Eva Love Boshears Clifton

Funeral services for Mrs. Eva Love Boshears Clifton are scheduled for 3:00pm, Wednesday, January 5, 2005 in the chapel of Pafford Funeral Home with Bro. P.J. Hardy officiating. Burial will follow in Henderson County Memory Gardens. Mrs. Clifton died early Monday at Lexington Manor. Eva Love Boshears Clifton was born July 17, 1919 in the "Bessie Bend" portion of Lake County, TN, near the Kentucky line. She grew up in Tiptonville, TN, graduated from Lake Co. High School, and left Lake County for the first time in her life to go to Memphis, TN, to attend Miss Wylie's Business School, when she was 19 years old. Upon graduating from Miss Wylie's, she did secreterial work until she married in 1949. Her main pleasure in life was to care for her husband, her children, and her home. She took great satisfaction in having a large garden each year. She especially enjoyed cooking, and she was active many years in the Home Demonstration Club, winning awards for special things she prepared. She was a faithful member at the Broad Street Church of Christ, and enjoyed attending the Ladies Tuesday Morning Bible Class for many years. She was preceded in death by her husband, Mr. Marvin Clifton and son, John Clifton of Lexington, TN. She was the last living child of Will and Rachel Lee Adams Boshears of Tiptonville, TN. She was preceded in death by her brothers Buster (Willis) and Forrest Boshears of Augusta, GA; Fred and Miles of Murfreesboro, tN; and John of Tiptonville, TN, and sisters Margueritte B. McCaleb of Tiptonville; Lucille B. Kent of Canton, OH,; and Carrie B. Etheridge of Carrolton, GA. She was close with her brothers and sisters, and as the years passed, and they died one by one, there became fewer and fewer opportunities for her to enjoy discussions about the remembrances of "home". She greatly missed those discussions in her last years. She is survived by her daughter, Dr. Emily Davis of Lexington, TN and her husband Dr. Robert Davis and granddaughter Lori Davis of Tokyo, Japan. She is also survived by neices Joyce Kent Heavener of Canton, OH and her husband, Jim; Lynn McCaleb of Tiptonville, TN, nephews, Buster Boshears of Augusta, GA and his wife, Janet, Edward Boshears of St. Simon Island, GA and his wife, Judy, and Richard Etheridge of Carrollton, GA, other Etheridge relatives, and all their children. She is also survived by her brother-in-law, Dick McCaleb of Tiptonville, TN. She took great pleasure in giving of what she had to others, especially things she had grown in her garden. She enjoyed a clear mind up until the very end, and on her last day of life, she expressed regret that she could not give something to help those who had suffered such loss in the recent tsunami in Thailand. It would give her great pleasure to know that memorials were made in her remembrance to the tsunami relief effort.

Eva Love Boshears Clifton

July 17, 1919 - January 4, 2005