-Thursday, Aug. 9, 2001 MORNING NEWS OBITUARIES Funerals Today Beauford Maurice Ammons 4 p.m. Kistler-Hardee Funeral Home Chapel, Darlington. Tommie Amaker Brasington 11 a.m. Mt.
Pleasant Memorial Gardens. James. A. Driggers 2 p.m. Cades Pentecostal Holiness Church.
Evans Paul Harris 4 p.m. Second Baptist Church, Hartsville. Albert E. Hixon 11 a.m. Belk Funeral Home Chapel, Darlington.
Virginia Fillinger Rembert noon St. John Episcopal Church, Florence. Gregory Loren Sprenger 10:30 a.m. First United Methodist Church, Dixon, Ill. Sam Richard Truett 6 p.m.
First Baptist Church of Andrews. Ronnie Williams 3 p.m. Hamer Church of God. Veta M. Williams 4 p.m.
Jordan Funeral Home Chapel, Darlington. Death Notices Arthur Bowers Jr. died Saturday, Aug. 4, 2001 in Irvington, N.J. Arrangements will be announced by Smith's Funeral Home Inc.
of Florence. The family will receive friends at 716 Carver Florence. Theodore Laws of Lynchburg died Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2001. Arrangements will be announced by Bacote-Eaddy Funeral Home of Timmonsville.
The family will receive friends at 6930 Three Miles Branch Road, Lynchburg. Elizabeth Ann Harty, 58, died Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2001 at Carolinas Hospital System-Florence after an illness. Arrangements will be announced by Green's Funeral Home of Lake City. The family will receive friends at 1141 Isabella Road, Kingstree.
Whitfield "Whit" Stokes, 83, of Society Hill died Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2001 in a Hartsville nursing home. Arrangements will be announced by Belk Funeral Home of Darlington. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, Aug.
10 at the funeral home. Andrew Glenn Leadum died Monday, Aug. 6, 2001 from injuries received in an automobile accident. Arrangements will be announced by Young Young Funeral Home of Hartsville. Leroy Ephraim Spencer, formerly of Society Hill, died Tuesday, Aug.
7, 2001 in Charlotte, N.C., after an illness. Arrangements will be announced by Mitchell-Josey Funeral Home Inc. of Darlington. Obituary Policy Death notices, obituaries and funeral rites, without exception, must be provided by funeral homes or crematories. Death notices, obituaries and funeral rites be accepted by telephone.
Handwritten death notices, obituaries and funeral rites will not be accepted. The prices for obituaries are determined by the inch count once they are published in the newspaper. Prices are subject to change. The newspaper publishes the name, age, hometown, date of death and family visitation information once at no charge death notices. Death notices, obituaries and funeral rites must be received by 7.
p.m. the day before they are to appear in the newspaper. The obituary desk can be reached between 4 and 7 p.m. at 317-7270. Beauford Maurice John O.
'Jack' Gasque Jr. Ammons MIAMI Mr. John Oscar DARLINGTON Beauford Maurice "Reecie" Ammons, 43, of Darlington died Monday, Aug. 6, 2001. Funeral services will be held on Thursday, August 9, 2001 at 4 PM in the Kistler-Hardee Funeral Home Chapel.
Burial will follow in Grove Hill Cemetery directed by KistlerHardee Funeral Home. Mr. Ammons was born in Darlington County on September 20, 1957 and was the son of Maurice Earl and Barbara Segars Ammons. He was employed with Smurfit Stone of Florence and was a member of Calvary Baptist Church. Mr.
Ammons was a graduate of St. John's High School in 1975 and was selected by his fellow teammates as the recipient of the "Jerome F. Pate" Football Award his senior year. He was also a graduate of Presbyterian College in 1980 with a degree in History. While attending Presbyterian College he was awarded the "NAIA Player of the Week" for his outstanding performance in a football game.
He was the first football player from Darlington to go to the Shrine Bowl in many years. Mr. Ammons enjoyed collecting historical relics and he loved animals. He also played softball for Black Creek Baptist Church. Survivors include his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Maurice Earl (Barbara) Ammons, of Darlington; and one sister, Alice (Robert) Amos of Darlington. Memorials may be made to the Darlington County Humane Society, P.O. Box 1655, Hartsville, SC 29551. James Julius Mitcheom Sr.
HEMINGWAY James Julius "J.J." Mitcheom, 72, died Tuesday Aug. 7, 2001 in a Charleston hospital. Mr. Mitcheom was born in son of the late Jessie A. and Alice Nell Mitcheom.
He was a retired businessman and warehouseman, a member of the Indiantown Masonic Lodge a member of the Hemingway First Baptist Church and former Williamsburg County Councilman. Surviving are his wife, Rita Kohlbus Mitcheom of the home; son, J. J. Mitcheom, Jr. of Hemingway; three daughters, Deborah M.
Edgeworth of Imogene M. Conder and Julie M. Hill both of Columbia, SC; step-daughter, Kelley Waninger of 8 grandchildren and 1 great-grandchild; 4 brothers and 2 sisters. Funeral services will be held at 4 PM Friday in the Morris Funeral Home Chapel with burial in the Midway Cemetery. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 7 to 9 PM Thursday Memorials may be made to the Johnsonville Rescue Squad, PO Box 1021, Johnsonville, SC 29555.
William 'Sandy' Clarkson Jr. PELION William "Sandy" Clarkson 51, died Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2001 at the Bernardin Hospice House. Dunbar Funeral Home, Devine Street Chapel is in charge. Memorials may be made to the Lutheran Hospice, 1505 Blanding Columbia, S.C.
29201., especially for the use of the Joseph Cardinal Bernardin House. Born in Savannah, he was a son. of William Clarkson and Elizabeth Ervin Clarkson. He was a land surveyor with Engineering. Surviving are his wife, Diane; his.
parents of Landrum; sisters, Jane and her husband Dan Perlmutter of Cullowhee, N.C., and Beth and her husband Henry Burruss of Aiken; stepson, Oral (Campbell; stepdaughters, Lynn Bryant and Dena Pickle; three nieces; a nephew; aunts, unciles and many cousins. Clifton Kirkland Sr. TIMMONSVILLE Funeral service for Mr. Clifton Kirkland Sr. will be 3 p.m.
Friday, Aug. 10, 2001 in Chaney Grove Baptist Church. Burial will be in the church cemetery directed by Bacote-Eaddy Funeral Home. Mr. Kirkland died Sunday, Aug.
5. He was born in Darlington County a son of the late Edmond and Ada Copeland Kirkland. He attended the public schools of Florence County. He was a member of Chaney Grove Baptist Church. Survivors include nine children, Ada Lean Dixon, Beatrice Kirkland, Clayton (Elease) Kirkland, Abbey (Hattie) Kirkland, Clifton Kirkland James (Josephine) Kirkland, James Lee Askins, Pati Kirkland and Carol Kirkland, all of Timmonsville; three sisters, Carrega Johnson and Sadie Dukes of New York and Charlotte Johnson of Lamar; a brother, Nathaniel Kirkland of Lamar; 19 grandchildren; and 24 great grandchildren.
Visitation will be from 7 to 8 p.m. today in the funeral home chapel. Tommie Amaker MT. PLEASANT Tommie Amaker Brasington, widow of Dalton Kennedy Brasington died Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2001.
Mrs. Brasington, a daughter of the late Thomas Adam Amaker and Blanche Sistrunk Amaker, was born on Oct. 5, 1909 1 in St. Matthews. She graduated from Columbia College in 1930 where she was awarded the Sylvan Medal for outstanding scholarship and the President's Ring for the Most Womanly, the highest honor given a Columbia College senior.
She did graduate work at the University of South Carolina and Winthrop College and taught in the Soutla Carolina schools of Blackville, St. Matthew's, Chesterfield and Lamar. She organized the first public library in Lamar. As a 25-year resident of Mt. Pleasant she was very active in many benevolent, civic and church activities.
