Obituaries
Rev. Sam Smith Jr.
Apr 26, 2012
Rev. Sam Goodman Smith, Jr., 65, of 219 Eddy Road, husband of Patricia Giles Smith, passed away on Thursday, April 26, 2012 at his home. Born in Greenwood, he was a son of the late Sam G. Smith, Sr. and Tempie Ouzts Smith. Sam was a U. S. Navy veteran and received his GED in March of 2010. He was...
Emory Robert Bentley Jr.
Apr 26, 2012
Robert Bentley, an innovative journalist whose newsroom career began with writing obituaries and concluded with this one, died April 26, 2012. Between these jobs, he was editor of six daily newspapers, a news executive on two others. The paper he led at Cape Canaveral as the nation�s youngest editor at age 29 was delivered to the moon to honor its...
Betty Powell
Apr 23, 2012
Betty Mae Powell, 83, of 110 McDowell Street, widow of James Rayford Powell, died Monday, April 23, 2012 at her home. Born in Abbeville County, she was a daughter of the late Charlie and Dollie Mae Fain Boswell. She was a beautician and was the original owner of the Merle Norman Studio in Greenwood. She was a member of Laurel...
Ronald Scott
Apr 22, 2012
Earnest Ronald Scott, 70, of 1113 Reedy Creek Road, Bradley, husband of Linda Faye Harrison Scott, died Sunday, April 22, 2012 at Hospice House. Born in Greenwood, he was a son of the late Earnest Rochelle and Venie Tomlinson Scott. He was a member of Providence Pentecostal Holiness Church and the Adult Sunday School Class. Surviving is his wife of...
Nina Harper Mathis
Apr 20, 2012
Nina Augusta Harper Mathis, 100, formerly of 213 Marshall Circle, widow of Roy Mathis, passed away on Friday, April 20, 2012 at NHC of Greenwood. Born in Salisbury, NC, she was the daughter of the late David and Jane Miller Lyerly. Nina retired from Greenwood Mills- Mathews Plant after 32 years of service and was a member of the Quarter...
Betty Leroy
Apr 16, 2012
Betty Zuela Leroy, 76, of 132 Kathwood Drive, died Monday, April 16, 2012 at Hospice House. Born in Laurens County, she was a daughter of Sarah Meeks Alverson and the late L. F. Alverson, Jr. She attended Piedmont Technical College and was a seamstress with S.T.K. Manufacturing. She was a member of St. Mark United Methodist Church, where she formerly...
Vernon L. Lawton, Sr.
Apr 14, 2012
Vernon L. Lawton, Sr., 83, formerly of 104 Smith Drive, Hodges, died Saturday, April 14, 2012 at Golden Living Center, Augusta, GA.
Joann R. Dodgen
Apr 12, 2012
Joann R. Dodgen, 79, of 602 Marshall Road, wife of Joseph Dodgen, died Thursday, April 12, 2012 at Self Regional Medical Center. Born in Greenwood, she was a daughter of the late B. O. and Mary Sue Rippy. She retired as a secretary from Connie Maxwell Children�s Home after 29 years of service and was a member of South Main...
Jewel Dean Greene
Apr 11, 2012
Jewel Dean Greene, 69, of 5341 Highway 25 South, passed away on Wednesday, April 11, 2012 at her home. Born in Summer, TN, she was the daughter of the late William Richard Johnson and Cinderella Smith Johnson. Jewel was a seamstress with Jostens and was of the Baptist and Church of God faith. Surviving are a son, James Nicks of...
Barney L. Brooks
Apr 11, 2012
Barney Lee Brooks, 81, of 2713 County Line Road, Bradley, widow of Evelyn Beulah Laughlin Brooks, died Wednesday, April 11, 2012 at Lower Cape Fear Hospice, Whiteville, NC. Born in Greenville, he was a son of the late Horace Leroy and Annie Mae Hart Brooks. He was retired from Greenwood Mills and attended Bold Spring Baptist Church. Surviving is his...
Willie Belle Smith
Apr 9, 2012
Willie Belle Smith, 89, formerly of 451 Grace Street, widow of John Smith, died Monday, April 9, 2012 at Trinity Mission Health & Rehab, Edgefield. Born in Greenwood, she was a daughter of the late Yancey Smith, Sr. and Lessie Drayton Smith. She was of the Baptist faith. She was twice married, first to the late LaFayette Logan. Surviving is...
Irene C. Devore
Apr 6, 2012
Irene Cook Culbertson Devore, 83, of 414 Lanham Street, widow of George Clayton Devore, passed away on Friday, April 6, 2012 at Hospice House. Born in Callison, she was the daughter of the late Jacob Franklin Cook and Daisy Adams Cook. Irene was a retired bookkeeper and a member of the Mary P. Ouzts Chapter # 1 of the Order...
Rufus Day
Apr 6, 2012
Rufus Day, 87, formerly of 1224 Ninety Six Highway, widow of Sarah Smith Day, passed away on Friday, April 6, 2012 at Petra Health and Rehab of McCormick. Born in Greenwood, he was the son of the late Willie and Grace Cheek Day. Rufus was a U. S. Navy Veteran of WWII. He retired from Greenwood Mills- Durst Plant where...
Rudy Richardson
Apr 2, 2012
Rudolph Carlyle Richardson, 87, of 209 River Place, McCormick, husband of Beulah Allen Richardson, died Monday, April 2, 2012 at Hospice House, Greenwood, SC. Born in Burlington, VT, he was a son of the late Ray Richardson and Alice Brown Richardson. He retired as an electrician for The State of New York and was a US Army veteran of the...
Julia Bufford
Mar 31, 2012
Julia Arnold Bufford, 95, of 305 Johnston Road, Ninety Six, widow of Marvin Harris Bufford, died Saturday, March 31, 2012 at Hospice House. Born in Elberton, GA, she was a daughter of the late David Sanders Arnold and Tolliver �Tarver� Mercer Arnold. She was retired from Greenwood Mills, Ninety Six Plant, where she was a member of the Quarter Century...
Ena H. Cobb
Mar 31, 2012
Ena Hall Cobb, 93, of 4802 Highway 178 North, widow of Walter Hampton Cobb, died Saturday, March 31, 2012 at her home. Born in Union, she was a daughter of the late Joseph Bradford and Bertha Gault Hall. She studied nursing at the Medical University of SC, Charleston and retired as a Postmaster of the US Postal Service in Hodges....
Wade C. Evans
Mar 30, 2012
Wade Clifton Evans, 85, of 407 Fawnbrook Drive, widower of Edna Bright Evans, went home to be with his Lord and Savior on Friday, March 30, 2012. Born in Anderson, he was a son of the late Mason and Annie Rumsey Evans. He retired from the US Postal Service as a mail carrier, was a US Army Air Corp veteran...
Ruby Kelly
Mar 26, 2012
Ruby McCranie Kelly, 85, widow of R. L. Kelly, died Monday, March 26, 2012 at NHC Health Care Center. Born in Eastman, GA, she was a daughter of the late Charlie and Mammie Livingston McCranie. Ruby was the owner and operator of Fashionette Beauty and was a member of Callie Self Memorial Baptist Church. Surviving is a sister, Mary Alice...
Lucille S. Bollinger
Mar 25, 2012
Lucille Stone Bollinger, 91, widow of Alex B. Bollinger, died Sunday, March 25, 2012 at Self Regional Medical Center. Born in Belton, she was a daughter of the late James Silas Stone and Cleo Rogers Stone Hammett. She was retired from the Scurry Clinic and was a member of Lowell Street United Methodist Church. Surviving is her son, Robert Bollinger...
Mary Elsie Sprouse
Mar 24, 2012
Mary Elsie Wells Sprouse, 89, of NHC of Greenwood, formerly of 617 Cedar Springs Road, Bradley, widow of Lester T. Sprouse, passed away on Saturday, March 24, 2012 at Hospice House. Born in Greenwood, she was the daughter of the late Albert Twiggs and Hilda Ouzts Wells. Mary Elsie retired from Park Davis and was a member of First Mt....
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