Evelyn Joyce "Jo" Allison

Jim Rush Funeral Homes 220 Wildwood Avenue, S.E. 2600 North Ocoee Street Cleveland, TN 37311 Phone 423-472-4555 Fax 423-472-2012July 26, 2014Evelyn Joyce “Jo” Allison, age 69, a resident of Georgetown, passed away Thursday evening in a Chattanooga hospital. Jo was the daughter of the late Sarah Harmon Marshall and Clarence Marshall. Her sisters, Virginia Shook, Shirley Lee and Norville Buchanan, her brothers, James Sutton and Billy Sutton and her mother in law, Estelle Swafford also preceded her in death. Jo was retired from Jan Van Food where she served as cook for the Cafeteria in Magic Chef for a number of years. She enjoyed watching NASCAR and Tennis on Television. Jo loved being a grandmother and she was a member of the Denny Hill Baptist Church in Harrison.Survivors include her husband, Hack Allison of Georgetown, her daughter, Jennifer Elliott and her husband Chris also of Georgetown, her sons, Bo Allison and his wife Melissa of Decatur, Robbie Powell and his wife Nola of Bradenton, Florida, her grandchildren, Michael Elliott, Hunter Elliott, Monica Allison, John Allison Jr., Jazmine Powell, Paula Powell, Matthew Mangone, Lisa Walton and Madelyn Eaton, her sisters, Linda Beavers of Harrison, Freida Stevison and her husband Ronald of Cleveland and her special nieces and nephews, Harley Potts, Tommy Pruiett, Johnny Ray Goodner, Treba Higdon and Glenn Potts also survive.The Remembrance of Life Service will be conducted Monday afternoon, July 28, 2014 at 2:00 from the North Ocoee Chapel of the Jim Rush Funeral Homes with Reverend Fred Browning officiating. Interment will follow in the McInturf Cemetery in Meigs County with Rusty Hood, Shane Murphy, Kendal Clayton, Wayman Bickford, Billy Sutton and Jeremy Pruiett serving as casket bearers. The family will receive friends from 5 until 9 P. M. Sunday at the North Ocoee Chapel of the Jim Rush Funeral Homes who has charge of the arrangements. You may share your condolences and your memories with Jo’s family at www.jimrushfuneralhomes.com.Read Obituary