Franklin- Elwood Lee "Foots" Gavin, 79, died February 7, 2012. A native of Harrells, NC, he was a son of the late David John and Clell Carr Gavin and was a U.S. Army veteran. Foots retired after forty-four years of service from Union Camp Corporation and was an avid outdoorsman, a member of the Bronco Rod and Gun Club and a former Boy Scout Leader for Troop 125. He was a member of Hunterdale Christian Church and was predeceased by his first wife, Mary Arthur Gavin, two brothers, Jimmie and Bobby Gavin, and his baby sister, Christine Gavin.
Survivors include his wife, Linda Gunn Gavin; three sons, E. Craig Gavin of Richmond, Cabot Lee Gavin and Melody Price of Chesapeake and Charles A. Gavin and wife, Heather, of Richmond; a sister, Ruth Ezzelle of Harrells, NC; eight grandchildren, Caitlin G. Argalas, Hudson Lee, Mari Kathryn, Barbara, Sam , Nicholas, Matthew and Sophia Gavin.
The funeral will be held at 1 p.m. on Friday, February 10, 2012 at Hunterdale Christian Church with the Rev. Randy Wright officiating. Burial will follow in Poplar Spring Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday at Wright Funeral Home and suggests memorials be made to the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation, Memo: Elwood L. Gavin, 811 W. Evergreen Ave., Suite 204, Chicago, IL 60642, www.pulmonaryfibrosis.org. www.wrightfuneralhome.org.