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Obit of Eric Stone Masters  - Grady County, Oklahoma

Submitted by:  Sandi Carter   SandKatC@aol.com 18 Jan 2001
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Eric Stone Masters 

Surname: BILLINGTON, BRIDGE, EASTON, FORDHAM, GOODEN, HARTSBURG, HUGHES, 
JAQUES, JONES, LAMBERT, MASTERS, MILES, SLOAN, THOMAS

The Chickasha Express-Star
18 January 2001


Eric Stone Masters, age 22, of Knoxville, TN, departed this life Friday 
January 12, 2001, at St. Mary's Hospital in Knoxville, TN.

Eric was a loving husband, father, and son. He was an avid outdoorsman 
who loved nature and life. Eric was a member of the Smokey Mountain Grotto 
(caving society).

He was preceded in death by his father Steve Masters; grandfathers, Charles 
Masters and Rev. Joe Miles.

Survivors include his wife Crystal Hartsburg Masters of the home (formerly 
of Chickasha, OK), soon to be born daughter Alysia Sloan Masters; parents 
Sloan and Richard Miles; brother Jason Masters of California; sisters, 
Rachel Thomas and husband Karl, and Jenifer Miles; grandparents, Dewey
and Betty Easton, Coe Masters, and Anna Jewel Miles; and a large extended 
family; father-in-law Gary Hartsburg of Chickasha, OK; mother-in-law 
Carolyn Bridge of Knoxville, TN.

Eric also had a large extended family in Chickasha, OK, including great 
grandmothers-in-law, Dorothy Lambert and Elsie Hughes, grandparents-in-law 
Mike and Betty Jaques, aunts and uncles Stan and Sheila Jaques, Connie and 
Mark Jones, and Michelle and Joey Billington.

Funeral services were held at 5 p.m. at the Click Funeral Home Farragut 
Chapel, Farragut, TN, with Rev. C. Mark Gooden officiating.

Family and friends gathered at 11 a.m. (C.S.T.) Monday at Stone Cemetery 
in Celina, TN, for graveside services with Dr. Lane Fordham officiating.

Memorials may be made to Alysia Sloan Trust Fund, c/o Betty Easton, 333 
Crestview Drive, Lenoir City, TN 37772.

Eric's love for his fellow man was shown through the gift of life through 
organ donation. "It is perfectly alright to live off memories, so long 
as you continue to make new ones." - Eric Stone Masters.