Carter County TN Archives Obituaries.....Holsclaw, Claude A. "Coach" March 15, 2007
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Elizabethton Star March 18, 2007
Claude A. "Coach" Holsclaw 





    Claude Allen "Coach" Holsclaw, 83, 826 Hickory Street, Elizabethton, died 

Thursday, March 15, 2007, at Sycamore Shoals Hospital following a lengthy 

illness. 





    A native of Carter County, he was the son of the late James Fred and Susan 

Ann Harmon Holsclaw. 





    Mr. Holsclaw attended the University of Tennessee and in 1945 played in 

the Rose Bowl Game for UT. He was a graduate of Milligan College. 





    "Coach" Holsclaw was a retired school teacher with the Carter County 

School System and had been a coach at Unaka and Elizabethton High Schools. He 

enjoyed playing golf and was a member of the Elizabethton Golf Club and a 

member of East River Park Christian Church. 





    In addition to his parents, Mr. Holsclaw was preceded in death by a 

brother, Charles B. Holsclaw, a sister, Margaret Pauline Yates Shell, and two 

nephews, Norman "Cotton" Hodge and Chester Allen Taylor. 





    Survivors include three brothers, Arthur Holsclaw, Willie Holsclaw and his 

wife Leota, John Holsclaw and his wife Donna, all of Elizabethton, and six 

sisters, Ola Campbell of Pittsburg, Pa., Martha Forbes and her husband Robert 

of Johnson City, Maxine Gagliano, Juanita Pansock, Betty Maupin and her 

husband Jim and Barbara Milsaps, all of Elizabethton. One hundred and seven 

nieces and nephews also survive. 





    Funeral services for Mr. Holsclaw were conducted at 8 p.m. Saturday, March 

17, in the Sunset Chapel of Hathaway-Percy Funeral Home with Mr. John Smith 

and Mr. Gerald Holly, ministers, officiating. Music was under the direction of 

Mrs. Mary Smith. Graveside services and interment will be conducted at 2 p.m. 

Sunday, March 18, at Happy Valley Memorial Park. Active pallbearers will be 

nephews, Michael Pansock, Jeff Holsclaw, Eddie Holsclaw, John Holsclaw Jr., 

Norm Hodge, John Bo Pansock, David Holsclaw and Randy Jones. Honorary 

pallbearers will be Willie Church, Howard "Lefty" Bowers, Harold Stout, Hugh 

Buckles, James Hunt, Don Woods, Robert Forbes, Jim Maupin, James Carr and 

Brian Buckner. Everyone will meet at the funeral home at 1:15 p.m. Sunday to 

go in procession to the cemetery. The family received friends at the funeral 

home from 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday. Friends may call at the homes of any family 

member at anytime. In lieu of flowers to those who desire memorials may be 

made to East Side Christian Church, 1400 Siam Road, Elizabethton, TN 37643 or 

the Elizabethton Church of Christ (Building Fund), 137 East C Street, 

Elizabethton, TN 37643. Online condolences may be sent to the family through 

our Web site at www.hathawaypercy.com or by fax at (423) 543-8386. 





    Arrangements for the Holsclaw family have been entrusted to Hathaway-Percy 

Funeral Home. 





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