Earl Elton Cameron

Earl Elton Cameron, resident of the Williston Community, U.S. Veteran, longtim employee of Firestone Tire & Rubber Company in Memphis and husband of the late Glendora “Jean” Cameron, died Monday morning, February 27, 2012 at the Methodist Hospital in Germantown. He was 86 years of age and died following a brief illness.

Services of Remembrance with Military Honors for Mr. Cameron were conducted at 1 PM Thursday, March 1 ^st at the Graveside with Rev. Milton Carroll of Hope Presbyterian Church in Memphis officiating. Interment followed in the Memphis Memory Gardens Cemetery on Raleigh LaGrange Road. Arrangements were provided by the Peebles Fayette County Funeral Homes and Cremation Center – West Chapel of Oakland.

Mr. Cameron was born December 11, 1925, in Wampum, PA. He was preceded in death by his parents, Clyde Leroy Cameron and Velma Grinnen Cameron.  He received his education in the Pennsylvania Public School System and served in the U.S. Navy during the WW II period. He was married to the former Glendora “Jean” Allen who preceded him in death on April 10, 2005.

Mr. Cameron was a career person with the Firestone Tire & Rubber Company in Memphis for 32 years, serving as a Manager of the Company before his retirement in 1988. He was a Christian and was a former resident of Memphis and Collierville, TN before moving to Fayette County 5 years ago. A member of the Scottish Rite and a Mason for over 50 years, Mr. Cameron will be remembered as a person who enjoyed woodworking and caring for the homestead .

Mr. Cameron leaves his two sons, Donald Lee Cameron of Memphis and Jon R. Cameron (Holly) of Williston, three grandchildren, Evan Lee Cameron, Christine Mills and Caroline Cameron and two great-grandchildren and three sisters, Carol Miller (Louis) and Bonnie Bessell (Eugene) both of Wampum, PA and Fran Goebel (John) of Ellwood City, PA. He is preceded in death by one grandson, Dustin “Beau” Cameron.