Nota Flowers

May 07, 2008 03:57 pm

— Feb. 21, 1916 — May 4, 2008

Nota Mae Evans Mathes Flowers, 92, passed away May 4, 2008. Funeral services were conducted will be held at 1 p.m. Wednesday, May 7, from the chapel of Bilbrey Funeral Home, with burial in Thomas Springs Cemetery. Brother J. D. Carnes of Oaklawn Baptist Church where Mrs. Flowers was in regular attendance prior to becoming ill, officiated, with music by the Oaklawn Baptist Church Singers.

Mrs. Flowers was born February 21, 1916, in the Thomas Springs community of Cumberland County, the daughter of Robert Anderson Evans and Winnie Pearl VanWinkle Evans.

She was employed by Cumberland Medical Center until she retired due to losing most of her eyesight and becoming legally blind. But that didn't stop her. She still kept up her housework and worked in the garden and her flowers.

Survivors include her son and daughter-in-law, Thomas and Myrtle Evans of Monroe, TN; daughter-in-law, Peggy Evans of Crossville; stepsons, Chester Mathes of Crossville and Koy Flowers of Grimsley, TN; stepdaughters, Helen Crane of Crossville, and Judy Beaty of Jamestown; seven grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; several great-great-grandchildren; and step-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Robert Anderson Evans and Winnie Pearl Evans; first husband, Gene Mathes; son, Larry Evans; daughter and son-in-law, Loretta and Harley Garrison; stepson, Brevis Mathes; three sisters, Attie Norris, Ellen Wyatt, and Vada Gibson; and second husband, Kelly Flowers.

Pallbearers were Bob Turney, Gary King, Barry Gibson, Eddie Kilgore, Chris Davis, and Koy Flowers.

Honorary pallbearers were her grandsons, Larry Wayne Evans and Randall Harley Garrison, both of Crossville.

Bilbrey Funeral Home, Inc. was in charge of the arrangements.