Obituaries

David Lee Brooks

David Lee Brooks

Sep 15, 2018

David Lee Brooks, 66 of 1116 Epworth Camp Road East, Ninety Six, husband of Donna Simpson Brooks, died Saturday, September 15, 2018 at Self Regional Medical Center. Born in Burlington, NC, he was the son of the late Rev. George Thomas Brooks and Annie Mae Comer Brooks. David was a retired Mechanical Engineer from Pfizer and Warren Lambert. He was...

Billy Joe Morris

Billy Joe Morris

Sep 10, 2018

Billy Joe Morris, 53, of 508 Bond Street, passed away Monday, September 10, 2018, at Self Regional Medical Center. Born in Blue Island, IL., he was a son of JoAnn Terry Morris and the late Bill Thomas Morris. He was employed by Greenwood Mills, Mathews Plant and was of the Pentecostal faith. Surviving in addition to his mother of the...

Jeffrie Thomas Hicks

Jeffrie Thomas Hicks

Sep 2, 2018

Jeffrie Thomas Hicks, 55, of Callison Highway, Greenwood, died Sunday, September 2, 2018. Born in West Virginia, he was the son of the late Jackie Thomas Hicks and Dreama Stepp Hicks. Jeffrie was loving father and friend. He was a welder at Hicks Machine Works and a Mason. Jeffrie was a member of Augusta Highway Baptist Church. Surviving are his...

John Wesley Dixon

John Wesley Dixon

Sep 1, 2018

John Wesley Dixon, 96, of 215 Crestmont Drive, Greenwood, widower of Nellie L. Gooch Dixon, died Saturday, September 1, 2018 at his home. Born in Elbert County, GA, he was a son of the late John Henry Dixon and Elizabeth Drucie Dixon. John was a U. S. Army veteran having served during WWII and retired from Greenwood Mills. He was...

Jack Burnette

Jack Burnette

Aug 28, 2018

Jack Monroe Burnette, 86, of Greenwood, widower of Mary Louise Willis Burnette, died Tuesday, August 28, 2018 at Self Regional Medical Center. Born in Everett City, GA, he was a son of the late Raymond Benjamin George and Helen Viola Smith Burnette. Jack was a U. S. Navy veteran of the Korean War and was formerly employed with Parke Davis...

Billye Jackson

Billye Jackson

Aug 25, 2018

Billye G. Wright Jackson, 91 years old, passed away at Hospice House in Greenwood, SC, on Saturday August 25, 2018. Born in Crockett County, TN she is the daughter of the late James Gordon Green and Ruby Bell Green. Her love was family, reading, crosswords & crocheting. Her path in life took her first to Nashville, TN where she attended...

Nira Miles

Nira Miles

Aug 24, 2018

Nira Weeks Miles, 82, of 312 Briarwood Road, widow of James Keith Miles, passed away Friday, August 24, 2018 at Self Regional Medical Center. Born in Greenwood, she was a daughter of the late John Allen and Maggie Walker Weeks. She retired from Abney Mill and attended Fountain of Life Worship Center. Surviving are her children, Sherry Trail (Johnny) of...

Linda Cartwright

Linda Cartwright

Aug 24, 2018

Linda Kay Hilton Cartwright, 66, of Ninety Six, passed away Friday, August 24, 2018 at Self Regional Medical Center. Born in Charlotte, NC, she was a daughter of the late William Boyd Hilton, Sr. and Kathleen Chastain Hilton. She attended Siloam Baptist Church. Surviving are her children, Chad Ellison, Sr. of Ninety Six, Justin Cartwright of St. Augustine, FL., and...

William "Bill" Sowell

William "Bill" Sowell

Aug 24, 2018

William "Bill" LeHugh Sowell, 82, of 2205 Woodlawn Road, husband of Willie Adams Sowell, passed away Friday, August 24, 2018 at HospiceCare of the Piedmont. Born in Lancaster, he was a son of the late Troy Lee Sowell, Sr. and Daisy Scott Sowell. He was the owner and operator of Bill Sowell Electric and was a US Veteran of the...

Alyson Johnson

Alyson Johnson

Aug 19, 2018

Frances Alyson Shaw Bodie Johnson, 42, of 613 Barton Road, Centreville, AL, passed away August 19, 2018. Born in Greenwood, she was a daughter of Howard Michael Shaw and Beverly Allison Worthington. She received a degree in Early Childhood Development from Shelton State Community College and was self-employed as a caregiver. She was a member of Emerald Baptist Church in...

Alysha Joy Anderson

Alysha Joy Anderson

Aug 18, 2018

Alysha Joy Anderson, 37, of 108 Hickory Lane, Ninety Six, passed away Saturday, August 18, 2018 at her sister's home. Born in Greenwood, she was a daughter of Doyle "Andy" Q. and Louise Bleckley Anderson. She received her Bachelor of Science in Christian Education from Lee University and was employed by the Hope Center for Children as a Family Specialist...

Shawn Sadler

Shawn Sadler

Aug 17, 2018

Shawn Douglas Sadler, 27, of 208 Farmer Street, Anderson, passed away Friday, August 17, 2018 at his home. Born in Winston Salem, NC, he was the son of Johanna Sadler and Shawn Price. He was formerly employed by Lloyds Roofing and was of the Baptist faith. Shawn was a loving and caring father, who always enjoyed spending time with his...

Wendy Smith

Wendy Smith

Aug 16, 2018

Wendy Kennedy Smith, 47, of 406 Clemson Street, Laurens, wife of James Wesley Smith died Thursday, August 16, 2018 at Laurens County Memorial Hospital. Born in Greenwood, she was a daughter of Danny Robert Kennedy, Sr. and Donnis Underwood Kennedy. Wendy was a loving wife and mother. She was preceded in death by a son, Christian Smith. Surviving in addition...

Ruby Karner

Ruby Karner

Aug 14, 2018

Ruby R. Karner, 95, of 131 Champion Green, Greenwood, widow of Raymond Karner, died Tuesday, August 14, 2018 at Morningside Assisted Living of Greenwood. Born in Village of Bloomingdale, IL, she was a daughter of the late Ferdinand and Violet Ingrish Raap. Ruby was a former Village Clerk, a school secretary and the owner of Silver Lining in Roselle, IL....

Martha Timmerman

Martha Timmerman

Aug 13, 2018

Martha Eutolia "Mot" Timmerman, 90, formerly of 1140 Edgefield Street, died Monday, August 13, 2018 at Southern Oaks Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center, Piedmont. Born in Edgefield, she was a daughter of the late Jim Ed and Nora Harling Timmerman. She was the former co-owner of Greenwood Flower Shop and was a member of Mountain Creek Baptist Church. She was preceded...

Christopher Bryan

Christopher Bryan

Aug 12, 2018

Mark Christopher Bryan, 34, of 3519 Highway 25 South, passed away Sunday, August 12, 2018 at his home. Born in Greenwood, he was the son of Heidi Faulkner Bowen and Mark Andrew Bryan. Surviving in addition to his mother and stepfather, Roy Bowen, of Greenwood and his father of Augusta, GA, is his sister, Kayla Bowen of Simpsonville. Services will...

William "Bill" Brown

William "Bill" Brown

Aug 9, 2018

William "Bill" Howard Brown, 91, resident of Wesley Commons, widower of Agnes Mumley Brown, passed away Thursday, August 9, 2018. Born in Middletown, PA., he was a son of the late Otis James and Lelia Mae Covey Brown. He was retired from B.P. Oil in Pennsylvania and was a veteran in the US Army during WWII. Mr. Brown was a...

David Kelley

David Kelley

Aug 9, 2018

David Alonso Kelley, Jr., 83, of 220 Georgia Avenue, widower of Louise Voiselle Kelley, died August 9, 2018 at Self Regional Medical Center. Born on September 21, 1934 in Augusta, GA he was a son of the late David Alonso Kelley, Sr. and Roseva Altman Kelley. David retired from Cooper Power and was a founding member of Coronaca Fire Department....

Gean Sheets

Gean Sheets

Aug 8, 2018

Carolyn Gean Kinkaid Sheets, 75, of Greenwood, SC, widow of Stephen Larry Sheets, passed away Wednesday, August 8, 2018 at Fairmont Regional Medical Center. Born in Morgantown, WV, she was a daughter of the late Kenneth and Mabel Rosellen West Kinkaid. She was a Registered Nurse at Fairmont General Hospital, where she received all of her nursing education and training....

Donnie Parris

Donnie Parris

Aug 7, 2018

Donnie Allen Parris, 47, of 267 Highway 702, Saluda, passed away Tuesday, August 7, 2018 at Spartanburg Hospital for Restorative Care. Born in Greenwood, he was a son of Edward "Eddie" Allen and Shelvie Butler Parris. He was a 1989 graduate of Ninety Six High School and received his HVAC and Auto Tech degrees from Piedmont Technical College. He was...