Mary Gregory
Nov 15, 2017
Mary Ruth Nelson Gregory, 98, of Bristol, VA and formerly of Spartanburg, SC, died Wednesday, November 15, 2017, at NHC Health Care of Bristol. Born October 17, 1919, in Jonesville, SC, she was the daughter of the late William Alvin and Dora Clark Nelson and widow of William Herbert Gregory. Mrs. Gregory was a member of Morningside Baptist Church and...
Jean Bobo
Nov 15, 2017
Jean Anne Amick Bobo, 80, of Spartanburg, SC, died Wednesday, November 15, 2017, at Spartanburg Medical Center. Born August 24, 1937, in Spartanburg, SC, she was the daughter of the late Robert Roy and Ruby Bryson Amick. Mrs. Bobo was a retired Family Court Docket Clerk with the Spartanburg County Clerk of Court's office and a skilled gardener. She was...
Etta Manley
Nov 14, 2017
Etta Bennefield Manley, 83, of Gaffney, SC, went home to be with the Lord on Tuesday, November 14, 2017, at her home. Born in Wahalla, SC, she was the daughter of the late Oscar Alexander and Gladys Jamison Bennefield and widow of Billy Harrison Manley. Mrs. Manley loved music (country and gospel) and enjoyed her flower garden. She was a...
Lt. Bates
Nov 14, 2017
Andrew Lafayette Bates, 99, of Spartanburg, SC, died Tuesday, November 14, 2017, at RoseCrest Retirement Community-Inman, SC. Born July 21, 1918, in Lobelville, TN, he was the son of the late Carter and Miriam DePriest Bates. He was married for 62 years to the late Frances Couch Bates. Andrew graduated from Perry County High School, Linden, TN and Dickinson Business...
Carol Greene
Nov 14, 2017
Carol Greene, 87, of Chesnee, SC, wife of Walter Greene for 71 years, died Tuesday, November 14, 2017, at Spartanburg Medical Center. Born December 6, 1929, in Spartanburg, SC, she was the daughter of the late R. J. and Lillian Crossley Powell. Mrs. Greene was a member of First Baptist Church Spartanburg where she and her husband had a ministry...
Glen Lancaster
Nov 13, 2017
Luther Glen Lancaster, 80, of Lyman, SC, died Monday, November 13, 2017, at Spartanburg Medical Center. He was born October 24, 1937, in Spartanburg, SC, the son of the late Wilburn Wilson Lancaster and Kate Odessa Duncan Lancaster and husband of 43 years to the late Yvonne Stevens Lancaster. A 10 year veteran of the SC National Guard and graduate...
Neva Anderson
Nov 13, 2017
Neva Walker Markham Anderson, 91, of Spartanburg, SC, died of cardiac issues on Monday, November 13, 2017. She was born August 17, 1926, in Goldsboro, North Carolina, to the late James Henry and Bertie Toombs Markham. She and her sister, Hilda Lewis Markham, who predeceased her, remained extremely close their entire lives and were best friends. Neva grew up in...
Wayne Mcmillan
Nov 13, 2017
Tony Wayne McMillan II, 49, of Boiling Springs SC, beloved son of Susan Bates McMillan and Tony Wayne & Kathryn Birath McMillan, died Monday, November 13, 2017 at Spartanburg Medical Center after a brief battle with esophageal cancer. Wayne enjoyed hunting, fishing, camping, the beach, working on cars and trucks and spending time with his family. He was employed with...
Virginia Hill
Nov 12, 2017
Virginia Smith Hill, 81, of Spartanburg, SC, died Sunday, November 12, 2017, at White Oak Estates-Spartanburg. Born August 30, 1936, in Spartanburg, she was the daughter of the late Edgar and Virginia Hatchette Sprouse and adoptive daughter of the late Russell Posey Smith Sr. and Guynita Wilkins Smith and widow of Robert Dennis Hill, Jr. Mrs. Hill received her Bachelor's...
Paul Poteat
Nov 12, 2017
Paul Edwin Poteat, 87, of Spartanburg, SC, died Sunday, November 12, 2017, at Mary Black Memorial Hospital. Born November 8, 1930, in Spartanburg County, SC, he was the son of the late Joe Jason and Mary Messer Poteat. A U. S. Army veteran, Mr. Poteat retired from Fluor-Daniel Construction Company. He was a member of Clifton Sunrise Masonic Lodge #215,...
