Wise County, Virginia, Obituaries:  Martha Freeman

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Bristol Herald Courier
Monday, January 6, 2003

Martha Freeman
    WISE -- Matha Ellen Freeman, 99, died Sunday, Jan. 5, 2003, in St. Mary's
Hospital Long Term Care. She was a charter member of the Christian Church of
God in Wise, Va. She was preceded in death by her husband, Rev. Gordon
Freeman; a son, Curtis Freeman; a daughter, Effie Freeman; five grandchildren;
and her parents, Bert and Clara (Graham) Bateman.
     Surviving: three daughters, Christine Starnes, Amherst, Ohio, Jeanette
Cooke, Church Hill, Tenn., and Doris Wells, Wise; six sons, Joe Freeman,
Corunna, Ind., Barney Freeman, Kansas, Ohio, Ruford Freeman and Paul Freeman,
both of Lorain, Ohio, Ralph Freeman, Huron, Ohio, and Darrell Freeman,
Vermillion, Ohio; 47 grandchildren; 94 great-grandchildren; 58 great-great-
grandchildren; two sisters, Bertha Youngblood and Maggie Kilgore, both of
Wise; one brother, Moss Bateman, Myrtle Point, Ore.; and special friend,
Debbie "Sparky" Spurlock.
     The family will receive freinds from 6-8 p.m. Tuesday at the Hagy &
Fawbush Funeral Home in Norton. Funeral services will be conducted 8 p.m.
Tuesday in the funeral home chapel. Graveside committal services will be
conducted 11 a.m. Wednesday in the Laurel Grove Cemetery. 


Bristol Herald Courier
Tuesday, January 7, 2003

Ellen Freeman
    WISE, Va. -- Martha Ellen Freeman, 99, died Sunday, Jan. 5, 2003, in St.
Mary's Hospital Long Term Care. She was a charter member of the Christian
Church of God in Wise, Va. She was preceded in death by her husband, the Rev.
Gordon Freeman, a son, Curtis Freeman; a daughter, Effie Freeman; five
grandchildren; and her parents, Bert and Clara (Graham) Bateman.
    Surviving: three daughters, Christine Starnes, Amherst, Ohio; Jeanette
Cooke, Church Hill, Tenn., and Doris Wells, Wise, Va.; six sons, Joe Freeman,
Corunna, Ind., Barney Freeman, Kansas, Ohio, Ruford Freeman, Paul Freeman,
both of Lorain, Ohio, Ralph Freeman, Huron, Ohio, and Darrell Freeman,
Vermillion, Ohio; 47 grandchildren; 94 great-grandchildren; 58 great-great-
grandchildren; two sisters, Bertha Youngblood and Maggie Kilgore, both of
Wise, Va.; one brother, Moss Bateman, Myrtle Point, Or., and special friend,
Debbie "Sparky" Spurlock.
    The family will receive friends from 6-8 p.m. Tuesday at the Hagy &
Fawbush Funeral Home in Norton. Funeral services will be conducted 8 p.m.
Tuesday in the funeral home chapel with the Revs. Darrell and Joe Freeman
officiating. Graveside committal services will be conducted 11 a.m. Wednesday
in the Laurel Grove Cemetery.


Bristol Herald Courier
Wednesday, January 8, 2003

Martha Freeman
    WISE -- The family of Martha Ellen Freeman will receive friends from 6-8
p.m. Tuesday at the Hagy & Fawbush Funeral Home in Norton. Funeral services
will be conducted 8 p.m. Tuesday in the funeral home chapel. Graveside
committal services will be conducted 11 a.m. Wednesday in the Laurel Grove
Cemetery. 
    Mrs. Freeman, 99, died Sunday, Jan. 5, 2003, in St. Mary's Hospital Long
Term Care.