Olivia Carlyle Vawter Mills

Olivia Carlyle Vawter Mills, age 89 of Maryville, TN, passed away peacefully on April 29, 2023, after a brief illness. She was born and raised in Maryville, the youngest of four girls. She graduated from Maryville High School and Maryville College, where she majored in Biology. She worked in the library at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, in administration for Royer Realty in Atlanta, Georgia, and as a homemaker raising her two children before retiring to Inverness, FL with her husband. She returned to Maryville in 2018 to be closer to her children. She was preceded in death by her parents, Henry and Margaret Vawter, her husband, Snell Mills Jr., her sisters Hettie Vawter, Dorothy (Dan) Winter, and Sara (Charles, Mark) Barnes Lyons, and her son-in-law Ed Hensley. 

She is survived by her daughter Sharon Mills, her son Snell Mills, III, and daughter-in-law Carrie Eby Mills, as well as beloved nieces and nephews. 

A graveside service will be held on Friday, May 5, 2023, at 2:00 PM at Magnolia Cemetery, 500 Montvale Rd, Maryville, TN with a receiving of friends to immediately follow from 2:30 until 4:30 PM at the Shannondale of Maryville Community Center, 1507 New Providence Dr. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to The Carter Center or Habitat for Humanity.