Boston, Barbara Jean Thomas (Whitwell)

  • Friday, February 17, 2017

Barbara Jean Thomas Boston, 70, of Whitwell, Tennessee, passed away Friday, February 17, 2017.  

She was preceded in death by her first husband, Alvin Simmons; second husband, James Hoyt Boston; and father, James Bee Thomas.

She was a member of Valley View Baptist Church. 

She is survived by two children, April (James) Sellers and Nathan Simmons both of Sequatchie Mountain; mother, Lillian Thomas; sisters, Faye Powell and Linda (Gordon) Miller; brothers, Robert Dean (Robin) Thomas, Paul (Sheila) Thomas and James Mike Thomas; two grandchildren, James “Jake” (Lexi) Sellers and Brett Sellers; and great-granddaughter, Jolene Sellers. 

Family will receive friends from 12-3 p.m. on Sunday, February 19. 

Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. on Sunday, February 19, in the funeral home chapel with interment to follow at Sequatchie Valley Memorial Gardens in Jasper. 

Whitwell Memorial Funeral Home has charge of the arrangements.

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