KINGSPORT, Tenn., March 22 - Thomas H. Kestner, 84, Kingsport Route 2, died at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday at Holston Valley Community Hospital after a long illness.
Mr. Kestner attended the Bloomingdale Assembly of God Church. He was a native of Washington County, Virginia, and was the son of Andrew and Mary Lilly Kestner. He moved to Sullivan County in 1928.
He is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Effie Koone, Mrs. Margerie Cooper, both of Greenville, S.C., and Mrs. Mary Alder, Kingsport; eight sons, Clarence, William, Paul, and Smith Kestner, all of Kingsport; Fred and Preston, Greenville, Oakley Kestner, Draper, N.C., Beecher Kestner, Lynchburg, Va.; two brothers, Walter Kestner of Abingdon, Va., and James Kestner, Huntington, West Va.;
30 grandchildren and 21 great grandchildren.
Funeral arrangements are incomplete. Hamlett-Dobson Funeral Home is
in charge of arrangements. The body will remain at the funeral home.
KINGSPORT, Tenn., March 22 - Thomas H. Kestner, 84, Kingsport Route 2, died at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday at Holston Valley Community Hospital after a long illness.
Mr. Kestner attended the Bloomingdale Assembly of God Church. He was a native of Washington County, Virginia, and was the son of Andrew and Mary Lilly Kestner. He moved to Sullivan County in 1928.
He is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Effie Koone, Mrs. Margerie Cooper, both of Greenville, S.C., and Mrs. Mary Alder, Kingsport; eight sons, Clarence, William, Paul, and Smith Kestner, all of Kingsport; Fred and Preston, Greenville, Oakley Kestner, Draper, N.C., Beecher Kestner, Lynchburg, Va.; two brothers, Walter Kestner of Abingdon, Va., and James Kestner, Huntington, West Va.;
30 grandchildren and 21 great grandchildren.
Funeral arrangements are incomplete. Hamlett-Dobson Funeral Home is
in charge of arrangements. The body will remain at the funeral home.
Family Members
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Rev Clarence Nathaniel Kestner
1901–1987
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Ollie Pearl Kestner Vestal
1903–1930
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Ernest Oakley Kestner
1904–1992
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Frederick Nelson "Fred" Kestner
1905–1987
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Effie Florence Kestner Koone Brown
1907–2007
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William Roby Kestner
1909–1990
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Marjorie Trula Kestner Cooper
1911–2008
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Beecher Haile Kestner
1913–1987
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Paul Andrew Kestner
1915–1998
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Preston James Kestner
1917–2003
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R. C. Kestner
1919–1920
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Rev Smith E. Kestner
1921–2019
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Mary Scott Elizabeth Kestner Alder
1922–1993
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