Leatha Lucille Thompson

Leatha Lucille Ball Thompson, 83, Kingsport, died Tuesday, October 23, 2007, at 12:30 pm at home, where she had lived for over 50 years. She left her life of suffering with cancer for a new life with no pain.

She was a LPN at Holston Valley Hospital and also Indian Path. Lucille was of the Baptist faith and a stranger she knew not.

Preceding her in death were her son, Bobby Joe Parkerson; two brothers, Walter J. Ball and Fred E. Ball; and parents, Jocephus and Bertie Ball.

Surviving are her daughter, Krysti ?Tootie? Owens, Kingsport; three grandsons, Steve Frazier & wife Andrea, Chris Dingus, and Derwin Gibson; two granddaughters, Kim Hamilton and Tabitha Owens, all of Kingsport; and five great-grandchildren, Endia & Isaiah Dingus, of Knoxville, Savanna & Sydney Hamilton of Kingsport, and Taylor Hamilton of Big Stone Gap, VA.

Calling hours are from 6 ? 8 pm Saturday at Hamlett-Dobson Funeral Home, Kingsport.

Services will be conducted at 1 pm Sunday at the funeral home with Pastor Joe Byrd officiating.

Burial will be at Oak Hill Memorial Park.

Pallbearers will be family members and friends.

The family would like to express a very special thank you to Wellmont Hospice House for the love and professional care they provided for her. Memorial contributions may be made to the Christine LaGuardia Phillips Cancer Center, c/o Wellmont HVMC, P. O. Box 1069, Kingsport, TN 37662.