Lela Newcome
Contributed by  MELVIN L. Miller

Mrs. Lela Newcome, age 88, passed away Sunday, December 15,1968, at the Chamberlain Memorial Hospital. Funeral services were conducted Wednesday , December 18, 1968, from the
Pond Grove Baptist Church at 2:30 p.m. with Rev. Fayte  Wilson and Rev. Charles Kelly officiating.
 

Surviving are five sons, Leonard, Houston, Fred, Paul and Edsel Newcome all of Rockwood ; three daughters, Mrs. Clema Watson, Rockwood ; Mrs. Anderson Branam, Newport, Tenn. ; Mrs. Carl Tankersley, Chattanooga, Tenn. ; one sister, Mrs. Minnie Remer, Dandridge, Tenn. ; Twenty-five grand-children and 2 great-grand-children.
Interment in Roane Memorial Gardens with Booth Funeral Home in charge of arrangements. Dec. 15, 1968.

From The Rockwood Times, December 19, 1968.

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