Beatrice Bird Cutshaw Died: 04-09-2002 Beatrice Bird Cutshaw, 89, of Greeneville, died this morning at Laughlin Healthcare Center. Mrs. Cutshaw was a homemaker. She was a member of First Baptist Church, the Young at Heart and Carrianna Sunday School Class. She attended as long as her health permitted. Mrs. Cutshaw was also a member of the Greene County Grandmother's Club. The family said she relished travel and participating in numerous women's organizations over the years and that nurturing her husband, children, and grandchildren was an important part of her life, which will leave lasting memories for her family and those whose lives she touched. They remember her for many, many touching acts of unselfish generosity to others; indicative of this spirit was the regular feeding of hungry "hobos" in the early years in which word of a generous household spread quickly throughout that community. The family noted that, for many years, she chauffeured her father-in-law, the late Rev. G.E. Cutshaw, in order for him to officiate at numerous funerals in the area. Mrs. Cutshaw assisted her husband, J.P. Cutshaw, and her brother, Herman Bird, at Bird and Cutshaw Trucking where she was the bookkeeper. The family said she was known by the truck drivers as "Granny" or "Boss Woman," and was loved due to her readiness to assist them and their families when a need arose. According to the family spokesperson, in earlier years, she and her husband regularly enjoyed square dancing at the numerous square dancing establishments here. They said that she and her husband, as did many others, loved to socialize over a friendly (sometimes hotly contested) game of Rook. Survivors, in addition to her husband of 73 years, include a son and daughter-in-law: Bill and Rebecca Cutshaw; six grandchildren: Cathy Cannon, Alex Cutshaw, Debbie McAmis, Cindy Schlehr, Jim "Corky" Cutshaw, and Hilary Porta; seven great-grandchildren: Stewart Cowles, Josh Cutshaw, Jantzen McAmis, Gant McAmis, Andrew Schlehr, Chloe Schlehr, and Hampton Porta; a sister: Freda Kelley; five sisters-in-law: Pansy Bird, Rena Mae Morrow, Inez Reo, Grace Shelton, and Christine Brooks; and several nieces and nephews. She was a daughter of the late Henry and Pennia Elizabeth Bowers Bird and was preceded in death by a son: Jimmy Gray Cutshaw; two sisters: Elizabeth Darnell and Gladys Price; and five brothers: Lonnie Bird, Lester Bird, Scott Bird, Kirby Bird, and Herman Bird. [Henry PhillipBird was the s/o David Bird and Elvina Levina Ann Renner, s/o Matthias Bird and Margaret "Peggy" Wilhoit, d/o *Solomon Wilhoit and his second wife, Katherine Catrina "Caty" McGee, s/o *Conrad Reuben Wilhoit and Elizabeth Broyles, s/o *Tobias Wilhoit and *Catherine Walke, etc... The family will receive friends from 4-6 p.m. Wednesday at Doughty-Stevens Funeral Home. The funeral service will follow visitation at 6 o'clock in the funeral home chapel with interment in GreeneLawn Memory Gardens. The Rev. Hollis Marshall will officiate. Pallbearers will be Joe Babb, Gib Tweed, Mike Cannon, Rowland McAmis, Jim "Corky" Cutshaw, and Ceth Smith. Honorary pallbearers will be Dr. Jim Rodgers, Dr. Nathan Horner, Dr. J.R. McKinney, Dwight Myers, Lonnie Sexton, Claude Harrison, the staff of Laughlin Healthcare, and members of the Carrianna Sunday School Class. Memorial contributions may be made to First Baptist Church Building Fund. --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Internet Of Salisbury, Inc.]