CARTER COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - Elsie R. Grindstaff, 31 May 1999
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Elsie R. Grindstaff
06/02/99 
   Mrs. Elsie R. Meredith Grindstaff, 73, 510 Parkway Blvd., Elizabethton, 
died Monday, May 31, 1999, at her residence following an extended illness.
   Mrs. Grindstaff was a native of Elizabethton and a daughter of the late 
William Robert and Minnie Cordella Garrison Meredith. She was also preceded 
in death by three sisters, Gretchen White, Mary Kate Williams and Lizzie 
Belle Reed, and four brothers, Carl, Dorsey C., Ernest and Walter Meredith.
   Mrs. Grindstaff was a member of West Side Christian Church.
   Survivors include her husband, Crawford D. Grindstaff, of the home; a 
daughter and son-in-law, Tammy G. and Kenneth B. Carter, Elizabethton; two 
sisters, Hattie B. Hathaway, Elizabethton, and Ruby Donnelly, Merritt Island, 
Fla.; a brother, Robert C. Meredith, Elizabethton; and special cousins, Marie 
Matherly and Hazel Marion, both of Elizabethton. Several nieces and nephews 
also survive.
   Hathaway-Percy Funeral Home, Sunset Chapel, is in charge of arrangements.

   GRINDSTAFF -- Funeral services for Mrs. Elsie R. Meredith Grindstaff, 73, 
510 Parkway Blvd., Elizabethton, who died Monday, will be held at 8 p.m. 
Wednesday at Hathaway-Percy Funeral Home, Sunset Chapel, with Mr. Hugh 
Hatfield and Mr. Greg Key, ministers, officiating. Music will be by Mrs. 
Janet Stuart, organist. Graveside services and interment will be held at 
10 a.m. Thursday at Happy Valley Memorial Park. Active pallbearers will be 
Joe Alexander, Leonard Febuary, Randy Jones, David Shields, Andy Grindstaff, 
Karl Grindstaff, Tim Broyles and Mark Bindon. Honorary pallbearers will be 
Bounce Carter, Howard Matherly, Jim Marion, Blaine Merritt, Dorsey Reed, Ray 
Williams, Donnie Hathaway, Harry Hathaway, Richard Butner, Roger White, Howard 
White Jr. and C.L. Grindstaff. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to 
the Jericho Shrine Temple Building Fund, P.O. Box 5548, Kingsport, TN 37663. 
Everyone will meet at the funeral home at 9:30 a.m. Thursday to go in 
procession to the cemetery. The family will receive friends at the funeral 
home from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, prior to the service. Friends may call at 
the residence any time. Hathaway-Percy Funeral Home, Sunset Chapel, is in 
charge of arrangements.