Local Obituaries for Abbeville County, SC & Surrounding Areas

Mary E. Phillips

Mary E. Phillips

Nov 11, 2005

Mary Elizabeth Phillips, 89, formally of 201 Pineview St. died Friday, November 11, 2005 at Abbeville Nursing Home. She was the wife of the late James Pruitt Phillips. Mrs. Phillips was born in Lowndesville to the late Mason and Maude Parnell. She retired from the Abbeville Milliken Plant after many years and was a life long member of the Lowndesville...

Claude C. Kay Jr.

Claude C. Kay Jr.

Oct 29, 2005

Claude C. Kay, Jr., 87, formally of 425 Campfield Church Rd. died Saturday, October 29, 2005 at the Abbeville Nursing Home. Mr. Kay was born in Abbeville County to the late Claude C. and Mary Uldrick Kay, Sr. He was married to the late Jessie Hall Kay. Mr. Kay retired from the S.C. Highway Department after 40 years of service;...

Thrashley L. Bowie Sr.

Thrashley L. Bowie Sr.

Oct 28, 2005

Thrashley L. Bowie, Sr., 86, of 1000 N. Main St. Abbeville died Friday, October 28, 2005 at Self Regional Medical Center. He was the husband of Mary Norman Bowie and the late Helen Frances Bowie. Mr. Bowie was born in Abbeville County to the late Allen B. and Mamie Nabors Bowie. He was the owner and operator of Bowies Body...

Elizabeth Cochran Gaddis

Elizabeth Cochran Gaddis

Oct 19, 2005

Elizabeth Cochran Gaddis, 92, formally of the Cold Springs community in Abbeville, died Wednesday, October 19, 2005 at the Presbyterian Home in Clinton, SC. Mrs. Gaddis was married to the late Ervin Hunter Gaddis. She was born in Abbeville to the late Alfred and Leila Ellis Cochran. Mrs. Gaddis was retired from the Abbeville County Hospital where she was the...

George E. Arbour

George E. Arbour

Oct 8, 2005

George E. Arbour, 66, of 176 Durham Rd. Abbeville died Saturday, October 08, 2005 at the Hospice House in Greenwood. He was born in Elkton, MD to the late Eugene and Dorothea Dutcher Arbour. Mr. Arbour was a retired operating engineer with an asphalt plant in Waterford Works, NJ. He is survived by his three sisters, Nona Iuliucci and her...

C. Jack Piotrowski Jr.

C. Jack Piotrowski Jr.

Oct 8, 2005

C. Jack Piotrowski, Jr., 47, of 85 Deer Run Abbeville, husband of Patricia P. Piotrowski died at his residence on Saturday, October 8, 2005. He was born in Rockfall, CT., to Genevieve Nowotynski Piotrowski and the late Clemens J. Piotrowski, Sr. Jack was a member of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church and worked for the United States Postal Service for...

James B. O'Neal

James B. O'Neal

Sep 15, 2005

James B. Oa?(TM)Neal, 69, of 714 E. Greenwood St. husband of Cary Leigh Harris Oa?(TM)Neal died Thursday, September 15, 2005 at Self Regional HealthCare. He was born in Killarney, West Virginia to the late Boyd M. and Rheda Dent Oa?(TM)Neal. He was a graduate of the University of Richmond where he played football. Mr. Oa?(TM)Neal served in the United States...

Alice Simpson Seawright

Alice Simpson Seawright

Sep 8, 2005

Alice Simpson Seawright, 78, of 4627 Highway 28 North died Thursday, September 8, 2005 at the Abbeville County Memorial Hospital. Born in McCormick County, she was the daughter of the late James Monroe and Anna Goff Simpson. She was a member of Little Mountain Presbyterian Church. Mrs. Seawright is the widow of the late Allen Power Seawright. She was a...

George Robert Gage

George Robert Gage

Aug 30, 2005

Age 73 of Middletown died Tuesday, August 30, 2005 in Charleston, SC. He was born March 30, 1932 in Butler, PA, the son of the late Gordon and Irma Smith Gage. He was a graduate of Exeter Academy, studied engineering at Yale University for three years, and graduated from Ohio State University with a B.A. degree in economics in 1955....

Sadler Mcmullin "Mack" Beaty Jr.

Sadler Mcmullin "Mack" Beaty Jr.

Aug 28, 2005

Sadler McMullin (Mack) Beaty, Jr., 90, of 1156 Hwy 28 S. died Sunday, August 28, 2005 at the Abbeville Nursing Home. Mr. Beaty was born in Anderson County, he was the son of the late S.M. and Grace Young Beaty, Sr. He was a member and an Elder Emeritus of the Abbeville A.R.P. Church. Mr. Beaty was a veteran of...

