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- [S84] E-Mail, Melissa Hale Newberry [MNEWBERRY@HIGHLAND.NET], 14 Jul 2002.
- [S4] Knoxville News-Sentinel (Tennessee), 7 Oct 2010.
HALE, HARRY R. "POPPY" - left this earth on Wednesday, October 6, 2010. He was born February 18, 1930 in LaFollette, Tennessee, the son of Claude and Mae (Maples) Hale. He shared 56 years of his life with his loving wife Janice (Jones) Hale. Harry served in the United States Army and was a veteran of the Korean War. He was retired from Kentucky Central Life Insurance Company where he worked more than 30 years. Harry was an avid fisherman, he loved listening to gospel and country music and watching his grandchildren play sports. He was preceded in death by his parents, Claude and Mae Hale; and by his father-in-law and mother-in-law, Guy and Frankie Jones. He will be greatly missed by his wife Janice; by a daughter, Melissa Newberry and husband, Louis; and by grandchildren, Meredith and Taylor Newberry. Harry is also survived by sisters, Jo Hale of Utah and Kathy Graham of Colorado; by a brother, Steve Hale of Rockford; sisters-in-law, June Hudson and husband, Jim, Jeannette Babb and husband Jim, Judy Slack and husband, Charles and Jackie Maston and husband Dwight all of Coalfield; brother-in-law, Joe Jones and wife Judy of Kingston; special friends, Don and Evelyn Jones of Trenton, MI, Joyce and Leo Rutherford, Pauline and Luther Walton, and Carolyn Pipkin of Coalfield. He will also be missed by a host of loving nieces, nephews, grandnieces and grandnephews, and extended family members and friends. The family will receive friends and celebrate Harry's life from 2:00 until 4:00 pm on Thursday, October 7, 2010, with funeral services following at 4:00 pm in the chapel of Sharp Funeral Home with James Foster officiating. Burial and graveside services will follow at the Estes Cemetery in Coalfield at 6:30 pm. Sharp Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements. An online guest book is available at www.sharpfh.com
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