Bobbie Joe Buck

Published 10:53 am Monday, March 12, 2018

Bobbie Joe Buck, 71, of Elizabethton, passed away Friday, March 9, 2018, at Select Specialty Hospital, Bristol, Tenn.
Bobbie Joe was a native of Carter County and a 1965 graduate of Happy Valley High School. He served in the United States Navy. He was retired as Plant Manager with the MECO Corporation, Greeneville. Bobbie Joe was a member of V.F.W. Post 2166.
He was preceded in death by his mother, Francis Louise Snead Buck, and a daughter, Jocyene Tengroth.
Survivors include his wife of 42 years, Barbara Sue Asher Buck; his children, Bobbie Joe Buck II and wife Freda, Johnson City, Carson Jackson and wife Judy, Abingdon, Va., and Cherial Lingerfelt, Bristol; his father, Billy Joe Buck; five grandchildren, Gina Percey and husband Matt, Randy Lingerfelt and fiancée Dottie Craig, Landon Jackson, Wesley Jackson and Logan Buck; and three great-grandchildren, Jordan Percey, Jackson Percey and Ryder Lingerfelt.
Funeral services for Bobbie Joe Buck will be conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday, March 13, at Memorial Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Gary Edwards officiating. Entombment will follow in the Mausoleum of Peace at Happy Valley Memorial Park. Honorary pallbearers will be Tim Gouge, Todd Avery, Trey Avery, Keith Mullins, Mike Buck and Larry Brown. The family will receive friends from 5 to 7 p.m. Monday at the funeral home. Military Honors will be provided by the V.F.W. Post 4933, Kingsport. The family requests friends pay their respects at the funeral home only. Condolences may be sent to the family at our website, www.memorialfcelizabethton.com.
Memorial Funeral Chapel is serving the Buck family.