BOBBY N WILEY

BOBBY N. WILEY, AGE 80, LONGTIME RESIDENT OF ATHENS, DIED PEACEFULLY, FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 2017, AT HIS HOME, SURROUNDED BY LOVING FAMILY AND NEIGHBORS.

BOBBY WAS BORN DECEMBER 13, 1936, IN BENTON, TN, AND ATTENDED POLK COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL.  HE MARRIED THE LOVE OF HIS LIFE, BETTY VINCENT, ON AUGUST, 11, 1959. AT AGE 24, HE WAS DRAFTED INTO THE US ARMY, SERVING IN COMPANY B, 2ND BATTLE GROUP, 23RD INFANTRY IN FORT BENNING, GA. HE LATER WORKED PART-TIME AT ZIEGLER FUNERAL HOME WHILE WORKING FULL-TIME AT BOWATER SOUTHERN, WHERE HE RETIRED AFTER 38 YEARS OF SERVICE. BOBBY WAS A MEMBER OF EAST ATHENS BAPTIST CHURCH.

 HE WAS THE SON OF THE LATE CARMACK AND SENA GREEN WILEY.  HE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY AN INFANT SON, A  DAUGHTER, BEVERLY DENISE WILEY UNDERDOWN, A SISTER, PATSY LEE,  A SON-IN-LAW, TIMOTHY GRANT WALKER, A BROTHER-IN-IN-LAW, JIM CALVIN, AND HIS FATHER-IN-LAW AND MOTHER-IN-LAW, TAYLOR AND CORA VINCENT.

LEFT BEHIND ARE HIS LOVING WIFE OF 58 YEARS, BETTY VINCENT WILEY, OF ATHENS,

TWO DAUGHTERS AND SONS-IN-LAW, DONNA AND ROD CARMICHAEL OF RICEVILLE AND JULIE AND FREDDIE WILEY, OF ATHENS.

SIX GRANDCHILDREN,

JOHNNY BOB UNDERDOWN, III, AND WIFE MISSY, JENNIFER MORGAN AND HUSBAND, CHRIS,

LYNSEY CORLEY AND HUSBAND, TREY, TYLER WILEY, ELIZABETH WILEY AND COLE CARMICHAEL

HE ALSO HAS SIX GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN,

LANDEN AND MILES UNDERDOWN, GRESHAM AND HENRY MORGAN AND KILEY AND CARTER CORLEY.

THREE SISTERS AND TWO-BROTHERS-IN-LAW,

LUCILLE CALVIN, OF SEVIERVILLE, JOSEPHINE AND S.J. (SAM) WALL OF NASHVILLE,  MARIE WILEY OF BENTON AND J.W. LEE OF CALHOUN.

SEVERAL LOVING IN-LAWS, NIECES, NEPHEWS AND DEAR FRIENDS.

FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE 1:00 PM MONDAY AT ZIEGLER FUNERAL HOME WITH PASTOR JASON ROBERSON, PASTOR MIKE DANNEL AND BROTHER ED PERRY OFFICIATING. BURIAL WILL FOLLOW IN THE CLEAR SPRINGS CEMETERY. SERVING AS PALLBEARERS WILL BE, FREDDIE WILEY, TYLER WILEY, JOHNNY BOB UNDERDOWN III, CHRIS MORGAN, TREY CORLEY, DEREK CLINE AND ROD CARMICHAEL.

THE GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN WILL BE SERVING AS HONORARY PALLBEARERS.

THE FAMILY WILL RECEIVE FRIENDS MONDAY, AUGUST, 14, 2107, FROM 11:00 AM UNTIL 1:00 PM, PRIOR TO THE FUNERAL SERVICE, AT ZIEGLER FUNERAL HOME.

ZIEGLER FUNERAL HOME HAS BEEN ENTRUSTED WITH THE CARE OF BOBBY N. WILEY.

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