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- U. Raymond "Ray" Church, 81, 324 H. Heaton Road, Elizabethton, died
Thursday, October 12, 2006, in the Veterans Hospital, Asheville, North
Carolina, after an extended illness.
A native, of Avery County, N.C., he was a son of the late Wiley Charlton &
Ellen Kathrine Bunton Church. Mr. Church had lived in Kalamazoo, Michigan, for
42 years before returning to Elizabethton in 2002. He was a retired Salesman.
Mr. Church served in the United States Navy during World War II and the United
States Air Force during the Korean Conflict.
He was preceded in death by three sisters: Della Arney, Dorothy Campbell
and Stella Church; and by three brothers: Luther, Howard and Gordie Church.
His hobbies were playing the guitar and writing poetry. He was a member of the
Beech Mountain Baptist Church.
Survivors include Four Daughters & Two Sons-in-law, Janet and Paul Grewe,
Tavernier, Fla., Carolyn and Rick Koole, Hudsonville, Mich., Jennifer K.
Church and Courtney Church, both of Kalamazoo, Mich.; one brother and sister-
in-law, Allen and Margie Church, Butler; one sister, Nell Church,
Elizabethton; 10 grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be conducted at 4 p.m. Sunday in Memorial Funeral
Chapel, with Pastor Rick Koole and Pastor Dennis Church officiating. Graveside
service and interment will be at 11 a.m. Monday in the National Cemetery,
Mountain Home. Music will be provided by his niece, Denise Valentine, and
nephew, Dwight Campbell. Military honors and pallbearers will be provided by
the Tennessee National Guard. Honorary pallbearers will be his grandchildren.
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1925 - 2006 (81 years)