Josephine Finley Evans

Josephine Finley Evans

Aug 25, 2005

Josephine Finley Evans, 86, of 618 Church St. Abbeville died Friday, August 26, 2005 at Abbeville County Memorial Hospital. She was born in Abbeville to the late John and Belle Clark Finley. Mrs. Evans retired from Milliken Abbeville Plant. She was the last surviving member of her immediate family. Graveside services will be 4:00PM Saturday, August 27, 2005 in Melrose...

Sarah O. Milford

Sarah O. Milford

Aug 22, 2005

Sarah O. Milford, 88, of 708 Brook St. passed away on Monday, August 22, 2005 at the Hospice House of Greenwood. She was born in Abbeville to the late Edward W. and Ludie Sharpe Milford. After many years of service Ms. Milford retired from Abbeville Shirtmakers, and was a dedicated member of the Abbeville Pentecostal Holiness Church. She was preceded...

Andrea Raab

Andrea Raab

Aug 1, 2005

Andrea H. Raab, 60, of 48 Rocky Rd. Iva, died August 1, 2005 at her residence. She was born in Sellersville, PA to the late Abram and Marian Detweiler and Andrew and Henrietta Raab. Ms. Raab attended the Emmanuel Baptist Church. She retired after 43 years of service with the United States Department of Defense. Ms. Raab was a licensed...

Vivian Weathers Cooper

Vivian Weathers Cooper

Jul 27, 2005

Vivian Weathers Cooper, 82, formally of 105 McGowan Ave. and wife of the late B.J. Cooper, died Wednesday, July 27, 2005 at Abbeville Memorial Hospital. She was born in Greenville, SC to the late Claude C. and Tessie Kelley Wilkinson Weathers. Mrs. Cooper was retired as a Kindergarten Teacher after 20 years; she also was a former employee of Abbeville...

Jimmie Bethel Kilgore

Jimmie Bethel Kilgore

Jul 22, 2005

Jimmie Bethel Kilgore, 58, husband of Diana Martin Kilgore, of 1300 Horseshoe Road, entered into eternal rest on Friday, July 22, 2005 at the Hospice House in Greenwood. Jimmiea?(TM)s church, family and patients were the focus of his life. He was an active member of Northside Baptist Church in Calhoun Falls where he was past Chairman of the Deacons. He...

Ruth D. Ramhurst

Ruth D. Ramhurst

Jul 17, 2005

Ruth D. Ramhurst, 69, of 205 Magazine St. died Sunday, July 17th at her residence. She was born in Newark, NJ to the late Samuel J. and Elizabeth Hanson Keller. She has been a resident of Abbeville since 1982. She was very involved with the Tracy Jackson Program of G.I.F.T. of Abbeville and was a member of the Toxaway United...

Robert M. Davis

Robert M. Davis

Jun 8, 2005

Robert M. "Bob" Davis, 62, of Cedar Bluff, passed away Wednesday, June 8th at his residence. Funeral Services will be held 11:00AM Saturday, June 11th at Perry Funeral Home Chapel, with the Rev. Wendell Lawson officiating. Burial will follow in Weiss Lake Memory Gardens. The family will receive friends from 6:00PM to 8:00PM Friday, June 10th. Mr. Davis is survived...

Elsie S. Uldrick

Elsie S. Uldrick

Jun 7, 2005

Elsie S. Uldrick, 89, formally of 810 Hwy 201 Abbeville, wife of the late Harold E. Uldrick, died Tuesday, April 7, 2005 at Abbeville Nursing Home. She was born in Hart County, GA to the late James L. and Elizabeth Dooley Stamps. Mrs. Uldrick was a retired seamstress and a member of the New Hope Presbyterian Church where she was...

Lowry T. Young

Lowry T. Young

Jun 4, 2005

Lowry T .Young, 80, of 1210 Hwy 20 Abbeville, husband of Margaret F. Newell Young, died Saturday, June 4, 2005 at Abbeville County Memorial Hospital. He was born in Abbeville County to the late Grady C. and Dora Temple Young. Mr. Young was a member of Upper Long Cane Presbyterian Church where he served on the property committee for many...

Joseph Leon "Joe" Savitz Jr.

Joseph Leon "Joe" Savitz Jr.

May 22, 2005

Joseph "Joe" Leon Savitz, Jr., 74, of 206 Millwood Rd. husband of Lucy C. Savitz, died Sunday, May 22, 2005 at his residence. He was born in Holly Hill, SC to the late Joseph L. and Catherine Faulkner Savitz, Sr. Mr. Savitz was a graduate of Abbeville High School, Class of 1947, he was a graduate of the University Of...