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

Joseph L. Baldwin Jr.

Joseph L. Baldwin Jr.

Nov 28, 2021

Rev. Joseph L. Baldwin, Jr., 77, husband of Barbara Grant Baldwin and lifelong resident of Laurens, passed away Sunday, November 28, 2021. He was a graduate of Laurens High School and Clear Creek Baptist Bible College. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps and was a proud Vietnam Veteran. He was a lifetime member of Palmetto 19 Lodge. After a...

Betty Tribble Wills

Betty Tribble Wills

Nov 27, 2021

Betty Tribble Wills, 96, died November 27, 2021 at Foothills Retirement Community in Easley, SC. Funeral services will be held on Saturday, December 4, at 12 PM at the Gray Funeral Home Chapel of Clinton with internment at Rosemont Cemetery. Betty was born In Clinton on November 17, 1925, the first child of the late Warren Blakely Tribble and Bessie...

Joseph Kain Cox

Joseph Kain Cox

Nov 24, 2021

Dateline - Simpsonville, SC Joseph Kain Cox, age 21, passed away Wednesday, November 24, 2021 at the Prisma Health - Greenville Memorial Hospital. He was born December 29, 1999 in Laurens, SC and was a son of Rosa Nina Rivera (step-father, Jason Michael Davis) and the late, Joseph Everett Cox. Kain was an amazing person that was not a stranger...

Victor "Vic" Snow

Victor "Vic" Snow

Nov 24, 2021

Victor "Vic" Ervin Snow, age 75, of Clinton, SC, husband of Kellene King Snow, passed away Wednesday, November 24, 2021, at National Health Care of Clinton. Born May 1, 1946 in Clinton, SC, he was a son of the late Buell Francis Snow, Sr. and Mary Rebecca Campbell Snow. He retired from Asten-Johnson as a weaver Instructor with 46 years...

Barry L. Cathcart

Barry L. Cathcart

Nov 23, 2021

Barry L. Cathcart, age 55, of Gray Court, husband of Rhonda Cathcart, passed away Tuesday, November 23, 2021, at Prisma Heath-Greenville Memorial Hospital. Born March 12, 1966 in Clinton, SC, he was a son of the late Jimmie Cathcart, Sr., and Moddie Dunaway Cathcart. In addition to his wife of the home, he is survived by his sons, Justin Cathcart...

Flaudine (Flo) Adams

Flaudine (Flo) Adams

Nov 21, 2021

Flaudine (Flo) Adams died peacefully at her home in Clinton, SC on Sunday, Nov. 21, 2021. She was born a year before the great depression in the hills of Southwestern Virginia as the oldest daughter of 6 children to Roy and Grace Shortt. In high school she met the love of her life, Jim Adams, after he returned from WWII....

Wesley Thomas Strange

Wesley Thomas Strange

Nov 20, 2021

Wesley Thomas Strange, age 77 passed away Saturday, November 20, 2021 at the National HealthCare of Clinton. He was born on December 26, 1943 in Campobello, SC and was a son of the late Glenn and Ruth Campbell Strange. He was retired from Envirotech Corp Bahnson Division. Surviving are his wife, Sandra Red Strange; four children, Michael Thomas Strange of...

Brian Lynn Mize

Brian Lynn Mize

Nov 20, 2021

Brian Lynn Mize, age 58, of Clinton, SC, passed away Saturday, November 20, 2021, at Prisma Health- Laurens County Memorial Hospital. Brian was born November 24, 1962 in Portsmouth, VA and was a son of Travis Paul Mize of Portland, MO, and the late Judith Elaine White Crain. Mr. Mize is survived by his wife, Cathy Mize of Clinton; his...

Janice Bowers Dunkin

Janice Bowers Dunkin

Nov 17, 2021

Janice Bowers Dunkin, 68, of Joanna, passed away peacefully Wednesday, November 17, 2021 at the Hospice House of Laurens County. Born April 1, 1953 in Joanna, SC, she was a daughter of the late C.D. and Agnes Tinsley Bowers. She was a dedicated member of First Baptist Church Newberry. Jan was a graduate of Clinton High School and Spartanburg Methodist...

Kelly Elizabeth Turner

Kelly Elizabeth Turner

Nov 17, 2021

Kelly Elizabeth Turner, age 43, passed away Wednesday, November 17, 2021, at Self Regional Healthcare in Greenwood, SC. She was born January 16, 1978, in Washington, GA, and was a daughter of James Neal, her step-mother, Kim Neal, and the late Elizabeth “Libby” Nelson Neal. She is survived by her husband, Jamie Turner of Joanna; her son, Austin Turner (fiancée,...

