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- [S104] Cocke County, Tennessee, and its People, Cocke County Heritage Book Committee, (Walsworth Publishing, 1992), 266.
- [S24] The Newport Plain Talk, (http://www.newportplaintalk.com), 17 Sep 2006.
Some of you keep in constant touch with my old friend, Doris Teague, of Johnson City. She and her late husband, John Abe Teague, and children have been long-time Plain Talk supporters. It was a pleasant surprise to chat with her by phone some weeks ago. She is still recovering from a springtime bout with pneumonia and a serious fall that left her partially blind in one eye. She said a fall in her home caused her to hit the back of her head against a vanity. As active as she is, it is difficult for me to believe she is 77. You know her three sons, too. Johnny Teague ended a many-year career with Farm Bureau last year to take a break and find a new way in his life. He is 55. TV and movie actor Marshall Teague had lived in Johnson City for a while and is now living with his California wife at Granite Falls near Hickory, NC, said Doris. Marshall is nursing an injured shoulder after recent surgery. Young Tyler, 46, is making yet another visit to China as a consultant in the jewelry industry. Doris and I were talking about how difficult it is to get about with sight only in one eye-particularly when you are trying to drive. She said she has always admired Mike Proffitt who lost an eye as a boy but has adjusted and done well with one eye. In plain talk, while some of us think we have a struggle through life with all our faculties in places, others manage well with less and do more.
Just Plain Talk
- [S112] Census, 1930.
Name: Doris Nowell
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1930
Event Place: Monroe, Walton, Georgia
Gender: Female
Age: 0
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Birthplace: Georgia
Birth Year (Estimated): 1930
Immigration Year:
Relationship to Head of Household: Daughter
Father's Birthplace: Georgia
Mother's Birthplace: Georgia
District: 0013
Household ID: 8
Sheet Number and Letter: 1A
Line Number: 25
Affiliate Publication Number: T626, roll 392
GS Film number: 2340127
Digital Folder Number: 4532008
Image Number: 00232
Household Gender Age Birthplace
Head John M Nowell M 68 Georgia
Wife Ruth G Nowell F 32 Georgia
Daughter Doris Nowell F 0 Georgia
Nephew J Marshall Nowell M 15 Georgia
- [S112] Census, 1940.
Name: Doris R Nowell
Titles and Terms:
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1940
Event Place: Ward 3, Macon, Militia District 1085, Bibb, Georgia, United States
Gender: Female
Age: 10
Marital Status: Single
Race (Original): White
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household (Original): Daughter
Relationship to Head of Household: Daughter
Birthplace: Georgia
Birth Year (Estimated): 1930
Last Place of Residence: Monroe, Walton, Georgia
District: 11-37
Family Number: 128
Sheet Number and Letter: 5B
Line Number: 73
Affiliate Publication Number: T627
Affiliate Film Number: 641
Digital Folder Number: 005460966
Image Number: 00428
Household Gender Age Birthplace
Head Ruth G Nowell F 42 Georgia
Daughter Doris R Nowell F 10 Georgia
Daughter Jean M Nowell F 8 Georgia
- [S113] Manes Funeral Home, (http://www.manesfuneralhome.com), 26 Mar 2013.
(May 10, 1929 - May 26, 2013)
Former Newport resident Doris Nowell Teague, age 84, died peacefully in her sleep on Sunday, May 26. 2013, at her residence in Johnson City where she had lived since 2001. Mrs. Teague was born in Athens, GA., to John Marshall Nowell and Ruth Gaines Nowell, who were residents of Monroe, GA. Following her father’s death in 1938, her family moved to Macon, GA where she graduated from Miller High School. She then attended Sullins College, Bristol, TN, and on a visit to Newport with her roommate Carolyn Sue Clevenger (Cox), she met her future husband, John Abe Teague. They were married April 16, 1948. They were the parents of three son- John Abe Teague, Jr. Marshall Reece Teague and James Tyler Teague. Over the years of her residency in Newport, Mrs. Teague was involved in many church, social and civic affairs. She was active in the First United Methodist Church, as a member of the Frankie Russell Missionary Circle and various committees, teaching Sunday school starting the first church kindergarten with Kathleen Sutton. She was a past president of the Clifton Club and a member of the Heartease Garden Club. She was chairman of the Cocke County Library Board and also served on the Nolichucky Regional Library Board. She served a term on the board of the Wesley Foundation at the University of Tennessee. She was once named Newport’s “Lady of the Year.” She served on the Advisory Board of School of Nursing at Carson-Newman College. Mrs. Teague worked several years as a teacher’s aide at Newport Grammar School where she always took a special interest in any struggling, troubled child. Preceding her in death are her husband, John Abe Teague, her parents, sister, Jean Nowell Fogelman, and half-siblings, John M. Nowell, Jr., E. Newton Nowell, Julia Nowell Smith and Mary Lucy Nowell Reaves. Surviving are sons and daughters-in-law, John Abe and Vicki (Brown) Teague, Jonesborough, Marshall and Lindy (Flesher) Teague, Azle, TX, and Tyler Teague, Johnson City. Grandchildren, Jennifer Teague (Todd) Good, Jonathan Teague and Jason Teague, all of Johnson City; great-grandchildren, Isabella Scarlet Swiatek, Deason Rhett Swiatek and Ainslie Tara Swiatek, of Johnson City; the Proffitt family and their families: Tony and Kathy Proffitt, Sevierville, Eutha and John Hageman, Surgoinsville, Mike and Barbara Proffitt, Pat and Mary Proffitt and Chris Proffitt, all of Newport. Also special to her were the girls at the Beauty Box. Visitation will be held Thursday, May 30, 2013 from 12:00 until 2:00 pm with funeral services following at 2:00 pm in Manes Funeral Home Chapel, with Dr. Charles Starks, Morristown officiating. Burial will be in Union Cemetery following the funeral service. Family and friends may sign the guest register on line at: www.manesfuneralhome.com. Manes Funeral Home in charge.
- [S24] The Newport Plain Talk, (http://www.newportplaintalk.com), 28 May 2013.
Former community leader Doris Norwell Teague dies
Former Newport resident Doris Nowell Teague, age 84, died Sunday at her residence in Johnson City, where she had lived since 2001.
She was born in Athens, Ga., to John Marshall Nowell and Ruth Gaines Nowell, who were residents of Monroe, Ga. After her father’s death in 1938, her family moved to Macon, Ga., where she graduated from Miller High School. She then attended Sullins College in Bristol, and on a visit to Newport with her roommate Carolyn Sue Clevenger (Cox), she met her future husband, John Abe Teague. They were married April 16, 1948. They were the parents of three sons—John Abe Teague, Jr. Marshall Reece Teague and James Tyler Teague.
While living Newport, Teague was involved in many church, social and civic affairs. She was active in the First United Methodist Church, as a member of the Frankie Russell Missionary Circle and various committees, teaching Sunday school starting the first church kindergarten with Kathleen Sutton.
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