Leon Harmon Blevins

Published 9:18 am Friday, January 20, 2017

Leon Harmon Blevins, 79, of Elizabethton, passed away Thursday, January 19, 2017, at Johnson City Medical Center.
A native of Carter County, he was a son of the late Earl and Beryl Taylor Blevins.
Leon was a 1957 graduate of Unaka High School and a retired machinist. He was a member of Moores Chapel Free Will Baptist Church.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a brother, Leroy N. Blevins.
Survivors include his children, Troy Lee Blevins, Elizabethton, and Cindy Michelle Blevins, Lebanon, Tenn., and their mother, Diana, and Gabriel Cody Blevins and wife Diana, Johnson City, and his mother, Kathy; six grandchildren; two sisters, Irene Brockwell and Rosaline Lively, both of Elizabethton; and nieces and nephews.
Funeral services for Leon Harmon Blevins will be conducted at 3:30 p.m. Saturday, January 21, at Memorial Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Ernest Garland and the Rev. Willie Campbell officiating. Music will be provided by Ronnie Blevins and Ann Ward. Interment will follow in the Garland Cemetery with Dr. James Richardson officiating. Active pallbearers will be sons, grandsons, Bradley Peeks, Larry Absher and Troy “Buddy” Ward. Honorary pallbearers will be Doug Buckles, Ed Shankle, Leslie Grindstaff, Phil Oliver, Ed Estep, Leonard Bowers, Mike Hodge, Leonard Arnold, Marshall Rice, Rusty Taylor, Lawrence Cofer, his church family and the Unaka High School Class of 1957. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 2:30 until 3:30 p.m. Saturday. Condolences may be sent to the family at our website at www.memorialfcelizabethton.com.
Memorial Funeral Chapel is serving the Blevins family.