Local Obituaries for Abbeville County, SC & Surrounding Areas

Kathryn Cooper Dillard Patton

Kathryn Cooper Dillard Patton

Nov 6, 2005

Kathryn Cooper Dillard Patton, 87, resident of Due West Retirement Center wife of Paul Patton died Sunday Nov. 6 at The Hospice House in Greenwood, SC. Born in Statham, Georgia she was a daughter of the late Herbert Alva and Grace Cooper Dillard. Mrs. Patton was a retired newspaper columnist with over 25 years of service with the Winder, Georgia...

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...

Matril  Cape Cadden

Matril Cape Cadden

Oct 19, 2005

Matril Cape Cadden, 65, resident of Abbeville Nursing Home formerly of 111 Railroad St. died Wednesday Oct. 19, 2005 at Abbeville County Memorial Hospital. Born in Abbeville, SC she was a daughter of Jim and Inez Edwards Cape. She was a retired textile employee and retail sales clerk. She attended Grace United Methodist Church. survivors are: 2 daughters Dede Grant...

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...

Ruby  Hall White

Ruby Hall White

Oct 18, 2005

Ruby Hall White, 82, resident of Abbeville Nursing Home formerly of 103 Brooks St. widow of Shirley B. White died Tuesday Oct. 18, 2005 at Abbeville County Memorial Hospital. Born in Abbeville Co. SC she was a daughter of the late Grady and Rosella Poole Hall. She was a retitred textile employee of the cloth room with Abbeville Mills and...

Mildred  L. Mathews

Mildred L. Mathews

Oct 15, 2005

Mildred L. Mathews, 100, resident of The Lowan Home in White Rock, SC formerly of Abbeville, SC widow of Frank L. Mathews died Saturday Oct. 15, 2005 at The Lowman Home. Mrs. Mathews was born in Atlanta, Georgia and was a homemaker and a member of Calhoun Falls Presbyterian Church. Survivors are: daughter Faye Hydrick of Atlanta, GA, son-in-law Lamont...

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...

Margaret  McCord Brown

Margaret McCord Brown

Oct 6, 2005

Margaret McCord Brown, 84, resident of National Health Care in Clinton, SC formerly of 106 Haigler St. Abbeville, SC widow of Carl Gordon Brown died Thursday Oct. 6, 2005 at National Health Care. Born September 5, 1921 in Abbeville Co. SC she was a daughter of the late William Godfrey and Mamie Miller McCord. She was a graduate of Anderson...

Annie  Moss Campbell

Annie Moss Campbell

Sep 29, 2005

Annie Moss Campbell, 91, resident of 617 Church St. died Thursday Sept. 29, 2005 at Self Regional Medical Center. Born in Abbeville Co. SC she was a daughter of the late Thomas Hoyt and Bessie Barnett Campbell. She was a self employed retired beautician and an active member of Grace United Methodist Church. survivors are: 2 sisters Louise Bowen of...

Marinda  Jacqueline Purser

Marinda Jacqueline Purser

Sep 28, 2005

Marinda Jacqueline Purser, 58, resident of 210 Hillcrest Drive died Wednesday Sept. 28, 2005 at her home. Born in Abbeville Co. SC she was a daughter of Vara Campbell Purser and the late Ernest Rigby Purser, Sr. She was a homemaker and a member of Southside Baptist Church. survivors are: Mother Vara Campbell Purser of the home, sister Patti Gary...

Bryon  Mitchell Veach

Bryon Mitchell Veach

Sep 27, 2005

Bryon Mitchell Veach, 20, resident of 4295 Hwy. 184 Due West, SC died Sept. 27, 2005. Born in Charleston, SC he was a son of Thomas Mitchell and Frances Lynn Baggett Veach. He attended Dixie High Scholl and the South Carolina Governor's School of the Arts in Greenville, SC. He also attended the Kansas City Art Institute in Kansas City,...

Samuel "Sam" Lochridge McNeill

Samuel "Sam" Lochridge McNeill

Sep 25, 2005

Samuel 'Sam' Lochridge McNeill, Sr., 78, resident of 1201 N. Main St. husband of Lucille Epps McNeill died Sunday Sept. 25, 2005 at his home. Born in Abbeville Co. SC he was a son of the late Joseph Donald, Sr. and Willie G. Riley McNeill. He was a United States World War II Navy veteran and a retired employee of...

James  Herman Loftis

James Herman Loftis

Sep 24, 2005

James 'Herman' Loftis, 84, resident of 125 McGowan Ave. husband of Elizabeth Mundy Loftis died Saturday Sept. 24, 2005 at National Health Care Center in Greenwood, SC. Born in Abbeville, SC he was a son of the late Herman Reid and Lilly Smith Loftis. He was a retired clerk and yardmaster with CSX Railroad with 40 years of service. He...

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...

Dana  Burton Gray

Dana Burton Gray

Sep 6, 2005

Dana Burton Gray, 36, resident of Hwy. 81 South died Tuesday Sept. 6, 2005 at her home. Born in Greenwood, SC she was a daughter of Cornelia Tiller Burton Crawford and the late John W. Burton, Sr. She was a self employed beautian and a member of the First Baptist Church of Iva, SC. survivors are: Mother Cornelia Burton Crawford...

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...