Deborah Kay Garrison

Deborah Kay Garrison, 64, went to be with the Lord, Our God, on Saturday, January 17, 2015. Deborah was born September 20, 1950 in Hazard Kentucky and moved to Knoxville shortly thereafter. She graduated from Central High School in 1968, was married and started a family right after. She raised two children while working as the secretary for Garrison Construction. She later attended nursing school, a lifelong dream, but had to drop out to care for one of her sons that was in an auto accident. She was always a mother first, Debbie second. She was a caring mother, a PTA mom, an ALL sports mom, a wife, a friend, a sister, a caretaker, and more specifically, a great person. Throughout her life, she was called, High Pockets, Boogums, Mom, Little Debbie, Aunt Debbie, Aunt Dee Dee, Mimi, and Momma G. No matter what name she answered to, she always responded with LOVE. Preceded in death by her father, Charles Douglas Vermillion, mother, Mabel E. Vermillion; sister, Patricia Jewel and husband Thadis Adams; niece, Kathy Jo Price; nephew, Thomas E. Greene, Jr., and the father of her children, Joseph W. Garrison, Sr. She is survived by her sons, grandchildren and great grandchildren, Joseph W. Garrison, II (Michelle, children-Kayla, Samuel and Joseph) and Douglas Reed Garrison (Michele, children-Chelsey, Seth, Brandi, Gracie, grandchildren- Brooklyn and Zaiden); sisters, Norma Greene (Thomas E. Green, Sr., children-Tammy Guinn and husband, Daryl Guinn), Elizabeth Dalton (children-John B Dalton, IV and wife Nicole, Michael E. Dalton), Shirley A. Merrell (Sam Merrell, children-Richard "Rick" A. Merrell and wife Amy Merrell). Mrs. Garrison had too many nieces and nephews, and great nieces and nephews, sisters and brothers in law to mention, but she loved them all. Service will be 8pm Wednesday Mynatt Funeral Home Fountain City Chapel. Family and friends will meet 1:45pm Thursday at Lynnhurst Cemetery for 2pm interment. Family will receive friends 6-8pm Wednesday Mynatt Funeral Home Fountain City Chapel.