CARTER COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - Maggie P. Peters, 2 Feb 2001
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Maggie P. Peters

   Mrs. Maggie Pearl "Bets" Peters, 92, 349 Peters Hollow Road, 
Elizabethton, died Friday, February 2, 2001, at Sycamore Shoals Hospital.
   Mrs. Peters was a native of Carter County and a daughter of the late 
Mike and Lucy Buckles Peters. She was also preceded in death by her 
husband, Buster Peters, January 31, 1985, a son, Jack Peters, and by 
10 brothers and sisters.
   Mrs. Peters had hosted the Peters Hollow Egg Fight at Easter for 
many years. She was a member of Stoney Creek Baptist Church.
   Survivors include a daughter and son-in-law, Lucy and Kenneth Shankle,
 Elizabethton; three sons and daughters-in-law, Clifford and Dessie 
Peters, Norman and Patsy Peters and Buford and Sherry Peters, all of 
Elizabethton; a daughter-in-law, Marsha Peters, LeClaire, Iowa; nine 
grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; four sisters-in-law, Bernalda 
Peters, Ruth Jones, Ida Peters and Ruth McKenzie; and several nieces and 
nephews including a special niece, Lucille "Bo" Taylor.
   Memorial Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements.
   
   PETERS -- Funeral services for Mrs. Maggie Pearl "Bets" Peters, 92, 
349 Peters Hollow Road, Elizabethton, who died Friday, February 2, 2001, 
were conducted at 8 p.m. Saturday, February 3, at Memorial Funeral 
Chapel with the Rev. Danny Simerly and the Rev. D.C. Byrd officiating. 
Dennis Laws and Drew Shankle provided the music. Graveside services 
and interment will be at 2 p.m. Sunday, February 4, in the Blevins 
Cemetery. Active pallbearers, who are requested to assemble at the 
funeral home at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, will be Randy Kirks, Mike Sturgill, 
Chris Schuettler, Todd Lowe, Gale Colbaugh and Lloyd Lowe. Honorary 
pallbearers will be Dr. Bremer and the Staff of the 3rd Floor of 
Sycamore Shoals Hospital, Housecall Hospice and all her friends and 
neighbors. The family received friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday at 
the funeral home. Friends may also call at her residence. To those 
who prefer, memorials may be made in memory of Mrs. Peters to the 
Blevins Cemetery Association, c/o Sofia Wilson, 237 Peters Hollow 
Road, Elizabethton, Tenn. 37643. Family and friends will assemble 
at the funeral home at 1:30 p.m. Sunday to go to the cemetery. 
Memorial Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements.