CARTER COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - John W. Lovelace, 15 Aug 2000
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John W. Lovelace

  John Winfield Lovelace, 84, 312 Kendrick Avenue, Elizabethton, 
formerly of Treadway Street, died Tuesday, August 15, 2000, at Pine 
Ridge Care Center after a brief illness. 
  Mr. Lovelace was a native of Carter County and a son of the late 
Thomas and Carrie Russell Lovelace. He was also preceded in death by 
his wife, Effie Timbs Lovelace, December 14, 1989, three brothers, Harold, 
Orden and Noah Lovelace, and a sister, Pearl Lovelace. 
  Mr. Lovelace was a retired employee of North American Rayon Corporation 
and a U.S. Navy Veteran of World War II. He was a member of the Doe River 
Baptist Church. 
  Survivors include three daughters, Jean Bautista and Sonia Walker, both 
of Elizabethton, and Elizabeth Kulka, Chesterfield, Mich.; two sons, 
Johnny Ray Lovelace and Jacky Glenn Lovelace, both of Elizabethton; a 
sister, Pauline Lewis, Deltona, Fla.; and five brothers, Allen and Ed 
Lovelace, both of Elizabethton, Thomas Lovelace, Hampton, Glen Lovelace, 
Detroit, Mich., and Clinton Lovelace, Johnson City. Eleven grandchildren, 
15 great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews also survive. 
  Memorial Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements. 

  LOVELACE -- Funeral services for John Winfield Lovelace, 84, 312 
Kendrick Avenue, Elizabethton, formerly of Treadway Street, who died 
Tuesday, August 15, 2000, will be conducted at 8 p.m. Thursday, August 
17, at Memorial Funeral Chapel with Rev. Fred Wade and Rev. Murray 
Jackson officiating. Mrs. Mary Roberts will provide the music. Graveside 
services and interment will be at 11 a.m. Friday, August 18, at Happy 
Valley Memorial Park. Military Graveside Honors will be conducted by the 
Captain Lynn H. Folsom V.F.W. Post #2166. Active pallbearers will be 
grandsons and nephews. Honorary pallbearers will be the Employees of Pine 
Ridge Care Center, Dr. Stephen May and Steve Hatley. The family will 
receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home. Friends 
may also call at the residence of a daughter, Sonia Walker, 175 River 
Road, Elizabethton. Family and friends will assemble at the funeral 
home at 10:30 a.m. Friday to go to the cemetery. Memorial Funeral Chapel 
is in charge of arrangements.