OBITUARIES
Local Obituaries - Georgetown, Andrews, and the Surrounding Areas
Edith Bourne Blizzard
Feb 23, 2005
Columbia: Edith Bourne Blizzard, 83, died Wednesday, February 23, 2005 in Columbia. Mrs. Blizzard was born November 10, 1921 in Hartsville, S. C. She graduated from Winthrop College and Bowman Gray School of Technology. She was a laboratory technician at the Georgetown County Memorial Hospital, taught at Winyah High School, and started Georgetown Travel Agency, which she owned and operated...
Mark Allen Knutson
Feb 17, 2005
Andrews: Mark Allen Knutson, 42, died Thursday, February 17, 2005, at Georgetown Memorial Hospital in Georgetown. Mr. Knutson was born in Rockford, Ill. on April 11, 1962, a son of Dolores S. Dunn and the late Gaylon Knutson. He grew up in Florida and Illinois, graduated from Newberry College, and attended Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary in Columbia. Mr. Knutson moved...
Thomas Henry Turner
Feb 14, 2005
Morganton, N. C. Thomas Henry Turner, 48, died Monday, February 14, 2005, in Morganton. Mr. Turner was born in Kingstree on April 26, 1956, a son of the late William H. Turner, Sr. and Bernice Hardee Turner. He was an accomplished musician. Mr. Turner was a Dallas 481 ironworker and certified nuclear submarine pipe fitter. He was known for his...
Hazel Skelton Todd Grant
Feb 11, 2005
Georgetown: Hazel Skelton Todd Grant, 84, of Georgetown, died Friday, February 11, 2005, at Georgetown County Memorial Hospital. Mrs. Grant was born January 5, 1921 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, the daughter of the late Forney and Willie Skelton. She was the widow of Norris "Buddy" Todd and George Harvey Grant and moved to Georgetown in 1949. She was a founding member...
Danny Andrew Culbertson
Feb 10, 2005
Pawley's Island: Danny Andrew Culbertson, 56, died Thursday, February 10, 2005, at his residence. Mr. Culbertson was born in Greenville on July 16, 1948, a son of Carl Goodman Culbertson and Mary Aletha Poole Culbertson. He grew up in Greenville and graduated from Parker High School. Mr. Culbertson served in the Marines in Vietnam. Mr. Culbertson moved to Pawley's Island...
Theron Martin Jody Boynt
Feb 6, 2005
Aynor:<br> Theron Martin "Jody" Boynt, II, 31, died following a boating accident on Sunday, February 6, 2005.<br> Mr. Boynt was born in Georgetown on July 5, 1973, a son of Alice Neely Boynt Seward and the late William A. Boynt. He grew up and attended school in Michigan, Florida, and locally. Jody was a die-hard "Southern Boy", Dale Earnhardt, Jr....
Eleanor Fleming Davidson
Feb 5, 2005
Eldersburg, Maryland: Eleanor Fleming Davidson, 84, died Saturday, February 5, 2005, in Sykesville, Md. Mrs. Davidson was born in Laurens on December 24, 1920, a son of the late Robert Franklin Fleming and Florence Brown Fleming. She was a veteran of World War II and was a teacher and homemaker. Mrs. Davidson was the widow of A. Hawthorne Davidson. Surviving...
Carl Monroe Long
Feb 4, 2005
Georgetown: Carl Monroe Long, 92, retired Director of Operations for International Paper Company, died Feb. 4, 2005, at National Health Care of Garden City, after a brief illness. Carl was born in Crossett, Arkansas, a son of the late Riscus Shurman Long and Maude Carter Long. He graduated from Bay High in Panama City, Florida and attended the University of...
Amanda Corrine Cooper
Feb 1, 2005
Andrews: Amanda Ethridge Cooper, 93, died Tuesday, February 1, 2005, at Prince George Healthcare Center in Georgetown. Mrs. Cooper was born November 20, 1911 in the Piney Forest section of Williamsburg County, a daughter of the late William Harrison Ethridge and Sally Godwin Ethridge. Mrs. Cooper lived in the Big Dam area most of her life. She was a member...
Naomi Swails Baxley
Feb 1, 2005
Andrews: Naomi Swails Baxley, 68, died Tuesday, February 1, 2005, at her residence. Mrs. Baxley was born in Georgetown on May 30, 1936, a daughter of the late Henry Lee Swails and Bessie Evelyn Goude Swails. She was a graduate of Andrews High School and retired in 2002 from Sampit Lumber Company. Mrs. Baxley was a member of Holy Trinity...