She was a member of Hibben United Methodist Church where she taught Sunday School, played the piano, sang in choir, and served through the Gentleness Circle. For rnany years she was a volunteer for Help of Charleston, Roper Hospital Auxiliary and a member of the Charleston Woman's Club. She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Katherine and William McIntosh of Summerville and her son and daughter-in-law, Dalton and Judy Brasington. of Charleston; a granddaughter and a grandsonin-law, Julia and Michael Stephenson of Mt. Pleasant, grandson arid granddaughter-inlaw, Bill and Hope McIntosh of Summerville, and grandson, Lachlan Brasington McIntosh of Columbia.
In addition she was the great-grandmother of Will Stephenson, Mary Lesesne McIntosh and Sara Frances McIntosh. A graveside service will be at 11 a.m. today at Mt. Pleasant Memorial Gardens, 1308 Mathis Ferry Road, Mt. Pleasant.
In lieu of" flowers, memorials may be macle to Hibben United Methodist Church, 690 Coleman Mt. Pleasant, S.C. 29464; The Presbyterian Home of Summerville, 9th North Summerville, S.C. 29483; or Columbia College Alumni Association, 1301 Columbia College Drive, Columbia, S.C. 29203.
Arrangements by J. Henry Stuhr, Mt. Pleasant Chapel, 1494 Mathis Ferry Road, Mt. Pleasant, S.C. 29464, 843-881-9293.
Paris Lemard 'Sid' Chockley LAKE CITY Paris Lemard "Sid" Chockley, 66, husband of Linnie B. Welch Chockley, died Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2001 in the Dorn VA Medical Center in Columbia. Born May 7, 1935, in Camden, he was a son of the late Marvin and Julia McKinley Chockley. He was a retired truck driver for Suburban Propane Gas a U.S.
Army veteran of the Korean War and the Gulf War, retired from the S.C. National Guard 1052nd Transportation and attended Matthews Tabernacle Church. Surviving are his wife of Lake City; five sons, Ricky and Gary Chockley of Lake City, David Chockley of Paxville, Larry Chockley of Manning and Perry Chockley of Marion; three daughters, Julia Goins of Greeleyville, Sarah Timmons of Manning and Sherry Harrell of Lake City; two brothers, Wayne Chockley of Rushville, and James Chockley of Burlington, Iowa; 18 grandchildren; and 13 great He was preceded in death by a sister, Jean Crome, and a daughter, Mary Lou Chockley. Funeral services with full military honors will be at 3 p.m. Saturday, Aug.
11 in Matthews Tabernacle Church in Lake City. The Rev. Charles Readling the Rev. Raymond Shaw will officiate. Burial will follow in Lake City Memorial Park.
The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday, Aug. 10 at Stephens Funeral Home in Manning and at other times at the residence. Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society. Stephens Funeral Home of Manning is in charge of the arrangements.
Brody May LaChance Elam MT. PLEASANT Brody May LaChance Elam, 90, of Mt. Pleasant, died Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2001. Her funeral service will be conducted at noon Tuesday, Aug.
14 at Swift Creek Baptist Church Cemetery, Darlington. Arrangements were made at J. Henry Stuhr, Inc. Mt. Pleasant Chapel.
Mrs. Elam was born in Darlington County on Feb. 4, 1911, a daughter of James H. and Tina Morrell Bryant. She had I been a resident of the Charleston area for more than 70 years and was a member of Rutledge Memorial Baptist Church.
She was preceded in death by her first husband, Edward "Lucky" LaChance, and her second husband, Clifford Monroe Elam. She is survived by her nephew and guardian, Col. Joseph P. Goodson and his wife, Nancy, of Mt. Pleasant, and another nephew, Mr.
James H. Bryant III of Florida. Also surviving are a grandniece, Jennifer Goodson Lackey of Mt. Pleasant, and two grandnephews, Brian G. Goodson of Alexandria, and Jeffrey J.
Goodson of San Diego. The Rev. Sam Richard Truett ANDREWS The Rev. Sam Richard Truett, 55, died Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2001 at Williamsburg Regional Hospital.
