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Jackie Eugene "Jack" Dockery

1947 - 2025

Jackie Eugene "Jack" Dockery obituary, 1947-2025

BORN

1947

DIED

2025

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Gate City, Virginia

Jackie Dockery Obituary

Jackie "Jack" Eugene Dockery

April 29, 1947 -

January 2, 2025

FALL BRANCH - Jackie "Jack" Eugene Dockery, 77, Fall Branch, TN, passed away, Thursday, January 2, 2025, at his residence.

Jack was born in Fort Blackmore, VA, on April 29, 1947, to the late Claude Swanson Dockery and Frances Ellen Edwards Dockery.

In addition to his parents, several siblings preceded him in death.

Left to cherish his memory are his wife, Saundra Dockery, Fall Branch, TN; sons, Jack Wesley Dockery, Michael Brent Dockery (Jessica); sisters, Mary Coffey, Carol Brock, and Phyllis Stanley (Harold); brothers, Mack Dockery (Johnnie) and Randy Dockery; grandchildren, Taylor Jordan, Kylie Dockery Holley (Bryant), Josie Kate, Zeke Alley, Kendyl Alley, Brentley Dockery, and Charlie Dockery; expectant great-grandchild, Baylor David Holley; best friends, Wayne Baker, Gary Littleton, and Johnny Gordon; and several nieces and nephews.

Graveside services will be conducted at 1:00p.m., Monday, January 6, 2025, at Oak Hill Baptist Church Cemetery, Jonesborough, TN, with Pastor Wayne Baker officiating. Family and friends will serve as pallbearers.

Family and friends are asked to meet at the cemetery at 12:30p.m., for the graveside service.

The family would like to give special thanks to his Hospice nurses, Hope and Sara for their love and care of Jack.

An online guest register is available for the Dockery family at www.gatecityfunerals.com.

Gate City Funeral Home is honored to be serving the family of Jackie "Jack" Eugene Dockery.

To plant trees in memory, please visit the Sympathy Store.

Published by The Kingsport Times-News from Jan. 3 to Jan. 4, 2025.

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Brad Morrell

January 5, 2025

Praying for the family! He was a good one.

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