CARTER COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - Buster Shell, 21 May 2002
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Buster Shell

   Buster Shell, 71, 118 Nannie Smith Rd., Hampton, died Tuesday, May 21, 
2002, as the result of an automobile accident on Hwy. 19-E, Elizabethton.
   A native of Carter County, he was a son of the late Burg and Bell Shell. 
He was preceded in death by a son, Jay B. Shell.
   He was formerly a plant worker. Mr. Shell served in the U.S. Army during 
the Korean Conflict. He was a recipient of the Service Cross and three 
Purple Hearts. Mr. Shell was a member of Hampton Free Will Baptist Church. 
He was a member of the VFW Post 2166.
   Survivors include two daughters and sons-in-law, Debra and Mike Nash and 
Freda and John Hill, all of Hampton, two sisters, Lucille Street, 
Elizabethton, and Maude Eraci, Dundee, Ill., five grandchildren, Johnny 
Bryan Hill, Jason Hill, Misty McCoury, Jennifer Owens and Micah Nash, two 
great-grandchildren, Dru Owens, and Izaak Hill, several nieces and nephews, 
his special friends, the family of Betty Bowers, Dr. M. Harlley, James H. 
Quillen VA Medical Center, and Elsie Ray.
   Memorial Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements.
   
   SHELL -- Funeral services for Buster Shell, 71, 118 Nannie Smith Rd., 
Hampton, who died Tuesday, will be conducted at 8 p.m. Thursday in Memorial 
Funeral Chapel, with the Revs. James Archer, Mike Hyder and Bob Polk 
officiating. Graveside service and interment will be at 12 noon Friday in the 
Richardson Cemetery, Morgan Branch Rd., Roan Mountain. Tracie Shelton and 
Tracie Proffitt will provide the music. Active pallbearers, who are requested 
to assemble at the funeral home at 11:15 a.m. Friday, will be Chris Collins, 
Leebo McCoury, Mitchell Morton, Doug Calhoun, Rob Lambert and Mike Street. 
Honorary pallbearers will be Ray Huskins, Raymond McIntosh, Ray Lambert, 
Phil Ellis, Tom Merkel, Bill Roberts, Wayne Lacey, Rodge Eraci and Allen Lyons. 
The family will receive friends from 6-8 p.m. Thursday in the funeral home. 
Friends may also all at the residence of Debra and Mike Nash, 118 Nannie 
Smith Rd., Hampton. Military graveside honors will be conducted by VFW Post 
2166. Family and friends will assemble at the funeral home at 11:15 a.m. 
Friday to go to the cemetery. Condolences may be e-mailed to the Shell family 
at mfc@chartertn.net. Memorial Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements.