Thomas Calvin Flowers

Funeral service for Thomas Calvin Flowers 86, of Gainesville are set for Saturday April 14, at 12:00 p.m. in the George J. Carroll and Son Funeral Home Chapel with David Gray and Ricky King officating with burial to follow in the Fairview Cemetery with Miltary Honors and the family will receive friends on Friday April 13,2012 from 7:00 til 8:00 p.m. at the funeral home. Thomas Calvin Flowers Sr. (T.C) was born on February-19,-1926in Wynnewood, OK to Willie Cornelius Flowers and Addie Mae Calhoun. He later met and married Dorothy Flowers. Whoproceeded him in death in 1974. Fromthis union they raised eight children: Jerald Overstreet, Margaret Jackson, Margie Byrd, Kathy Sanders, SusanMack, Thomas Calvin Flowers Jr., Willie Lee Flowers, and Evelyn Flowers. He has seventeen grandchildren and a greatnumber of great grandchildren. He leavesbehind his brothers: J.C. Flowers Sr. Henry Flowers, and Wilkie Flowers, hissisters include Margretta Moore, Addie Mae Scott, Bobbie Rushing and Betty LouFlowers. Preceeded in death by hismother Addie Mae Flowers, Ben T Flowers,Shaderick Shankton Flowers and infant son Willie Jr. Flowers. He was a Sergeant in the United States Armyand served in the Korean War as a Med-Tec. Thomas Calvin Flowers retired from Brown Motor Company where he workedfor over twenty years. Pallbearers will be Perry Hubbard, Teddy Flowers, Terry Flowers, Cameron Sanders Tyrone Baker and Obie Baker. A reception will be held at First United Methodist Church located at 214 South Denton Street Gainesville, Tx 76240 from 3-5 p.m. Saturday following the service.Memorial contributions may be made to the First State Bank to the T.C. Flowers Sr. Trust Fund overseer Kathy Sanders. you may sign the online registry at geojcarroll.com