CARTER COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - Verna Edna Norris McGuire, 1 Jul 2004
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Mrs. Verna Edna Norris McGuire, 87, of Elizabethton, died Thursday, 
July 1, 2004, at Johnson City Medical Center.

Mrs. McGuire was born May 22, 1917, in Watauga County, N.C., to the 
late John and Emma Jones Norris. She married Chester Clay "Roby" 
McGuire on April 28, 1934, in Heaton, N.C., and lived in Beech Mountain 
(Avery County) N.C., until 1972, when they moved to Elizabethton. She 
was a homemaker and continued to live in the home after the death of 
her husband in 1994.

Mrs. McGuire was a member of Biltmore Baptist Church, where she was 
faithful as long as her health permitted. In addition to her parents 
and husband, she was preceded in death by four brothers and six sisters.
Mrs. McGuire was a friend to many, and a loving and devoted wife, mother 
and grandmother. She loved growing flowers and vegetables.

Survivors include two sons and one daughter-in-law, Harold and Carolyn 
McGuire, Huntersville, N.C., and John McGuire, Newland, N.C.; four 
daughters and sons-in-law, Bernice and Max McGuire, Otto, N.C., Joanne 
and Dale Phillips, Franklin, N.C., Mary and Allie Armstrong, Greeneville, 
and Betty and Richard Shomaker, Banner Elk, N.C.; 15 grandchildren; 21 
great-grandchildren; two great-great-grandchildren; four sisters-in-law, 
Eula Norris, Glade Springs, Va., Lura Green, Elizabethton, Vena Jones, 
Cranberry, N.C., and Marlene Cook, Winston-Salem, N.C.; and many special 
friends, neighbors, nieces and nephews.

Funeral services will be conducted at 4 p.m. Sunday, July 4, at Memorial 
Funeral Chapel with Pastor Dale Greenwell and Pastor Mark Grubb 
officiating. Graveside services and interment will be at 11 a.m. Monday, 
July 5, at Happy Valley Memorial Park. Active pallbearers will be 
grandsons. Honorary pallbearers will be her Church Family, Dr. James 
Shipley and Staff of First Medical Group, Elizabethton, friends and 
neighbors. The family will receive friends from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday at 
the funeral home. Friends may also call at her residence. Family and 
friends will assemble at the funeral home at 10:30 a.m. Monday to go to 
the cemetery. Condolences to the McGuire family may be e-mailed to 
mfc@chartertn.net. Memorial Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements.

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