CARTER COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - John Frank Smith, 11 Mar 2002
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John F. Smith

   John Frank Smith, 76, 601 Dennis Cove Road, Hampton, died Tuesday, 
March 11, 2002, at Johnson City Medical Center.
   Mr. Smith was a native of Carter County and a son of the late E.E. and 
Nancy Peters Smith. He was also preceded in death by his first wife, Edna 
Pearl Farmer Smith, in 1997, and by two grandchildren, two brothers and two 
sisters.
   Mr. Smith was retired from Amerace, Piney Flats. He was a member of Union 
Baptist Church, where he was Sunday School teacher of the Adult Ladies
Sunday School Class. He was a member and former Chief of the Hampton Volunteer 
Fire Department and was a member of the A Club.
   Survivors include his wife, Louella Montgomery Smith; three daughters and 
sons-in-law, Sharon and Rufus Reeves Jr., Lake Junalaska, N.C., Kathy and 
Dillard Whitehead, Elizabethton, and Frankie and Terry Green, Louisville, 
Texas; a son and daughter-in-law, Charles E. and Ellen Smith, Elizabethton; 
two stepdaughters, Verna Buckles and Linda Brewer, both of Hampton; a 
stepson, Jimmy Dale Ward, El Paso, Texas; two brothers, Tom Smith, 
Elizabethton, and Ted Smith, Hampton; and three sisters, Wanda Griggs of 
Georgia, Kate Smith and Ginna Lewis, both of Elizabethton. A number of 
grandchildren and great-grandchildren also survive.
   Memorial Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements.
   
   SMITH -- Funeral services for John Frank Smith, 76, 601 Dennis Cove 
Road, Hampton, who died Tuesday, March 11, 2002, will be conducted at 8 p.m. 
Thursday, March 14, at Memorial Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Mickey Beal 
and the Rev. Ronnie Campbell officiating. Music will be provided by The 
Glory Way Singers and Ronnie Campbell. Graveside services and interment 
will be conducted at 10 a.m. Friday, March 15, in the Union Baptist Church 
Cemetery. Active pallbearers will be nephews. Honorary pallbearers will 
be the 2nd Floor Nursing Staff of Johnson City Medical Center, Dr. Shurber, 
Dr. Williams, Dr. Henson, the Adult Men's Class of Union Baptist Church, 
friends and neighbors. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. 
Thursday at the funeral home. Friends may also call at the residence. 
Family and friends will assemble at the cemetery at 9:55 a.m. Friday. 
Condolences may be e-mailed to the Smith Family at mfc@chartertn.net. 
Memorial Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements.