CARTER COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - Ira Luther Bowers, 14 May 2002
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Ira L. Bowers

   Ira Luther Bowers, 86, Danner Road, Elizabethton, died Tuesday, 
May 14, 2002, at his residence.
   Mr. Bowers was a native of Carter County and a son of the late Monroe 
and Ada Robinson Bowers. He was also preceded in death by his wife, Eula 
Novella Crumley Bowers, in 1983, and four grandchildren, Linda Buckles Brown, 
Ricky Buckles, Shirley Bowers and Barbara Bowers.
   Mr. Bowers was retired from the Cafeteria Department of North American 
Rayon Corporation. He was the Oldest Member of Hunter Memorial Baptist Church.
   Survivors include two daughters and a son-in-law, Nell Lethcoe, of the 
home, and Joyce and Cleveland Buckles, Elizabethton; a grandson, Randy 
Buckles; and two great-grandchildren, Jacob Buckles and Brent Buckles. 
Also surviving are his special friends at Nanny's Restaurant.
   Memorial Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements.
   
   BOWERS -- Funeral services for Ira Luther Bowers, 86, Danner Road, 
Elizabethton, who died Tuesday, May 14, 2002, will be conducted at 8 p.m. 
Friday, May 17, at Memorial Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Eric Wright and 
the Rev. James Hawk officiating. Music will be provided by the Hunter 
Memorial Baptist Church Choir, Patsy Childress, soloist, and Dean Palmer, 
soloist. Graveside services and interment will be conducted at 11 a.m. 
Saturday, May 18, in the Buckles Cemetery. Active pallbearers, who are 
requested to assemble at the funeral home at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, will be 
Reggie Scalf, Herman Crumley, Harold Lowe, Gordon Holly, Lawrence "Beardy" 
Holly, Kenneth Nave, Landon Campbell and Lemmie Taylor. Honorary pallbearers 
will be the Senior Adult Sunday School Class of Hunter Memorial Baptist 
Church, his church family, Guy Ford, Robert Lethcoe, Jack Kyte and his 
neighbors. The family will receive friends from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Friday at 
the funeral home. Friends may also call at the residence. Family and 
friends will assemble at the funeral home at 10:30 a.m. Saturday to go 
to the cemetery. Condolences may be e-mailed to the Bowers Family at 
mfc@chartertn.net. Memorial Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements.