Obituaries

John Sellars

John Sellars

Jan 6, 2014

John Calvin Sellars, 86, of Cowpens, SC, died Monday, January 6, 2014, at Rosecrest Retirement Community-Inman. Born March 2, 1927, in Spartanburg, SC, he was the son of the late Howard and Faye Sue Spencer Sellars. A U. S. Marine veteran of World War II, Mr. Sellars was the owner/operator of Sellars' Electric and Hardware, and a member of Arcadia...

Phyllis Bemelmans

Phyllis Bemelmans

Jan 5, 2014

Phyllis P. Bemelmans, 88, of Spartanburg, SC, died Sunday, January 5, 2014, at Spartanburg Regional Hospice Home. Born November 3, 1925, in Dallas, TX, she was the daughter of the late Cullen Thomas and Beulah Pearl Stapleton Pennington, and wife of the late Norman Lee Bemelmans. Mrs. Bemelmans was a member of St. Christopher's Episcopal Church and retired from the...

Thelma Thomason

Thelma Thomason

Jan 5, 2014

Thelma Hill Thomason, 82, of Spartanburg, SC, died Sunday, January 5, 2014. Born January 18, 1931, in Spartanburg, SC, she was the daughter of the late Clody Brasco and Docia Hill, and widow of Harold Lee Thomason. Mrs. Thomason was a member of Beaumont Baptist Church, the Women's Bible Class, and the Golden Circle. She was a graduate of Cecil's...

Stuart Jones

Stuart Jones

Jan 5, 2014

Stuart Gethin Jones, 70, of Dataw Island, SC, went to heaven on Sunday, January 5, 2014, at Medical University of South Carolina-Charleston. Born May 20, 1943, in Richmond Burrough, Staten Island, NY, he was the son of the late Gethin Leonard and Irene Robb Jones. A member of the varsity football team and graduate of Curtis High School in Staten...

Flora Flores

Flora Flores

Jan 4, 2014

Flora Giron Flores, 80, of Spartanburg, SC, died Saturday, January 4, 2014, at Mary Black Memorial Hospital. Born January 30, 1933, in San Miguel, El Salvador, she was the daughter of the late Juan Miguel Giron and Emma Natividad Flores and wife of the late Jose Arturo Turcios. Mrs. Flores loved to walk, read, her flowers and people. She was...

Sadie Lancaster

Sadie Lancaster

Jan 4, 2014

Sadie D. Lancaster, 97, of Spartanburg, died Saturday, January 4, 2014, at Valley Falls Terrace. Born June 1, 1916, in McCall, SC, she was the daughter of Alfred and Maude Singleton Wright and wife of the late Arthur Gus Davis Lancaster. She was of the Baptist faith. Surviving is a brother-in-law and sister-in-law, Charles and Gladys Lancaster of Bessemer City,...

Doshia Blackwell

Doshia Blackwell

Jan 3, 2014

Doshia Blackwell, 83, of Spartanburg, SC, died Friday, January 3, 2014, at her home. Born March 26, 1930, in Yancey County, NC, she was the daughter of the late Luther Carl and Katie Randolph Blackwell. She was retired from Skylyn Place and was of the Baptist faith. Surviving are three daughters, Kelly Blackwell of Inman, Jackie Vise of Spartanburg, SC,...

Lisa Bradley

Lisa Bradley

Jan 2, 2014

Lisa Ann Bradley, 46, died peacefully and unexpectedly at her home on Thursday, January 2, 2014. Lisa was a merit scholar at Spartanburg High School, a graduate of Clemson University, and a member of Central Church of Christ. She was employed at Denny's in Boiling Springs, SC. She was the daughter of Annie Bradley of the home and Tommy Bradley...

Sara Yarborough

Sara Yarborough

Jan 2, 2014

Sara Golden Yarborough, 90, of Spartanburg, SC, died Thursday, January 2, 2014, at Spartanburg Regional Medical Center. Born September 19, 1923, in Enoree, SC, she was the daughter of the late Hugh Miller and Sophia Burns Golden, and widow of James Claude "J. C." Yarborough. Mrs. Yarborough was a member of Southside Baptist Church, a graduate of Spartanburg Community College,...

Wanda Koopman

Wanda Koopman

Dec 31, 2013

Wanda Koopman of Columbia passed away December 31. She was seventy-five years old. Wanda was a registered nurse and a certified master gardener. She graduated from Spartanburg High School and the Spartanburg General Hospital School of Nursing. Wanda was born in Spartanburg in 1938. She was the daughter of the late Winnie Cox and the late Geddes Cox. Wanda is...

