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Brookshire, Roy Dean Saturday, January 30, 2021
Roy Dean Brookshire
Roy Dean Brookshire, 82, was surrounded by family when he passed into the presence of the Lord on January 29, 2021, at Hospice of Chattanooga.
Roy was born to Joseph and Relia Moore Brookshire on May 1, 1938, in Elizabethton, Tn. He met his wife of 57 years, Joyce Trivett, in the second grade in Piney Flats, Tn., and they were happily married in November 1957. The newlyweds spent their honeymoon in Chattanooga, unaware at the time that it would later become their home of more than 50 years.
Roy and Joyce made their first home in Washington, D.C., where Roy worked for the Navy Department from 1956 to 1960. He attended George Washington University before moving to Bristol, Tenn., where he graduated from ETSU with a B.S. in accounting in 1963. Upon graduation, Roy accepted a position with Arthur Andersen’s Chattanooga office. In 1977, he joined Hazlett, Lewis and Bieter as a partner and ran the fi