Tazewell County, Virginia, Obituaries:  Ethel Rowe Fleming

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Bristol Herald Courier
Friday, January 10, 2003

Ethel Rowe Fleming
    ROWE, Va. -- Mrs. Ethel Rowe Fleming, 89, passed away Thursday, Jan. 9,
2003, at her home. Born Aug. 3, 1913, in Rowe, she was a daughter of the late
John H. and Myrtle Jane Fuller Rowe. A lifelong resident of the Rowe area, she
owned and operated Fleming Grocery. She was a charter member of the Rowe Free
Pentecostal Holiness Church. 
    In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband,
Delmon "Spider" Fleming; one sister, Birchie Rowe; and five brothers, Paul
Rowe, Lee Rowe, Clare Rowe, Alden Rowe and Bascom Rowe.
    Survivors include five daughters and sons-in-law, Polly and E.J. Gardener
of Liberty, N.C., Sandra and Harold Shortridge of Rowe, Joyce and Harry
Justice of Abingdon, Kate and David McClanahan of Rowe and Janie Fleming of
Rowe; two sisters, Ellen Fletcher of Rowe and Edith Ray of Manassas, Va.; one
brother, Ervin Rowe of Honaker; eight grandchildren, Steven Gardener, Karen
Gardener Graham, Jason Gardener, Janet Shortridge Shepherd, Brian Shortridge,
Beverly Justice Jordan, Rebecca Justice Reynolds and Morgann McClanahan; eight
great-grandchildren, Ben Gardener, Caroline Gardener, Austin Graham, Brooke
Shepherd, Addison Jordan, Thomas Jordan, Katherine Jordan and Jacob Reynolds;
special caregiver, Joyce Brown; and dear friends, Dr. Vinod and Kailas Modi
also survive.
    Funeral services will be conducted at 1 p.m. Saturday in the Honaker
Funeral Home Chapel, Honaker, with Rev. Ancil Childress officiating. Interment
will follow in Greenhills Memory Gardens, Claypool Hill.
    Pallbearers will be Clayton Hale, Darrell Street, Johnny Compton, Jimmy
Hess, Ned Baldwin and Chester Rowe. 
    Honorary pallbearers will be Jackie Boyd, Millard Rose, John Jackson,
Chris Jackson and Don Boyd. 
    Friends may call at the Honaker Funeral Home after 6 p.m. Friday.