Obituaries
Local Obituaries for Gray Funeral Home Located in Laurens, Clinton, and Whitmire, SC
Ben E. Norman
Jan 1, 2012
Dateline-Hickory Tavern, SC Ben E. Norman age 81, died Sunday, January 1, 2012 at the Laurens County Hospital. He was born in Shelby, NC and was a son of the late John and Clara Beam Norman. Mr. Norman was a retired Rhodes Furniture Store Manager. Prior to his illness he was a member of the Green Pond United Methodist Church...
Keith Prather
Dec 27, 2011
Dateline-Waterloo, SC Keith Prather, age 40 of 152 Story Book Drive, died Tuesday, December 27, 2011 at his home. He was born in Union and was a son of Mitchel and Judy Lawson Prather of Mountville. He was disabled from Torrington Bearing Company. Surviving are his wife, Candace Prather of the home, one son, Brandon Prather of the home, one...
Celesten (Leck) S. Davis
Dec 18, 2011
Dateline- Whitmire, SC Celesten (Leck) S. Davis, age 90, of 903 Central Ave. died Sunday, December 18, 2011 in the Newberry Memorial Hospital. She was born in Whitmire and was the daughter of the late Eddie C. and Sallie Hendrix Stroud. Mrs. Davis was predeceased by two husbands, James Bostic and Earl Davis; a daughter Karen Gregory and two brothers...
Franklin Junior O'Shields
Dec 18, 2011
Dateline-Clinton, SC Franklin Junior O’Shields age 69, of 304 Jacobs Highway, died Sunday, December 18, 2011 in the Laurens County Hospital. He was born in Laurens and was the son of the late Claude F. and Connie Dunaway O’Shields. Mr. O’Shields was a retired employee of Byars Machine Shop. He is survived by a son, Chris O’Shields of Clinton; two...
Alsie Wilkie Woody
Dec 18, 2011
Dateline-Clinton, SC Alsie Wilkie Woody age 84, of 746 Milam Rd. died Sunday, December 18, 2011 at the Hospice of Laurens County Hospice House. She was born in Gaffney and was a daughter of the late Roland “Crip” and Evelyn Lewis Wilkie. Surviving are her husband, James H. Woody; one son, James R. Woody and wife, Mitzi; one daughter, Jamie...
Bob Harvey
Dec 17, 2011
Dateline-Greer, SC Bob Harvey, age 52 of 354 Riverside Chase Circle died Saturday, December 17, 2011 at the McCall Hospice House in Simpsonville. He was born in Dayton, Ohio and was a son of the late Jessie F. and Katherine Campbell Harvey. Mr. Harvey was an over the road truck driver and a US Navy veteran. He volunteered for service...
Thomas "Big Daddy" Little
Dec 15, 2011
Thomas “Big Daddy” Walton Little Thomas “Big Daddy” Walton Little age 75 of 584 Puckett Ferry Road, died Thursday, December 15, 2011 at his home. He was born in Hart County, Georgia and was a son of the late Thomas Eugene and Robbie Elizabeth Walters Little. He worked for Bagwell Contractors and was a member of the Sons of the...
James (Jimmy) R. Wooten
Dec 13, 2011
Dateline-Laurens, SC James (Jimmy) R. Wooten, age 75 of 917 Fleming Street, died Tuesday, December 13, 2011 at the Hospice House of Laurens County. He was born in Clinton and was a son of Grace James Wooten of Clinton and the late Cecil Wooten. He was a former employee of Clinton Mills and a US Army Veteran. Surviving are his...
James Paul "Motsie" Motes, Jr.
Dec 11, 2011
Dateline-Newberry, SC James Paul “Motsie” Motes, Jr. James Paul “Motsie” Motes, Jr. age 59, of 1283 Saluda River Road, died Sunday, December 11, 2011 in the Greenville Memorial Hospital. He was born in Laurens County and was the son of Nellie Gray King Motes of Clinton and the late James Paul Motes, Sr. Mr. Motes was retired from Whitten Center....
Susan Barlow
Dec 4, 2011
Dateline- Laurens, S.C. Susan Barlow, age 45, of 325 Conway Ave died Sunday, December 4, 2011 in the Greenville Memorial Hospital. She was born in Fayetteville, NC and was the daughter of the late Robert Edward and Shirley Miles Barnett. Mrs. Barlow was a member of the Pentecostals of Spartanburg. She is survived by her husband, Mark Barlow of the...
