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Tom Queen Sr.

Birth
Jackson County, North Carolina, USA
Death
29 Jun 2000 (aged 63)
Cherokee, Swain County, North Carolina, USA
Burial
Cherokee, Swain County, North Carolina, USA Add to Map
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Tom Queen, Sr., 63 of Cherokee`s Soco community,
died Thursday, June 29, 2000,
in Haywood Regional Medical Center after a brief illness.

Funeral services were held at 11 a.m. Saturday, July 1, at Soco Pentecostal Church. The Rev. Bo Parris officiated. Burial was in Washington Cemetery.

A native of Jackson County, he was a logger, as well as a craftsman at the Oconaluftee Indian Village.

He was a son of the late Jasper and Luzene Queen.

He was preceded in death by one sister, Annie Powell, and two brothers, Jesse and Blane Queen.

Surviving are his wife, Julia Queen, four daughters, Mary Sherrill, Rebecca Queen and Lisa Queen, all of Cherokee, and Kina Crowe of New Mexico, three sons, Tom Queen Jr., Jasper Queen and John Littlejohn, all of Cherokee, four sisters, Kina Littlejohn, Minnie Queen, Myrtle Bird and Eva Wolfe, all of Cherokee, two brothers, Henry and Lewis Queen of Cherokee, 13 grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren.

Father:
Jasper Queen,
born 2. Dec. 1894, died May 1969

Wife:
Julia Sherrill Queen,
born 19. Jul. 1940, died 2. Oct. 2005

Sister:
Annie Queen Powell,
born 22. Jul. 1932, died 6. Feb. 1999


Tom Queen, Sr., 63 of Cherokee`s Soco community,
died Thursday, June 29, 2000,
in Haywood Regional Medical Center after a brief illness.

Funeral services were held at 11 a.m. Saturday, July 1, at Soco Pentecostal Church. The Rev. Bo Parris officiated. Burial was in Washington Cemetery.

A native of Jackson County, he was a logger, as well as a craftsman at the Oconaluftee Indian Village.

He was a son of the late Jasper and Luzene Queen.

He was preceded in death by one sister, Annie Powell, and two brothers, Jesse and Blane Queen.

Surviving are his wife, Julia Queen, four daughters, Mary Sherrill, Rebecca Queen and Lisa Queen, all of Cherokee, and Kina Crowe of New Mexico, three sons, Tom Queen Jr., Jasper Queen and John Littlejohn, all of Cherokee, four sisters, Kina Littlejohn, Minnie Queen, Myrtle Bird and Eva Wolfe, all of Cherokee, two brothers, Henry and Lewis Queen of Cherokee, 13 grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren.

Father:
Jasper Queen,
born 2. Dec. 1894, died May 1969

Wife:
Julia Sherrill Queen,
born 19. Jul. 1940, died 2. Oct. 2005

Sister:
Annie Queen Powell,
born 22. Jul. 1932, died 6. Feb. 1999




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