This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Farris, Harless, Smythe, Adams Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GeV.2ACEB/1824 Message Board Post: The Tomahawk Mountain City, TN February 13, 2004 MAURICE E. FARRIS Maurice E. "Cherry" Farris, 89, 310 B. North Church Street, passed away Saturday, February 7, 2004 at the Pine Ridge Care Center, Elizabethton, Tennessee following an extended illness. He was a native of Mountain City, Tennessee, born November 4, 1914 to the late M.E. and Nora Guthrie Farris, Sr. He was a graduate of the Johnson County High School, a member of the Taylorsville Masonic Lodge #243 F&M, a former employee of the State of Tennessee, a retired farmer and a world War II Veteran having served in the US Army-Air Corp. He enjoyed woodworking and was of the Methodist faith. He was preceded in death by his parents, his wife, Mariann Raye Harless Farris, who passed away April 14, 2003, five sisters, Anne Farris Smythe, Pauline Farris, Louise Farris Adams, Mary Ruth Farris and Katherine Faye Farris. Survivors include two nephews, Michael A. Adams, Kingsport, Tennessee and Robert M. Adams, Richmond, Kentucky. Committal services were conducted Wednesday, February 11, 2004 at 11 a.m. from the Chapel of the Hux-Lipford Funeral Home. Interment followed in the Mountain View Cemetery. Hux-Lipford Funeral Home was in charge of the arrangements.