Margaret Perry Driggers
Jul 5, 2020
Margaret Perry Driggers, 59, of Florence, passed away on Sunday, July 5, 2020. Mrs. Driggers was born in Florence Co., SC a daughter of the late Leon Perry and Louise Cox Perry.She was a member of First Free Will Baptist Church and worked in the health care field. She was preceded in death by her parents and by two sons,...
Kathy Smith Sims
Jul 1, 2020
Kathy Smith Sims, 62, of Darlington, passed away on Wednesday, July 1, 2020. Kathy was born a daughter of the late Sarah Griggs Smith and James “Jimmy” Smith of Ruby, SC.She was the Director of Nursing of the Heart and Vascular Institute at McLeod Regional Medical Center Heart and had been employed with McLeod for 30 years.Kathy loved her family,...
Francis Freeman Richardson
Jul 1, 2020
Francis Freeman Richardson, 98, of Florence, passed away on Wednesday, July 1, 2020. Mr. Richardson was born a son of the late Ina Wertz Richardson and Benjamin Fred Richardson.He was a US Army Air Corps Veteran, having served in WWII in the Pacific with the 5th Airforce.Mr. Richardson was member of Highland Park United Methodist Church and Florence Optimist Club....
Edaphell Bernice Hyman Gibbs
Jul 1, 2020
Edaphell Bernice Hyman Gibbs, 89, passed away on Wednesday, July 1, 2020. Mrs. Gibbs was born May 1, 1931, in the Pamplico area of South Carolina during a far more gentle time in our land. Neighbors were all quick to offer help in difficult times. Sundays were set aside for Church Worship, followed by dinners home prepared and frequently attended...
Lois Redford Parrott
Jun 30, 2020
Lois Redford Parrott, 97, of Florence, formerly of Sumter, SC, passed away on Tuesday, June 30, 2020. Mrs. Parrott was born the daughter of the late Gertrude Knight Redford and Benjamin Harrison Redford.She was graduated from Spartanburg Methodist College and Columbia College.She was employed with South Carolina Methodist Conference as Conference Director of Youth, taught in the Sumter School System...
Jonathan "Jon" Christopher Maddrix
Jun 28, 2020
Some of Jon's favorite verses were Psalm 139:13-16 You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother's womb. Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex.Your workmanship is marvelous - How well I know it. You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion, as I was woven together in...
Walter Wendell Merritt
Jun 27, 2020
Walter Wendell Merritt, 79, of Effingham, passed away on Saturday, June 27, 2020. Mr. Merritt was born in Marion, SC a son of the late Walter Mace Merritt and Lena Hinds Merritt.He retired from DuPont after 32 years.He was a member of Hebron Baptist Church, was active in Cooks for Christ, president of the WOW Lodge #52, and a member...
Fairlyn J. Kysar
Jun 27, 2020
Fairlyn J Kysar, of Florence, SC, went to be with the Lord on Saturday, June 27, 2020 at McLeod Hospice House. Fairlyn retired from General Electric 30 years ago and was a member of Southside Baptist Church. She was predeceased by her parents, Lyman and Flonnie Kiker, as well as her 7 siblings. She is survived by her two daughters,...
James E. Rice
Jun 26, 2020
James E. Rice, 75, of Florence, went to be with the Lord on Friday, June 26, 2020 after a lengthy illness. Mr. Rice was born in Lumberton, NC on August 16, 1944 to the late Elmer Durham Rice and Dorothy Louise Humphrey Rice Oliver.He graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University with a BS degree in Marketing and Advertising.Jim worked for Eastern...
William Meadors "Bill" Stricklin
Jun 25, 2020
William Meadors “Bill” Stricklin, 76, of Florence, passed away at his home surrounded by his family on Thursday, June 25, 2020. Mr. Stricklin was born on January 26, 1944 in Wilmington, DE, son of the late Malcolm McCaskill Stricklin and Meadors Lunn Stricklin.He graduated from McClenaghan High School in Florence, SC after transferring from Eastmore High School in Columbus, Ohio...
