OBITUARIES

Local Obituaries - Georgetown, Andrews, and the Surrounding Areas

Louis Bryan Thompson

Louis Bryan Thompson

Nov 11, 2003

Litchfield Beach: Louis Bryan Thompson of Litchfield Beach, known from boyhood as "Bumpy," died November 11, 2003, of complications from Alzheimer's Disease. Born December 23, 1920, in Kingstree, to Claude Joseph and Lucile Bryan Thompson, he had a full, interesting life. Among the highlights: driving his father's used cars between Florida and South Carolina at the tender age of 14;...

William Edward King, Jr.

William Edward King, Jr.

Nov 11, 2003

Pawley's Island: William Edward King, Jr., 69, died Tuesday, November 11, 2003 at Waccamaw Community Hospital at Murrells Inlet. Mr. King was born in Essex, Md. on September 10, 1934, a son of the late William Edward King, Sr. and Evelyn Betz King. He moved to Pawley's Island in 1969 from Maryland. Mr. King worked for Bethlehem Steel for 17...

John Dean Morris

John Dean Morris

Nov 8, 2003

Andrews: John Dean Morris, 46, was found dead at his residence Saturday, November 8, 2003. Mr. Morris was born in Hemingway on April 17, 1957, a son of J. B. Morris and Lenora Newton Morris. He grew up in Andrews and attended Williamsburg County Schools. Mr. Morris was a carpenter. He was a member of Piney Forest Baptist Church and...

Warren Dibble Evans

Warren Dibble Evans

Nov 7, 2003

Georgetown: Warren Dibble Evans, 79, died November 7, 2003, in Georgetown Memorial Hospital. Mr. Evans was born in Sumter on November 24, 1923, a son of the late John Linwood Evans and Mildred "Nan" Boone Evans. He served in the United States Army during World War II. Mr. Evans retired from the S. C. Department of Transportation. Surviving are: his...

Roy Hilburn, Sr.

Roy Hilburn, Sr.

Nov 5, 2003

Georgetown: Roy Hilburn, Sr., 59, died Wednesday, November 5, 2003 at the Medical University of S.C. Hospital in Charleston. Mr. Hilburn was born in Whiteville, N.C. on October 23, 1944, a son of the late Ruben Hilburn and Gertie Mae Gore Hilburn. He grew up in Tabor City, N.C. and moved to Georgetown in 1962. Mr. Hilburn was the owner...

William Henry Klopfer

William Henry Klopfer

Nov 3, 2003

Pawley's Island: William Henry Klopfer, 78, died Monday, November 3, 2003, at NHC Healthcare of Garden City. Mr. Klopfer was born in Blakely, Pa. on October 27, 1925, a son of the late William Ernest Klopfer and Lillian Margaret Hofsommer Klopfer. He grew up in Archbald, Pa. and graduated from Keystone Jr. College and Bucknell University. Mr. Klopfer served in...

Clyde Jacobs Ard

Clyde Jacobs Ard

Nov 2, 2003

Georgetown: Clyde Jacobs Ard, 81, died Sunday, November 2, 2003, at Georgetown Memorial Hospital. Mrs. Ard was born in Georgetown on October 14, 1922, a daughter of the late Daniel Theodore Jacobs and Carrie Rebecca Forbes Jacobs. She attended old Oak Grove School in Georgetown County. Mrs. Ard retired in 1983 from American Tobacco Co. in Charleston. After her retirement,...

Fred William Lyon

Fred William Lyon

Oct 30, 2003

Pawley's Island: Fred W. Lyon, 78, died Thursday, October 30, 2003, at Georgetown Memorial Hospital. Mr. Lyon was born February 9, 1925, the son of the late Leland H. Lyon and Alice Hahn Lyon. He was raised in New Rochelle, N. Y. and attended New Rochelle public Schools. He received a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of...

Barbara Miller Jordan

Barbara Miller Jordan

Oct 28, 2003

Georgetown: Barbara Jean Miller Jordan, 60, died Tuesday, October 28, 2003, at Georgetown Memorial Hospital. Mrs. Jordan was born in Georgetown on October 2, 1943, a daughter of Annie Ruth Goude Miller and the late Steven Andrew Miller. She lived in Georgetown all of her life and loved her children and grandchildren. She was a member of Graves Southern Baptist...

Kathryn Bird Tims

Kathryn Bird Tims

Oct 28, 2003

Andrews: Kaye B. Tims, 54, passed away on the afternoon of Tuesday, October 28th. She was a resident of Andrews, where she taught school for 28 years, most of which were at Andrews Elementary. Kaye had been living with cancer for the past three years. She is lovingly remembered and survived by her husband of 32 years, Clark, daughter Kathryn,...

