From a Nashville, Tennessee newspaper - no date or time line. Pat Boone's Grandfather Dies Here (He died 29 March 1962) Ernest Eugene Boone, 83, of 1205 Lone Oak Road, grandfather of singer and movie actor Pat Boone, died at 6:30 p.m. Thursday in a local infirmary after being bedridden several months. Services have been tentatively set for Saturday afternoon at the Granny White Pike Church of Christ. Burial will be in Woodlawn Memorial Park. The body is at Roesch-Patton Funeral Home. Born near Fresno, Calif., Mr. Boone had lived in New Mexico, Kentucky and Florida before coming to Nashville in 1950. He was married for more than 55 years to the former Etta Lou Foy of Fulton, KY. She survives. Mr. Boone had been a meat market operator in Memphis and in Gainesville, Fla., before retiring in 1950. He had also been a rancher in New Mexico. He was a member of the Granny White Pike Church of Christ. Other survivors are a son A. A. Boone, of Nashville; two brothers W. C Boone of Nashville and E. C. Boone of Fulton, KY.; four grandchildren and five great grandchildren. Mr. Boone's sister Mrs. J. S. Pope of Jacksonville, Fla. died there Tuesday and was buried Thursday in Fulton. Submitted by Mary Louise Gossum