Mary Evelyn Hardin Rigsby

February 13, 1930 - February 21, 2020

Mary Evelyn Hardin Rigsby, 90, Johnson City passed away Friday, February 21, 2020 in Franklin Woods Community Hospital. She was a native of Elizabethton and was the daughter of the late Joseph “Hook” Hardin and Ettie Belle Miller Hardin. Mrs. Rigsby was a Baptist by faith and had worked for Hammond Organ and Mayes Brothers. She enjoyed yard sales, visiting God’s Corner, gardening, especially raising and eating tomatoes and she loved cats. In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by her husband, Cecil Clyde Rigsby in 1998; also a brother, Carroll B. Hardin. Survivors include her three daughters, Linda English and husband, John of Johnson City, Janie Chase of Johnson City and Judy Pippin and husband, Tom of Smyrna, Tennessee; three step-daughters, Lola Harmon, Rose Turbyfield and Joy McQueen; a granddaughter, Heather Rigsby and Chris Keller of Johnson City; great-grandchildren, Aspen Oliver, Isaiah Oliver and Riley Cobin; several nieces, nephews and cousins. Funeral services for Mrs. Rigsby will be conducted at 7:00 PM Tuesday, February 25, 2020 in the East Chapel of Appalachian Funeral Home with Mr. Louie Blevins officiating. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 5:00 PM until the service hour. Graveside services will be held at 11:00 AM Wednesday at Monte Vista Memorial Park. Pallbearers will be selected from the family and friends. For those attending this service you are asked to meet at the funeral home by 10:30 AM to go in procession to the cemetery. The family would like to express their gratitude to the staff of NHC Health Care and to Franklin Woods Community Hospital for the wonderful care and compassion they showed to Mrs. Rigsby and the family.