CARTER COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - Elmer E. Laws, 23 Jan 2001
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Elmer E. Laws

   Elmer Eugene "Gene" Laws, 70, 222 Dogwood Acres Road, Hampton, died 
Tuesday, January 23, 2001, at Johnson City Medical Center.
   Mr. Laws was a native of Carter County and a son of the late Henry and 
Maggie Keller Laws. He was also preceded in death by two sisters and three 
brothers.
   Mr. Laws was a graduate of Cloudland High School and was retired as a 
warehouseman from Lever Brothers, Whiting, Ind. He had lived in Indiana for 
a number of years before returning to Carter County seven years ago. He was 
a member and elder of Hampton Christian Church.
   Survivors include his wife, Mary Lou Smith Laws; two sons and daughters-
in-law, Steven Eugene and Karen Laws, Daytona Beach, Fla., and Michael Edgar 
and Sue Laws, Hampton; a daughter and son-in-law, Patricia LouAnn and Donald 
McCune, Hammond, Ind.; two brothers, Millard Laws, Roan Mountain, and Delmar 
Laws, Elk Park, N.C.; and two sisters, Alberta Winters, Elk Park, N.C., and 
Vergie Smith, Roan Mountain. Seven grandchildren, three great-grandchildren, 
several nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles and cousins, four brothers-in-law and 
five sisters-in-law also survive.
   Memorial Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements.
   
   LAWS -- Funeral services for Elmer Eugene "Gene" Laws, 70, 222 Dogwood 
Acres Road, Hampton, who died Tuesday, January 23, 2001, will be conducted at 
7 p.m. Thursday, January 25, at Hampton Christian Church with Mr. Dwayne 
Calhoun, Mr. Emery Cordell and Mr. Dennis Pierce officiating. The Laws Family 
will provide the music. Graveside services and interment will be at 10 a.m. 
Friday, January 26, at Happy Valley Memorial Park. Active pallbearers, who are 
requested to assemble at the church at 6:50 p.m. Thursday and also at the 
funeral home at 9:30 a.m. Friday, will be Benny Pierce, Jamie Batchelder, Jeff 
Teague, Robert Siepha, Brad Laws and Eric Laws. Honorary pallbearers will be 
Jeff Dills, Jeff Petrich, Delmer Laws, Frank Smith and the men of Hampton 
Christian Church. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday 
at Hampton Christian Church. To those who prefer, memorials may be made to 
Hampton Christian Church, Building Fund, 810 Deerfield Lane, Hampton, Tenn. 
37658. Family and friends will assemble at the funeral home at 9:30 a.m. 
Friday to go to the cemetery. Memorial Funeral Chapel is in charge of 
arrangements.