Obituaries

Local Obituaries for Gray Funeral Home Located in Laurens, Clinton, and Whitmire, SC

Marie Weir Bigbee

Marie Weir Bigbee

Mar 9, 2007

Dateline- Clinton, SC Marie Weir Bigbee, age 86, of 304 Jacobs Hwy. died Friday, March 9, 2007 in the NHC of Clinton. She was born in Spartanburg County and was the daughter of the late Franklin and Effie Annie Mae Smith Weir. Mrs. Bigbee was a member of the Clinton Mill Business Women’s Club and the Broad St. United Methodist...

Betty Nelson Ammons

Betty Nelson Ammons

Mar 8, 2007

Betty Nelson Ammons, age 70, of Whitmire passed away on Thursday, March 8, 2007 at Greenville Memorial Hospital. She was the daughter of the late Robert A. and Annie Wilson Nelson of Whitmire. She retired from the Torrington Company in Clinton. She was a member of Friendship Baptist Church in Whitmire. Surviving is her husband of 52 years, Jack M....

Keldon Landers Long

Keldon Landers Long

Mar 8, 2007

Keldon Landers Long, age 3 weeks, of 453 Bar-B-Villa Road, died Thursday, March 8th at his home. He was born in Clinton and was the son of James William Long, Jr. and Sherry Nicole Long. He is survived by his maternal grandparents, Darlene and Sherman Landers of Clinton; paternal grandparents, James Sr. and Sherry Long of Clinton; great-grandmothers, Lydia Holmes...

John Curtis Davis

John Curtis Davis

Mar 3, 2007

John Curtis Davis, age 84 died Saturday, March 3rd at the Richard M. Campbell Veterans Nursing Home in Anderson where he had lived the past two years. He was born in Cross Hill on June 15, 1922, and was the last of eight children of the late Wallace Sherman Davis and Annie Belle Reeder Davis. He was predeceased by his...

Betty Lou Brewington

Betty Lou Brewington

Mar 2, 2007

Betty Lou Brewington, age 71 of 1014 Sloan St. and widow of John Brewington, died Friday, March 2nd in the Greenville Memorial Hospital. She was born in Laurens County and was a daughter of the late Martin and Annie B. Woody Miliam. Mrs. Brewington retired from Clinton Mills but continued to work as a nurse’s aide at Frampton Hall and...

William "Dub" Eustace, Sr.

William "Dub" Eustace, Sr.

Mar 1, 2007

William “Dub” Eustace, Sr., age 72 of 307 Davis Street, died Thursday, March 1st in the Self Regional Medical Center. He was born in Laurens County and was the son of the late Joseph and Lela Nix Eustace. Mr. Eustace was retired from Greenwood Mills, attended Calvary Baptist Church and was a US Army veteran of the Korean War. He...

Franklin A. (F A) Duncan

Franklin A. (F A) Duncan

Feb 27, 2007

Dateline-Clinton, SC Franklin A. (F A) Duncan, a long time resident of Clinton, SC, passed February 27, 2007 at Auburn Regional Medical Center in Auburn, Washington. He was born in Madison County, Georgia, July 22, 1923, he was the son of Clarence Wade Duncan and Eva Lee Brooks Duncan. He is survived by his wife of 64 years, Hazel McKenzie...

Gladys Rucker Griffin

Gladys Rucker Griffin

Feb 23, 2007

Gladys Rucker Griffin, age 83, formerly of Greenwood, SC, died Friday, Feb. 23, 2007, in the NHC of Clinton. She was born in Wilkes County, GA and was the daughter of the late Charlie and Ethel Rousey Rucker. Mrs. Griffin was a retired employee of Greenwood Mills. She was the last surviving member of her immediate family. Mrs. Griffin is...

Winford Fearl Fulton

Winford Fearl Fulton

Feb 20, 2007

Winford Fearl Fulton, age 75, of 209 Kennedy Rd. died Tuesday, February 21st at his home. He was born in Quitman, Arkansas and was a son of the late Albert Fee and Dotcie Presley Fulton. Mr. Fulton was a former employee with I.H. Services in Greenville, a member of Community Chapel Freewill Baptist Church in Hickory Tavern and was a...

Mary James Maness

Mary James Maness

Feb 19, 2007

Mary James Maness, age 82, of 206 Inland Dr, Kokomo, IN, formerly of Whitmire, SC, died Monday, Feb, 19,2007 in Lake Placid, FL. She was preceded in death by her husband, Ernest Tee Maness. She is survived by a daughter, Zella (Charles) Quinn and a son, Ernie (Joyce) Maness; four grandchildren, Dusty (Ron) Coleman, Candy (Scott) DeLong, Charlie Quinn &...

