Mitchell County NcArchives Obituaries.....Brinkley, Clyde F April 19, 2006 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Julia Williams Kodak jkodak@charter.net May 2, 2006, 3:25 pm Mitchell News-Journal 4/26/06 CLYDE F. BRINKLEY BAKERSVILLE - Clyde F. Brinkley, 94, of Spring Creek Church Road, died Wednesday, April 19, 2006. He was the son of Gus and Dora Garland Brinkley, and husband of the late Julia Lim Brinkley. He was also preceded in death by one sister, Marie Garland. He was a U.S. Navy veteran of Pearl Harbor, where he was a certified naval diver. A retired millwright construction superintendent, he was a member of Spring Creek Baptist Church and Bakersville Masonic Lodge #357 AF&AM Survivors include one son, Wayne G. Brinkley of Bakersville; a sister, Mildred Norris of Elizabethton, TN; four grandchildren; and three great grandchildren. Funeral services were held at 3 p.m. Sunday at Spring Creek Baptist Church. Rev. Bob McCurry officiated. Graveside services, conducted by Bakersville Masonic Lodge #357 AF&AM, followed in Garland Parker Cemetery on Blevins Branch Road. The family received friends from 2 p.m. until the service hour at the church. Memorial donations may be made to Gideons International, Mitchell County Camp, P.O. Box 611, Spruce Pine, NC 28777. Henline-Hughes Funeral Home in Bakersville was in charge of arrangements. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/mitchell/obits/b/brinkley192gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 1.8 Kb