Carter County TN Archives Obituaries.....Bennett, Dairus July 21, 2007
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Elizabethton Star  July 23, 2007
Dairus Bennett 





    Dairus Bennett, 85, 213 Roy Bowers Road, Elizabethton, died Saturday, July 

21, 2007, at Sunbridge Care and Rehabilitation-Hillside, Kingsport. 





    A native of Carter County, he was a son of the late Malley E. and Lillie 

Arnett Bennett. 





    Mr. Bennett was a retired employee of North American Rayon Corporation and 

was also a carpenter. He served in the 103rd Inf. Division of the United 

States Army during World War II. He was a member and elder of the Blue Springs 

Christian Church and prior to his illness served as choir director and church 

bus driver. He was an avid fisherman. 





    In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by three brothers, 

Samuel Bennett, Barney Bennett and Johnny C. Bennett. 





    Survivors include his wife, Mary Evelyn Loveless Bennett; a daughter and 

son-in-law, Penny Sue and Rick Campbell, of the home; three grandchildren, 

Jermey Campbell and his wife Nikki, Lynnette Whitehead and Casey Davis; eight 

great-grandchildren; two sisters, Jane Ward of Johnson City and Myrtle Rhudy 

of Jonesborough; and three brothers, Grant and Clinton Bennett, both of 

Elizabethton, and Martin Bennett of Hampton. Several nieces and nephews also 

survive. 





    Funeral services for Mr. Bennett will be conducted at 8 p.m. Monday, July 

23, at Memorial Funeral Chapel with Mr. Richard Thomason officiating. 

Graveside services and interment will be at 3 p.m. Tuesday, July 24, in the 

Bowers Cemetery (Roy Bowers Road) with military graveside honors provided by 

the V.F.W. Post No. 2166 and the Tennessee National Guard. Active pallbearers, 

who are requested to assemble at the cemetery at 2:50 p.m. Tuesday, will be 

Denny Bowers, Willard Loveless, Dairus Bowers, Randy Bowers, Terry Oliver and 

Gayle Oliver. Honorary pallbearers will be his church family, friends and 

neighbors of the Blue Springs Community. The family would like to express a 

special "Thank You" to Terry Oliver and the staff and employees of Sunbridge 

Care and Rehabilitation, Kingsport. The family will receive friends from 6 to 

8 p.m. Monday at the funeral home. Family and friends will assemble at the 

cemetery at 2:50 p.m. Tuesday. Online condolences to the Bennett family may be 

e-mailed to mfc@chartertn.net. 





    Memorial Funeral Chapel is in charge of the arrangements.



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