Legette, Thomas Gordon

THOMAS GORDON LEGETTE, AFFECTIONATELY CALLED “SAMBO” AND “PAPA” BY THE CHILDREN OF THE FAMILY, WAS BORN ON MARCH 5, 1937 TO THE LATE LORI AND SARAH BERRY LEGETTE. ON THE MORNING OF DECEMBER 3, 2010 GOD LOOKED DOWN AND SAW HOW WEAK GORDON HAD GOTTEN AND LOVELY DECIDED IT WAS TIME TO CALL HIM HOME FROM HIS LABOR TO REST. GORDON WAS EDUCATED IN THE DILLON COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT. HE WORK IN CONSTRUCTION FOR MOST OF HIS ADULT LIFE. HE WORKED FOR AM TUCK CONSTRUCTION, MILES PLASTER, COASTAL TILE AND ROOFING AND MARTIN`S CONSTRUCTION. HE MET AND MARRIED THE LOVE OF HIS LIFE, EDNA MAE BETHEA IN DECEMBER OF 1960. TO THIS UNION FOUR CHILDREN WERE BORN. JOHNNY. WANDA, KAREN AND KIM.GORDON AND EDNA ALWAYS HAD A PLACE IN THEIR HEARTS FOR THE CHILDREN OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD, THEREFORE RAISING SEVERAL ALONG SIDE THEIR OWN CHILDREN. WHEN GORDON HEALTH BEGAN TO DECLINE, HE RETIRED IN 2007. KNOWING THAT HE NEEDED A HOME CHURCHHE JOINED WESTON CHAPEL AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN LATTA,SC. WAITING TO WELCOME GORDON TO HIS NEW HOME WILL BE HIS WIFE EDNA MAE AND HIS SON JOHNNY “JOKER”, OF COURSE HIS MOTHER AND FATHER LORI AND SARAH LEGETTE WILL BE THERE. OH YES LET`S NOT FORGET HIS FOUR SISTER LUVELLA,SARAH LEE,CHRISTINE AND ELLA REA. THREE OF HIS BROTHERS WILL BE THERE AS WELL, LORI WALLY AND DOUGLAS. BROTHER-IN-LAW LUTHER, HERBERT AND JAMES ERVIN WILL JOIN IN THE CELEBRATION.YOU KNOW THEY LOV A CELEBRATION. THEY`LL ALL GET TOGETHER AND LOVE ONE ANOTHER AND TELL THEIR STORIES OF HOW THEY`VE OVERCOME. WHAT A TIME… WHAT A TIME. GORDON LEAVES TO CHERISH FOND AND LOVING MEMORIES; THREE DAUGHTERS WANDA OF THE HOME, KAREN”BABY KAY” AND KIM LOVED A SPECIAL NIECE JUST LIKE A DAUGHTER PEGGIE PAGE, THREE OTHER SPECIALLY ADOPTED CHILDREN LARRY”BLADE”, DORIS (DAVID)AND PASTY(TERRY), THREE GRANDCHILDREN CRYSTAL (JAVON), DEVIN AND DARIN “DJ”, ONE ADOPTED GRANDDAUGHTER JANET ALL OF LATTA,SC. THREE SPECIALLY ADOPTED GRANDS KEVIN, MARCUS AND TAMARA ALSO OF LATTA,SC.EIGHT GREAT GRANDCHILDREN RYSHAWN, RONNIE”JR”, STERLASHIA, JOVONTA,JAVONNIE,JA`QUEZ, XA`ZYLER, AND LITTLE BABY KOREE; ONE BROTHER THEOTIS LEGETTE OF DILLON, SC, THREE BROTHER IN LAW JOHN BETHEA”JR” OF HEMPSTEAD,NY,DONALD(PHYLLIS) MACPEARSON OF LATTA, SC,AND LAMONT (JANICE) MACPEARSON OF HIGH POINT, NC,TWO SPECIAL PEOPLE WHO REFERRED TO HIM AS DA AND UNCLE THOMAS AND WAS ALWAYS THERE TO HELP DURING HIS ILLNESS, TARSHA SAVEDGE AND WILLIAM LEGETTE AND A HOST OF NIECES, NEPHEWS, COUSIN OTHER RELATIVES AND FRIENDS.