Drew Petty
Nov 12, 2017
Drew Petty, 59, of Gaffney, SC, died Sunday, November 12, 2017, at his home. Born March 17, 1958, in Spartanburg, SC, he was the son of Connie Merle Mabry Gonsalves (Anthony) of Gaffney, SC and the late Andrew Jackson Petty. Drew was a member of Cowboy Baptist Church and formerly employed with Mayfair Mills. In addition to his mother and...
Beatrice Strohacker
Nov 12, 2017
Beatrice Theora Hughes Strohacker, 88, of Spartanburg, SC, died Sunday, November 12, 2017, at her home. Born July 7, 1929, in Summersville, WV, she was the daughter of the late Heber Jennings Hughes and Naomi Pierson Hughes and widow of Thurman Allen Strohacker. Mrs. Strohacker loved to pick pecans and apples to bake and can for family. Surviving is her...
Carrie West
Nov 11, 2017
Mrs. Carrie Byrd West, 89, of Glenn Springs, SC, passed to her heavenly home on Saturday, November 11, 2017 at Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System. She was born in Spartanburg on September 17, 1928, to the late Delbert Erastus Byrd and Mary Elmina King Byrd. She was the loving wife of the late Lester O. West for 57 wonderful years. In...
Catherine Phillips
Nov 11, 2017
Catherine Virginia Sellars Phillips, 90, of Greenville and formerly of Spartanburg, SC, died Saturday, November 11, 2017, at her home. Born March 30, 1927, in Cowpens, SC, she was the daughter of the late Dudley Albert Sellars and Martha Olema Daniel Sellars and widow of Rosco Walter Phillips. Mrs. Phillips loved cooking and family time. She retired from Southern Bell...
Bernice Hercka
Nov 11, 2017
Bernice Eileen Kurnal Hercka, 93, of Wellford, SC, died Saturday, November 11, 2017, at Spartanburg Regional Hospice Home. Born November 8, 1924, in Canonsburg, PA, she was the daughter of the late Joseph and Catherine Radlinski Kurnal and widow of Stephen Thomas Hercka. She was a member of Jesus, Our Risen Savior Catholic Church. Survivors include her son, Martin Hercka,...
Ruth Bennett
Nov 9, 2017
Ruth Dunagin Bennett, 92, of Spartanburg, SC, passed peacefully on Thursday, November 9, 2017, at her home. Born March 17, 1925, in Spartanburg County, she was the daughter of the late Alvin Dunagin Sr. and Eunice Dunagin and widow of Wallace Bennett. A member of Cannon's Camp Ground United Methodist Church for over 70 years, Mrs. Bennett was also a...
Gwendolyn Page
Nov 9, 2017
Gwendolyn Smith Page, 92, of Spartanburg, SC, passed away on Thursday, November 9, 2017, at White Oak Estates-Spartanburg. A native of Spartanburg County, born June 30, 1925, in Roebuck, SC, she was the daughter of the late Walter S. and Lois Haynes Smith. She was married for 59 years to James Crawford Page who predeceased her in 2006. A graduate...
Ada Morgan
Nov 9, 2017
Barbara Ada "Mimi" Spencer Morgan, 100, of Spartanburg, SC, passed away peacefully at her home on Thursday, November 9, 2017. The last surviving member of her immediate family, she was born December 10, 1916, in Spartanburg, to the late Columbus Mitchell Spencer and Fannie Ward Spencer and was the widow of Jack A. Morgan. Mrs. Morgan was a member of...
Maxine May
Nov 9, 2017
Dorothy Maxine Gillespie May, 84, of Spartanburg, SC, died Thursday, November 9, 2017, at Summit Hills Retirement Community. Born August 17, 1933, in Walhalla, SC, she was the daughter of the late Major Teccoa Gillespie and Inez Elva Rowland Gillespie and widow of Victor Lemuel May. She was devoted to her family and loved spending time with her granddaughters. A...
Robert Wilson
Nov 8, 2017
Robert "Bob" Eugene Wilson, 74, of Lyman, SC, died Wednesday, November 8, 2017, at Spartanburg Medical Center. Born September 30, 1943, in Terre Haute, IN, he was the son of the late Orval and Vera Welch Wilson. A U. S. Army veteran and retired mechanic, Bob loved his family and also enjoyed fishing. He was of the Baptist faith. Survivors...
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