CARTER COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - Creola McKinney Stanley, 29 Oct 2001
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Creola M. Stanley

   Mrs. Creola McKinney Stanley, 79, 1739 West G. Street, Elizabethton, 
died Monday, October 29, 2001, at Sycamore Shoals Hospital following an 
extended illness.
   Mrs. Stanley was a native of Carter County and a daughter of the late 
Will and Shelia Shell McKinney. She was also preceded in death by her 
husband, Gentry E. Stanley, who died January 28 1992, five sisters, 
Maxine Matherly, Lorene "Pink" Hajicek, Lois Beam, Edith Arnold and 
Gladys McKinney, and two brothers, Ernest McKinney and Roy McKinney.
   Mrs. Stanley was the owner of Stanley Trailer Park. She was a member 
of Pleasant Beach Baptist Church.
   Survivors include a son and daughter-in-law, Junior and Brenda Stanley, 
1731 West G. Street, Elizabethton; a daughter and son-in-law, Linda and 
Alan McDowell, 228 Heather Lane, Johnson City; four sisters, Zude Brown, 
Route 4, Elizabethton, Lillie Lyons, Route 1, Hampton, Agnes Walker, 
404 South Roan Street, Elizabethton, and Willie Baughman, Clay Little 
Road, Elizabethton; five grandchildren, Timothy Hollifield, Chris 
Hollifield, Kim Stanley, Sonya Stanley and Heather Stanley; three 
stepgrandchildren, Jon McDowell, Cheri Todd and Rick Garrison; one 
adopted granddaughter, Lutfiya Saleh, and one granddaughter-in-law, 
Monica Hollifield; and a special nephew and family, Sammy, Sally and 
April Matherly, 1741 West G. Street, Elizabethton. Several other 
nieces and nephews and two special friends, Peggy Thomas and Betty 
Taylor, also survive.
   Memorial Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements.
   
   STANLEY -- Funeral services for Mrs. Creola McKinney Stanley, 
79, 1739 West G. Street, Elizabethton, who died Monday, October 29, 
2001, will be conducted at 8 p.m. Tuesday, October 30, at Pleasant 
Beach Baptist Church with the Rev. Bobby Stout officiating. Music 
will be provided by Tawana Holland, Monica Hollifield and the 
Pleasant Beach Baptist Church Choir. Graveside services and interment 
will be conducted at 11 a.m. Wednesday, October 31, at Happy Valley 
Memorial Park. Active pallbearers, who are requested to assemble at 
the church at 7:50 p.m. Tuesday and also at the funeral home at 
10:30 a.m. Wednesday, will be Sammy Matherly, Donald Brown, Bill 
Brown, Rick Baughman, Dic Baughman, Thomas Walker, Kent Smith, Jack 
McKinney, Glen Beam, Dale Ball and Hobart Stanley. Honorary pallbearers 
will be Adrian Tolley, Lynn Tipton, Kenny Simerly, T.J. Walker, 
neighbors, friends and members of Pleasant Beach Baptist Church. 
The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at Pleasant 
Beach Baptist Church. Friends may also call at her residence. Family 
and friends will assemble at the funeral home at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday 
to go to the cemetery. Memorial Funeral Chapel is in charge of 
arrangements.