Pace, Eugene GILMER -- Services for Eugene Pace, 64, of Avinger, will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday, February 14, 2007, at Grubbs-Loyd Funeral Home Chapel in Gilmer, with Grandol Forehand officiating. Interment will be in Pleasant Hill Cemetery of Gilmer. Arrangements are under the direction of Grubbs-Loyd Funeral Home of Gilmer. Mr. Pace passed away on Sunday, February 11, 2007, in Avinger. Mr. Pace was born February 28, 1942, in Tiptonville, Tennessee, to Marvin Eugene and Hazel Christine Clark Pace. He was a mechanic and a member of the Church of Christ in Mims Chapel. Mr. Pace was preceded in death by a son, David Clark Pace; his parents; and grandfather, "Big Daddy." Mr. Pace is survived by his wife, Faye Pace of Avinger; son, Marvin Pace of Avinger; daughter, Kathy Yeakley of Arlington; sister, Peggy Davis of Wartsburg, Tennessee; two grandchildren, Samuel Stanley Pace and Mallory Harris; and one great-granddaughter, Ivy Jade Bledsoe. Visitation will be from 6-8 p.m. this evening, February 13, 2007, at Grubbs-Loyd Funeral Home in Gilmer. Published in the Longview News-Journal on 2/13/2007.