Walter Alexander Hughes

Walter Alexander Hughes

Oct 25, 2003

Pawley's Island: Walter Alexander Hughes, 80, died Saturday, October 25, 2003, at his residence. Mr. Hughes was born in Murphy, N. C. on October 26, 1922, a son of the late William Astor Hughes and Rosie Jane Hartford Hughes. He served in the Army during World War II. Mr. Hughes was a retired agent for Liberty Life Ins. Co. He...

Frank Robert Horvath

Frank Robert Horvath

Oct 23, 2003

Georgetown:<br> Frank Robert Horvath, 79, died Thursday, October 23, 2003, at the Medical University of S. C. Hospital in Charleston.<br> Mr. Horvath was born in Shelton, Conn. on October 14, 1924, a son of the late Balint Horvath and Fannie Stark Horvath. He was a graduate of George Washington University in Washington, D. C. and served in the Navy during...

Doris Dennett Brooks

Doris Dennett Brooks

Oct 16, 2003

Murrells Inlet: Doris L. Dennett Brooks, age 82, died October 16, 2003. Formerly of Danbury, Conn., she was predeceased by her husband of sixty years, Hugh P. "Bub" Brooks. Mrs. Brooks was born in Mt. Vernon, N. Y. on May 21, 1921, the daughter of the late George and Mae Doyle Dennett. Mrs. Brooks was a homemaker and self-taught artist....

Lizzie Dae Poston Ard

Lizzie Dae Poston Ard

Oct 15, 2003

Georgetown: Lizzie Dae Poston Ard, 77, died Wednesday, October 15, 2003, at Georgetown Memorial Hospital. Mrs. Ard was born in Florence on August 22, 1926, a daughter of the late William Curvin Poston and Lula Irene Harrington Poston. She grew up in Georgetown and was a former employee of the Container Division of International Paper Co. and the Lafayette Restaurant....

Marie Horton Labruce

Marie Horton Labruce

Oct 12, 2003

Georgetown: Marie Cauthen Horton LaBruce, 98, died Sunday, October 12, 2003, at Morningside Assisted Living in Georgetown, S. C. Mrs. LaBruce was born in Kershaw on May 15, 1905, the daughter of the late William Walter Horton and Nannie Cauthen Horton. She grew up in Kershaw and graduated from Limestone College. Following graduation, she taught in the Kershaw County school...

Linda Whitnauer Hewitt

Linda Whitnauer Hewitt

Oct 10, 2003

Georgetown: Linda Louise Whitnauer Hewitt, 55, died Friday, October 10, 2003, at the Medical University of South Carolina Hospital in Charleston. Mrs. Hewitt was born in Charleston on February 18, 1948, a daughter of the late John Leonard Whitnauer and Retha Mae Cribb Whitnauer. She was a member of Sampit Pentecostal Holiness Church and the Adult Sunday School Class of...

Julian Alexander "Bud" Reynolds, Sr.

Julian Alexander "Bud" Reynolds, Sr.

Oct 10, 2003

Andrews: Julian Alexander "Bud" Reynolds, Sr., 88, died Friday, October 10, 2003, in Georgetown Memorial Hospital. Mr. Reynolds was born in Bishopville on January 31, 1915, a son of the late Purley Houston Reynolds and Lou Alexander Reynolds. He attended Clemson College and the University of South Carolina School of Pharmacy. Mr. Reynolds was the former owner of Reynolds Drug...

Olin Godwin

Olin Godwin

Oct 4, 2003

Andrews: Olin Godwin, 75, died Saturday, October 4, 2003 at Georgetown Memorial Hospital. Mr. Godwin was born in the Big Dam Community of Georgetown Co. near Andrews on September 27, 1928, a son of the late George Duffie Godwin and Ethel Cox Godwin. He was a loving father and grandfather. Mr. Godwin retired in 1985 after thirty-seven years employment with...

Geneva Farris Williams

Geneva Farris Williams

Oct 1, 2003

Houston, Tex: Geneva Margarette Farris Williams, 87, went to be with our Lord on Wednesday, October 1, 2003. She was preceded in death by: her father, Dr. Hugh A. Farris; mother, Emma Birdie Richardson Farris; husband, Herman C. Williams, Sr.; and five brothers, Bethel, Charlie, Amos, Albert, and Chester. She is survived by: her children, Herman C. Williams, Jr. of...

John Francis Doerr

John Francis Doerr

Oct 1, 2003

Pawley's Island: John Francis Doerr, 58, died Wednesday, October 1, 2003, in Calvert County, Maryland. Mr. Doerr was born in St. Louis, Mo. on February 11, 1945, a son of the late George William Doerr and Melba Gertrude Hackett Doerr. He moved to Pawley's Island from Florida in 1980 and was the owner of Doerr Construction Company. Mr. Doerr was...

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