Sara Baldwin Pitts

Dateline-Laurens, SC
Sara Baldwin Pitts

Sara Baldwin Pitts, age 93 and widow of Richard Y. Pitts died Wednesday, Nov. 23rd in the Martha Franks Baptist Retirement Center.
She was born in Laurens and was a daughter of the late Asa Avery and Martha Jane Power Baldwin.
Mrs. Pitts was a retired school teacher of 33 years, member of the First Presbyterian Church and former Sunday school teacher and member of the Bessie Todd Class. She was a member of the VFW Auxiliary; Order of the Eastern Star; past president of the Daffodil Garden Club; past president of the Young at Heart; past president of the Laurens County Retired Educators Association; member of the Friends Alike and a former member of the Laurens County Hospital Auxiliary.
Surviving are her daughter, Jane Pitts Sexton and her husband, Boyd of Piedmont; a son, Gerald Young Pitts and his wife Jymmie Nell of Greenwood; nine grandchildren and seventeen great grandchildren.
Mrs. Pitts was predeceased by a daughter, Sara Melinda Rushton; an infant grandson and was the last surviving of thirteen children.
Funeral services will be conducted Saturday, Nov. 26th at 2:00 p.m. in the Gray Funeral Home Chapel with burial in the Forest Lawn Cemetery.
The family will greet friends Saturday the hour before the service at the funeral home.
Memorials may be made to the Martha Franks Baptist Retirement Center, 1 Martha Franks Dr., Laurens, SC 29360 or the First Presbyterian Church, 400 W. Main St., Laurens SC 29360.
Condolences may be expressed to the family at www.grayfuneralhome.com
Gray Funeral Home of Laurens