WILL ELEY, 76,DIES OF HEART ATTACK; RITES TOMORROW
William Anderson (Will) Eley 76, farmer of Unionville, died Tuesday night of a heart attack at the Bedford county General Hospital.
Funeral services will be held Thursday at 2 p.m. at the Unionville Church of Christ of which he was a member.
Freeman Crowder, minister of the Unionville Church, will officiate and burial will be in the Unionville Cemetery.
Mr. Eley was born in Bedford County. His parents were the late. Francis Marion Eley and Catherine Mangrum Eley.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Evie Wheelhouse Eley of Unionville' three daughters, Mrs. Ralph Snell, Florence, Ald., Mrs, Edward Harper, Minor Hill, Tenn., and Mrs Lester Lowe, Shelbyville, five sons, Thomas Clay Eley and G.L. Eley Shelbyville, William F. Eley, Sheffield, Ala., cecil Eley, Rover, and James M. Eley Corinth, Miss: 24 grandchildren and 6 great-grandchildren.
The body will be at the Gowen-Smith Chapel tonight and at !0 a.m. Thursday will be moved to the residence near Unionville and then taken to the church one hour before service time to lie in state.
Taken from Shelbyville newspaper, added by Reva Staggs, grand-daughter.
I remember grandaddy as a quiet, hardworking farmer, who got up on Sunday morning and milked the cows, ate breakfast, took off his overalls and put on his white, dress shirt and tie. He then sat down in the living room and studied his Sunday school lesson for the class he would later teach. Grandma would be in the kitchen preparing communion. Later, someone nearby would stop by and give them a ride to church, as he never owned a car.
Until the very last of his life he continued to work on his farm.
A tribute to the life he lived, the small Unionville Church was filled with family and friends and numerous floral arrangements . The accapella voices of all his grandchildren and their spouses provided the most melodious sounds ever heard in that small builing.
Reva Eley Staggs
top photo: young Will
middle: Thanksgiving 1952
bottom: Will's grave, March 2, 1961
William Anderson (Will) Eley 76, farmer of Unionville, died Tuesday night of a heart attack at the Bedford county General Hospital.
Funeral services will be held Thursday at 2 p.m. at the Unionville Church of Christ of which he was a member.
Freeman Crowder, minister of the Unionville Church, will officiate and burial will be in the Unionville Cemetery.
Mr. Eley was born in Bedford County. His parents were the late. Francis Marion Eley and Catherine Mangrum Eley.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Evie Wheelhouse Eley of Unionville' three daughters, Mrs. Ralph Snell, Florence, Ald., Mrs, Edward Harper, Minor Hill, Tenn., and Mrs Lester Lowe, Shelbyville, five sons, Thomas Clay Eley and G.L. Eley Shelbyville, William F. Eley, Sheffield, Ala., cecil Eley, Rover, and James M. Eley Corinth, Miss: 24 grandchildren and 6 great-grandchildren.
The body will be at the Gowen-Smith Chapel tonight and at !0 a.m. Thursday will be moved to the residence near Unionville and then taken to the church one hour before service time to lie in state.
Taken from Shelbyville newspaper, added by Reva Staggs, grand-daughter.
I remember grandaddy as a quiet, hardworking farmer, who got up on Sunday morning and milked the cows, ate breakfast, took off his overalls and put on his white, dress shirt and tie. He then sat down in the living room and studied his Sunday school lesson for the class he would later teach. Grandma would be in the kitchen preparing communion. Later, someone nearby would stop by and give them a ride to church, as he never owned a car.
Until the very last of his life he continued to work on his farm.
A tribute to the life he lived, the small Unionville Church was filled with family and friends and numerous floral arrangements . The accapella voices of all his grandchildren and their spouses provided the most melodious sounds ever heard in that small builing.
