Virgie Viola D. Davenport

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Virgie Viola D. Nidiffer, 98, departed this life to be with the Lord on
Tuesday, January 4, 2005.

Mrs. Nidiffer was the daughter of the late M.A. and Martha Treadway Davenport.
She was the strength of her family, a beloved mother, grandmother and friend.
She will be missed by all who knew her, as much as she was loved by all.

Mrs. Nidiffer was a charter member of East Side Christian Church.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Cecil
Nidiffer; two sons, William C. and Paul E. Nidiffer; a daughter, Lilly
Beatrice Nidiffer; three brothers, Wilburn, Harley and Herman Davenport; a
sister, Evelyn Edmondson; a grandson, Randy Russell; a granddaughter, Diane
Russell; and a great-grandson, Jacob Grayer.

Survivors include a son and daughter-in-law, Gordon and Marcella Nidiffer,
Bluff City; two daughters and sons-in-law, Edna and Ralph Grindstaff and
Dorothy and Gene Oliver, all of Elizabethton; 12 grandchildren; 29 great-
grandchildren; 26 great-great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.

The funeral service will be conducted at 3 p.m. Saturday, January 8, in the
Chapel of Peace of Tetrick Funeral Home with Mr. John Smith, minister,
officiating. Music will be under the direction of East Side Christian Church
and Jerry Greene, soloist. Interment will follow in the Davenport Cemetery.
Active pallbearers will be selected from family and friends. Honorary
pallbearers will be grandsons and great-grandsons. The family will receive
friends at the funeral home from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday, prior to the funeral
service. Friends may also call at the residence, Charity Hill Road,
Elizabethton, anytime. Those who prefer memorials may make donations to the
American Heart Association, 208 Sunset Drive, Suite 356, Johnson City, TN 37601.

Virgie married Cecil Nidiffer about 1925. Cecil was born about 1905; died about 1975. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]