CARTER COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - Gladys Stafford Hampton Eller, 10 Mar 2004
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Gladys Stafford Hampton Eller, 77, Sneed Hill Road, Elizabethton, 
died Wednesday, March 10, 2004, at Johnson City Medical Center Hospital 
following an extended illness.

Mrs. Eller was a native of Carter County and the daughter of the late 
Thomas and Mina Franklin Stafford. She was also preceded in death by 
her first husband, Leonard Hampton, in 1973; her second husband, Dennis 
Eller, in 1999; four brothers, Earl Stafford, Jerry Stafford, Bill 
Stafford and Larry Stafford; and four sisters, Nell Potter, Christine 
Laws, Shirley Stafford and Betty Stafford. 
Mrs. Eller was a member of Elizabethton Church of Christ. She was a former 
L.P.N at Carter County Memorial Hospital and retired from the medical 
department at North American Rayon Corporation.
Survivors include a son and daughter-in-law, Jerry and Sandy Hampton, 
Knoxville; three grandsons, Bret Hampton and his wife, Sonya, Nashville, 
Derek Hampton, Murfreesboro, and Chad Hampton and his wife, Amber, 
Maryville; three stepsons, Roy Hampton and Earl Hampton, both of Johnson 
City, and Johnny Hampton, Unicoi; two stepdaughtersElla Mae Miller and 
Orlia Harrison, both of Elizabethton; a great-granddaughter, Evelyn Marie 
Hampton, Nashville; two brothers, Tom Stafford Jr., Elizabethton, and K.P. 
Stafford, Gray; and four sisters, Grace Bogolin, Newnan, Ga., Ruby Sams, 
Piney Flats, Ann Stafford, Lenoir, N.C., and Nora Jean Dooley, Atlanta, 
Ga. Several nieces and nephews also survive.
 
The funeral service will be conducted at 8 p.m. Friday, March 12, in the 
Riverside Chapel of Tetrick Funeral Home with Mr. Eddy Craft and Mr. Ed 
DeVault, ministers, officiating. Music will be under the direction of 
Elizabethton Church of Christ Singers. The family will receive friends 
at the funeral home from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, prior to the funeral service. 
Friends may call at the residence, 132 Sneed Hill Road, Elizabethton, 
anytime. The graveside service and interment will be conducted at 10 a.m. 
Saturday, March 13, at Happy Valley Memorial Park. Active pallbearers will 
be Bret Hampton, Chad Hampton, Derek Hampton, George Ellis, Paul Stafford, 
Willie Holtsclaw, Steve Roberts and Dennis Pierce. Honorary pallbearers 
will be all men of the Elizabethton Church of Christ. Those who plan to 
attend the graveside service are asked to meet at the funeral home at 
9:15 a.m. Saturday to go in procession to the cemetery. Those who prefer 
memorials in lieu of flowers may make donations to Elizabethton Church 
of Christ, 137 East "C" Street, Elizabethton, or to Services for the 
Blind, c/o Terry Smith, Division of Rehab Services, Citizens Plaza State 
Office Bldg., 11th Floor, 400 Deadrick Street, Nashville, TN 37248-6200. 
Online condolences may be sent to the family through our Web site at 
www.tetrickfuneralhome.com. Tetrick Funeral Home, Elizabethton, (423) 
542-2232, is in charge of arrangements. 

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