Mr. Larry Dean Bumgarner, age 50, passed away Tuesday,
October 20, 2009, at Newport Health and Rehabilitation Center.
He was a former employee of Merchants and Planters Bank
and had served as a board member of the Cocke County A & I Fair
Association.
He was a member of Northport Baptist Church.
He was preceded in death by his parents John Wesley and
Maudie Lee Lane Bumgarner and a sister Elizabeth Ann Bumgarner Gregg.
He is survived by his brother J. W. Bumgarner of Surfside
Beach, SC; aunts Sarah Hance Lewis and Alma Warden, both of Newport, and Hazel
Bumgarner Gowan of Hot Springs, NC; uncle Ferman Bumgarner of Rutledge, TN;
nieces Kim Bumgarner and Donna Bumgarner Carmichael, both of SC; nephews Keith
Gregg of Newport and Kendall Gregg of Murfreesboro, TN; three great-nieces and
four great-nephews.
Additional survivors include special friends Mike and
Melba Kilpatrick of Newport.
Funeral services will be held at 8:00 p.m. Thursday,
October 22, 2009, in the Costner-Maloy Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Wade
Holbrook and Rev. Alvin Watts officiating.
The family will receive friends from 6-8 p.m. Thursday
evening at Costner-Maloy Funeral Home prior to the services.
Family and friends will meet at 9:45 a.m. Friday,
October, 23, 2009, at Resthaven Memorial Gardens for the 10:00 a.m. interment
service.
Arrangements by Costner-Maloy.