Obituaries

John B. Lindsay

John B. Lindsay

Jun 28, 2011

John Benjamin Lindsay 92 of 1929 Evans St. Newberry died Tuesday June 28 2011. Born in Chester SC on August 23 1918 he was a son of the late Henry Calhoun and Ruth Chambers Lindsay. Mr. Lindsay was a Navy veteran of WWII and for over 65 years worked in the furniture industry. He was the founder and co-owner of...

Max E. Mundy

Max E. Mundy

Jun 28, 2011

Max E. Mundy 76 of 1727 Harrington St. Newberry SC died Tuesday June 28 2011 at Palmetto Richland Medical Center. Born on July 4 1934 in Martin County IN he was a son of the late Claude and Daisy Tincher Mundy. Mr. Mundy retired after 45 years of service as an electronics engineer with L3 Communications- Interstate Electronics Corporation. Throughout...

Lewis Stanley Hawkins

Lewis Stanley Hawkins

Jun 26, 2011

Lewis Stanley Hawkins 64 of Pa Metts Road Prosperity died Sunday June 26 2011 at his residence. Born on March 8 1947 in Newberry he is a son of Lila Lake Hawkins of Newberry and the late Thomas Virgil Hawkins. Mr. Hawkins served in the South Carolina National Guard and was a self-employed painter with Hawkins Brothers Painting. He was...

David William Stephen

David William Stephen

Jun 26, 2011

David William Stephen 57 of Plantation Acres Rd. Newberry died Sunday June 26 2011 at his residence. Born on May 7 1954 in Saginaw MI he is a son of Irene Armstrong Stephen and the late Forrest W. Stephen. Mr. Stephen grew up in Montrose MI and graduated from Montrose Hill McCloy High School in 1972 and was also an...

Marjorie Ray Hudnall

Marjorie Ray Hudnall

Jun 20, 2011

Marjorie Ray Hudnall 79 of 696 Mud Creek Road Newberry died Monday June 20 2011 at her residence. Born on April 6 1932 in Panama City Panama she was a daughter of the late Marvin Albert and Irene Cochran Ray. Mrs. Hudnall was a member of St. Philips Lutheran Church and regularly attended a local Bible study. She loved gardening...

George Herman Johnson

George Herman Johnson

Jun 17, 2011

George Herman Johnson 78 of Newberry died Friday June 17 2011 at White Oak Manor Nursing Home. Herman was born on September 9 1932 in Silverstreet the son of the late George Andrew Johnson and the late Eva Mae Pitts Johnson. Mr. Johnson was a member of the Colony Lutheran Church where he belonged to the Friendship Group and worked...

Joseph Lukas

Joseph Lukas

Jun 7, 2011

Joseph Lukas 94 of Seafarer Lane Batesburg South Carolina died Tuesday June 7 2011 at Newberry County Memorial Hospital. Born on September 28 1916 in Vienna Austria he was the son of the late Johann and Wilhelmina Bessendorfer Lukas. He was a veteran of WW II having served both in the Afrikakorps and on the Russian Front. He emigrated to...

Dan G. “Buck” Perry Jr.

Dan G. “Buck” Perry Jr.

Jun 4, 2011

Dan G. Buck Perry Jr. of 1510 Sunset Ave Newberry died Saturday June 4 2011 at his residence Born on June 7 1967 in Ft. Pierce Florida he was the son of Margie McMurtury Perry and the late Dan G. Perry Sr. Mr. Perry was a retired truck driver with Carolina Concrete Company and especially enjoyed spending time fishing and...

Mary Elizabeth “Libby” Cotney Cohen

Mary Elizabeth “Libby” Cotney Cohen

Jun 4, 2011

Mary Elizabeth Libby Cotney Cohen 84 of 129 Belle Rive Drive Greenwood wife of Alvin M. Cohen passed away Saturday June 4 2011 at Hospice House. Born in Prosperity SC she was the daughter of the late James Napoleon Cotney and Nannie Florence Stockman Cotney. Libby was a homemaker and a member of St. Paul United Methodist Church where she...

Bill Grist

Bill Grist

Jun 4, 2011

William Lynch Grist Sr. 81 of 2 Park Dr. died Saturday June 04 2011 at CMC Mercy in Charlotte. A memorial service was at 4:00 P.M. on Tuesday June 7 2011 at First Presbyterian Church. Rev. Ed Jillson and Rev. Thomas B. McPhail did officiate. A native of York Bill was a son of the late Samuel Earl Grist and...

Helen Coggins Sease

Helen Coggins Sease

Jun 1, 2011

Helen Coggins Sease passed away on June 1 2011 after a courageous battle with lymphoma. Funeral services will be 2 p.m. June 3 2011 at Christ Lutheran Church in Columbia with interment at 4 p.m. in Grace Lutheran Church in Gilbert S.C. The family will receive friends from 6-8 p.m. June 2 2011 at Dunbar Funeral Home Dutch Fork Chapel...

Dorothy H. Rogers

Dorothy H. Rogers

Jun 1, 2011

Dorothy Hadden Rogers 84 of 2033 Shull Avenue Gilbert died Wednesday June 1 2011 at White Oak Manor. Mrs. Rogers was born April 24 1927 in Duncan South Carolina a daughter of the late James Russell and Mary Jackson Hadden. Dorothy was a former employee of Allied Chemical and was a member of Beulah United Methodist Church in Gilbert. She...

Doyle L. Wicker Jr.

Doyle L. Wicker Jr.

May 28, 2011

Doyle L. Wicker Jr. 75 of 239 Donna Lynn Lane Prosperity died Saturday. He was born on March 3 1936 in Sanford NC he was the son to the late Doyle L. Wicker Sr. and Mary Thomas Wicker. Doyle was a graduate of Brookland Cayce High School in Cayce SC a former member of Cayce United Methodist Church and later...

James Courtney Jimmy Gallagher

James Courtney Jimmy Gallagher

May 25, 2011

James Courtney Jimmy Gallagher 66 of 3265 College St. died Wednesday May 25 2011 at his residence. Jimmy was born on January 25 1945 in Newberry the son of the late Nelson Gallagher and the late Edith Whitener Gallagher. Mr. Gallagher was a member of the First Church of God in Whitmire. He retired from the US Air Force where...

Etta Irene Wessinger Coward

Etta Irene Wessinger Coward

May 25, 2011

Etta Irene Coward age 89 of Gallatin passed away May 25 2011. Wife of the late Bernice Odell Coward she is survived by her brother Carol Wessinger of Newberry S.C.; her sister-in-law May Belle Coward; brother-in-law James Coward; and many nieces and nephews. She was beloved and will be missed by all who were blessed to know her. She retired...

Martha Alverta Moates Bright

Martha Alverta Moates Bright

May 25, 2011

Martha Alverta Moates Bright 73 of 1035 Mt. Bethel Garmany Road Newberry died Wednesday May 25 2011 at the Newberry County Memorial Hospital. She was born on July 29 1937 in Laurens County a daughter of the late Wyatt and Addie Morgan Moates. Mrs. Bright was a homemaker and enjoyed sewing at her home and spending time with her family....

Lila Norton

Lila Norton

May 20, 2011

Lila Lee Haithcock Norton 62 of 196 Compass Drive Newberry died Friday May 20 2011. Born on October 25 1948 in Marlboro County she was a daughter of the late Grady and Letha Mae Ramsey Haithcock. Lila worked for 25 years as a supervisor for Campbell Soup Company. She enjoyed fishing and watching Nascar and the Carolina Gamecocks play. She...

Donald Donnie Layton

Donald Donnie Layton

May 19, 2011

Donald Donnie Layton 78 of 866 Mudcreek Road died Thursday May 19 2011 at the Medical University of South Carolina. Donnie was born in Newberry SC on June 10 1932 a son of the late Doc and Gladys Richey Layton. He served over 35 years in the South Carolina National Guard as a Colonel taught and coached at Newberry High...

Dr. Bud Pierce

Dr. Bud Pierce

May 17, 2011

Henry Bartley Bud Pierce Jr. DC 67 of 1800 Brookside Manor husband of Joyce Ann Woosley Pierce died Tuesday May 17 2011 at Newberry County Memorial Hospital. Born in Louisville KY he was a son of the late Henry Bartley Pierce Sr. and Eleanor Mae Smalley Pierce. He received his Doctor of Chiropractic degree from Sherman Chiropractic College and served...

Thomas Otto Tommie Suber

Thomas Otto Tommie Suber

May 16, 2011

Thomas Otto Tommie Suber 86 beloved husband daddy granddaddy and brother died Monday May 16 2011 at J.F. Hawkins Nursing Home Newberry. Tommie was born in Pomaria SC on February 7 1925 a son of the late Willie Jacob Suber Sr. and Edna Leitzsey Suber. During World War II Mr. Suber actively served in the US Army in the Philippines...