CARTER COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - John C. Byrd, 30 Dec 2001
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John C. Byrd
   John C. Byrd, 98, 142 Simerly Creek Road, Hampton, died Sunday, 
December 30, 2001, at Johnson City Medical Center.
   Mr. Byrd was a native of Carter County and a son of the late James 
Newton and Nancy Ann Brewer Byrd. He was also preceded in death by his 
wife, Etta G. Guinn Byrd, who died in 1979.
   Mr. Byrd was a retired carpenter and a member of Little Doe Free 
Will Baptist Church.
   Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Thurman (Roxie) Simerly, 
Hampton, and Mrs. Bob (Colleen) Bowling, Elizabethton; three sons and 
a daughter-in-law, Arnold Byrd, of the home, Donald Byrd, Hampton, 
and Ivan and Gloria Byrd, Morristown; and a sister, Mrs. Nannie Presnell, 
Elizabethton. Twenty-two grandchildren, 28 great-grandchildren, and 
nine great-great-grandchildren also survive.
   Memorial Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements.
   
   BYRD -- Funeral services for John C. Byrd, 98, 142 Simerly Creek 
Road, Hampton, who died Sunday, December 30, 2001, were conducted at 
8 p.m. Tuesday, January 1, 2002, at Memorial Funeral Chapel with the 
Rev. Shane Waters officiating. Music was provided by the Little Doe 
Free Will Baptist Church Choir. Graveside services and interment will 
be conducted at 2 p.m. Wednesday, January 2, in the Oak Hill Free Will 
Baptist Church Cemetery. Active pallbearers, who are requested to 
assemble at the funeral home at 1:15 p.m. Wednesday, will be Joe Street, 
George Roberson, Jimmy Collins, Elbert Lyons, Harold Street and Glen Roy 
Cates. Honorary pallbearers will be employees of Memorial Funeral Chapel. 
The family received friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home. 
Family and friends will assemble at the funeral home at 1:15 p.m. 
Wednesday to go to the cemetery. Condolences to the Byrd Family may be 
e-mailed to mfc@chartertn.net. Memorial Funeral Chapel is in charge of 
arrangements.