Carter County TN Archives Obituaries.....Davis, Martha S March 2, 2008
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Elizabethton Star  March 4, 2008
Martha S. Davis 


    Mrs. Martha Stevens Davis, of Elizabethton, 79, went to be with our Lord 
Jesus Christ on Sunday, March 2, 2008, at Sycamore Shoals Hospital following a 
brief illness. 


    A native of Carter County, she was a daughter of the late Frank Ward and 
Edith Hayes Ward Townsend. 


    Mrs. Davis attended the Hampton Church of God. She was a retired employee 
of Mor-Flo Industries. She was avid quilter. 


    Survivors include a son, Dean Stevens, Roan Mountain; five daughters, 
Willie Mae Goodwin, Lenoir, N.C., Ethel Birchfield, Kathy Grant and Theresa 
Stevens, all of Elizabethton, and Virginia "Peanut" Alvarado, Missionary to 
Bulgaria; 12 grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren; two brothers, James 
Townsend and Don Townsend; five sisters, Juanita Neeley, Mildred Winters, 
Louise Potter, Martha "Teen" Walsh and Helen Huffman; one very special aunt, 
Willie Trivette; and someone special to her heart, Hurley Davis, Roan 
Mountain. 


    Funeral services for Mrs. Davis will be conducted at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 
4, at Memorial Funeral Chapel with Joseph Alvarado and the Rev. Margin Slagle 
officiating. Music will be provided by her grandchildren and family. Graveside 
services and interment will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday, March 5, in the Oak Hill 
Cemetery, Hampton. Active pallbearers, who are requested to assemble at the 
funeral home at 10:15 a.m. Wednesday, will be Chad Tipton, Marty Hill, Steve 
Grant, Jerry Goodwin Jr., Raymond Phillips and Charles Stout. The family will 
receive friends from 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home. Friends may also 
call at the residence of a daughter, Kathy Grant, 1135 Berry Road, 
Elizabethton. Family and friends will assemble at the funeral home at 10:15 
a.m. Wednesday to go to the cemetery. Condolences to the Davis family may be e-
mailed to mfc@chartertn.net. 


    Memorial Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements. 



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