Foy Evelyn Wright Arnold Ketner

Foy was a life long resident of East Tennessee and passed away at the Palm Beach Gardens Hospice Medical Center in North Palm Beach, Florida while visiting her daughter.

She married George Walter Arnold in 1934 and moved to Kingsport, Tennessee and together they were active members of the Highland Park Methodist Church until her husband became a minister in the Holston Conference. As the wife to a Methodist minister, she had an active life holding many positions in the church. Her love was teaching Sunday school and being in church choirs and music ministry. She also was a beloved teacher of kindergarten and the handicapped. Foy lived a life of dedication to her savior and her family. She was a member of the Fairhaven United Methodist Church in Jonesborough, Tennessee.

In addition to her parents and seven siblings, she is preceded in death by her beloved husbands, the Rev George W. Arnold and James R. Ketner; and an infant child George W. Arnold Jr.

She is survived by her brother, Wallace Wright; and sisters, Eunice Sabet, Clarice Ellison and Mary Ruth McCreary. She has five surviving children, Audrey A. Burnett, of Fancy Gap, Virginia, Hilda L. Fletcher, of Tappahannock, Virginia, Phillip S. Arnold, of Chester, Virginia, David E. Arnold, of Jonesborough, Tennessee, and Patricia L. Hafer, of North Palm Beach, Florida. She also leaves behind twelve grandchildren and nine great grandchildren and they were the joy of her life.

Re-Written from the Johnson City Press and Dillow-Taylor Funeral Home
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First marriage: George Walter Arnold, 1934.

Second marriage: James Baxter Ketner in 1994.
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1940 Census: Sullivan, Tennessee

Head: George Arnold M 32 Virginia
Wife: Foy Arnold F 22 Kentucky
Daughter: Audrey Arnold F 5 Tennessee
Daughter: Hilda Arnold F 0 Tennessee