OBITUARIES
Local Obituaries - Georgetown, Andrews, and the Surrounding Areas
Tabitha Marie Hanna
Dec 20, 2012
Georgetown: Tabitha "Tabby" Marie Hanna, 25, died Thursday, December 20, 2012, at her residence. Ms. Hanna was born in Georgetown on February 24, 1987, a daughter of Robin R. Lambert and the late James "Jim" Montgomery Hanna. She lived all her life in Georgetown and attended Georgetown High School. Ms. Hanna was a loving companion and mother and loved helping...
Vivian Jeanette Arsenault Parker
Dec 19, 2012
Funeral Home: Georgetown Chapel of Mayer Funeral Home 222 Saint James Street Georgetown, SC US 29440
Creola Strong Foster
Dec 15, 2012
Andrews: Creola Strong Foster, 91, widow of Walter "John" Leroy Foster, died Saturday, December 15, 2012, at Georgetown Memorial Hospital in Georgetown. Mrs. Foster was born in Andrews on July 31, 1921, a daughter of the late Ernest Strong and Lottie A. Morris Strong. She grew up in Andrews and graduated from Andrews High School. Mrs. Foster was a retired...
Gene Mccoy Prosser
Dec 14, 2012
Georgetown: Gene McCoy Prosser, 73, died Friday, December 14, 2012 at Tidelands Community Hospice House. Mr. Prosser was born in Florence on May 26, 1939, a son of the late Allard McCoy Prosser and Amanda Magnolia Powell Prosser. He was educated in Georgetown County Public Schools and was a member of Georgetown Pentecostal Holiness Church, where he was active in...
Bernice Wilson Johnson Wilkinson
Dec 13, 2012
Georgetown: Bernice Wilkinson, 91, died December 13, 2012, at her home. Mrs. Wilkinson was born in Murrells Inlet, a daughter of the late Herman Kelner Wilson and Frances Vereen Wilson. She was a member of First Baptist Church. Survivors include: her daughter, Anne Forbes of Georgetown; a son, Chris Johnson (Susie) of Georgetown; three grandchildren, Brooke Sigmon (Bernie), Greg Cameron,...
Alyce Valaer Wood
Dec 11, 2012
Greenville: Alyce Valaer Wood, wife of John Beale Wood, Sr., died Tuesday, November 11, 2012. Born in Atlanta, Ga., she was a daughter of the late Paul V. Valaer and Lanius Massey Valaer. Alyce was a homemaker and enjoyed playing golf, tennis and bridge. She attended Guilford College and was a member of Christ the King, Waccamaw in Pawleys Island....
John Earl Goodwin, Jr.
Dec 11, 2012
Georgetown: John "Earl" Goodwin, Jr., 80, died Tuesday, December 11, 2012, at MUSC Hospital in Charleston. Mr. Goodwin was born in Fork on October 28, 1932, a son of the late John "Sam" Earl Goodwin and Nellie McKenzie Goodwin. He lived most of his life in Georgetown and served in the Georgetown Army National Guard. Mr. Goodwin was a former...
Catherine Elizabeth Thomas
Dec 9, 2012
Murrells Inlet: Catherine E. Thomas, 90, died Sunday, December 9, 2012, at Agape Senior Garden City. Catherine was born in Union on June 24, 1922, a daughter of the late Rosco Thomas and Mellie C. Sullivan Thomas. She lived in Spartanburg for many years prior to moving to Pawleys Island and later to Murrells Inlet. She was a retired employee...
Mary Sue Burroughs Skipper
Dec 6, 2012
Andrews: Mary Sue Burroughs Skipper, 77, widow of William Leslie Skipper, Jr., died Thursday, December 6, 2012, at Tidelands Community Hospice House in Georgetown. Mrs. Skipper was born in Andrews on September 28, 1935, a daughter of the late William Rogers Burroughs and Maggie Ola Hughes Burroughs. She lived all of her life in the Andrews area and was a...
Caroel Ann White Nowak
Nov 24, 2012
Andrews: Caroel Ann White-Nowak died peacefully on Saturday morning, November 24, 2012, at Georgetown Memorial Hospital. Caroel was born in Miami, Fla. on February 3, 1937. Her family moved from Miami to Andrews in the late 1930s when her father found work at the Kraft Paper Mill in Georgetown. The White family lived in the house located on highway 41...
