This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EeB.2ACE/399.1 Message Board Post: I'm fairly certain that the below obituary is for a brother of William M. BERRY. I transcribed obituaries but get to the year of 1967 for the Star. The parents of Jack Dana Berry and other children including Will or William M. Berry were James M. BERRY and wife and Mary J. BOWERS. I have more on the ancestry of both of these. You may contact me at [email protected] “Elizabethton Star,” Elizabethton, TN - Sunday, July 14, 1940 BERRY FUNERAL IS SET FOR TODAY AT FREEWILL CHURCH Jack Dana Berry, possibly one of the best known and most likeable young men in the county, succumbed to an illness of two weeks at a local hospital Friday. Jack, as he was familiarly known to everyone, was very popular and his death was a distinct shock to the entire community. Prior to his death, and after he was taken to the hospital, continuous calls were made at the hospital concerning his condition. The deceased was a native of Carter county. For a good many years, he was engaged in the restaurant business and at the time of his death was owner of Jack’s Café on Elk avenue, which he had operated for sometime. He was also an employee of the American Bemberg Corporation. He was a member of the Freewill Baptist Church. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Margaret Berry; one daughter, Charlotte; four sons, Jack, Bobbie, Harold Dean and Harold Thomas; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Berry, Hunter; three sisters, Mrs. Nora Smith, Mrs. Effie Mae Howard, Mrs. Carrie Mae Williams, all of Hunter; two brothers, Will and Clyde (Tad) Berry, Elizabethton. Funeral services will be conducted from the Freewill Baptist church Sunday afternoon at 2:00 o’clock with the Rev. J. C. Howington and the Rev. Harry Leonard officiating. Burial will be made in the Blevins Cemetery at Watauga Point. Active pallbearers: William Cleary, Harlow Crosswhite, Gene Holley, George Miller, Gene Conode, Mack Hodge, James Sanfrisco, Morris Ackard. Flower bearers: Mrs. Emma Bowers, Febie McKinney, Deloris Cleary, Gus Crumley, Leon Hill, Cap Cardwell, Fred Deloach, J. C. Howington, Dick Smith, Eddie Robinson. The body was removed to the home on Tipton street Saturday afternoon at three o’clock from the Roy Hathaway Funeral Home.