ELIZABETHTON â Hundreds of cars and trucks made their way to the 776th Maintenance Companyâs National Guard armory Wednesday for the Carter County portion of the annual distribution of the Johnson City Press Christmas Box food packages and the Salvation Army Angel Tree toys and childrenâs clothing.
Because of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), the distribution was different this year, with fewer workers on hand and none of the recipients of the Christmas Boxes and Angel Tree presents going inside the armory.
Usually, the large hall in the armory is full of boxes and toys, as workers bring out the packages as each family walks inside and registers at the front. This time, the families lined up in their cars in the parking lot of the armory as the workers brought the Christmas Boxes and Angel Tree gifts outside in shopping carts and loaded everything in the waiting cars.
ELIZABETHTON - Floyd Donald Nave, 78, Elizabethton, went home to be with his Lord, Saturday, December 12, 2020 at the James H. Quillen VA Medical Center. A native of Carter County, he was a son of the late Sylvester & Zora Miller Nave. Floyd was a 1960 graduate of Elizabethton High School. He served in the United States Army. He was a Supervisor at North American Rayon Corporation until its closing and retired from the housekeeping Department of the James H. Quillen VA Medical Center. He was a member of First Free Will Baptist Church where he was Chairman of the Deacon Board and was teacher of the Darrell White Sunday School Class for several years. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his wife of 55 years Alice Bradshaw Nave who passed away January 24, 2020, by two sisters: Dolores and Shirley and a brother: Jim.