Ethel Pearl Watson Graybeal

Published 3:47 pm Friday, November 11, 2022

Ethel Pearl Watson Graybeal, 82, Elizabethton, passed away Friday, November 11, 2022, at her residence surrounded by her family. In her healthier days she enjoyed going to yard sales, sitting on her porch, beach trips with her daughters and long sight-seeing rides. She was a loving mother, grandmother and great-grandmother.
Ethel was a faithful member of Shelter Independent Church.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Martin Graybeal; parents, Bill and Annie Lunceford Watson; one sister, Annie “Nancy” Willis; three brothers, Robert “Buck” Watson, Kenny Watson and Luther “Doode” Watson; and two sons-in-law, Sonny and Kenny Willis.
Ethel was a faithful member of Shelter Independent Church.
Survivors include one son, Jeff (Betty) Graybeal; four daughters, Regina (Bud) Malone, Bluff City, Lori Willis, of the home, Rita (Steve) Waycaster, Piney Flats, and Sherri “Dawnie” (Michael) Parker, Bluff City; six grandchildren, Marty Willis, Jessie Miller, Joseph and Justin Waycaster, Tyler and Jacob Graybeal and spouses; eight great-grandchildren, Bailee and Brayden Willis, Ellie, Levi and Hutchy Waycaster, Ryker Miller, Jordyn Graybeal and Quinn Graybeal; one brother, Carl (Okie) Watson of Texas; one sister, Charlene Hilliard, Bristol; three sisters-in-law, Louise and Mary Watson and Nellie Campbell; five adopted grandsons, Isaac Tolley, Christopher Scalf, Andy Baumgardner, Weston Hicks and Robert McKinney; and three adopted daughters, Penny Bradley, Louise Roark and Mel Grindstaff.
Funeral services will be conducted at 7 p.m. Monday, November 14, at Memorial Funeral Chapel with Rev.Teddy Lewis and the Rev. Steve Waycaster officiating. The graveside service will be conducted at 11 a.m. Tuesday, November 15, in the Sunrise Cemetery, Bluff City. Active pallbearers will be grandsons. Special thanks to her wonderful nurse, Devan Bartlett, PCP Joey Hunsinger, Amedisys Hospice (Hannah, Stacy, Melissa) and Minka Graybeal, David and Katherine Nidiffer and members of Piney Grove Free Will Baptist Church. The family will receive friends from 5 to 7 p.m. Monday at the funeral home. Friends may also visit with the family at the home of her daughter, Lori. Family and friends will assemble at the funeral home at 10 a.m. Tuesday to go in procession to the cemetery. Condolences may be sent to the family at our website, www.memorialfcelizabethton.com.
Memorial Funeral Chapel is serving the Graybeal family.