CARTER COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - Joseph Garland Norwood, 5 May 2002
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Joseph G. Norwood

   Joseph Garland Norwood, 71, formerly of Blevins Avenue, 
Elizabethton, died Sunday, May 5, 2002, at the James H. Quillen VA 
Extended Care Facility following an extended illness.
   Mr. Norwood was a native of Carter County and the son of the late Joe 
Norwood and Vivian Viola Watson Norwood Rogers. He was also preceded in 
death by his former wife, Rose Marie Hairston.
   Mr. Norwood was a retired employee of T.V.A. and was a member of the 
Iron Worker's Union. He was a U.S. Army veteran, having served in the 
Korean conflict.
   Survivors include five daughters, Vickie Henderson, Elizabethton, 
Bonnie Henderson, Hampton, Va., Patricia Norwood, Elizabethton, Audrey 
Norwood, Saint Petersburg, Fla., and Vivian Norwood, Elizabethton; 
three sons, Gregory Love, Morristown, Joseph Allen Norwood, Elizabethton, 
and Jamie Norwood, Atlanta, Ga.; two sisters and a brother-in-law, Doris 
and James "Chick" Forney, Elizabethton, and Lelia Randall, Indianapolis, 
Ind.; 13 grandchildren, Tony, Tonya, Yolanda, Cedrick, Jessica, Jasmine, 
Shanequa, Nikolai, Zachary, Mackenzie, Alexander, Alona and Sierra Rose; 
three great-grandchildren; and a special cousin and friend, Joan Avery,
Elizabethton.
   Tetrick Funeral Home, 211 North Riverside Drive, Elizabethton, (423) 
543-4917, is in charge of arrangements. Visit our Web site at 
www.Funeral-Plans.com/Tetrick
   
   NORWOOD -- Funeral services for Joseph Garland Norwood, 71, formerly of 
Blevins Avenue, Elizabethton, who died Sunday, May 5, 2002, will be 
conducted at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 9, in the Chapel of Peace of Tetrick Funeral 
Home with the Rev. Leroy Parsons and the Rev. Timothy Watterson officiating. 
Music will be under the direction of Loretta Bowers Newton. Graveside 
services and interment will be conducted at 11 a.m. Friday, May 10, at 
Mountain Home National Cemetery. Active pallbearers will be selected from 
family and friends. Honorary pallbearers will be Guy Burleson and McKinney 
Brothers Heating & Cooling. A special "thank you" to Pine Ridge Care 
Center, James H. Quillen V.A. Extended Care Facility, Life Care Center of 
Elizabethton and Special Memories of the Caudill Family. Everyone will 
meet at the funeral home at 10 a.m. Friday to go in procession to the 
cemetery. The family will receive friends from 6 to 7 p.m. Thursday in 
the Chapel of Peace of Tetrick Funeral Home. Friends may also call at 
the residence of a sister, Doris Forney, 711 S. Lynn Avenue, Elizabethton, 
at any time. Condolences may be sent to the family via e-mail tetrick@
funeral-plans.com. Tetrick Funeral Home, Elizabethton, is in charge of 
arrangem