Terry Wilson Stewart
Jun 24, 2020
Terry Wilson Stewart, Sr., 76, of Effingham, passed away on Wednesday, June 24, 2020, at McLeod Regional Medical Center surrounded by his family. Mr. Stewart was born the son of the late Lurleen Fowler Baker and Dewey Wilson Stewart.He was a member of Sand Hill Free Will Baptist Church and retired from Wellman Industries (formerly Fiber Industries). In addition to...
Joleen Grooms Watford
Jun 23, 2020
Joleen Grooms Watford, 80, of Alvation, KY, passed away on Tuesday, June 23, 2020. Mrs. Watford was born in Florence, SC a daughter of the late Lonnie Grooms and Aileen Miles Grooms. Joleen Watford lived a full life and brought joy to everyone she met. She was a loving mother and grandmother to her own family and filled that role...
Phyllis Vaciana Thomas Scott
Jun 23, 2020
Phyllis Vaciana Thomas Scott, 91, of Florence, passed away on Tuesday, June 23, 2020. Ms. Scott was born a daughter of the late Roslyn Estella Wilson Thomas and Jeremiah Thomas. She had worked in food service at a local hospital in Jamaica, WI. In addition to her parents, she is preceded in death by her husband, Herbert Scott; brothers, Henry...
Allen Lee Mize
Jun 22, 2020
Allen Lee Mize, 52, of Florence, SC, passed away on Monday, June 22, 2020. Allen Mize was born a son of the late Betty Ray Hierholzer Mize and Charles Henry Mize.He is a 1990 graduate of Texas A&M University with a Bachelor of Science in Agronomy Business. He was Chief Operating Officer of McCall Farms and a member of St....
Judith Ann Jordan
Jun 20, 2020
Judith Ann Jordan, 79, of Florence, passed away on Saturday, June 20, 2020. Mrs. Jordan was born in Morrisville, Pennsylvania, a daughter of the late John Milton Woolston and Mary Ann Lawton Woolston.She was a loving wife and homemaker.She was raised in the Episcopal faith and had been attending All Saints Church since moving to Florence. In addition to her...
Helen Corneal Aldridge
Jun 17, 2020
Helen Corneal Aldridge, 91, of Florence, passed away on Wednesday, June 17, 2020. Mrs. Aldridge was born in Rockwood, TN, a daughter of the late Charles Fritts and Ursula Gertrude Bearden Fritts.She was a member of Mizpah Baptist Church.She taught the GA’s and Sunday School, and was an avid reader of Christian Romance Novels.She was the owner and operator of...
Mary Martha Meridth
Jun 16, 2020
Mary Martha Meridth passed away Tuesday, June 16th, 2020, at a local hospital after a brief illness. Martha was born in Marion County on March 17, 1954. She was the only daughter of Bishop Meridth and Mary Alice Sawyer Meridth. She grew up in Johnsonville, SC and graduated from Johnsonville High in 1972. She worked as a secretary at Tupperware...
Jacqueline Eugenia Mercier
Jun 16, 2020
Jacqueline Eugenia Mercier went to be with the Lord on Tuesday June 16, 2020 at a local hospital. Mrs. Mercier was born in Great Falls, SC on December 25, 1928, a daughter of the late Edward Ralph Baker and Lida Vanlandingham Baker.“Jackie”, as she was called, was a cosmetologist who, after graduating from cosmetology school, moved to Florence and worked...
Sheryl Kelley Green
Jun 16, 2020
Sheryl Kelley Green, 62, of Florence, SC, passed quietly in her sleep and entered paradise withJesus on Wednesday, June 16, 2020. Mrs. Green was born a daughter of Bobbie Jean Shelton Kelley-Plemmons (Gene) and the late James “Jimmy” Thomas Kelley. She was a member of COED-VI Sunday School Class and a member of SWATT at Hoffmeyer Road Baptist Church and...
Rhonda Gail Compton
Jun 16, 2020
Rhonda Gail Compton, 70, of Florence, SC, passed away on Tuesday, June 16, 2020. Ms. Compton was born a daughter of the late Mavin Poston McKissick and Carlyle McKissick. She is survived by her sons, Andrew Wade Gregory, Robert Glenn Adams and Michael Lane Compton; daughter, Rechelle Glenda Adams; seven grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; and brother, Barry McKissick. A Memorial Service...
