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- Mr. Buster Charles Eggers, 86, of 490 J.L. Temple Road, Lexington, a native and former resident of Watauga County, died Tuesday afternoon, April 1, 2003, at home.
He was born Oct. 14, 1916, in Valle Crucis, to the late Walter Eugene and Tempie Shook Eggers.
Mr. Eggers was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II and was retired from Duracell Battery Company in Lexington. He was a member of Sheets Memorial Baptist Church.
Survivors include his wife, Jean Story Eggers; two sons, Charles Henry Eggers and wife, Margaret, and Noah Walter Eggers and wife, Wanda, all of Lexington; five grandsons, Keith Eggers, Lynn Eggers, Phillip Eggers and wife, Sherry, and Mark Eggers, all of Lexington, and Scott Eggers and wife, Kristin, of Dallas, Georgia; three great-granddaughters, Samantha Eggers and Madeline Eggers, both of Lexington and Emma Eggers of Dallas, Ga.; one brother, Fred Eggers and wife, Flavel, of Boone; three sisters, Etta Davis and husband, Hildreth, and Mary Lou Eggers and husband, Hoover, all of Boone and Betty Hughes and husband, Dee, of Roan Mountain, Tenn.; one sister-in-law, Mrs. Bonnie Eggers of Lexington; and two brothers-in-law, Cecil Tester of Lexington and Ben Caraway of Newland. He is also survived by a number of nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by three sisters, Charlotte Cole, Alice Tester and Snow Caraway; three brothers, Claude Eggers, Jack Eggers and infant Dale Eggers; a grandson, Todd Eggers; a sister-in-law, Ruby Allen Eggers; and a brother-in-law, Marlin Cole.
Services were conducted Friday morning at 11 o'clock at Sheets Memorial Baptist Church in Lexington, officiated by the Rev. Frankie Matthews. Burial followed in Forest Hill Memorial Park in Lexington.
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1916 - 2003 (86 years)
