesday morning of an apparent heart attack. He was 67 years old.
Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Friday at Ralston Chapel with the Rev. R. E. Burroughs officating. Burial will follow in Mulberry Cemetery.
In addition to his service as a county magistrate, Mr. Massey was a member of the Lincoln County Hospital board of directors, a director of the Fayetteville-Lincoln County Chamber of Commerce, and an elder in Kelso Cumberland Presbyterian Church.
A native of Lincoln County, Mr. Massey was the son of the late John Wilson and Etta Lavonia Stiles Massey.
He taught at Holman School in Lincoln County in 1925-26. Following graduation from the University of Tennessee in 1931, Mr. Massey taught one year in Campbell County and two years in Claiborne County.
Until 1940, he was soil erosion agent for Knox County. From 1940-48 he was service representativefor Security Mills in Greene County.
In 1948, he returned to Lincoln County as vocational agriculture teacher at Flintville High School. He retired from that position in 1973. He also operated a farm in Lincoln County.
He was elected to County Court in 1966 and to the hospital board in 1972.
Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Dorothy Maxey Massey; three sons, Lt. Col. John Porter Massey with the U. S. Army Infantry in Ft. McPherson, Georgia; Con Smith Massey, Jr., Southern territorial agent for Sears, Atlanta, Georgia, and Major George M. Massey, an instructor in Vanderbilt University's Reserve Officer Training Corps, Nashville, Tennessee; a sister, Mrs. Charles Bledsoe of Fayetteville; and ten grandchildren.
Source:
The Elk Valley Times
Fayetteville, Tennessee
Con Smith Massey of the Kelso community, a retired teacher and a member of Lincoln County Court, died early Wednesday morning of an apparent heart attack. He was 67 years old.
Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Friday at Ralston Chapel with the Rev. R. E. Burroughs officating. Burial will follow in Mulberry Cemetery.
In addition to his service as a county magistrate, Mr. Massey was a member of the Lincoln County Hospital board of directors, a director of the Fayetteville-Lincoln County Chamber of Commerce, and an elder in Kelso Cumberland Presbyterian Church.
A native of Lincoln County, Mr. Massey was the son of the late John Wilson and Etta Lavonia Stiles Massey.
He taught at Holman School in Lincoln County in 1925-26. Following graduation from the University of Tennessee in 1931, Mr. Massey taught one year in Campbell County and two years in Claiborne County.
Until 1940, he was soil erosion agent for Knox County. From 1940-48 he was service representativefor Security Mills in Greene County.
In 1948, he returned to Lincoln County as vocational agriculture teacher at Flintville High School. He retired from that position in 1973. He also operated a farm in Lincoln County.
He was elected to County Court in 1966 and to the hospital board in 1972.
Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Dorothy Maxey Massey; three sons, Lt. Col. John Porter Massey with the U. S. Army Infantry in Ft. McPherson, Georgia; Con Smith Massey, Jr., Southern territorial agent for Sears, Atlanta, Georgia, and Major George M. Massey, an instructor in Vanderbilt University's Reserve Officer Training Corps, Nashville, Tennessee; a sister, Mrs. Charles Bledsoe of Fayetteville; and ten grandchildren.
Source:
The Elk Valley Times
Fayetteville, Tennessee
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