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- [S104] Cocke County, Tennessee, and its People, Cocke County Heritage Book Committee, (Walsworth Publishing, 1992), 128.
- [S24] The Newport Plain Talk, (http://www.newportplaintalk.com), 22 Aug 2005.
Lonnie H. Hawk, 86, of West Allen's Bridge Road in the Caney Branch Community, passed away Monday morning, August 22, 2005, at Laughlin Memorial Hospital.
He was a retired dairy farmer. He was a member of Salem Lutheran Church, where he served on the church counsel and was chairman of the property committee for many years.
Survivors include his son and daughter-in-law, Roger Wayne and Kay Hawk; daughter and son-in-law, Patricia and John Paul Neas III, of Jonesborough; four grandchildren and spouses: Jennifer and Kelly Wolfe and John Paul IV and Tanda Neas, of Washington County, and Michael John and Veronica Hawk and Allen James Hawk and Allen James Hawk and fiancé Lindsey Byrd; three great-granddaughters, Audrey and Emma Wolfe, of Washington County, and Star Hawk, of Greene County; four sisters-in-law, Vave Lee Hawk, of Cocke County; Mae Hawk, of Sullivan County; Edna Harper, of Texas; and Kathryn Freshour, of Cocke County; one brother-in-law, Coolidge Harper, of Texas; several nieces and nephews.
He was the son of the late Arelious Jerome and Dora A. Peters Hawk. He was loving caregiver of his late wife, Mildred Freshour Hawk, who preceded him in death February 6, 2005, and two infant grandchildren; six brothers, Tom, Edd, Walter, Denver, Bill, and Elmer Hawk; and one sister, Mamie Mooneyhan.
Funeral services will be held 2 p.m., Wednesday, August 24, 2005, at Salem Lutheran Church with Pastor Kathleen Yates and Pastor Jim Nipper officiating. Interment will follow in the church cemetery.
Pallbearers will be Michael Hawk, Allen Hawk, John Neas IV, Kelly Wolfe, Larry Hawk Robert Hawk, Phillip Hawk, and Marcus Mooneyhan.
A military graveside service will be conducted by the Greene County Color Guard consisting of V.F.W. Post #1990, American Legion Post #64, and the Tennessee National Guard.
The body is at Kiser Funeral Home where the family will receive friends 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday. The body will be taken to the church 30 minutes preceding the funeral service.
Kiser Funeral Home, 401 West Main Street, Greeneville, is in charge of the arrangements.
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