OBITUARIES
Local Obituaries - Georgetown, Andrews, and the Surrounding Areas
Henry Ralph Piehler
Nov 24, 2016
Pawleys Island: Henry R. Piehler, 78, died Thursday, November 24, 2016, after a long illness. Born in Elmwood Park, New Jersey, he was educated there and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he completed three degrees, culminating in a doctorate in Metallurgy in 1967. He began his career in the Metallurgy and Materials Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University...
Willard "Billy" Edelle Jacobs, Jr.
Nov 24, 2016
Georgetown: Willard "Billy" Edelle Jacobs, Jr., 70, died Thursday, November 24, 2016, at Tidelands Georgetown Memorial Hospital. Mr. Jacobs was born in Georgetown on October 8, 1946, a son of the late Willard Edelle Jacobs, Sr. and Lena Belle Sarvis Jacobs. He grew up in Georgetown and was a graduate of Georgetown High School. He was a member of First...
Thomas Clinton Myers
Nov 23, 2016
Pawleys Island: Thomas Clinton Myers, 82, died Wednesday, November 23, 2016, at his residence. Mr. Myers was born to the late Irene McCall Myers and Mac Myers in Hartwell County, Georgia on June 23, 1934. He graduated from W.L.T. High School. He served in the Air Force during the Korean War. After attending Cecil Business College, he met and married...
Robert Earl "Smicky" Hardee
Nov 16, 2016
Pawleys Island: Robert Earl "Smicky" Hardee, 75, died Wednesday, November 16, 2016 at his residence. Mr. Hardee was born on February 20, 1941, a son of the late Earl Basil Hardee and Maggie Elizabeth Kennedy Hardee. He attended Georgetown County schools and graduated from Winyah High School in 1960. Mr. Hardee took his basic training at Fort Jackson and served...
Herschall "George" Carraway
Nov 13, 2016
Georgetown; Herschall 'George" Carraway, 55, died Saturday, November 12, 2016, at his residence. Mr. Carraway was born July 7, 1961 to the late Herbert Smith Carraway and Frances Rebecca Cramer Caraway. He was a long time resident of Georgetown and had a great love for the beach. Mr. Carraway is survived by: a son, Jack Carraway and a daughter, Lindsay...
Sara Edna Bone Ray
Nov 8, 2016
Georgetown: Sara Bone Ray, 56, wife of Don M. Ray, died Tuesday, November 8, 2016, at Tideland Community Hospice House in Georgetown. Mrs. Ray was born May 15, 1960 in Georgetown, the daughter of the Norma Jean Mercer and the late Robert Jimmy Bone, Jr. She was a loving daughter, wife, mother and grandmother. In addition to her husband and...
Carlos Riscus Long
Nov 4, 2016
Georgetown: Carlos R. Long, 80, passed away Friday, November 4, 2016, at Tidelands Community Hospice in Georgetown. Mr. Long was born August 19, 1936, in Panama City, FL to the late Carl and Eva Long. The family moved to Georgetown, SC for the construction of the IP Mill and then to Springhill, LA for the construction of the IP Mill...
Caroline Croom Mueller
Oct 29, 2016
Jacksonville, Fla.: Caroline Croom Mueller, 71, died Saturday, October 29, 2016 in Jacksonville. Ms. Mueller was born in Savannah, Ga. on April 12, 1945, the daughter of the late Rev. Howard McCudden Mueller and Mary Clements Mueller. She graduated from St. Margaret's School in Tappahannock, Va. and Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Fla. Ms. Mueller received a J.D. (Juris Doctor)...
Howard John King
Oct 27, 2016
Howard John King, 92, of Surfside Beach, SC, died on October 27, 2016, at the Hospice House in Georgetown, SC. For over 30 years, he lived in Ocean Lakes in Surfside. He was born in Lake City, SC, on August 11, 1924, to the late Lily Kennedy King and late George G. King. After graduating from Lake City High School...
Norman Pate Prosser
Oct 25, 2016
Summerville: Norman Pate Prosser, 66, died suddenly in his home Tuesday, October 25, 2016. Norman was born June 29, 1950 in Johnsonville to Edith Marie Bockhardt and Pate Phillip Prosser. Baptised and confirmed in the Lutheran Church in the Maryville area of Georgetown, he spent his youth surfing at the Pawleys Island Pier. Norman was a Winyah High School Graduate,...
Richard Edward "Ricky" Redick
Oct 25, 2016
Georgetown: Richard Edward "Ricky" Redick, 54, died Tuesday, October 25, 2016, at Tidelands Community Hospice House. Mr. Redick was born in Georgetown on June 27, 1962, son of Jack Edward Redick and the late Priscilla F. Redick. He attended Andrews High School. Mr. Redick worked for Wal-Mart as an assembler for over fifteen years. He had a great love for...
Kathryn Leah Malone Thigpen
Oct 21, 2016
Murrells Inlet: Kathryn "Katy" Leah Malone Thigpen, 78, died Friday, October 21, 2016, at Waccamaw Community Hospital. Katy was born on March 23, 1938 in St. Joseph, MO a daughter of Billy and Mildred Malone. She attended Benton High School in St. Joseph. Katy spent many of her childhood years in the care of her Aunt and Uncle, Mr. and...
Basil Leon Lambert
Oct 11, 2016
Georgetown: Basil Leon Lambert, 74, husband of Elizabeth R. Lambert, died Tuesday, October 11, 2016 at Compass Post Acute Rehabilitation in Conway. Mr. Lambert was born in Georgetown on October 3, 1942, a son of the late Fields Lambert and Lena Hartley Lambert. He attended Andrews High School and was a member of the Saints Delight Pentecostal Holiness Church, where...
Herman Davies Scurry, Sr.
Oct 11, 2016
Pawleys Island: Herman Davies Scurry, Sr. 82, widower of LeVeta "Lolly" Johnston Scurry, died Monday, October 10, 2016 at Tidelands Community Hospice House. Mr. Scurry was born July 30, 1934, a son of the late Kenneth Austin Scurry, Sr. and Sarah Wilma Harrelson Scurry. He was a native and lifelong resident of Pawleys Island, where he was a member and...
Everette Eugene Wigington
Oct 10, 2016
Pawleys Island: Everete Eugene Wigington, 94, died Thursday, October 6, 2016, at The Lakes at Litchfield. No local services will be held. Funeral Home: Georgetown Chapel of Mayer Funeral Home 222 Saint James Street Georgetown, SC US 29440 Service: Georgetown Chapel of Mayer Funeral Home 222 Saint James Street Georgetown, SC US 29440
Martha Parnell Morris
Oct 4, 2016
Andrews: Martha Virginia Parnell Morris, 93, passed away Tuesday, October 4, 2016, at her residence. Mrs. Morris was born December 25, 1922, a daughter of the late Hoyt H. Parnell and Leola Coward Parnell. Mrs. Morris was born in Hemingway and graduated from Hemingway High School. She lived most of her life in the Bloomingvale community of Williamsburg County. Mrs....
William "Billy" Henry Thomas, Jr.
Sep 28, 2016
William H. (Billy) Thomas, Jr., 92, of Murrells Inlet, SC passed away in Waccamaw regional hospital on Wednesday, September 28, 2016. Billy was born in Georgetown August 3, 1924. He was the son of William Henry Thomas and Emma Beaty Thomas.. He is survived by his wife Miriam Parsons Thomas and his sons with Lora Burns Thomas, William H. Thomas,...
Betty Holtzscheiter Paschal
Sep 27, 2016
Georgetown: Betty Holtzscheiter Paschal, 90, widow of Clarence Elmo Paschal, died Monday, September 26, 2016 at The Lakes at Litchfield at Pawleys Island. Mrs. Paschal was born in Andrews on September 9, 1926, a daughter of the late Charles Leonard Holtzscheiter and Jessie Bernice Williams Holtzscheiter. She grew up in Georgetown County and was a graduate of Winyah High School....
Lucius Clifton "L.C." Sloan, Sr.
Sep 27, 2016
Georgetown: Lucius Clifton (L. C.) Sloan, Sr., 92, died Tuesday, September 27, 2016, at Tidelands Community Hospice House. Lucius Clifton Sloan, Sr., was born September 29, 1924 in Hall County Georgia, (near Gainesville) the seventh child of Jorney Cooper (J. C.) Sloan and Mary Adaline (Addie) Williams Sloan. The family lived in an area called Poplar Springs, just south of...
Jessie David Shokes
Sep 22, 2016
Jessie David Shokes, 84, of Georgetown, SC. died Thursday, September 22, 2016 at MUSC. Mr. Shokes was born in Georgetown, SC. on November 22, 1931, a son of the late Warren Jackson Shokes and Daisy Morgan Shokes. He grew up in Georgetown and graduated from Winyah High School. He was a Sgt. Major in H/H 374th in the Army until...
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