CARTER COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - Floyd Bowers, 22 Feb 1999
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Floyd Bowers
02/24/99 
   Floyd Bowers, 82, 162 Creek Bank Rd., Elizabethton, died Monday, Feb. 
22, 1999, at Ivy Hall Nursing Home. 
   A native of Carter County, he was a son of the late Arthur and Mary 
Nidiffer Bowers and Sally Williams Bowers. Mr. Bowers was a retired 
employee of North American Rayon Corporation, and a member of the Stoney 
Creek Baptist Church.
   He was preceded in death by a brother, Clifford Bowers, and two sisters, 
Mae Smith and Josie Hyder.
   Survivors include his wife, Nell Robinson Bowers; one daughter, 
Patricia Bowers, Elizabethton; one son and daughter-in-law, Harold and 
Phyllis Bowers, Elizabethton; three sisters, Juanita Bowers, Ceola Bowers, 
and Hildred Bowers, all of Elizabethton; two brothers, Luther Bowers and 
Grover Bowers, Elizabethton; two grandchildren, Trampas Bowers and Angie 
and her husband, Steven Maupin; one great grandson, Gabriel Maupin.
   Memorial Funeral Chapel is in charge of the arrangements.

   BOWERS - Funeral services for Floyd Bowers, 82, 162 Creek Bank Rd., 
Elizabethton, who died Monday will be conducted at 8 p.m. Wednesday in 
the Stoney Creek Baptist Church with the Rev. Richard Estep, Dr. Kenneth 
Jordan, and Rev. H. Brooks Peters officiating. Graveside service and 
interment will be at 10 a.m. Thursday in the Caldwell Springs Cemetery. 
The church quartet will provide the music. Active pallbearers, who are 
requested to assemble at the church at 7:50 p.m. Wednesday and also at the 
funeral home at 9:30 a.m. Thursday will be A.D. "Sonny" Fletcher, John 
Fletcher, Bob Hyder, Raymond Lowe, Jerry Greene, Desler Salyer, Earnest 
"Gebe" Ritchie, George Gregory, Cobb Riddle, and Dean Robinson. Honorary 
pallbearers will be Senior Adult Men's Sunday School Class at Stoney Creek 
Baptist Church. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday 
at the church. The body will be taken to the church at 4 p.m. Wednesday at 
the church. Friends may also all at the residence. Family and friends will 
assemble at the funeral home at 9:30 a.m. Thursday to go to the cemetery. 
Memorial Funeral Chapel is in charge of the arrangements.