Beverly Thomas Smith

Beverly Thomas Smith

Nov 15, 2021

Dateline - Laurens, SC Beverly Thomas Smith, age 67, passed away Monday, November 15, 2021 at the Prisma Health - Laurens County Memorial Hospital. She was born February 10, 1954 in Laurens, SC and was a daughter of the late James Clarence Thomas and Dorothy Louise Babb Thomas. Mrs. Smith is survived by her husband of 49 years, Mike Smith...

Robert Pressley Piephoff

Robert Pressley Piephoff

Nov 14, 2021

Rev. Robert Pressley Piephoff, died on November 14, 2021 at The Clinton Presbyterian Community of South Carolina while under the care of hospice. Bob was born to the Rev. Clarence Eugene Piephoff and Ina Jean Stenhouse Piephoff in Clinton, SC on April 15, 1941 and grew up in College Park, Georgia. Following graduation from College Park High School, he attended...

Barbara Meager Calvin

Barbara Meager Calvin

Nov 14, 2021

Barbara Meager Calvin, age 89, passed away peacefully in her home, November 14, 2021. She was born April 21, 1932 in Wadsworth, Ohio, and was a daughter of Sylvester and Leah Shrimplin Meager. She was the 4th of 6 children and the first girl. She graduated from Seville High School in Seville, Ohio. She started her career in banking straight...

Jane Gilstrap

Jane Gilstrap

Nov 13, 2021

Jane Gilstrap, age 69, widow of Melvin Walter Gilstrap, passed away Saturday, November 13, 2021 at Prisma Health - Greenville Memorial Hospital. Born February 5, 1952 in Parkersburg, WV, she was a daughter of the late Dale Jennings Radcliff, and Laura Jane McCauley Radcliff. Jane was a loving mother and grandmother. She was humble and sweet with a nurturing spirit,...

Virgil Rufus Nichols

Virgil Rufus Nichols

Nov 13, 2021

Virgil Rufus Nichols, 69, of Barnwell, left this earthly plane on Saturday, November 13, 2021. He was born August 10, 1952 in Clinton, and was a son of Heyward Emerson Nichols, Sr. and Augusta Virginia "Gussie" Shealy. He became a resident of Whitten Center of Clinton, SC, as a young man and later moved into a residential home in Barnwell,...

Tammie Parker Quarles

Tammie Parker Quarles

Nov 12, 2021

Tammie Parker Quarles, 59, went into the arms of Jesus on Friday, November 12th, 2021 at Lexington Medical Center while surrounded by family members and friends after a long and courageous battle with pancreatic cancer. Born April 17, 1962, in Darlington, SC, she was a daughter of the late Richardean Morgan, and granddaughter of the late Allard and Doris Parker....

Sharon "Jeannie" Jeannine Ray

Sharon "Jeannie" Jeannine Ray

Nov 12, 2021

Sharon “Jeannie” Jeannine Ray was a loving mother, grandmother, aunt, sister, and friend. She left this world too soon on November 12, 2021 at the age of 68. She was born September 02, 1953 and was a daughter of the late William Luther and the late Miriam Ray. After graduating from high school, she earned a Bachelor of Nursing from...

Tyler James Fisher

Tyler James Fisher

Nov 11, 2021

Tyler James Fisher, age 23, of Laurens, SC, passed away Thursday, November 11, 2021, at Greenville Memorial Hospital, while surrounded by his loved ones. Born April 5, 1998 in Bennington, Vermont, he was a son of John Fisher, Jr., and Jessica Mahoney Fisher. In addition to his parents, Tyler is survived by his 5 year old son, Levi Merrills; his...

Carolyn Ann O'Shields

Carolyn Ann O'Shields

Nov 9, 2021

Carolyn Ann O’Shields, age 75, passed away Tuesday, November 9, 2021 at the Self Regional Medical Center in Greenwood, SC. She was born February 2, 1946 in Atlanta, GA and was a daughter of the late Charles David Treadwell and Juanita Harmon Treadwell. She was the “glue” of her family, and was a loving, wife, mother, nanny, grandma, sister, and...

James Franklin Adair

James Franklin Adair

Nov 9, 2021

James Franklin Adair, 54, husband of Melissa Broadwell Adair, passed away on Tuesday, November 9, 2021, at Novant Presbyterian Medical Center in Charlotte, NC. Jim was born on January 12, 1967, at the American Air Force Base in Ruislip, England. He was the son of the late Duckett "Mac" Adair and the late Melanie "Mimi" Martin Adair of Clinton, SC....

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