Funeral services will be at 6 p.m. today at First Baptist Church of Andrews with a visitation following the service. Burial will be 11 a.m. Friday, Aug. 10, 2001 at Grove Hill Cemetery in Darlington with a visitation following the burial in the fellowship hall of First Original Free Will Baptist Church of Darlington.
Andrews Chapel of McKenzie Funeral Home is in charge. Rev. Truett was born Sept. 24, 1945, in Florence, the son of S.W. Truett and Myrtle Anderson Truett.
He was a Master of Divinity graduate of Bob Jones University; an ordained minister for 34 years of the National Association of the Original Free Will Baptist pastoring in North Carolina and South Carolina; pastored West Calvary Free Will Baptist Church of Smithfield, N.C., for 21 years; served 15 years on the Board of Trustees at the Free Will Baptist Bible College, Nashville, was an author and scholar of Sunday School literature for Randall House Publications. He was currently the pastor of the Black River Original Free Will Baptist Church of Andrews. Surviving are his wife, Anne Boseman Truett of Andrews; a son, Rev. Paul Christopher "Chris" Truett and his wife, Kim, of Raleigh, N.C.; and two grandsons, Hunter Truett and Jonathan Truett, both of Raleigh. Memorials may be made to Black River Free Will Baptist Church, 5437 County Line Road, Andrews, S.C.
29510. Margaret L. Gurley Rogers DARLINGTON Funeral service for Ms. Margaret L. Gurley Rogers will be 2 p.m.
Friday, Aug. 10, 2001 in Pentecostal Temple Church of God in Christ, 806 E. Pine Florence, with Supt. Billy Gaskins, pastor, officiating. Burial will follow in Olive Grove Baptist Church Cemetery directed by Mitchell-Josey Funeral Home, Inc.
of Darlington. Ms. Rogers, 50, died Monday, Aug. 6 in a Chapel Hill, N.C., hospital after an illness She was borr in Darlington a daughter of the late Rev. Luther and Mrs.
Mattie Eaddy. She was the widow of Joe Rogers of Connecticut. She was a graduate of Brien High School and was currently enrolled at Meredith College in Raleigh. She was employed at BTI Telecommunication of Raleigh, N.C. Survivors include her daughter, Robin V.
Rogers of Raleigh, N.C.; her biological mother, Ms. Louise Gurley McElveen of Darlington; her biological sisters and brothers, Ms. Mary Gurley, Ms. Nathine Johnson and Ms. Lee Ann Gurley, all of Darlington, Mrs.
Carrie Baker of Brooklyn, N.Y., Mrs. Magdalene (Elder Billy) Gaskins and Ms. Ruby Gurley, both of Florence, Rudolf Gurley, Leroy Gurley and Leon (Diana) Gurley, all of Brooklyn, N.Y., Nathan (Jenarene) Scott of Lynchburg, George Gurley and L. W. McElveen, both of Darlington, and Ervin Eaddy of Philadelphia; three aunts, Mrs.
Lucille Ceasar, Mrs. Marceil Williams and Mrs. Mattie "Honey" Eaddy; an uncle, Richard Brown; nieces; nephews; a host of cousins. A sister, Tonya D. Preston, preceded her in death.
The family is receiving friends at the home of a sister, Mary Gurley of 118 Pepper Drive, Darlington. Gladys B. Lunn Funeral services for Mrs. Gladys B. Lunn will be 1:30 PM Friday at Mt.
Calvary Baptist Church in Hartsville. Rev. Edward Squire pastor, The Rev. James S. Hall will deliver the Eulogy Directed by Bowman's Funeral Home.
Born to (the late) former Salina (Thomas) and Eddie Jerome Bristow of Florence County, our focus of attention today grew from a productive farmgirl to graduate from Wilson High School and later from Morris College to succeed as a leader in many areas. She made her choice to serve God through her fellow man by teaching for more than 35 years in the public schools across the Pee Dee area, but ultimately by marrying (the late) Rev. David Julian Lunn and rearing and educating their own six daughter all of whom excell today. Mrs. Lunn worked tirelessly with Pee Dee Missionary Baptist Associations in many.