Reva Eley Staggs
top photo: young Will
middle: Thanksgiving 1952
bottom: Will's grave, March 2, 1961
WILL ELEY, 76,DIES OF HEART ATTACK; RITES TOMORROW
William Anderson (Will) Eley 76, farmer of Unionville, died Tuesday night of a heart attack at the Bedford county General Hospital.
Funeral services will be held Thursday at 2 p.m. at the Unionville Church of Christ of which he was a member.
Freeman Crowder, minister of the Unionville Church, will officiate and burial will be in the Unionville Cemetery.
Mr. Eley was born in Bedford County. His parents were the late. Francis Marion Eley and Catherine Mangrum Eley.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Evie Wheelhouse Eley of Unionville' three daughters, Mrs. Ralph Snell, Florence, Ald., Mrs, Edward Harper, Minor Hill, Tenn., and Mrs Lester Lowe, Shelbyville, five sons, Thomas Clay Eley and G.L. Eley Shelbyville, William F. Eley, Sheffield, Ala., cecil Eley, Rover, and James M. Eley Corinth, Miss: 24 grandchildren and 6 great-grandchildren.
The body will be at the Gowen-Smith Chapel tonight and at !0 a.m. Thursday will be moved to the residence near Unionville and then taken to the church one hour before service time to lie in state.
Taken from Shelbyville newspaper, added by Reva Staggs, grand-daughter.
I remember grandaddy as a quiet, hardworking farmer, who got up on Sunday morning and milked the cows, ate breakfast, took off his overalls and put on his white, dress shirt and tie. He then sat down in the living room and studied his Sunday school lesson for the class he would later teach. Grandma would be in the kitchen preparing communion. Later, someone nearby would stop by and give them a ride to church, as he never owned a car.
Until the very last of his life he continued to work on his farm.
A tribute to the life he lived, the small Unionville Church was filled with family and friends and numerous floral arrangements . The accapella voices of all his grandchildren and their spouses provided the most melodious sounds ever heard in that small builing.
Reva Eley Staggs
top photo: young Will
middle: Thanksgiving 1952
bottom: Will's grave, March 2, 1961
William Anderson (Will) Eley 76, farmer of Unionville, died Tuesday night of a heart attack at the Bedford county General Hospital.
Funeral services will be held Thursday at 2 p.m. at the Unionville Church of Christ of which he was a member.
Freeman Crowder, minister of the Unionville Church, will officiate and burial will be in the Unionville Cemetery.
Mr. Eley was born in Bedford County. His parents were the late. Francis Marion Eley and Catherine Mangrum Eley.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Evie Wheelhouse Eley of Unionville' three daughters, Mrs. Ralph Snell, Florence, Ald., Mrs, Edward Harper, Minor Hill, Tenn., and Mrs Lester Lowe, Shelbyville, five sons, Thomas Clay Eley and G.L. Eley Shelbyville, William F. Eley, Sheffield, Ala., cecil Eley, Rover, and James M. Eley Corinth, Miss: 24 grandchildren and 6 great-grandchildren.
The body will be at the Gowen-Smith Chapel tonight and at !0 a.m. Thursday will be moved to the residence near Unionville and then taken to the church one hour before service time to lie in state.
Taken from Shelbyville newspaper, added by Reva Staggs, grand-daughter.
I remember grandaddy as a quiet, hardworking farmer, who got up on Sunday morning and milked the cows, ate breakfast, took off his overalls and put on his white, dress shirt and tie. He then sat down in the living room and studied his Sunday school lesson for the class he would later teach. Grandma would be in the kitchen preparing communion. Later, someone nearby would stop by and give them a ride to church, as he never owned a car.
Until the very last of his life he continued to work on his farm.
A tribute to the life he lived, the small Unionville Church was filled with family and friends and numerous floral arrangements . The accapella voices of all his grandchildren and their spouses provided the most melodious sounds ever heard in that small builing.
Reva Eley Staggs
top photo: young Will
middle: Thanksgiving 1952
bottom: Will's grave, March 2, 1961
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