CARTER COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - Elsie S. Whitehead, 9 Jan 1999
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Elsie S. Whitehead
01/11/99 
   Elsie Street Whitehead, 77, 121 Cemetery Hill Lane (Whitehead Hill 
Section), Roan Mountain, died Saturday, January 9, 1999, at Cannon 
Memorial Hospital, Banner Elk, N.C., following an extended illness.
   Ms. Whitehead was a native of Carter County and the daughter of the 
late McKinney and Effie Clark Street. She was also preceded in death by 
her husband, Luther Whitehead, and a son.
   Ms. Whitehead was a member of Fork Mountain Free Will Baptist Church and 
was a homemaker.
   Survivors include nine sons, J.D. Whitehead, Arden Whitehead and Terry 
Whitehead, all of Roan Mountain, Randy Whitehead, Hampton, D.L. Whitehead, 
Jack Whitehead, Robert Whitehead, Kenneth Whitehead and Delaney Whitehead, 
all of Elizabethton; two daughters, Wanda (June) Lyons, Marion, N.C., and 
Susan Burdick, Scottsdale, Ariz.; 27 grandchildren; 20 great-grandchildren; 
an aunt, Arie Russell, Hampton; and special friends, Trula Fortner and 
Mandy Potter, both of Roan Mountain.
   Tetrick Funeral Home, Rhododendron Chapel, Roan Mountain, is in charge 
of arrangements.

   WHITEHEAD -- Funeral services for Elsie Street Whitehead, 77, 121 
Cemetery Hill Lane (Whitehead Hill Section), Roan Mountain, who died 
Saturday, will be conducted at 8 p.m. Tuesday at Tetrick Funeral Home, 
Rhododendron Chapel, with Rev. Gary Whitehead officiating. Music will be 
under the direction of the Sunset Quartet. Graveside services and interment 
will be conducted at 1 p.m. Wednesday in the Cornett Cemetery. Active 
pallbearers will be grandsons. Honorary pallbearers will be Steve Andes, 
Sonny Whitehead, Don Banner, Robbie Callaway, Mitch Tolley, David Townsend, 
Donnie Townsend, Danny Guinn, J.L. Potter, Ralph Potter and Willard Largent. 
Everyone will meet at the cemetery at 12:55 p.m. Wednesday for the graveside 
service. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the 
funeral home. Friends may also call at the residence any time. Those who 
prefer memorials in lieu of flowers may make donations to the American 
Heart Association, 208 Sunset Drive, Suite 356, Johnson City, TN 37604 or 
the American Diabetes Association, 4004 Hillsboro Road, Suite B-216, 
Nashville, TN 37215. Tetrick Funeral Home, Rhododendron Chapel, Roan 
Mountain, is in charge of arrangements.