CARTER COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - Narvel Whitehead, 16 Mar 2002
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Narvel Whitehead

   Narvel Whitehead, 78, 3308 Gap Creek Road, Elizabethton, died Saturday, 
March 16, 2002, at his residence.
   Mr. Whitehead was a native of Hampton and a son of the late Henry and 
Lucy Morton Whitehead. He was also preceded in death by a brother.
   Mr. Whitehead was a retired store room clerk at North American Rayon 
Corporation. He was a member and deacon of Little Doe Free Will Baptist 
Church and a member of Hampton Masonic Lodge #750. He was a U.S. Army 
veteran of World War II and was a Disabled Veteran.
   Survivors include his wife, Pauline Hughes Whitehead; a daughter and 
son-in-law, Angela and Ned Isaacs, Hampton; a son, Alvin Whitehead, of the 
home; two brothers and sisters-in-law, Ed and Shirley Whitehead, Johnson 
City, and Louis and Dale Whitehead, Hampton; two sisters, Hazel Malone 
and Crystal Johnson, both of Hampton; a granddaughter, Beth Amy Isaacs; 
and three aunts, Tina Humphreys and Julie Miller, both of Elizabethton, 
and Arizona Hopson, Hampton. Several nieces and nephews also survive.
   Memorial Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements.
   
   WHITEHEAD -- Funeral services for Narvel Whitehead, 78, 3308 Gap Creek 
Road, Elizabethton, who died Saturday, March 16, 2002, will be conducted 
at 2 p.m. Tuesday, March 19, at Little Doe Free Will Baptist Church (
Simerly Creek Road), Elizabethton, with the Rev. Sam Ferguson, the Rev. 
Shane Waters and the Rev. Bill Jaynes officiating. Music will be provided 
by John Hensley and the Little Doe Free Will Baptist Church Choir. Interment 
will be in the Whitehead Cemetery. Active pallbearers, who are requested to 
assemble at the church at 1:50 p.m. Tuesday, will be Joe Street, Greg 
Whitehead, Mike Hill, C.J. Blevins, Jack Jaynes, Jeremy Whisenhunt, Glen 
Cates, Floyd Reeser, Ben Williams and George Roberson. Honorary pallbearers 
will be Earl Lewis, Spurgeon Smith, Fate Whitehead, Horace Calhoun, 
Eddie Orr, Truman Clark, Dr. Frank Johnson, Bill Cullers, Bill Davis, 
Harold Street, Jay Smith, Gilbert Honeycutt and Lawrence Whitehead. The 
family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday at Little Doe Free 
Will Baptist Church. Friends may also call at residence. To those who 
prefer, memorials my be made in memory of Mr. Whitehead to the C.T.S. 
Youth Group of Little Doe Free Will Baptist Church, 1167 Rittertown Road, 
Hampton, TN 37658. Condolences may be e-mailed to the Whitehead Family at 
mfc@chartertn.net. Memorial Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements.