Carolyn Jean Cable Potter

CAROLYN POTTER

Luray, TN: Carolyn Jean Cable Potter age 84 passed away Thursday, December 26, 2019 at her home near Jacks Creek.

She was born December 13, 1935 in Swain County, NC and grew up in Maryville, TN, the daughter of the late Ellis Lawson and Oma Eliza Sizemore Cable. She graduated from Everett High School at Maryville and did a year of nursing at Charity School of Nursing in Knoxville and also at Blount County Memorial Hospital Nursing School in Maryville. She married John Potter. They moved to Chester County in 1960. Mr. Potter served forty two and a half years in the Military.

She worked with special needs children for fifteen years in the Chester County School System.

She was a member of the Middlefork Road Baptist Church and was a Sunday School Teacher and Bible School Teacher for forty five years.

She was very involved in helping needy children and families and was a God Mother to numerous children. She had received numerous awards for her Humanitarian Service including the Apple Award from the Governor’s Office, Chester County Hero, among many others.

Mrs. Carolyn was affectingly know as Mom, Mother, Nanny, Meme, Mom Potter and Mea Maw.

Mrs. Carolyn is survived by a son, Blake Potter of Jackson; two daughters, Cindy Haman (Henry) of Luray and Ginger Potter of Henderson; and a God-daughter, Judy Hale of Jackson; four grandchildren, Brett Potter, Summar Jahnkow, Matthew Jahnkow and Taylor Stovall and a great grandchild, Ember Jahnkow.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, John Potter, September 22, 2008 and a brother, Hugh Cable.

Funeral services will be 1:00 PM Monday, December 30th at Shackelford Funeral Directors – Crook Avenue with Glenn Harris, Ricky Wilkerson and Brett Potter officiating. Burial will follow in Unity Cemetery.

The family will receive friends at Crook Avenue 4:00 PM until 8:00 PM Sunday.

Shackelford Funeral Directors of Henderson
731-989-2421