Jaunita Clark

Published 4:36 pm Wednesday, May 29, 2019

On Tuesday, May 28, 2019, Jaunita Clark, dedicated grandmother and mother of three, passed away at the age of 73, born on December 30, 1945 in Elizabethton.
Mrs. Clark was raised by her grandparents until she was married to Billy E. Clark Sr. Later in life she became an EMS worker until an accident disabled her. She then turned all her time and attention to taking care of others as an in home health care assistant. Before long she gave that up as well and dedicated her retirement years to raising her two granddaughters, Brittany D. Byrd and Gerri L. Self. She attended Upper Gap Creek Free Will Baptist Church.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Billy E. Clark Sr.
Survivors include two sons, Billy Clark Jr., Limestone, and Danny Clark, Chuckey; one daughter, Jannetta Self, Norfolk, Va.; 11 grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; two sisters, Sue Lipps, Elizabethton, and Margaret McKinney, Johnson City; two brothers, Carl Tolley Jr., Hampton, and Richard Tolley, Greeneville.
She was also guilty of indulging in many long conversations often with strangers about their family, their past, and their hopes for their future. Many times she was not only a grandmother, she was a nurse, a therapist, a Mom, a dad, a cheerleader and a best friend.
Funeral services for Jaunita Clark will be conducted at 2 p.m. Thursday, May 30, at Memorial Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Phillip Shelton officiating. Interment will follow in the Tolley-Cornett Cemetery, Fairview Section (Simerly Creek). Pallbearers will be Timothy Shelton, Jannetta Clark, Michael Davis, Isaiah Clark, Gerri Self, Jared Brock, Larry White, Brittany Byrd and Elliott Shaw. The family will receive friends from 1 until 2 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home. Condolences may be sent to the family at our website at www.memorialfcelizabethton.com.
Memorial Funeral Chapel, 212 N. Main Street, Elizabethton, is serving the Clark family.