This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/jlABAEB/1737 Message Board Post: The following obit is reprinted with permission of the Bristol Herald Courier, in Bristol, Va. Frank Potter JOHNSON CITY-Frank Potter, 74, of 317 Green Pond Road died Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2002, in Northside Hospital. A native of Carter County, he was a son of the late Charlie and Lester Perkins Potter. He had lived in the Cleveland, Ohio, area for 40 years before returning to East Tennessee in 1988. He was a retired iron worker and a member of the Iron Workers Local 17 of Cleveland. He had served in the U.S. Army during World War II. Mr. Potter was preceded in death by a son, Kenny Potter and a brother, William Paul Potter. He was a member of Elk River Baptist Church, Butler. Survivors include his wife, Louise Ward Potter; a son, Steve Potter of Seven Hills, Ohio; a brother, Rev. Fred Potter of Bristol, Tenn.; and three grandchildren. Funeral serivces will be conducted at 8:30 p.m. Thursday in Memorial Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Fred Potter officiating. Graveside service and interment will be at 1 p.m. Friday in Glenwood Cemetery, Bristol. The Minton Family will provide t! he music. Active pallbearers who are requested to assemble at the funeral home at 12:15 p.m. Friday will be: Ricky Potter, Bobby Potter, Scott Whaley, Sam Maney, William Earhart, Kent Young, Bill Montgomery and Michael Huffman. Honorary pallbearers will be: Thomas Montgomery, Lee Walsh, Wayne Winters, Thomas Heaton, Bert Walsh, Lester Reece and Hobert Stanley. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday in the funeral home. Friends may also call at his residence. Family and friends will assemble at the funeral home at 12:15 p.m. Friday to go to the cemetery. Condolences to the Potter family may be e-mailed to mfc@chartertn.net. Memorial Funeral Chapel, Elizabethton, is in charge. Note: I am of no relation, but my sympathies go out to those of you who are.