Betty Parrish Wells
Dec 4, 2011
Dateline-Clinton, SC Betty Parrish Wells, age 73 of 204 Shands Street, died Sunday, Dec. 4, 2011 in the N. H. C. of Laurens. She was born in Clinton and was a daughter of the late Guy Chester Parrish, Sr. and Loduska Shelton Parrish. She was retired from Whitten Center and was a member of Lydia Baptist Church. Surviving are her...
Burrell Lusha Wood Iii
Dec 4, 2011
Dateline-Clinton, SC Burrell Lusha Wood, III, age 67 of Whitten Center, died Sunday, December 4, 2011. He was born in Clinton and was a son of Bessie Fortner Wood of Charlotte, NC. and the late Burrell Lusha Wood, Jr. Surviving are a brother, Jerry Allan Wood of Sautee-Nacoochee, GA, three sisters, Julie Wood Harbin of Myrtle Beach, Vicki Wood D'Palma...
Ret. Lt. Col. William Cody Owens, Sr.
Dec 4, 2011
Dateline-Whitmire, SC Ret. Lt. Col. William Cody Owens, Sr., age 93, predeceased by his wife, Mary Emma Owens, died Dec. 4, 2011. Cody was born July 19, 1918. Cody is survived by two children, Cody Owens Jr. and his wife, Nina of Greenville and Jody Garmon and her husband ,Blane of Pomaria, four grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. Cody was a...
Alfred C. Williams
Dec 3, 2011
Dateline-Laurens, SC Alfred C. Williams, age 61 of 731 Walker Rd., Ware Shoals, died Saturday, Dec. 3, 2011 at his home. He was born in Greenville and was a son of Marion Lee Williams of Greer and the late Walter Clyde Williams. He was an employee of Pelham Precision Spring Co. He is survived by his wife, Sherry Williams of...
Margaret Eason Huneycutt
Dec 3, 2011
Dateline-Whitmire, SC Margaret Eason Huneycutt, age 93 formerly of 299 Colonial Drive and widow of Charles Luther Huneycutt died Saturday, December 3, 2011 at the J.F. Hawkins Nursing Home in Newberry. She was born in St. Clair County, AL and was a daughter of the late James Thomas Eason, Sr. and the late Addie Combs Eason. Mrs. Huneycutt was retired...
G. Richard Johnson
Nov 28, 2011
Dateline-Kinards, SC G. Richard Johnson, age 71 of 929 Fairview Church Road has run his last race and crossed the finish line into the arms of Jesus. He was born in Kinards , December 23, 1939 and was a son of the late James Earl and Myrtle Llewellyn Johnson. He worked for Flour Daniel and in 1980 opened and operated...
James Ted Mills
Nov 23, 2011
Dateline-Clinton, SC James Theodore “Ted” Mills Ted Mills, age 70, died Wednesday, November 23,2011 at Laurens County Hospital after a year’s valiant battle with lung disease. Ted was born in Ellenboro, N.C., on February 12, 1941, to Samuel and Lorena Mills and grew up in Shelby N.C. After graduating from N.C. State and serving in the U. S. Army, Ted...
Mildred Jones Davis
Nov 20, 2011
Dateline-Laurens, SC Mildred Jones Davis went to be with her Lord and Savior Sunday, November 20, 2011 at the age of 91 at the Laurens County Hospital. She was born in Clinton on September 3, 1920. During her life she worked in Tennessee on the “Manhattan Project”, Clinton Mill, Anderson Hosiery Plant, The Clinton Café, several other restaurants, her most...
James "Roger" Wood
Nov 20, 2011
James “Roger” Wood, age 64 of 76 Wayne’s Trail died Sunday, November 20, 2011 at his home. He was born in Laurens County and was a son of the late James Clarence Wood and Violet Foster Wood Bagwell and his step-father, Fred Bagwell. Mr. Wood was retired from Clinton Newberry Natural Gas and a veteran of the South Carolina National...
Betty Jean Starnes Pearson
Nov 17, 2011
Dateline-Gray Court, SC Betty Jean Pearson, age 64 of 511 Curry Lake Rd., died Thursday, November 17, 2011 at her home. She was born in Laurens, SC and was a daughter of the late Claude and Ruby DeKetler Starnes. She was a home maker and member of the Eastern Star, Mary Pinckney Ouzts Chapter. Surviving are two sons, Billy Joe...
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