Mrs. Clarence T. (P.) Ashby, (Elma Hart Ashby) 72, died yesterday [10-6-1960] at her home in the Eighth Civil District of Moore County after suffering a heart attack. Funeral service will be at 2:30 p.m. today at the Booneville Church of Christ, of which she was a memeber. R. M. Gleaves will officiate. Burial will be in the Booneville Cemetery.
Mrs. Ashby, the former Elma HART, was a native of Bedford County daughter of William and Fanny Gardner HART.
The body is at the home.
She is survived by two daughters, Miss Nannie Hart Ashby of Moore County, Mrs. Herschel Patton, Shelbyville, Tenn., a son, Truman Ashby, Lynchburg; four sisters, Miss Kate HART and Mrs. Edger Rees, Bedford County, Mrs. Newton Dusenberry and Mrs. Bruce Rees, Lincoln County; three brothers, Kirby and Clinton HART, Wasco, Calif., Joe Hart, Bedford County, and four grandchildren.
Clarence Pitts Ashby, 71, retired farmer of the Charity community and father of Mrs. Herschel E. Patton, S. Main St., died Friday night at his home after a long illness.
Services were held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at the Booneville Church of Christ, Lynchburg, with R. M. Gleaves, Shelbyville, officiating. Burial followed in Booneville Cemetery.
A native of Lincoln County, Mr. Ashby was a member of the Church of Christ. His parents were the late Asbury and Rachel Pitts Ashby.
Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Elma HART Ashby; another daughter, Miss Nannie Ashby, Moore County; a son, Truman Ashby, Lynchburg; a sister, Mrs. Ella Helms, Fayetteville, and three grandosns, Garry, Charles and Stephen Patton, all of Shelbyville.