Mamie Lee Wright Babb

Mamie Lee Wright Babb

Feb 17, 2007

Mamie Lee Wright Babb, age 100 of 230 Roper Mountain Rd. and widow of Samuel Pryor Babb, died Saturday, Feb 17th at her home. She was born Oct. 10, 1906 in Clinton SC and was a daughter of the late James Lee and Bertha Beatrice Templeton Wright. She was a granddaughter of the late R.Z. Wright and Mary Cantey Villeponteux...

Jackie H. Turner

Jackie H. Turner

Feb 17, 2007

Jackie H. Turner, age 70 of 291 Smithville Rd. died Saturday, February 17th at the Laurens County Hospital. She was born in Woodruff, SC and was a daughter of the late C.B. and Ruby Braswell Hembree. Mrs. Turner was retired and of the Baptist Faith. Surviving are her husband, Sam W. Turner, Sr. of the home; one son, Sam W....

James Templeton Addison, Jr.

James Templeton Addison, Jr.

Feb 16, 2007

James Templeton Addison, Jr., age 62 of 500 Chestnut St. died Friday, Feb. 16th at Providence Hospital in Columbia, SC. He was born in Clinton and was a son of the late James T. Addison, Sr. and Sadie Chandler Addison. Mr. Addison was a graduate of Clinton High School and Clemson University. He was self employed and was a cattle...

Robert Joseph Grube, Sr.

Robert Joseph Grube, Sr.

Feb 13, 2007

Dateline-Clinton, SC Dr. Robert Joseph Grube, 79, of 305 Edenburgh Circle, passed away on Tuesday, February 13, 2007. Born in St. Augustine, Florida, he was the son of Alice Louise Johnson and James Harry Grube. He grew up at the Thornwell Home in Clinton, S.C. After serving in the U.S. Navy, he graduated from Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina...

Alma Louise Longshore Rowe

Alma Louise Longshore Rowe

Feb 13, 2007

Dateline-Clinton, SC Alma Louise Longshore Rowe, age 69 of 217 Edgewood Dr. died Tuesday, Feb. 13th in the Self Regional Medical Center in Greenwood. She was born in Joanna, SC and was the daughter of the late Edward and Daisy Lee Dees Jones. Mrs. Rowe was a former school bus driver in while living in MA, worked at Presbyterian Home...

Steve Lanford

Steve Lanford

Feb 13, 2007

Dateline-Mountville, SC Steve Lanford, age 58 of 1838 Beaverdam Church Rd., died Tuesday, Feb. 13th in the St. Francis Hospital in Greenville. He was born in Clinton and was a son of the late Harry M. and Dorothy Kelley Lanford. He was a graduate of the University of South Carolina; a member and deacon of Beaverdam Baptist Church, an employee...

Marie Iusti Taylor

Marie Iusti Taylor

Feb 13, 2007

Dateline- Greenwood, S.C. Marie Iusti Taylor, age 78, of 117 Patrick Road died Tuesday, February 13, 2007 in the Hospice House in Greenwood. She was born in Laurens County and was the daughter of the late John Thomas and Maude Haupfear Iusti. Mrs. Taylor was a retired employee of Lydia Mill and was a member of the First Baptist Church...

Lougenia Sims Mccarley

Lougenia Sims Mccarley

Feb 12, 2007

Dateline-Whitmire, SC Lougenia Sims McCarley, age 91 of 255 Horseshoe Circle died Monday, Feb. 12th at her home. She was born in Pageland, SC and was a daughter of the late Otis and Martha Privette Martin. Mrs. McCarley retired from J. P. Stevens, Whitmire Plant and was of the Methodist Faith. Surviving are three daughters, Linda Hurt of West Columbia,...

Edna Hamm Brown

Edna Hamm Brown

Feb 9, 2007

Edna Hamm Brown, age 89, of 606 North Main Street, died Friday, February 9th in the Bamburg County Nursing Home. She was born in Goldville, SC and was the daughter of the late James Edward and Marion Bullard Hamm. Mrs. Brown retired from Whitten Center and worked thirty years at Joanna Mills. She was a member of the First Baptist...

Inez Young Ledford

Inez Young Ledford

Feb 9, 2007

Dateline- Clinton, S.C. Inez Young Ledford, 85, widow of Leonard Hubert Ledford, Jr. passed away peacefully on Friday, February 9, 2007, at the Presbyterian Home in Clinton. She was born in Clinton on April 9, 1912 to John Thomas Young and Inez Lee Motz McCraw. Mrs. Ledford was a graduate of Clinton High School and Lander College. She was a...