Idell Sarrat Smiley
Jan 30, 2005
Orangeburg:<br> Idell Sarrat Smiley, 92, widow of Rev. Dr. Carlisle Smiley died Sunday, January 30, 2005.<br> Mrs. Smiley was born in Gaffney, a daughter of the late Carl Melrose Sarratt and Hortese Cunningham Sarratt. She graduated from York High School and received nurses training at Spartanburg General Hospital.<br> Surviving are: four children, Barbara Button, Dr. John Smiley, Maxie Smiley, and...
Molly Ethridge Port
Jan 30, 2005
Pawley's Island: Molly Ethridge Port, 84, died Sunday, January 30, 2005, at Georgetown Memorial Hospital. Mrs. Port was born in Andrews on November 15, 1920, a daughter of the late Sim and Ellen Ethridge. She grew up in Andrews and was a graduate of Andrews High School. Mrs. Port was a retired employee of Georgetown Memorial Hospital. She was a...
John Thomas Ozburn, Jr.
Jan 24, 2005
Andrews: John "Red" T. Ozburn, Jr., 82, died Monday, January 24, 2005, at Georgetown Memorial Hospital. Mr. Ozburn was born in Kathleen, Ga. on September 5, 1922, a son of the late John and Lettie Morgan Ozburn. He was a World War II veteran and served with Headquarters Company 1121st Engineers in the battles and campaigns of Central Europe, Normandy,...
Sandra Watson Jordan
Jan 14, 2005
Pawley's Island: Sandra Watson Jordan, 64, died Friday, January 14, 2005, at her residence. Mrs. Jordan was born in Salisbury, N. C. on December 21, 1940, a daughter of Dorothy E. Trexler Watson and the late Kermon Octavis Watson. She had been a piano teacher and was a member and pianist of North Hampton Baptist Church. Surviving are: her husband...
John K. Godwin
Jan 10, 2005
Georgetown: John K. "J. K." Godwin, Jr., 85, died Monday, January 10, 2005, at Georgetown Memorial Hospital. Mr. Godwin was born in Greeleyville on February 7, 1919, a son of the late John Kilgo Godwin and Aline Clemons Godwin. He graduated from high school in Columbia. Mr. Godwin was an avid golfer, fisherman, and hunter and retired from International Paper...
Peggy Yaun Ford
Jan 9, 2005
Georgetown: Peggy Yaun Ford, 75, died Sunday, January 9, 2005, at Georgetown Memorial Hospital. Mrs. Ford was born in Darlington on February 1, 1929, a daughter of the late Luther Bunyan Yaun and Ruth Flowers Yaun. She lived most of her life in Georgetown and was a graduate of Winyah High School and a member of Georgetown Presbyterian Church. Mrs....
Richard Tillia Morrison, Vi
Jan 7, 2005
McClellanville: Richard Tillia Morrison, VI, 69, died Friday, January 7, 2005, at the Medical University of S. C. Hospital in Charleston. Mr. Morrison was born in Charleston on October 17, 1935, a son of the late Richard Tillia Morrison, V and Pearl Bodiford Morrison. He was a graduate of McClellanville High School and attended the University of South Carolina. Mr....
Elizabeth Swails Brockington
Jan 6, 2005
Andrews: Elizabeth Swails Brockington, 87, died Thursday, January 6, 2005, at Georgetown Memorial Hospital. Mrs. Brockington was born in Andrews on August 19, 1917, a daughter of the late Arozy Washington Swails and Nina Porter Swails. She grew up in Andrews and was a graduate of Andrews High School and a beauty college. Mrs. Brockington served as a WAC in...
Richard Francis Murphy
Dec 30, 2004
Georgetown: Richard Francis Murphy died Thursday, December 30, 2004, at Waccamaw Community Hospital in Murrells Inlet. Mr. Murphy was born in Worcester, Mass. on December 26, 1923, a son of the late John Walter Murphy and Louise Gately Murphy. He grew up in Worcester and graduated from the University of South Carolina. Mr. Murphy served in the Navy during World...
Albert Harman Cole
Dec 29, 2004
Litchfield Beach: Albert Harman Cole, 86, died Wednesday, December 29, 2004, at Georgetown Memorial Hospital. Mr. Cole was born in Harmans, Md. on January 24, 1918, a son of the late Aubrey Randolph Cole and Bertha Eugenia Harman Cole. He graduated from the University of Maryland, where he was a member of the honorary agricultural fraternity. Following graduation, Mr. Cole...
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