Clarence H. "C. H." Gault

GAULT, CLARENCE H. "C.H." - age 74 of the Claxton community, formerly of Oak Ridge, passed away Wednesday, September 2, 2009 at Methodist Medical Center after a 3 year battle with lung cancer. C.H. professed faith as a teenager and was a member of Zion Baptist Church in Claxton. He retired from the City of Oak Ridge after 34 years as a crew chief in the electrical department. His greatest joy was his family. C.H.'s hobbies were his lawn and flowers as anyone who has ever seen it can attest to. He also loved to fish and his many trophies are mounted on the wall. He was preceded in death by his parents, Clarence & Flora Gault; father & mother-in-law, Carl & Ruby Johnson; sister, Helen Morris. Survivors: wife of 55 years: Nina Johnson Gault; son: Eddie Gault; daughters: Francie & husband Skip Edmonds, Connie & husband Dennis Fraker; grandchildren: Shannon Edmonds, Heidi, Travis, Candice Greene, Gregory & wife Kathryn Greene; great granddaughter: Anna Grace Greene; step grandchildren: Courtney Fraker, David & wife Jennifer Edmonds; step great-granddaughter: Jasmine Edmonds; sisters: Ruby Jean & husband Wayne Gann, Allie & Bob Harrington, Flora Alice Lewis, Ellsie & husband Joe McCarthy, Beverly & husband Hershell Disney, Mary & husband Isie Ben-Eilever; brother: Frank & wife Brenda Gault; brothers-in-law: Ronald & wife Nell Johnson, Larry & wife Nancy Johnson, Stanley & wife Rosa Lee Johnson; special nephews: Chris Johnson & Barry Gault; niece: Kimberlin Mann; close friends: Jerry & Peggy Pressnell and all the loving family and friends that he treasured including the grandchildren's friends that knew him as Papaw. Pallbearers: Eddie Gault, Gregory Greene, Travis Greene, Christopher Johnson, Frank Gault, Stanley Johnson. Honorary pallbearers: Ronald & Larry Johnson, Skip Edmonds, Dennis Fraker, Jerry Pressnell. The family would like to thank the doctors and staff of Cumberland Oncology and the staff at Methodist Medical Center. The family will receive friends on Friday, September 4, 2009 from 5-8PM at the Holley-Gamble Funeral Home with funeral services to follow in the chapel at 8:00PM with Rev. Harold Ogle and Rev. Larry Hewitt officiating. Interment will be Saturday, September 5th at 11:00AM at Woodhaven Memorial Gardens in Claxton. In lieu of flowers at his funeral C.H. requested that you find someone that needs help in their yard by planting flowers, mowing the yard and pulling weeds just as he had always done. Holley-Gamble Funeral Home in Clinton is in charge of the arrangements.