Doris Easler

Doris Easler

Dec 31, 2013

Doris Ann Easler, 78, of Boiling Springs, SC, died Tuesday, December 31, 2013 at Spartanburg Regional Hospice Home. Born September 4, 1935, in Pittsburgh, PA, she was the daughter of the late, William and Madeline Weaver Delegatti. She was retired from Judson Mills. Survivors include her son, Michael Monroe (Deborah) of Chesnee, SC; brothers, Jimmy and Bobby Delegatti of Greenville,...

Maudie Bridgeman

Maudie Bridgeman

Dec 30, 2013

Maudie Quinn Bridgeman, 99, of Spartanburg, SC, died Monday, December 30, 2013, at Valley Falls Terrace-Spartanburg. Born January 19, 1914, in Spartanburg, she was the daughter of the late Samuel N. and Cynthia Coates Quinn, and wife of the late Ersil Wesley Bridgeman. Mrs. Bridgeman was a member of Arcadia United Methodist Church, the Fellowship Sunday School Class, and Young...

Carroll Lindsey

Carroll Lindsey

Dec 30, 2013

Carroll Eugene Lindsey, 80, of Boiling Springs, SC, died Monday, December 30, 2013, at his home. Born January 20, 1933, in Columbus, NC, he was the son of the late William Grady and Edith Nula Wolfe Lindsey, and husband of the late Shirley Mae Lindsey. A U. S. Air Force veteran, Mr. Lindsey was a graduate of Cecil's Business College...

Connie Batten

Connie Batten

Dec 28, 2013

Connie C. Batten, 75, of Goose Creek, SC, died Saturday, December 28, 2013, at Trident Hospital in Charleston, SC. Born February 2, 1938, in Gastonia, NC, she was the daughter of the late Edward Harold Costner and Gertrude Hughes Costner, and the widow of John P. Batten, Sr. She was a graduate of Kings Business School in Charlotte, NC and...

Barbara Curcio

Barbara Curcio

Dec 27, 2013

Barbara Hammitt Curcio, 64, of Spartanburg, died Friday, December 27, 2013, at Spartanburg Regional Hospice Home. Born November 18, 1949, in Spartanburg County, she was the daughter of the late William A. Hammitt and Mary "Madeline" Roland Hammett and the widow of Thomas Lawrence Curcio. She was self-employed and was a member of Anderson Mill Road Baptist Church. Survivors include...

Ruth Conselyea

Ruth Conselyea

Dec 27, 2013

Ruth Fowler Conselyea, 80, of Spartanburg, died Friday, December 27, 2013, at Mary Black Memorial Hospital. Born February 3, 1933, in Union, SC, she was a daughter of the late Ernest Boyd Fowler and Bernice Gossett Fowler, and the widow of William Cranston Conselyea. She was a member of Montgomery Memorial United Methodist Church. Survivors include a son, Terry Conselyea...

Janelle Spigel

Janelle Spigel

Dec 27, 2013

Janelle N. Spigel, 67, of Lancaster, SC, died Friday, December 27, 2013, at White Oak Manor-Lancaster. Born July 10, 1946, in Spartanburg, SC, she was the daughter of the late Ted and Elmer Stepp Nelson. She was a retired teacher in the Lancaster School System, having received a Bachelors in Art History from the University of South Carolina and a...

James Murphy, Jr.

James Murphy, Jr.

Dec 26, 2013

James Monroe "Jim" Murphy Jr., 65, of Duncan, SC, died Thursday, December 26, 2013, at Village Hospital-Greer, SC. Born September 27, 1948, in Cambridge, MD, he was the son of the late James Monroe Murphy Sr. and Dorothy Mason Murphy. A graduate of Cambridge-Dorchester High School and the University of Virginia, Mr. Murphy was a licensed professional engineer and the...

Harry Lancaster, Sr.

Harry Lancaster, Sr.

Dec 26, 2013

Harry Lancaster, 92, of Spartanburg, SC, loving husband for 65 years to the late Evelyn Brown Lancaster, died Thursday, December 26 at his home. Mr. Lancaster was born April 7, 1921 in Walnut Grove, SC. He was the son of the late Louvenia Belcher and John L. Lancaster, Sr. and a graduate of Roebuck High School and Robinson Business College....

Mrs. Elsie Lee

Mrs. Elsie Lee

Dec 25, 2013

Elsie Mae Richards Lee, 84, of Spartanburg, died Wednesday, December 25, 2013. Born May 15, 1929, in Spartanburg, SC, she was the daughter of the late William Crawford and Violet Reynolds Richards, and wife of the late Walter Nathanial Lee. Mrs. Lee was retired from Raycord Shirt Factory and was a member of Temple Independent Methodist Church, Spartanburg, SC. Survivors...