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Sherry Elizabeth Cobb

Published Wednesday, June 30, 1999 in the Nevada County Picayune

Sherry Elizabeth Anderson Cobb, 48, of Cosby, Tenn., died Sunday, June 20, 1999, at Baptist Hospital of Cocke County after a long battle with cancer.

Mrs. Cobb was director of the Newport Animal Shelter and an Animal Control officer for the city of Newport, Tenn.; a member of Friends of the Shelter; secretary of Sevier County, Tenn., Riding Club; a member of Animal Control Association of Tennessee, the National Animal Control Association, and a member of St. Mark United Methodist Church in Camden.

Survivors include her husband, William J. Cobb Jr.; her stepson, William J. Cobb III; her parents, Wanda and Edgar Anderson; a sister, Sylvia Anderson Wray; a nephew, Nathaniel Anderson Wray all of Camden; four aunts, Ida Anderson and Helen Anderson of Wilmar, Hazel Bryson of Fort Smith and Marie Eley of Prescott; and many other relatives and friends.

The funeral was held at 8 p.m. this past Wednesday at the First United Methodist Church in Newport, Tenn., with Rev. Riley Huffoteller officiating. Burial was in the DeAnn Cemetery in Prescott last Sunday at 3 p.m. with Rev. Jim Lenderman officiating.

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