CARTER COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - Carmon R. Bowers, 18 Sep 1999
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Carmon R. Bowers
09/20/99 
   Carmon Roosevelt Bowers, 95, 614 Walnut Street, Elizabethton, died 
Saturday, September 18, 1999, at Life Care Center of Elizabethton following 
an extended illness.
   Mr. Bowers was a native of Carter County and a son of the late Emmitt and 
Carrie Bowers. He was also preceded in death by his wife, Ina Bowers, July 12, 
1990, a daughter, Ruby Bowers, and a brother, McKinley Bowers.
   Mr. Bowers was a retired mechanic at North American Rayon Corporation. He 
was a member of the First Assembly of God.
   Survivors include two sons, Carl Bowers, Pensacola, Fla., and Donald W. 
Bowers, Elizabethton; a daughter, Lena Peters, Elizabethton; and two brothers, 
Joe Bowers, Johnson City, and Horace Bowers, Elizabethton. Nine grandchildren 
and several great-grandchildren also survive.
   Memorial Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements.

   BOWERS -- Funeral services for Carmon Roosevelt Bowers, 95, 614 Walnut 
Street, Elizabethton, who died Saturday, will be conducted at 8 p.m. Tuesday 
at Memorial Funeral Chapel with Rev. Ken Bewley and Rev. Earl Golden 
officiating. Graveside services and interment will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday 
in the Colbaugh Cemetery. Active pallbearers, who are requested to assemble at 
the funeral home at 1:40 p.m. Wednesday, will be Steve Bowers, Johnny Range, 
Benny Whittimore, Trond Shepard, Scott Bowers and Brian Bradshaw. Honorary 
pallbearers will be Carl Estep, Billy Merritt, Bobby Thomas, Gaither Hubbard 
and Max Todd. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the 
funeral home. Friends may also call at the residence of a son, Donald W. 
Bowers, 614 Walnut Street, Elizabethton. Family and friends will assemble at 
the funeral home at 1:40 p.m. Wednesday to go to the cemetery. Memorial 
Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements.