Georgetown:
Robert Pace Schofield, Jr., age 98, died June 4, 2006, at his home, Hasty Point Plantation in Plantersville, Georgetown County.
Born October 25, 1907 in Dillon, S. C., he was the son of the late Robert Pace Schofield, Sr. and Ivey Marshall Stikeleather. He was a business person in Florence, South Carolina most of his life and engaged in numerous enterprises: hardware, electric wire, knitting, and medical care. He imported goods and distributed them around the country, traveling extensively around the world in search of honorable trade between nations.
He was a president of the Rotary Club in Florence, a founding investor of Peoples Federal Savings & Loan in Florence and Plantation Federal Financial in Pawleys Island; and he served on the board of directors of both those institutions for many years. He ran Schofield Hardware in Florence for forty years and was a founding investor in Schofield Hardware in Georgetown and in Pee Dee Hardware in Johnsonville. He also served on the board of Tara Hall.
He was married to the former Jesse Mary Finklea of Pamplico, S. C., and after her death he married Mildred Salmon McDonald. Survivors include his wife, his brother Charles Stikeleather Schofield, his daughter Harriet Ivey Schofield Bryant, his son Robert Pace Schofield III, two grandchildren Ashley Elizabeth Bryant Noojin and Robert Scott Bryant, and two great grandchildren Ivey Elizabeth Noojin and Frank Kenneth Noojin IV and several step children.
He was an elder of the Georgetown Presbyterian Church, and a memorial service will be held there on Tuesday, June 6, 2006 at eleven o'clock. The family will receive friends at the church fellowship hall following the memorial service.
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In lieu of flowers, memorials can be made to the charity of your choice.
The Georgetown Chapel of Mayer Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Funeral Home:
Georgetown Chapel of Mayer Funeral Home
222 Saint James Street
Georgetown, SC
US 29440