CARTER COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - Rufus Fred Donnie Freeman Sr., 25 Dec 2004
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MOCKSVILLE, N.C. -- Rufus Fred Donnie Freeman Sr., 89, of Ruffin Street, 
Cooleemee, died early Saturday morning, December 25, 2004, at Autumn Care 
of Mocksville.

Mr. Freeman was born January 5, 1915 in Roan Mountain, Tenn., to the late 
Fred and Delia Wood Freeman. In addition to his parents, he was preceded 
in death by his wife, Laura Kate Roberts Freeman, in 2001, and by two 
grandchildren, four brothers and four sisters.

Mr. Freeman was a retired machinist with the H.B. Owsley Company in Charlotte. 
He had also worked on the Oak Ridge Manhattan Project in Oak Ridge, Tenn. 
He attended Cooleemee First Baptist Church but was a member of the Church 
of Jesus Christ in Charlotte.

Survivors include two daughters, Linda Williams and Judy Phillips, both of 
Cooleemee; a son, Rufus Fred Donnie Freeman Jr., Williamsport, Md.; three 
granddaughters; four step-grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; four 
step-great-grandchildren; a sister, Letty Martin, Elizabethton, Tenn.; and 
a brother, Herman Freeman, Roan Mountain, Tenn. Several nieces and nephews 
also survive.

Funeral services will be conducted at 11 a.m. Tuesday, December 28, at First 
Baptist Church of Cooleemee with Rev. Tommy Register, pastor, officiating. 
Interment will be in the Evergreen City Cemetery in Charlotte at 2 p.m. 
Tuesday with Rev. Benny Cline assisting. The family will be at Eaton Funeral 
Home from 7 until 9 p.m. Monday. The family requests memorials be considered 
for the Abundant Living Adult Day Care, P.O. Box 947, Salisbury, N.C. 28145, 
or to Cooleemee First Baptist Church, P.O. Box 518, Cooleemee, N.C. 27014 or 
to the Church of Jesus Christ, 600 E. 36th Street, Charlotte, N.C. 28205. Mr. 
Freeman will be placed in the church at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday.
Eaton Funeral Service, Inc., 325 N. Main Street, Mocksville, N.C. (336) 
751-2148, is in charge of arrangements.


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