Mrs. Jean Rankin, age 82, Johnson City, passed away Monday, September 29, 2025, at Johnson City Medical Center after a brief illness.

Mrs. Rankin was born on May 3, 1943, in Johnson City, Tennessee to the late Rev. Clifton & Sara Milinda Ward. She was preceded in death by her husband of 62 years, Fred Herman Rankin and two brothers, Robert Ward and James Richard Ward.

She attended Church of Jesus in Johnson City.

Mrs. Rankin worked at Johnson City Internal Medicine for eighteen years.

Survivors include children, Cynthia Debra Sells (Jeff), Timothy Allen Rankin, daughter-in-law, Teresa Rankin and Christine Angela Rankin; grandchildren, Adam and Katie Rankin, Josh and John Sells, Hunter Crandall and Dillon Perkinson; five great-grandchildren, Nolan, Ethan, Aleigha, Jeffrey, Abbi, Zeke, Xander, Zara, Brynna and Kensliegh; and several nephews and nieces.

The family would like to thank Dr. Mary Jane Gibson, and Melissa Leake FNP for many years of care.

The family will receive friends from 5:00-7:00 PM, Thursday, October 2, 2025, at Dillow-Taylor Funeral Home.

Entombment services will be conducted at 11:00 AM, Friday, October 3, 2025, at Washington County Memory Gardens.

Pallbearers will be Nolan Rankin, Zeke Slone, Zander Laws, Ethan Pearman, John Sells, Josh Sells and Ricky Woods.