Frank Ward, 67, died Monday, April 4, 2011 at Morrison Manor. Born September 21, 1943 in Columbus County, the son of the late William and Agnes Ward. Following graduation from Maxton High School in 1963 he entered the workforce. He began his career in sales with Electrical Equipment Company, later advancing to sales manager, assistant plant manager, and then plant…
Joseph Allen Simkins, 88 of Florence, died Thursday, March 28, 2011 at a local health care facility after an illness. Mr. Simkins was born in Montclair, NJ, a son of the Late William Harrison and Agnes Clossey Simkins. He attended Drexel University, Belmont Abbey, and the University of Georgia Naval Flight School. Mr. Simkins was a veteran of the US…
Funeral service for Isaac ” June Bug” Blakney will Tuesday April 5,2011 at Mt. Beulah United Medodist Church. Burial will be in church cemetery directed bt Young & Young Funeral Home of Hartsville.
Funeral service for James C. Bacote will be 11:00 a.m. Tuesday April 5, 2011 at Harold L. & Dorothy J. Young Memorial Chapel.
Ivor James McMillian, Jr., 71 of Florence, died Friday, April 01, 2011 in a local health care facility after an illness. Mr. McMillian was born in Florence, SC a son of the late Ivor James and Mary Ella Fowler McMillian, Sr. He was a US Navy Veteran having served during the Vietnam War. He was the former Owner/Operator of Mac’s…
NORTH MYRTLE BEACH….Francis Pedro Kerr, 61, died Tuesday at his residence following an illness. Mr. Kerr was born Oct. 19, 1949 in Panama, a son of the late Joseph Kerr and Maria Sanchez Kerr. He was a U.S. Army Veteran serving as a respiratory therapist. Surviving are his wife, Arlene K. Kerr of the home; a son, Ryan Kerr of…
Funeral services for Melvin Joseph Atkinson, 66, will be held at 2:00 p.m. Wednesday, April 6, 2011 at Swift Creek Baptist Church. The Rev. David Deming, the Rev. Todd Horton, and Bryan Leonard will officiate with burial in the church cemetery directed by Brown-Pennington-Atkins Funeral Home. The family will receive friends Tuesday, April 5, 2011 from 5-7 p.m. at the…
James Robert “Bobby” Sessoms, Sr., age 85, of Lumberton, NC died on Saturday, April 2, 2011 at Southeastern Regional Medical Center in Lumberton. He was born in Robeson County, NC on September 17, 1925 to Clyde Sessoms and Wilma Branch Sessoms. He previously worked as the chief jailer in Robeson County. Mr. Sessoms is survived by his wife, Eunice Tyndall…
Mrs. Gardner was born in Darlington County a daughter of the late Luther & Mamie Taylor Howell of Oates. She was the widow of Belk Howell and James Gardner. Surviving are three children: Willie James (Janie) Howell, Lamar, Peggy H. (Gerald) Gainey, Hartsville, Betty H. Parrott, Hartsville, five grandchildren, Kevin (Gretchen) Parrott, Craig (Elizabeth) Gainey, Hartsville, Steven (Gaye) Howell, Aiken,…
SCRANTON: Mrs. Mittie Lynch Collins, 88, widow of L. C. “Lucky” Collins, died Saturday, April 02, 2011, at Carolinas Hospital, Florence, after an illness. Mrs. Collins was born on June 10, 1922, in Florence County, a daughter of the late Tillman and Fannie Caulder Lynch. She was a homemaker and member of Unity Christian Fellowship Church where she taught Sunday…
