Wilburn Floyd Morefield

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"The Tomahawk," Wednesday, April 26, 1967
Wilburn Floyd Morefield. . .
Wilburn Floyd Morefield, age 78, Mountain City, died at the Grayson Hotel Monday at 6 p.m.
Mr. Morefield was a native of Johnson County. He was a retired farmer. He was the son of the late James B. and Ellen McElyea Morefield. He was preceded in death by his wife, Lona, who died March 7, 1960. He was a member of the Locust Gap Freewill Baptist Church.
Survivors include two sons, Junior, Portsmouth, Va., and Burl, Deep Gap, N.C.; three daughters, Mrs. Kate Walker, Neva, Mrs. Verna Mae Greer, Troutville, Va., Mrs. Crete Proffitt, Salem, Va.; two brothers, W.W. Morefield, Neva, J.G. Morefield, Lewiston, Idaho; four sisters, Mrs. Zola Moody, Mountain City, Mrs. Carie Mae Proffitt, Mrs. Ivaree Arnold and Mrs. Rena Hambo, all of Neva; and 17 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be conducted Thursday at 3 p.m. from the Locust Gap Freewill Baptist Church with Rev. H.C. Price and Rev. D.C. Byrd officiating. Pallbearers will be friends and neighbors and flower bearers will be ladies of the church and neighbors. The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday (today) at the funeral home. Interment will be in the Morefield cemetery.
Lewis Gentry Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.

Wilburn married Lona Forrester about 1901 in Johnson County, , , Tennessee. Lona was born about 1891; died on 7 Mar 1960 in Washintgon County, , , Tennessee; was buried in Morefield Cemetery, , Johnson County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]