Endeavors and capacities, some of which include first president of the Pee Dee Women's District Convention, president of the Mount Calvary Baptist Church's Missionaries, of the ministers' wives and much more. She served as site manager of the Timmonsville Senior Citizens' Center for the Florence County Council on Aging; administrative assistant for the Florence County Health Department, office director of the Lower Florence County Telamon (a federal housing rehabilitation program) and a few other public service capacities. To advance her causes she challenges and passes the torch on to her children: Mrs. Garcia P. (James Norman) Alston of Hackensack, N.J., Ms.
Deborah J. (Reginald Greene of Effingham, SC; Ms. Rebecca S. Lunn of Timmonsville, SC; Mrs. Cheryl J.
(Elston Lewis of Greensboro, NC; Ms. Renetha L. Lunn and Mrs. Andrea W. (Frank) Herring, both of Timmonsville, SC; six grandchildren: two great grandchildren: two sisters: Mrs.
Bertha B. Cummings of Commander Nursing Home and Mrs. Clyde B. (Reuben) Smith of Florence, countless friends, converts, former students, fellow field missionaries and educators. There will be a christian wake service Thursday 7:00 PM at the Funeral Home Chapel.
Memorials may be made to the Mt. Calvary Baptist Church (Hartsville, SC) Education Fund. Obituaries should be received by 7 p.m. the day before they are to appear in the newspaper. Obituary clerk Sherral Harrison can be reached between 4 and 7 p.m.
weekdays at 317-7270. Margaret Fortner Watkins LAGUNA HILLS, CALIF. Margaret Fortner Watkins, 84, died Friday, Aug. 3, 2001, in Laguna Hills, Calif. Formerly of Florence, Mrs.
Watkins was the widow of Harry C. Watkins. She was a member of Central United Methodist Church. Graveside service will be 11 a.m. Saturday, Aug.
11 in Mount Hope Cemetery directed by Wat Funeral Home. She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Bryce and Paul Forney of Laguna Hills, Calif. Melester McNeil Milo FLORENCE Funeral service for Mrs. Melester McNeil Milo will be 3 p.m. Friday, Aug.
10, 2001 in Aimwell Baptist Church. Burial will be in the church cemetery directed by Peoples Funeral Service of Florence. Mrs. Milo died Monday, Aug. 6.
She was born in Florence County a daughter of the Ethel McNeil and the late Brewington. McNeil. She was a lifelong mem: ber of Aimwell Baptist Church. She was the wife of the late Mr. Malachi Milo.
Survivors include her mother of Fayetteville; four sons, Charles (Claudette) Graham, of California, LaFayette (Mary) Graham of Texas, Hamon (Dorothy) Graham Jr. and Tony (Diane) Milo, all of Florence; two special nieces, Veronica (Eddie) Johnson of Darlington and Pamela (Lincoln) Washington of, North Carolina; nine grandchildren; and three great grandchildren. For the Record "Jack" Gasque 87, died Sunday, Aug. 5, 2001 at his home in Miami. Graveside services will be at 2 p.m.
Friday, Aug. 10 at Rose Hill Cemetery in Marion. The services will be directed by SmithCollins Funeral Home of Marion. Mr. Gasque was born in Marion on Dec.
28, 1913, a son of the late John O. Gasque and the late Kathryn Pratt Gasque. Mr. Gasque graduated from Francis Marion High School, where he lettered in five sports. He spent Gasque his summers in Murrells Inlet and learned to survey under the guidance of Col.
Monroe Johnson of World War I fame. Mr. Gasque graduated from Clemson which was a military college in 1937 and was a member of Sigma Nu Fraternity. After college, Mr. Gasque became a civil engineer for the United States Coast Geodetic Survey.
He later worked for Vacuum Concrete, Inc. and helped design pumped concrete structures. Mr. Gasque met Velva Meier, from Fredericksburg, Iowa in Washington, D.C., and married her on June 19, 1942. During World War II Mr.
