CARTER COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - I.S. "Shirley" Burrow, 10 Mar 2002
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I.S. Burrow
   
I.S. "Shirley" Burrow, 79, 2175 Siam Road, Elizabethton, died Sunday, 
March 10, 2002, at the James H. Quillen VA Medical Center.
   Mr. Burrow was a native of Carter County and a son of the late Oscar 
and Verne Mae Stout Burrow. He was also preceded in death by his former 
wife, Jane Ella Hart Burrow, June 5, 2001, a son, Gary Lee Burrow, three 
sisters, Ruby Napolitano, Mattie Pleasant and Dinah Parker, a brother, 
Bill Burrow, and two nephews, David Burrow and Buddy Pleasant.
   Mr. Burrow lived in Johnson County for a number of years before 
returning to Elizabethton. He was a 1941 graduate of Johnson County High 
School. He was a former merchant, having operated the Burrows Shopping 
Center in the Tiger Valley Community of Hampton. He was employed by the 
Carter County Board of Education as custodian at Siam Middle School and 
Hampton Elementary School. He was owner of Isaacs Apartments and other 
rental properties.
   Mr. Burrow was a former Carter County Commissioner and a member of the 
Carter County Equalization Board. He was a member of Beck Mountain Baptist 
Church. He was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II and served in the National 
Guard during the Korean Conflict.
   Survivors include two daughters and sons-in-law, Judy and Phillip Nave, 
Elizabethton, and Beverly and Danny Davis, Lottsburg, Va.; a son, James 
David Burrow, Knoxville; a sister, Carolyn Sue Potter, Mountain City; 
three brothers, Robert Burrow, Elizabethton, John Burrow, Mountain City, 
and Harry Burrow, Morgantown, W.Va.; a granddaughter and grandson-in-law, 
Michelle and Jerry Bowers, Elizabethton; a grandson, Gary Scott Blevins, 
Johnson City; and a great-granddaughter, Sarah Bowers, Elizabethton. 
Several nieces and nephews also survive.
   Memorial Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements.
   
   BURROW -- Funeral services for I.S. "Shirley" Burrow, 79, 2175 Siam 
Road, Elizabethton, who died Sunday, March 10, 2002, will be conducted at 
7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 12, at Memorial Funeral Chapel with the Rev. 
Ronnie Campbell and the Rev. Dean Smith officiating. Music will be under 
the direction of Karen Timbs, pianist, and Carolyn Pleasant, organist. 
Interment will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday, March 13, at Happy Valley Memorial 
Park with Military Graveside Honors accorded by the Captain Lynn H. Folsom 
VFW Post #2166. Active pallbearers will be Gary Scott Blevins, Tom Pleasant, 
Donald Pleasant, Ralph Morris, Albert Ellison, Gary Smith, Kevin Ward, Billy 
Joe Burrow, Terry Barnes, Phillip Nave and Carl Nave. Honorary pallbearers 
will be the Faculty and Staff of Hampton Elementary School, John Holtsclaw 
and members of the Equalization Board, Doctors and Staff of the Veterans 
Administration Hospital SICU, Jeffery Lingerfelt, Robert Wilson, Melissa Davis, 
Dana Brown, Lawrence Range, Shell and Associates, Jim Pauley, Leonard Hyder 
and acquaintances in the Tiger Valley Community. The family will receive 
friends from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home. Friends may call 
at other times at the residence of a daughter and son-in-law, Phillip and 
Judy Nave, 130 Phil Nave Road, Elizabethton. Family and friends will meet 
at the funeral home at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday to go to the cemetery. 
Condolences may be e-mailed to the family at mfc@chartertn.net. Memorial 
Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements.