Obituaries

Leonora Cox Epting

Leonora Cox Epting

Dec 9, 2006

Leonora Louise Cox Epting 87 formerly of Newberry died December 9 2006 at Bishop Gadsden Nursing Home in Charleston. She has been a resident of Charleston SC for the past seven years.She was born on December 1 1919 in Alleghany County Virginia a daughter of the late Hubert E. and Mary Emma Dressler Cox. She had a younger brother George...

Pearl Koon Oxner

Pearl Koon Oxner

Dec 5, 2006

Pearl Koon Oxner 94 formerly of 567 Kings Creek Road Newberry widow of M. Alan Oxner died Tuesday December 05 2006 at White Oak Manor in Newberry.Mrs. Oxner was born on April 5 1912 in Newberry County a daughter of the late George O. and Emma McCarthy Koon. She was a retired hostess for the Newberry Community Hall was a...

Terry C. Brooks

Terry C. Brooks

Nov 29, 2006

Terry C. Brooks 45 of 2030 Stoney Battery Road Newberry died Wednesday November 29 2006 in Laurens.He was born on July 4 1961 in Newberry a son of the late Charlie L. and Dorothy Derrick Brooks. He was an employee of Norbord S.C. where he was one of the start-up employees with the company when it began operations.He was a...

Betty Thomas Williams

Betty Thomas Williams

Nov 22, 2006

Betty Thomas Williams 75 formally of 961 Lindsay Circle Newberry widow of J. Edward Williams died Wednesday November 22 2006 at the J.F. Hawkins Nursing Home. She was born on March 4 1931 in Whitehall GA a daughter of the late Judge Hubert and Jessie Ward Thomas. She was a retired textile employee and was a member of College Street...

Emma Dickert Martin

Emma Dickert Martin

Nov 17, 2006

Emma Dickert Martin 87 of 117 Dickert Rd. Silverstreet widow of Ray A. Martin died Friday November 17 2006 at Spartanburg Regional Hospital.Mrs. Martin was born on January 6 1919 in Silverstreet a daughter of the late John H. and Lelia Garrette Dickert. She was a member of Trinity United Methodist Church UMW the church Administrative Council and choir.She is...

Frank M. Shealy Jr.

Frank M. Shealy Jr.

Nov 13, 2006

Frank M. Shealy Jr. 76 of 715 Columbia Ave. Chapin died Monday November 13 2006 at Palmetto Richland Memorial Hospital.Mr. Shealy was born on Oct. 12 1930 in Lexington Co. a son of Louise Comalander Shealy and the late Frank M. Shealy Sr.He was an Army veteran of the Koran War was the co-owner of F.M. Shealy and Son Saw...

Gloria Boozer Bennett

Gloria Boozer Bennett

Nov 13, 2006

Gloria Boozer Bennett 59 of 419 S. Main St. Prosperity SC widow of Thomas W. Bennett died Monday November 13 2006 at Palmetto Baptist Medical Center.She was born on Nov. 9 1947 in Newberry a daughter of Doris Cook Boozer and the late E. LeRoy Boozer. She was a retired employee of the S.C. Employment Security Commission. She was a...

Letha M. Ramsey

Letha M. Ramsey

Nov 8, 2006

Letha M. Ramsey 83 of Newberry died Thursday Nov. 8 2006 at the Newberry County Memorial Hospital.Ms Ramsey was born on Aug. 27 1924 in Portsman WV a daughter of the late Lee Charles and Della Sue Ramsey. She was the former owner and waitress of a restaurant and store in Dillion. She was of the Baptist faith.She is survived...

Anne Wilson (Annie Ruth) Whitener

Anne Wilson (Annie Ruth) Whitener

Nov 5, 2006

Anne Wilson (Annie Ruth) Whitener widow of Guy Vanderbilt Whitener Jr. passed away on Sunday November 5 2006 at Newberry County Memorial Hospital. Visitation for Mrs. Whitener will be Monday November 6 2006 at her residence 2323 Wells Park Drive at 6:00 P.M. Funeral services were conducted at Central United Methodist Church on Tuesday November 7 2006 at 3:00 P.M....

W. Stacey Couch

W. Stacey Couch

Nov 4, 2006

W. Stacey Couch 44 of 1784 Bush River Rd. Newberry died Saturday November 4 2006.Mr. Couch was born May 10 1962 in Laurens a son of James Broadus Couch and Margaret Judith Barnette Goodman. He was a retired carpenter.He is survived by his mother of Newberry; his father of Jalapa; a daughter April Michelle Couch of Pensacola FL; a sister...

Jane Grimison Riggin

Jane Grimison Riggin

Nov 3, 2006

Jane Grimison Riggin 75 of 2023 Main St. died Friday November 3 2006 at her residence. Her smile shone on all those around her and brought joy to everyone.She was born on December 18 1930 in Allentown PA and was a daughter of the late Edwin Douglas and Estelle Wissinger Grimson. Jane was a retired first grade teacher with Newberry...

Nettie C. Counts

Nettie C. Counts

Oct 25, 2006

Nettie C. Counts 84 of 1613 Nance St. Newberry died Wednesday October 25 2006 at White Oak Manor.Mrs. Counts was born on June 9 1922 in Newberry County a daughter of the late Claude L. and Bessie Enlow Counts. She was a retire employee of J.P. Stevens Co. and a member of Mt. Tabor Lutheran Church Little Mountain.She is survived...

Doris Newell Stewart

Doris Newell Stewart

Oct 24, 2006

Doris Newell Stewart 86 of 2020 Harrington St. Newbery widow of M. Bradford Stewart died Tuesday October 24 2006 at the Newberry County Memorial Hospital.Mrs. Stewart was born in Bolton NC a daughter of the late Rufus and Daisy Dowless Newell. She was a member of Aveleigh Presbyterian Church a former member of Lillington Presbyterian Church a member of the...

William Meadors Minick

William Meadors Minick

Oct 24, 2006

William Meadors Minick of 104 Kwanzan Dr. Lexington formerly of Kinards died Tuesday October 24 2006 at his residence.Mr. Minick was born on May 1 1922 in Saluda County a son of the late Olin W. and Inez Shaw Minick. He was an Army veteran of WW II having served with the 83rd Inf. Div. in the European Theatre 5...

Dottie Krell Foshee Holtzclaw

Dottie Krell Foshee Holtzclaw

Oct 14, 2006

Dottie Krell Foshee Holtzclaw 97 formerly of Clinton widow of the late Eugene H. Foshee and John G. Holtzclaw died Saturday October 14 2006 in Brian Center of St. Andrews.Mrs. Holtclaw was born on November 81908 in Prosperity a daughter of the late George F. and Lillie Ann Shealy Krell. She was a retired cottage parent having served for over...

Ralph L. Cannon

Ralph L. Cannon

Oct 4, 2006

Ralph L. Cannon 91 died Wednesday October 4 2006. He was the husband of the late Jeanette Schumpert Cannon and the oldest son of the late Rufus and Rosa Belle Rauch Cannon. He was born February 8 1915 in Chapin and was a lifelong member of Saint Peter Lutheran Church Chapin where he served in various offices and committees in...

Alice Roton Millstead

Alice Roton Millstead

Sep 30, 2006

Alice Roton Millstead 76 of 1930 Tanyard St. Newberry widow of C.T. "Tuffy" Millstead died Saturday September 30 2006 at her residence.Mrs. Millstead was born on January 14 1930 in Newberry a daughter of the late Bennie R. and Sudie Fulmer Roton. She was a retired employee of Allied Chemical and was a member of Mayer Memorial Lutheran Church and...

Elizabeth “Betty” Martin Connelly

Elizabeth “Betty” Martin Connelly

Sep 23, 2006

Elizabeth "Betty" Martin Connelly 79 formerly of 844 Belmont Church Road Silverstreet died Saturday September 23 2006 at Self Memorial Medical Center in Greenwood. Mrs. Connelly was born on May 8 1927 in Newberry County a daughter of the late Frank W. and Ida Longshore Martin. She was twice married first to the late Griffin O. "Griff" Dorroh Sr. and...

James L. Tarver

James L. Tarver

Sep 15, 2006

James L. Tarver 75 of 962 Lindsay Circle Newberry died Friday September 15 2006 at his residence.Mr. Tarver was born in Dothan AL a son of the late Alford D. and Lucille Chancey Tarver. He was a retired employee of Owens-Illinois Co. and was a member of Faith Assembly of God. He was an ordained minister with the Assembly of...

Ernestine “Dean” Cooke Collins

Ernestine “Dean” Cooke Collins

Sep 1, 2006

Ernestine "Dean" Cooke Collins 85 formerly of North Charleston widow of Lacy W. Collins died Friday September 01 2006 at the J.F. Hawkins Nursing Home.She was born on September 28 1920 in Marion SC a daughter of the late Ernest Covington and Ethel Goodwin Cooke. She was a homemaker a member of the First Baptist Church in Newberry and a...