General Information

Birth
18 DEC 1886
Jefferson County, Tennessee
Death
23 AUG 1977
Maryville, Blount County, Tennessee
Burial
Grandview Cemetery, Blount County, Maryville, Tennessee

Notes

Maryville-Alcoa Times 8/24/1977

Rankin, 91, dies at Asbury Acres

Reu R. Rankin, 91, died Tuesday at Asbury Acres Health Center.

He was born in Jefferson County, but had lived the past 10 years in Maryville. He was retired in 1951 in Newton, Kan., from the Santa Fe Railroad. He was a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church in Kansas and was later a member of New Providence Presbyterian Church.

He is survived by his daughters, Mrs. A.L. Alexander of Maryville and Mrs. Thomas D. Rose, Jr. of Kingsport; seven grandchildren; six great-grandchildren.

A graveside service will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday at Grandview Cemetery with the Rev. Glenn Bays officiating. The family will receive friends from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. today at McCammon-Ammons Funeral Home.

Parents

James Thomas Jim Tom Rankin
- Father
1834 - 1901
Birth
6 SEP 1834
Tennessee
Death
30 NOV 1901
Jefferson County, Tennessee
Burial
Hebron Cemetery, Jefferson County, Tennessee
Nancy Jane Webb
- Mother
1851 - 1918
Birth
1851
Death
1918