CARTER COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - Earl Thomas Stafford, 9 Jan 2002
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Earl T. Stafford

   Earl Thomas Stafford, 78, 813 Folsom Street, Elizabethton, died 
Wednesday, January 9, 2002, at his residence.
   Mr. Stafford was a native of Carter County and a son of the late 
Thomas Harvey and Grace Waycaster Stafford. He was also preceded in death 
by his wife, Honolue Ward Stafford, who died in 1997, and by three 
brothers and three sisters.
   Mr. Stafford was a retired landscaper and textile worker and was a 
U.S. Army veteran of World War II. He was a member of the Elizabethton 
Church of Christ.
   Survivors include two sons, Rex Elbert Stafford, Bluff City, and 
Thomas Wayne Stafford, Fayetteville, N.C.; two brothers, Thomas Stafford, 
Elizabethton, and K.P. Stafford, Gray; and five sisters, Gladys Eller, 
Elizabethton, Grace Bogalin, Newnan, Ga., Ruby Sams, Piney Flats, RheaAnn 
Stafford, Lenoir, N.C., and Nora Dooley, Grayson, Ga. Twelve grandchildren, 
14 great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews also survive.
   Memorial Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements.
   
   STAFFORD -- Funeral services for Earl Thomas Stafford, 78, 813 Folsom
 Street, Elizabethton, who died Wednesday, January 9, 2002, will be 
conducted at 8 p.m. Friday, January 11, at the Elizabethton Church of 
Christ with Mr. Eddy Craft, minister, officiating. Graveside services 
and interment will be conducted at 11 a.m. Saturday, January 12, in the 
Isaacs Cemetery, Roan Mountain. Pallbearers will be contacted. Honorary 
pallbearers will be the congregation of the Elizabethton Church of Christ. 
The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at the Elizabethton 
Church of Christ. Friends may also call at his residence. Family and 
friends will assemble at the funeral home at 10 a.m. Saturday to go to the 
cemetery. Condolences to the Stafford Family may be e-mailed to 
mfc@chartertn.net. Memorial Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements.