Obituaries

Virginia Garmon Gilliam

Virginia Garmon Gilliam

Oct 13, 2003

Virginia Garmon Gilliam 81 formerly of Sims St Whitmire widow of James C. Gilliam died Monday October 13 2003 at the J.F. Hawkins Nursing Home. Mrs. Gilliam was born on Jan. 29 1922 in Laurens a daughter of the late O. W. and Gladys Bobo Garmon. She was a retired employee of the J.P. Stevens Co. and a member of...

James P. Harris

James P. Harris

Oct 12, 2003

James P. Harris 54 of 471 Long Road Prosperity died Sunday October 12 2003 at his residence. Mr. Harris was born on Nov. 05 1948 in Newberry a son of the late J. Gardner and Juanita Crumpton Harris. He was an Army veteran of the Vietnam War. He was a Specialist Four with U.S. Army Battery B 1St Battalion (Airmobile)...

Ila Hamilton Blackwell

Ila Hamilton Blackwell

Oct 11, 2003

Ila Hamilton Blackwell 76 of 2900 Harmon Quarters Road Prosperity widow of Melvin L. Blackwell died Saturday October 11 2003 Palmetto Richland Hospital.Mrs. Blackwell was born on September 6 1927 in Gastonia NC a daughter of the late B. Ed and Sally Estelle Benfield Hamilton. She was a retired employee of Newberry Mills and was a member of West End...

Melvin Lee Blackwell

Melvin Lee Blackwell

Oct 10, 2003

Melvin Lee Blackwell 80 2900 Harmon's Quarter Road Prosperity died Friday October 10 2003 at the Dorn VA Medical Center in Columbia. Mr. Blackwell was born on January 16 1923 in Cheraw County a son of the late C. B. and Lillian Coy Newman Blackwell. He was a retired overseer of the Card Room at Newberry Mills. He was an...

Mary Robbs Simmons

Mary Robbs Simmons

Oct 7, 2003

Mary Robbs Simmons 62 of 281 Oak Hollow Road Newberry widow of Jack H. Simmons died Tuesday Oct. 7 2003 in Palmetto Richland Memorial Hospital in Columbia. Mrs. Simmons was born in Buffalo SC a daughter of the Ena Faulks Robbs and the late William Thomas Robbs Sr. She retired from American Fiber and Finishing Company and was a member...

Charles Eugene “Gene” Grant

Charles Eugene “Gene” Grant

Oct 5, 2003

Charles Eugene "Gene" Grant 69 of 1484 Highway 176 Little Mountain died Sunday October 5 2003 at Palmetto Richland Memorial Hospital.Mr. Grant was born in Whitmire a son of the late F. Colie and Doris Moore Grant. He was a retired Senior Livestock Law Enforcement Officer with the Clemson Livestock Poultry Health Programs. He was with them for 40 years....

June Gabriel Schuckardt

June Gabriel Schuckardt

Oct 2, 2003

June Gabriel Schuckardt 69 of 258 SC Highway 391 Prosperity widow of William J. Schuckardt died Thursday October 2 2003 at her residence.Mrs. Schuckardt was born on June 15 1934 in Springfield IL a daughter of the late William and Augusta Madelinsky Gabriel. She retired from the U.S. Department of Education in Washington DC. She was a member of St....

Ernestine Mccartha Fuller

Ernestine Mccartha Fuller

Oct 2, 2003

Ernestine McCartha Fuller 93 formerly of 817 Glenn St. Newberry widow of Johnnie J. Fuller died Thursday October 2 2003 at the J.F.Hawkins Nursing Home. Mrs. Fuller was born on Feb. 6 1910 in Lexington a daughter of the late Jacob F. and Sallie Hallman McCartha. She was a retired employee of the Kendall Co. Mollohon Plant and a member...

Ruby Melton Leopard

Ruby Melton Leopard

Sep 27, 2003

Ruby Melton Leopard 90 formerly of 716 Wright St. Newberry widow of Harold J. "Funny" Leopard died Saturday September 27 2003 at the J. F. Hawkins Nursing Home.Mrs. Leopard was born August 28 1913 in Saluda County a daughter of the late Samuel and Katie Fulmer Melton. She was retired from West End Mill and was a member of West...

Elisabeth Wieters Lominack Jones

Elisabeth Wieters Lominack Jones

Sep 24, 2003

Elisabeth Wieters Lominack Jones of 1527 Clarkson Ave. Newberry died Wednesday September 24 2003 at the Newberry County Memorial Hospital. Mrs. Jones was born in Charleston a daughter of the late George F. and Jennie Anne Sindorf Wieters. She attended the public schools of Charleston and graduated from the College of Charleston. She was a homemaker and a member of...

Dorothy Jennings Carter

Dorothy Jennings Carter

Sep 20, 2003

Dorothy Jennings Carter 92 of 51 Jennings Point Prosperity died Saturday September 20 2003 at the J. F. Hawkins Nursing Home. Mrs. Carter was born on September 21 1910 in Newberry a daughter of the late John C. and Janie Nance Suber. Mrs. Carter was a business women mother and housewife. Her life was filled with work love and charity....

Rebecca Dawkins

Rebecca Dawkins

Sep 18, 2003

Rebecca Dawkins 89 of Wesley Commons in Greenwood died Thursday September 18 2003 at Self Regional Medical Center in Greenwood.Miss Dawkins was born on December 19 1913 in Newberry County a daughter of the late Joe Frank and Lena Warner Dawkins. She was a private duty Nurse and graduated from Columbia Hospital of Richland County. She was long time member...

Winston F. Frank Mccall

Winston F. Frank Mccall

Sep 14, 2003

Winston F. "Frank" McCall 60 of 964 Twin Ponds Road Newberry died Sunday September 14 2003 at his residence.Mr. McCall was born on February 12 1943 in Greenville County a son of the late Andrew and Sophie McDonald McCall. He was a retired employee of Duke Power Co. attended the Prosperity Church of God and was a member of the...

K. Bruce Buddy Garner

K. Bruce Buddy Garner

Sep 8, 2003

K. Bruce Buddy Garner 50 of 714 North Wheeler Ave. Prosperity died Monday September 8 2003 at his residence. Mr. Garner was born on July 8 1953 in Newberry a son of Jewel Bouknight Garner and the late C. Bruce Garner. He was a member of Wightman United Methodist Church Prosperity Masonic Lodge # 115 York Rite Bodies and the...

Dorothy Counts Bedenbaugh

Dorothy Counts Bedenbaugh

Sep 4, 2003

Dorothy Counts Bedenbaugh 91 formerly of 429 South Main St. Prosperity widow of B. Cornell Bedenbaugh died Thursday September 04 2003 at the J.F.Hawkins Nursing Home. Mrs. Counts was born on May 22 1912 in Prosperity a daughter of the late J. Arthur and Georgie Schumpert Counts. She was a member of Grace Lutheran Church where she taught Sunday School...

Helen Epting Minick

Helen Epting Minick

Aug 30, 2003

Helen Epting Minick 92 formerly of 1619 Calhoun Street Newberry widow of Olin Minick died Saturday August 30 2003 at the J. F. Hawkins Nursing Home. Mrs. Minick was born on March 20 1911 in Newberry County a daughter of the late James R. and Carrie Ella Boland Epting. She was retired from Whitten Center in Clinton a member of...

Phyllis Wise Amick

Phyllis Wise Amick

Aug 26, 2003

Phyllis Wise Amick 71 of 207 N. Main St. Prosperity widow of Curtis M. Amick died Tuesday August 26 2003 at the Lowman Home.Mrs. Amick was born in Atlanta on September 20 1931 a daughter of the late Patrick E. and Bertha E. Putzek Wise.Mrs. Amick was a high school teacher for 37 years. She was a member of the...

Lila Fischer Atchison

Lila Fischer Atchison

Aug 24, 2003

Lila Fischer Atchison 47 of Newberry died Sunday August 24 2003 at the Oconee Memorial Hospital.Ms. Atchison was born on July 7 1956 in Orangeburg a daughter of C. A. "Al" Fischer Jr. and the late Anne Carpenter Fischer. She was a dance instructor and a member of Aveleigh Presbyterian Church. Ms. Atchison is survived by her father and mother...

John Drake Watson

John Drake Watson

Aug 22, 2003

John Drake Watson 85 of 2006 Springfield Circle Newberry SC died Friday August 22 2003 at the Newberry County Memorial Hospital. Mr. Watson was born in Florence SC a son of the late Lawrence Orr and Julia Drake Watson.He was a 1939 graduate of Clemson College and received his Master's Degree from Virginia Technical University in 1941. He was an...

Elizabeth White Threatt

Elizabeth White Threatt

Aug 17, 2003

Elizabeth White Threatt 88 formerly of 1720 Harrington St. Newberry wife of Perry C. Threatt Sr. died Sunday August 17 2003 at White Oak Manor.Mrs. Threatt was born on May 29 1915 in Sumter a daughter of the late Joseph B. and Evie Ann Mathis White. She was a member of O'Neal St. United Methodist Church and was a life...