Gasque was a lieutenant in the Navy Seabees, 42nd Construction Battalion. The 42nd Battalion's first assignment was to clear Port Chicago, after an ammunition ship exploded. The 42nd Seabees built port facilities, air bases and submarine bases in the Aleutian Islands. Mr. Gasque helped build a hospital in the Philippines and at the end of the war was building a cemetery in anticipation of casualties from the invasion of Japan.
After the war Mr. Gasque lived with his bride, Velva, in Marion, where he built many homes and his son John O. Gasque III was born. Later, Mr. Gasque moved his family to Birmingham, as an engineer for Texaco, where his daughter Joan Gasque was born.
He built a steel mill in Texas, a tire plant in Nashville and a paper mill in Rome, Ga. Mr. Gasque also helped build the waterworks system for Panama City Beach, Fla. In 1961 he moved his family to Miami and worked as a civil engineer for the U.S. Coast Guard, from which he retired.
Mr. Gasque is survived by his wife of 59 years, Velva; his son, John O. Gasque III of Miami; his daughter, Joan Gasque Hagen of Tallahassee; his son-in-law, David Hagen; and grandsons, John "Jay" Gasque IV and Bram Gasque Hagen. The family will receive friends from noon to 1 p.m. Friday, Aug.
10 at Smith-Collins Funeral Home in Marion. Gasque Lunn Lunn FROM STAFF REPORTS Darlington County Bookings The following are charges of people, booked at the Darlington County. Detention Center from 10 a.m. Monday: to 10:30 a.m. Wednesday: Robert Benjamin Bacote, 32, 715.
E. Chaplin Circle, Hartsville, speeding, reckless driving, failure to stop for a blue: light. Joe Moses, 36, 138 Williamson Drive, Hartsville, resisting arrest, breach, of trust with fraudulent intent. Antonio Armand Bacote, 25, 402- Howard Florence, parole violation. Harold Dean Estepp, 31, 1221, Sandwood Lane, Hartsville, DUS.
Sam Rush, 43, 318 Syracuse Field, Darlington, distribution of crack, distribution of crack with intent to dis, tribute within proximity of a school, cont. to Amanda Ann McCoy, 21, 1281 Apartment Circle, Darlington, fraudulent check. Patsy Hicks Robinson, 37, 1216; Mechanicsville Highway, possession of crack cocaine. Alvene F. Jackson, 59, 1044 Mclver Road, P.O.
Box 66, fraudulent check. Mary B. Arrington, 48, 1324 Major: Drive, Darlington, three counts of lent checks. Willie Lee Washington, 34, of; Turbeville Correctional Institution, Turbeville, popst-conviction relief. Ricky Shake, 17, 129 N.
Ervin Darlington, malicious injury to personal: property. Travis Sentall Robinson, 20, 1506: James Hartsville, carrying a con-: cealed weapon. Arthuron K. Harrison, 22, 401, Swift Creek, Apt C-4, Hartsville, assault, and battery with intent to kill. Lorenzo Scott, 29, 247 Darlington, distribution of crack, cocaine, distribution of crack cocaine with in mile of a school.
Eddie Williamson, 31, 311 Chanle Darlington, trespass after warning. Dexter McLendon 64, 780. Joseph Hill Road, Darlington, possession of cocaine with intent to distribute. Sharesie A. King, 24, 805 Coggeshall Road, Darlington, two counts of fraudulent check.
Willie J. Leeks, 39, 2437 Suppersand Drive, Hartsville, CDV. Denise Edwards, 35, 613 Flicker Lane, Hartsville, grand larceny. Robert McCoy, 29, 1218 Farm, Lane, Hartsville, assault by threat. Dennis Mitchell Haire, 41, 1850 Mohawk Drive, Hartsville, DUI-1st, offense.
Ronald Travis, 48, 304 Dorough, Darlington, DUI. The following key is provided to help. readers better understand the charges. under which people are booked: CDV Criminal domestic violence. DUI Driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
DUS Driving under suspension. Lynching Joining others in assaulting an individual. Safekeeping Holding an inmate for another law enforcement agency. KISTLER Hardee Funeral Home Serving Darlington County Since 1922.
