Billy Gregory

Published 11:33 am Friday, March 28, 2025

With heavy hearts, we are sharing the passing of our beloved father/Papa/Grandpaw. Billy Hugh “The Mailman” Gregory, Elizabethton, went home to be with our Lord and Savior on March 19, 2025. I promise no matter how ready you think you are, you’ll never be ready to lose someone you love so much.

Billy was born April 8, 1951. He was an active, lively young man who loved laughing, playing jokes, clowning around, eating, and could play a mean hand of poker!

Daddy was born with a servant’s heart, which showed through him volunteering to be in Vietnam — one of the hardest wars our country to this day has gone through. He then turned to the post office, moved to a small town, and delivered mail for the rest of his life — walking most of his route and getting to know his customers on a very intimate basis. Most of them would definitely call him a friend.

Billy was preceded in death by his parents, Floyd J. and Francis Iva Gregory; by his wife, Ruth; his oldest son, Richard; his daughter, Wendy; his sisters, Vivian and Phyllis; and his brother, James, who just passed right before.

I definitely believe my daddy lived a full life and touched many other lives along the way.

He is survived by daughters Missy and her sons; Charity, her two daughters and son; and his son, Billy, and his son, Eric (Huck); his grandsons Jeremy, Cody, and Dylan; and his granddaughters, Lillie and Beth. His brother, Tommy; his baby sister, Janet, and her husband, Martin; special sister-in-law, Evie; and many grandchildren, nieces, nephews, and special friends.

Anyone that knew Mailman loved him — and the rest of us who knew him as Daddy and Papaw loved him even more.

Rest high on that mountain, Daddy. We will see you when we get there!

Receiving of friends will be at Memorial Chapel, 212 North Main Street, Elizabethton, Tennessee, from 6 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 1. Burial will be the next morning at 11 a.m. Wednesday, April 2, at Mountain Home National Cemetery. We will meet there at 10:50 a.m. The address is 53 Memorial Avenue, Mountain Home, Tennessee.

Condolences may be sent to the family at our website: www.memorialfcelizabethton.com.

Memorial Funeral Chapel is serving the Gregory family.