Phillip Earl Nored ~ Obituary

The funeral service for Phillip Earl Nored of Paris will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Ridgeway Funeral Home.

Jack Criswell, Jimmy Allison and Roy Stinson will officiate. Burial will follow in Shady Grove Cemetery.

Named as pallbearers are Montana and Clint Evans, Clint Cummings, Travis and Claudia Nored, Chris Donnelly, Justen Watkins and Evan Dodson.

Visitation is planned 4-8 p.m. today and after 11 a.m. Thursday.

Nored, 68, died Monday, April 19, 2010, at Henry County Medical Center.

His wife, Carolyn Merrell Nored, survives. They were married on July 17, 1960.

Born Dec. 13, 1941, in Paris, he was a son of the late James Everett and Addie Lou Ray Nored.

Nored was a member and deacon of Shady Grove Baptist Church. He graduated from Grove High School in 1960 and attended Bethel College for two years.

He retired from the Board of Public Utilities in 1987. He also was former owner and operator of a truck leased to Mayflower Transit until 1996. He was a U.S. Army Korean War veteran, an honorary lifetime member of American Legion posts 8 and 89 and served several years as commander and district commander.

He also leaves one daughter: Ninette (Eddie) Evans of Puryear; two sons: Stacey Lynn (Janet) Nored of Paris and Steven Dale (Amy) Nored of Saltillo, Miss.;

Two sisters: Martha Foster of Paris and Glenda Wright of Martin; two brothers: Mike Nored of Nashville and Terry Nored of Rayville, La.; seven grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

He also was preceded in death by three brothers: Duaine, Gary and Lowell Nored.

Memorials may be made to the Shady Grove Baptist Cemetery Association, 975 Jim Merrell Road, Paris.

Reprinted from the Paris Post-Intelligencer
Paris, Tennessee
April 21, 2010 edition ~ Used by permission