The family will receive friends at Timber Ridge Presbyterian Church, 80 Timber Ridge Road, Greeneville, TN, on Tuesday, March 28, 2017, from 11:00 AM until Noon, with funeral services following at Noon Rev.
Jordan Blazo of Ruston, LA Bethany White and husband Robbie White of Knoxville, TN and her great-grandchildren, Anna Holton McGlothin and Graham Michael McGlothin of Knoxville, TN. David Earl Brumley and wife Rebecca Williams Brumley of Franklin, TN her grandchildren, William Patrick McGlothin of Knoxville, TN Kevin Michael McGlothin and wife Jenny McGlothin of Knoxville, TN Briley Elizabeth Blazo and husband Dr. She is survived by her sister, Betty Ruth George Keller of Knoxville, TN her daughter, Carol Anne Brumley McGlothin and husband Michael Steven McGlothin of Knoxville, TN her son, Dr. Frances was preceded in death by her father, Earl Morey George her mother, Bessie Anne McAfee George and her husbands, Hershel Orval Hamblin and Billy Frank Brumley. Frances was a member of Timber Ridge Presbyterian Church for 62 years. Their work was recorded in the book, Timber Ridge Church, A Two Hundred Year Heritage of Presbyterian Faith, 1786-1986. In 1986, Frances and Billy Brumley spent many days documenting inscriptions on all tombstones and grave markers in the Timber Ridge Presbyterian Church Cemetery. This book contains many stories taken from conversations Frances had with her father the last taking place the day before his death. Her greatest achievement in genealogy occurred after many years of dedicated work when she co-authored and published The George History 1752-1979.
She developed a keen interest in family genealogy in the 1970s and spent countless hours corresponding and researching her family history, including the George,McAfee, Rambo, Brumley and Bowers lineages. Frances was an avid reader and supported the Greeneville-Greene County Public Library throughout her life. After Billy's death in 1998, Frances continued to live on the farm until 2012, when she moved to Manorhouse Assisted Living in Knoxville. Frances was a homemaker throughout their 49 years of marriage. In 1949, Billy and Frances built their home on the Brumley family farm in the Glenwood Community of Greene County. After spending several months in an Army hospital in Australia, Billy was honorably discharged in 1945. He was hit by a Japanese hand grenade on Los Negros, a small island in the Admiralty Islands. A World War II veteran, he was assigned to the 1st Cavalry, 7th Division, and was in the final group of cavalrymen to receive their training on horseback. Billy was in the furniture business for 41 years and retired as manager of Brown's Furniture and Jewelry in 1972. Frances married Billy Frank Brumley on January 29, 1949. They were captured by Luftwaffe personnel and were executed. During a bombing raid over Berlin, the crew was forced to parachute from their badly damaged plane. Hershel was an Army Air Force staff sergeant in World War II and was a radio operator on a B24 Liberator bomber. In 1943, she married Hershel Orval Hamblin of Danville, VA. As a young adult in Greeneville, she was employed as an assistant manager of Sears and in the jewelry department of Brown's Furniture Store. Frances grew up during the Great Depression and attended Tusculum College. Her family moved back to Greeneville, TN, when she was four years old. She was born August 7, 1922, in Sevierville, TN. Obituary Mary Frances Brumley, age 94, of the Glenwood Community in Greene County, TN, passed away at Little Creek Sanitarium in Knoxville, TN, on March 24, 2017.
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