Obituary of Eunice Atchison Cauthen

Funeral services for Eunice Atchison Cauthen, age 102, of Roanoke, will be held on Tuesday, February 21, 2017, at 2:00 PM from Roanoke First United Methodist Church with Rev. Chris Martin officiating. Burial will follow at Randolph Memory Gardens with Quattlebaum Funeral Home in charge of arrangements. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 5:00-8:00 PM on Monday, February 20, 2017. Mrs. Cauthen will lie in state at the church one hour prior to services beginning on Tuesday. Mrs. Cauthen passed away on Saturday, February 18, 2017, at her home. Survivors include three daughters, Jo Ellen Flournoy (husband, James) of Rome, GA, Martha Young of Roanoke, and Mary Potts (husband, Jackie) of Roanoke; seven grandchildren, Bryan Young, Brent Young (wife, Pratt), Jeff Flournoy, Joel Flournoy, Mollie Potts, Joe Potts (wife, Yvette), and Will Potts; and five great-grandchildren, Morgan Young, Jaci Potts, Cotton Young, Hayden Flournoy, and Henley Potts. Pallbearers will be Mike Potts, Charles May, Frank Royston, Charles Wesson, Ronnie Irvin, Chris Mitchum, William Moore, and Craig Prestridge. A Shelby County native, a former Lee County resident, and a Randolph County resident for the past 49 years, Mrs. Cauthen was born on December 20, 1914, the daughter of Thomas Henley and Mollie Merrell Atchison. She was a member of Roanoke First United Methodist Church and had practiced as a registered nurse at Knight Sanatorium with Dr. Gay and at VA hospitals in Biloxi, MS, Gulf Port, MS, and Tuscaloosa, AL. She also worked in the family business at the Roanoke Telephone Company, where she served as the vice president and office manager for 13 years. Mrs. Cauthen was a member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Roanoke First United Methodist Women, American Legion Auxiliary, and the Alabama Nurses Association. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Joseph Jennings Cauthen; two stillborn daughters; and four siblings, Ida Atchison Carden, Lehman Mathis Atchison, Alster Ray Atchison, and Amna Atchison Merrell. Memorials may be floral or the family requests contributions to Roanoke First United Methodist Church, P.O. Box 40, Roanoke, AL 36274.