CARTER COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - Edith E. Carden, 1 Oct 2004
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Edith E. Carden, 80, of Elizabethton, died Friday, October 1, 2004, at 
her residence.
Mrs. Carden was a native of Carter County and a daughter of the late John 
T. and Julia Price White. She was also preceded in death by her husband, 
James L. Carden, October 4, 1980, three brothers, Spencer White, R.L. White 
and Paul White, and six sisters, Rose Baxley, Tean Pierce, Fannie Smith, 
Irene White, Mae McNeil and Roxie Wolfe.
Mrs. Carden had been a Stanley Products Dealer for more than 40 years. She 
was a member of Doe River Baptist Church and a member of Hampton #470 Order 
of Eastern Star. Her favorite hobbies were crocheting and quilting.
Survivors include a son and daughter-in-law, Marvin and Mary Carden, 
Elizabethton; a daughter and son-in-law, Carolyn and Jack VanDyke, 
Elizabethton; three sisters, Joyce Odom, Roan Mountain, Peggy Lewis, 
Hampton, and Dorothy Jacobs, Elizabethton; a brother, Joe White, Hampton; 
seven grandchildren, Jamie Carden, Morristown, Amy Bowers, Fred VanDyke, 
Carrie VanDyke, Christi Pope and Cheri VanDyke, all of Elizabethton, and 
Jason Carden, Okinawa, Japan; three great-grandchildren, Chase Carden, 
Morristown, Caleb Bowers and Chloe VanDyke, both of Elizabethton; and 
one step-great-grandson, Bryceon Sheffler, Bristol.
Funeral services for Mrs. Carden will be conducted at 8 p.m. Sunday, 
October 3, at Memorial Funeral Chapel with Rev. Willie Lunsford and Pastor 
Bobby Stout officiating. Graveside services and interment will be at 11 
a.m. Monday, October 4, at Butler Memorial Cemetery. Active pallbearers, 
who are requested to assemble at the funeral home at 10 a.m. Monday, will 
be Jack Whitehead, John G. Lewis, Buddy Street, Roosevelt Carden, M.C. 
Campbell, Otis McNeil and Johnny Lovelace. Honorary pallbearers will be 
his church family and Bill Odom. Also included are her special friends, 
Patsy Mullis, Irene Campbell, Marie Smith, Ethel Hinkle, Ireland Johnson, 
Ruth Glover and all of her special nieces and nephews. The family will 
receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home. Friends may 
also call at her residence. Family and friends will assemble at the funeral 
home at 10 a.m. Monday to go to the cemetery. Condolences to the Carden 
Family may be e-mailed to mfc@chartertn.net. Memorial Funeral Chapel is 
in charge of arrangements.


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