James Gainey

March 15th, 1940 – October 17th, 2010 Funeral services for James Robert Gainey, 70, will be held at 1:00 p.m. Wednesday, October 20, 2010 at Brown-Pennington-Atkins Funeral Home Chapel. The Rev. Ed Griggs will officiate with burial in Darlington Memory Gardens. Brown-Pennington-Atkins Funeral Home is serving the family. The family will receive friends Tuesday, October 19, 2010 from 5:00 until 7:00 p.m. at the funeral home. Memorials may be made to the Wake Forest University – Baptist Medical Center Palliative Care, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston-Salem, NC 27157. Mr. Gainey died Sunday, October 17, 2010. Born in Darlington Co., SC, he was a son of the late Thaddeus Gainey and Margaret McDonald Gainey Griggs. He was retired as a rural mail carrier after twenty-eight years and worked for fifteen years at Sonoco. He was a loving father and a special friend. Surviving are his sons, Dale (Robbie Roscoe) Gainey of Cheraw, SC, Richie (Jessica Simmons) Gainey of Hartsville, SC; sisters and brother-in-law, Betty and Ernest Williams of Charleston, SC, Gwendolyn Jackson of Columbia, SC; uncle and aunt, Kenneth (Jean) McDonald, Sr. of Hartsville, SC; aunt, Katherine Allred of Eastover, SC; special friends, Alice Andrews Gainey, Billy Parker, Betty and Joey Linton, Richard and Sue Kelley, and Marty Parnell. He was preceded in death by his brother, Mike Gainey.