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Beulah Capitola Grindstaff Hyder, 93, Elizabethton, passed away unexpectedly Thursday, October 15, 2020, at her residence.
A native of Carter County, she was a daughter of the late John and Hattie Moore Grindstaff.
Capitola was retired from Levi-Strauss. She loved to travel, loved to mow her yard and read. She attended Piney Grove Free Will Baptist Church as long as her health permitted.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by two husbands, Adrian Hyder and Fletcher Hyder; an infant son, Edwin Dale Hyder; a son, Dennis Hyder and his wife, Carmon Hyder; four sisters, Sylvia Carver, Bertie Tolley, Velma Whittemore and Clearsie Bowers; three brothers, Sidney, Delmer and John Henry Grindstaff; and a granddaughter, Michelle Hyder and her son.
Survivors include her daughter and son-in-law, Brenda and Gerald Sears, Elizabethton; several grandchildren and great-grandchildren; several nieces and nephews; and her daughter-in-law, Carmon Hyder.
Funeral services will be conducted at 7 p.m. Sunday, October 18, at Memorial Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Dexter Brummitt officiating. The graveside service and interment will be at 11 a.m. Monday, October 19, in the Hyder Cemetery, Hampton. Pallbearers will be selected from family and friends. The family will receive friends from 6 to 7 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, everyone is required to wear a mask and practice social distancing. Family and friends will assemble at the funeral home at 10:15 a.m. Monday to go in procession to the cemetery. Condolences may be sent to the family at our website at www.memorialfcelizabethton.com.
Memorial Funeral Chapel is serving the Hyder family.