Julius Elmore Cameron, Jr.
Nov 18, 2012
Pawleys Island: Julius Elmore Cameron, Jr., 80, widower of Anne Skinner Cameron, died Sunday, November 18, 2012, at Waccamaw Community Hospital in Murrells Inlet. Mr. Cameron was born in Marion on June 25, 1932, a son of the late Julius Elmore Cameron, Sr. and Tommie Belle Godbold Cameron. He grew up in Georgetown and graduated from Winyah High School and...
James Dalvin Avant, Sr.
Nov 18, 2012
Georgetown: Dalvin Avant, 94, passed away on Sunday, November 18, 2012, at Georgetown Memorial Hospital. Mr. Avant was born March 31, 1918, in Georgetown County, a son of the late Landy Wood Avant, Sr. and Mary Ella Grier Avant. He grew up in Georgetown, and graduated from Winyah High School. After serving in the Navy prior to World War II,...
Ivan Earl Parsons
Nov 15, 2012
Georgetown: Ivan Earl "Big Daddy" Parsons, Sr., 85, widower of Barbara Gaultney Parsons, died Friday, November 15, 2012, at Prince George Healthcare Center. Mr. Parsons was born on October 13, 1927 in Andrews, a son of the late Clifford Delmaine Parsons and Lucile Nona McConnell Parsons. He grew up in Georgetown and attended Winyah High School. Mr. Parsons served in...
Edythe Lang Myers
Nov 15, 2012
Pawleys Island: Edythe Lang Myers, 92, died Thursday, November 15, 2012, at Tidelands Community Hospice House in Georgetown. Mrs. Myers was the daughter of the late Carrie Austin Lang and Noah "Capt. Buck" Lang. She was a member of St. Paul's Waccamaw United Methodist Church and had served as a member of the altar guild and the United Methodist Women....
Edith Ann Smith Duffy
Nov 9, 2012
Georgetown: Edith "Edie" Ann Smith Duffy, 64, died Friday, November 9, 2012, at Tidelands Community Hospice House. Ms. Duffy was born in Clarinda, Iowa on February 26, 1948, a daughter of Edith Sheaffer Smith and the late Eugene F. Smith. She grew up in Munhall, Pa. and graduated from Villa Maria College with a B.S. degree in nursing. Ms. Duffy...
Beatrice Berest Gershman
Nov 9, 2012
Georgetown: Beatrice "Bea" Berest Gershman, 89, died November 9, 2012, in Riviera Maya, Mexico while on vacation. Mrs. Gershman was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. and grew up in Queens, N.Y., where she met her husband, Sheldon H. Gershman. She graduated from Franklin K. Lane High School in N.Y. and lived abroad for many years. Mrs. Gershman moved to Georgetown in...
Frances Schultz Ward Goldstein
Oct 31, 2012
Inman: Frances Ward Goldstein, 91, beloved wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and friend went home to be with the Lord on October 31, 2012. She had been a resident of Rosecrest Lutheran Home in Inman during the last year and a half of her life and at Sunrise Home in Charlotte, NC before that for several years to be close to...
Charles Edward Casselman
Oct 26, 2012
Andrews: Charles Edward Casselman, 59, died Friday, October 26, 2012 in an automobile accident on Old River Rd. in Florence County near Kingsburg. Mr. Casselman was born in Georgetown on September 25, 1953, a son of Vincent Kirton Casselman and the late Charlie Frasier Casselman. He lived all his life in Andrews and served in the U. S. Army and...
Winnie Haselden Harris
Oct 25, 2012
SAVANNAH, GA Winnie Hampton Harris, 90, died Thursday, October 25, 2012 under the care of Odyssey Hospice in Savannah, GA. Ms. Harris was born in Georgetown County, SC on August 29, 1922, the daughter of the late William D. and Ada Belle Benton Haselden. She was a longtime member of Bible Baptist Church where she participated in the nursery department...
Roy Bell Ted Harrelson, Jr.
Oct 23, 2012
Georgetown: Roy Bell "Ted" Harrelson, Jr., 76, passed away at a local hospital Tuesday morning, October 23, 2012, due to a medical illness. Ted was a fun loving person and always enjoyed interacting with others. He loved to tell stories and always had a smile on his face. Ted will greatly be missed by his family and friends. Ted was...
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