Avery County NcArchives Obituaries.....Church, U Raymond October 12, 2006
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Elizabethton Star Oct 15, 2006
U. Raymond Church 


    U. Raymond "Ray" Church, 81, 324 H. Heaton Road, Elizabethton, died 
Thursday, October 12, 2006, in the Veterans Hospital, Asheville, North 
Carolina, after an extended illness. 


    A native, of Avery County, N.C., he was a son of the late Wiley Charlton & 
Ellen Kathrine Bunton Church. Mr. Church had lived in Kalamazoo, Michigan, for 
42 years before returning to Elizabethton in 2002. He was a retired Salesman. 
Mr. Church served in the United States Navy during World War II and the United 
States Air Force during the Korean Conflict. 


    He was preceded in death by three sisters: Della Arney, Dorothy Campbell 
and Stella Church; and by three brothers: Luther, Howard and Gordie Church. 
His hobbies were playing the guitar and writing poetry. He was a member of the 
Beech Mountain Baptist Church. 


    Survivors include Four Daughters & Two Sons-in-law, Janet and Paul Grewe, 
Tavernier, Fla., Carolyn and Rick Koole, Hudsonville, Mich., Jennifer K. 
Church and Courtney Church, both of Kalamazoo, Mich.; one brother and sister-
in-law, Allen and Margie Church, Butler; one sister, Nell Church, 
Elizabethton; 10 grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews. 


    Funeral services will be conducted at 4 p.m. Sunday in Memorial Funeral 
Chapel, with Pastor Rick Koole and Pastor Dennis Church officiating. Graveside 
service and interment will be at 11 a.m. Monday in the National Cemetery, 
Mountain Home. Music will be provided by his niece, Denise Valentine, and 
nephew, Dwight Campbell. Military honors and pallbearers will be provided by 
the Tennessee National Guard. Honorary pallbearers will be his grandchildren. 
The family will receive friends from 2-4 p.m. Sunday in the funeral home. 
Family and friends will assemble at the funeral home at 10:15 a.m. Monday to 
go to the cemetery. For those who prefer, memorials may be made in memory of 
Mr. Church to the Beech Mountain Baptist Church, 4630 Beech Mountain Road, Elk 
Park, NC 28622 or the Lewis Rathbun Wellness Center, 121 Sherwood Road, 
Asheville, NC 28803. Online condolences to the Church family may be e-mailed 
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