Mary Anne Solomon, 74, of Holly Creek Road, died May 25, 2017, at 5:30pm. She had a five year battle with non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. Mrs. Solomon grew up in the Mt. Pleasant Community and became a member of Mt. Pleasant United Methodist Church. In 1960, she married Winfred Solomon, her husband of 56 years. At that time, she became a member of The First Church of God along with her husband, and at the time of her death, she attended Horse Creek Church of God. She was a church pianist for 50 years.
Mrs. Solomon was a dental assistant for Dr. Lynn B. Smith (1958-1963). She was also a piano teacher, having taught private lessons at Chuckey and Mosheim Elementary Schools in the 1960’s and early 1970’s and in her home for 20 years.
She was a member of the 1959 graduating class of Greeneville High School. Mrs. Solomon retired from Magnavox in 1995 after 20 years of service. She was a volunteer at Morning Pointe and Wellington Place (now Brookdale) for a number of years – playing old selections of piano music for the residents to enjoy.
Survivors in addition to her husband are two daughters and sons-in-law: Bridget and Jesse Knight of Chuckey and Wendy and Brian Morris of Woodstock, Georgia; one grandson: Cody Knight and his wife, Rachel, of Greeneville; three granddaughters: Courtney (Knight) Briles and husband, Travis, of Greeneville, and Staci and Kaylee Morris of Woodstock, Georgia; four great grandsons: David, Caspian, and Quinton Knight and Grant Briles, all of Greeneville; one sister and brother-in-law: Margie and Tom DaMitz of Johnson City; sisters-in-law and brother-in-law: Frances and Donald Collins of Greeneville and Vicki Solomon of Fredricksburg, Virginia; special nephews: Shaun Little of Nashville and Anthony Little of Elizabethton; and great nieces, nephews, and cousins.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Fox and Anna Mae Dearstone of the Mt. Pleasant Community.
The family will receive friends from 2-4 and 6-8 p.m. Saturday, May 27, at Kiser-Rose Hill Funeral Home. Mary Anne will do the pre and after funeral music from her CD “Great Old Hymns”.
The funeral service will be held at 2:00 p.m. Sunday, May 28 in the funeral home chapel with Rev. Bobby Morrison officiating.
A private interment will be in GreeneLawn Memorial Gardens.
Honorary pallbearers will be members of the Adult Sunday School Class of the Horse Creek Church of God; the Enlivenders (Wednesday night singers at nursing and assisted living homes), as she was the pianist for 13 years; Dr. Dharmen Patel and staff; and the staff of Smokey Mountain Hospice.
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