Visitation will be held from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 27,  at Central Funeral Home in Manchester. Funeral services will be conducted immediately following visitation at 2 p.m. with Dustin Murray and Joel Gregory officiating. Burial will follow at Shady Grove Cemetery in Morrison.

Elam worked for Batesville Casket Company for over 30 years as a truck driver, having logged over 3.3 million accident-free miles during his tenure, according to his Central Funeral Home obituary. As founder of the Dusty Elam Foundation Elam “sold hundreds of tickets, smoked countless pounds of barbecue and volunteered much of his time giving back to the community. He was the driving force behind the scenes for the Dusty Elam Foundation and its continued success,” it said. 

In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a son, Dusty Elam; siblings, Mary Margette Keele, Delois Parker, Lynward Elam, Austin Elam, Imogene Demintoff, and Edgar Elam.

Elam leaves his wife of 44 years,  Sharon; a Chris (Kristen) Elam; daughters, Sonya (Keith) Stephenson and Sarah Beth Elam (Keith Adams); the best grandpa to his grandchildren, Selvin Stephenson, Cooper Elam, Sawyer Elam, Boone Adams, and Reese Elam; several nieces and nephews.

Central Funeral Home is honored to serve the Elam family, 931-723-7774, centralfuneralhome.com