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- JOHN FREDRICK DOWNING, 84, of Drummonds, Tenn., farmer and retired foreman with Tennessee Highway Department, died of pneumonia Wednesday at Methodist Hospital in Memphis. Services will be at 2 p.m. today at Munford (Tenn.) Funeral Home with burial in Helen Crigger Cemetery. He was a member of Tipton Masonic Lodge 226 and Randolph United Methodist Church. Mr. Downing, the husband of Edna Cousar Downing, also leaves two daughters, Shelia D. Willey of Brighton, Tenn., and Delaine D. Carroll of Marietta, Ga.; a son, John F. Downing Jr. of Covington, Tenn.; two sisters, Lela Gross of Munford and Edna Gookin of Memphis; 10 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. (Published in The Commercial Appeal 7/18/1997)
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