OBITUARY
Name: Solomon Jackson Garrison
From: The Citizen Times,
Asheville, North Carolina
Date: Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Barnardsville - Solomon Jack Garrison, 72, of 325 Dillingham Road, died Sunday, Sept. 23, 2007.
Mr. Garrison was born Jan. 28, 1935 in Buncombe
County where he had lived all of his life. He was a retired manager of
Barnardsville Telephone Company and Saluda Mountain Telephone Company. He was a
veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps. His parents, Lester Melvin and Imogene Daniels
Garrison as well as his son, Steve Garrison who died June 3, 2007 and brother,
Morris Garrison preceded him in death.
Surviving are his wife, Gloria Reynolds Garrison; sons, David Scott Garrison of
Barnardsville and Kevin Douglas Garrison and wife, Mandy Kelley Garrison, of
Weaverville; sisters, Beatrice G. Riley of Johnson City, Tenn., June G. Guthrie
and husband, Roy Lee, of Barnardsville and Jane G. Robinson and husband, Ray, of
Hickory; brothers, Gene Garrison and wife, Patsy, of Barnardsville, Dan Garrison
and wife, Rose, Don Garrison and wife, Margaret, and Marion Garrison, all of
Weaverville; grandchildren, Emilie James and Braxton Garrison
Services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday in Morgan Hill Baptist Church, of which he was a member, with the Revs. Kevin Garner, Gayle Brown and Steve Conard officiating. Burial will be in Morgan Hill Baptist Church Cemetery.
The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at West Funeral Home, 17 Merrimon Ave., Weaverville where the body will remain until placed in the church one hour prior to the services.
At other times the family will be at the residence.
Memorials may be made to Morgan Hill Baptist Church, c/o Linda Childers, 211 Morgan Branch Road, Weaverville, NC 28787.