CARTER COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - Wilma Juanita Buckles, 20 Feb 2003 ----¤¤¤---- Wilma J. Buckles Mrs. Wilma Juanita Buckles, 80, Broad Street, Elizabethton, died Thursday, February 20, 2003 in the Sycamore Shoals Hospital following a lengthy illness. A native of Carter County, she was a daughter of the late William Daniel and Belle Starr Campbell Elliott. She was a homemaker. Mrs. Buckles was a member of the Lynn Valley Baptist Church. She was preceded in death by her husband, Edward Buckles; one sister, Beryl Elliott; four brothers, Cleamon, Heywood, Vernon and Niles Elliott. Survivors include one daughter, Teresa Buckles, Johnson City; one son and daughter-in-law, Ed and Shirley Buckles, Elizabethton; a grandson and his wife, Lance and Glenda Buckles, Elizabethton; a granddaughter, Tracy Buckles, Elizabethton, and one great grandson, Christopher Buckles, Elizabethton. Several nieces and nephews, and a special cousin, Connie Elliott. Memorial Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements. BUCKLES -- Funeral services for Mrs. Wilma Juanita Buckles, 80, Broad Street, Elizabethton, who died Thursday, February 20, 2003, will be conducted at 3 p.m. Sunday, February 23, 2003 in Memorial Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Dennis Wilson and Rev. Burl Garland officiating. Entombment will be held in the Mausoleum of Peace, Happy Valley Memorial Park. Mr. William J. Greene will provide the music. Active pallbearers, who are requested to assemble at the funeral home at 2:50 p.m. Sunday will be Rev. Jim Hawk, Richard Hardin, Lee Goodwin, Allen Goodwin, Patrick Roper, Jonathan Hardin, Mike Elliott and Tommy Elliott. Honorary pallbearers will be Carson Puckett, Earl Mitchell, Lewis Bowers, Haynes Elliott, John L. Bowers, Jay Frank Elliott, and Rev. Bob Reed. The family will receive friends from 2 to 3 p.m. Sunday in the funeral home. Friends may also call at the residence. Condolences to the Buckles family may be e-mailed to mfc@chartertn.net. Memorial Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: The Elizabethton Star http://www.starhq.com/ -----------------------------------------------------------------------------