CARTER COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - Carson H. Grindstaff, 29 Mar 1999
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Carson H. Grindstaff
03/30/99 
   Carson H. Grindstaff, 70, 808 East B Street, Elizabethton, died Monday, 
March 29, 1999, at Johnson City Medical Center after a brief illness.
   Mr. Grindstaff was a native of Carter County and a son of the late William 
Ray and Pearl Oliver Grindstaff. He was also preceded in death by his wife, 
Vadia Taylor Grindstaff, March 29, 1997, and a son, Terry Grindstaff, April
30, 1996.
   Mr. Grindstaff was a retired employee of North American Rayon Corporation 
and was a member of Dungan Chapel Baptist Church where he was an assistant 
Sunday School Teacher of the Senior Men's Class. He was a Navy Veteran of 
World War II.
   Survivors include a daughter and son-in-law, Kathleen and Thomas Crow, 
Brookeville, Md.; two sons and three daughters-in-law, Herbert Eugene and 
Eva Grindstaff, Elizabethton, Gary D. and Carolyn Grindstaff, Johnson City, 
and Mrs. Peggy Grindstaff, Elizabethton; a sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Arnold, 
Elizabethton; and a brother, Leslie Grindstaff, Elizabethton. Seven 
grandchildren, three great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews also 
survive.
   Memorial Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements.

   GRINDSTAFF -- Funeral services for Carson H. Grindstaff, 70, 808 East B 
Street, Elizabethton, who died Monday, will be conducted at 8 p.m. Tuesday 
at Memorial Funeral Chapel with Rev. J.D. Neeley and Rev. Eric Heaton 
officiating. Dale Williams, soloist, will provide the music. Graveside 
services and interment will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Happy Valley Memorial 
Park. Active pallbearers, who are requested to assemble at the funeral home at 
9:30 a.m. Wednesday, will be Gary Arnold, Eric Grindstaff, Todd Grindstaff, 
Kevin Grindstaff, Jared Arnold and Jeff Farmer. Honorary pallbearers will be 
the Senior Men's Sunday School Class of Dungan Chapel Baptist Church. A 
special "Thank You" to the Doctors and Nursing Staff of Johnson City 
Medical Center Hospital and the McLeod Cancer and Blood Center of East 
Tennessee. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the 
funeral home. Friends may also call at his residence. Family and friends 
will assemble at the funeral home at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday to go to the 
cemetery. Memorial Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements.