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STEPHEN PIERCE
DARLINGTON – Services for Stephen "Kink" Pierce, 69, were held at 1 p.m. Tuesday, March 27, 2001, in New Providence Baptist Church with the Rev. Kippie Brown, pastor, officiating. Burial followed in the Florence National Cemetery directed by Mitchell-Josey Funeral Home.
Mr. Pierce died Friday, March 23, at the home of his sister after an illness. He was born
in Darlington County, a son of the late John and Sarah Richardson Pierce. He attended the Darlington County public schools and was a member of New Providence Baptist Church. He served his country in the U.S. Army and was honorably discharged. He worked with Goodson Construction Co.
Survivors include a devoted sister, Mrs. Marie Bacote of Darlington; a sister-in-law, Mrs. Juanita Pierce of Darlington; several nieces, nephews, grandnieces, grandnephews and cousins.
EASTER WHEELING
Mrs. Easter Wheeling died Tuesday, March 27, 2001, at her residence. Funeral arrangements will be announced by Hines Funeral Home.
EASTER WHEELING
Services for Easter Wheeling were held 1:30 p.m. Saturday, March 31, 2001, at Mt. Calvary Baptist Church with the Rev. Edward J. Squire, pastor, officiating. Burial was in the church cemetery directed by Hines Funeral Home. A wake service was held Friday, March 30, at 6 p.m. in the Gilbert Hines Memorial Chapel.
Mrs. Wheeling died Tuesday, March 27, at her residence. She was born
in Darlington County, a daughter of the late Webster Dock and Anne Elliott Leavy. She was educated in the public schools of the county and was a 1937 graduate of Butler High School. She was married
to the late Eddie Waitus Wheeling, and this union was blessed with 10 children, eight of whom survive her.
She and her family remained in the Hartsville area until 1965 when she relocated to Philadelphia, Pa. She remained in Pennsylvania until her return to Hartsville in 1998. She first was a member of the St. John Methodist Church, and attended the Kingsville Methodist Church. Later she joined and was baptized in the Mt. Calvary Baptist Church. After moving to Philadelphia she continued her faith with the Sharon Baptist Church where she become mother of the church and a deaconess. After moving back to Hartsville, she returned to Mt. Calvary Baptist Church.
Survivors are four daughters, R. Carolyn Wheeling of Hartsville, Juanita (John) Phillips of Willingboro, N.J., Betty Gregory of Burlington, N.J., and Margie (Raymond) Willis of Philadelphia, Pa.; four sons, James (Carolyn) Wheeling of Somerville, N.J., Eddie (Cora) Wheeling and Bill Wheeling, both of Westbury, N.Y., and Orris (Sylvia) Wheeling of Brentwood, N.Y.; and a sister, Lula Mae Montgomery of Hartsville.
DR. MARTIN WOODWARD JR.
COLUMBIA – Services for Martin Bryan Woodward Jr., M.D. 72, will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday at Eastminister Presbyterian Church with burial in Greenlawn Memorial Park. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Alzheimer's Disease Research, 15825 Shady Grove Road, Suite 140 Rockville, Md. 20850; Eastminister Presbyterian Church Life Center Building Fund, 3200 Trenholm Road, Columbia, S.C. 29204 or The Carolina Children's Home, 3201 Trenholm Road, Columbia, S.C. 29204.
Dr. Woodward died Saturday, March 17, 2001. He was born
in the University Hospital of the Georgia Medical School in Augusta, Jan. 1, 1929, while his father, the late Martin B. Woodward Sr., M.D. was attending medical school. His mother was the late Lucile Edith Lowry Woodward.
He was introduced to medicine by his mother at age 15. His mother, a public health nurse for the state of South Carolina, allowed him to drive her around Blythewood in an old 1939 Packard, while she taught midwives how to deliver babies and held well-baby clinics in the old Blythewood High School. He attended Columbia City Schools. He was in the Army of occupation in Germany after World War II.
After serving in the Army, he returned to Columbia to work at the Highway Department, while attending the University of South Carolina. It was at the highway department that he met his future wife, Joann Kathleen Jones. They were married
on Aug. 18, 1951. He attended the University of South Carolina, from which he received a B.S. in chemistry in 1952. He then attended the Medical College of South Carolina in Charleston, where he received his medical doctorate in 1956. In 1957, after a rotating internship at the old Columbia Hospital, he entered the general practice in medicine, obstetrics and gynecology in the Rosewood Shopping Center in the neighborhood in which he was reared. After 10 years, in 1967, he closed his practice and entered an orthopedic surgery residency at the old Columbia Orthopedic Clinic, which was later changed to Associated Orthopedist of Columbia, P.A.
He was a board certified orthopedic surgeon, a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, a member of the South Carolina Medical Association, the American Medical Association, the Columbia Medical Society, the South Carolina Orthopedic Association and the American Forensic Society. He was a senior aviation medical examiner for the FAA for 29 years. He had a private pilot's license with an instrument rating and was rated to fly high-performance single- and multi-engine aircraft.
He was a member of Eastminister Presbyterian Church, The Medical Journal Club, Forest Lake Club, Palmetto Club and the Caprician Club.
He practiced orthopedic surgery until April 1994. He closed his office and practiced Locum Teneos Orthopedic Surgery in Alaska, including Palmer, Unalaska and Dutch Harbor, in the Aleutian Islands, Michigan and North Dakota. An accident in North Dakota forced him to stop practicing medicine in March 1996. He was licensed to practice in eight states.
He is survived by his wife of 50 years, Joann Jones Woodward; daughters, Questria Woodward (Henry A.) Meyer of Greenville, Pamela Woodward (Fred) Bass; sons, M. Bryan Woodward III, M.D., Charlotte, Price Purvis (Tamara Delaine Gay) Woodward, St. Louis; granddaughters, Kate, Jocelyn and Britten Meyer, Greenville; Josephine and Remington Bass, Atlanta, Ga.; Lainey, Watson and Della Woodward, St. Louis; sister, Jane Woodward Truett, Hartsville; nieces and nephews; and his special aunt, Theresa Woodward, Aiken.
ROBERT MACK
DARLINGTON – Services for Robert B. Mack, 44, were held at 4 p.m. Thursday, March 22, 2001, at Lawson Grove Baptist Church with the Rev. Wilbet White, pastor, officiating. Burial followed in the church cemetery directed by Mitchell-Josey Funeral Home.
Mr. Mack died Sunday, March 18, at the home of his parents after an illness. He was born
in Darlington County, a son of Cleveland and Janie Mae Simon Mack Sr.
He received his education in Darlington County public schools, graduating from Mayo High School class of 1974. At an early age, he attended and joined Lawson Grove Baptist Church where he served faithfully on the Mass Choir.
He was a loan officer for First Future State Mortgage in Darlington. He started a singing group with his sisters, "The Spiritualettes" in which he was a lead singer.
Survivors include his parents, Deacon Cleveland and Janie Mack Sr. of Darlington; three brothers, Cleveland (Betty) Mack Jr., James (Cassandra) Mack Sr. and Alvin Mack, all of Darlington; four sisters, Betty (Leroy) Jackson, CleEster (Henry) Wilson and Yvonne (Christopher) Colclough, all of Darlington and Vernette (Ralph) Dees of Columbia; an adopted brother, Andrew Sansvury of Columbia; aunts; uncles; nieces and cousins.
FRANCES HUBBARD
DARLINGTON – Services for Frances Gardner Hubbard, 78, were held at 11 a.m Saturday, March 24, 2001, in Trinity United Methodist Church in Darlington. The Revs. Timothy Rogers and Ellison Evans officiated with interment following in Grove Hill Cemetery directed by Kistler-Hardee Funeral Home. Memorials may be made to Trinity United Methodist Church Building Fund, P. O. Box 16, Darlington, S.C. 29532 or to Hospice of the Pee Dee, Florence, S.C. 29502.
Mrs. Hubbard, wife of the late Tyson H. Hubbard Sr., died on Thursday, March 22, at McLeod Regional Medical Center after an illness. She was born
in Meggets, S.C., on Jan. 23, 1923, a daughter of the late Rev. Grover C. Gardner and Sarah Elizabeth Gardner. She attended high school in McColl. She was a member of Trinity United Methodist Church and the Phillips Sunday School Class. Mrs. Hubbard worked at Coggeshall's Department Store for 18 years and then later worked for Second Time Around consignment shop in Florence.
Surviving are four sons, Tyson H. (Eleanor) Hubbard Jr., Francis G. "Frankie" (Gail) Hubbard, Gene C. (Elaine) Hubbard and Ronald M. Hubbard, all of Darlington; one daughter, Elizabeth H. (Louie) Gilbert of Hartsville; one sister, Helen G. Chapman of Johnsonville; 10 grandchildren, Tyson H. (Traci) Hubbard III, Timothy D. (Elizabeth) Hubbard, Tony Hubbard, Kristi Hubbard, Rion Hubbard, Dennis Wright, Kelly (Charlie) Raines, Michael Norwood, Chase Gilbert, and Ron Hubbard Jr.; five great-grandchildren, Tyson H. Hubbard IV, Ashley A. Hubbard, Jennifer W. Hubbard, Timothy D. Hubbard Jr. and Andrew L. Raines; and a special friend, Lewis Jordan of Lamar.
Mrs. Hubbard was predeceased by two brothers, G. C. Gardner and William Gardner; three sisters, Ethel Carr, Henrietta Clyburn and Bernice Hubbard.
MARGARET SANDERS
Mrs. Margaret "Nuke Gal" Sanders died at her residence on Tuesday, March 20, after an illness. The family will receive friends at the residence at 1440 East Old Camden Road. Arrangements will be announced by Hines Funeral Home.
MARGARET SANDERS
Services for Margaret "Nuke Gal" Sanders were held at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, March 25, 2001, at New Hopewell Baptist Church with the Rev. Calvin Daniels, pastor, officiating. Burial was in the church cemetery directed by Hines Funeral Home.
Mrs. Sanders died Tuesday, March 20, at her residence after an illness. She was born
in Darlington County, one of 16 children of the late James C. and Pearl Brown Mumford. She was educated in the public schools and moved to New York at the age of 12 and continued her education in the New York public school system. She remained in New York all of her adult life and worked in the food service industry. She returned to her native Hartsville after declining health. She was a member of the Pleasant Grove Baptist Church of Brooklyn, N. Y.
Survivors are three daughters, Azalee Mumford and Pearl Sanders of Hartsville, and Andrea Sanders of Manhattan, N.Y.; four sons, Rodney Antonio Sanders, Harvey Sanders and Louis Sanders, all of Brooklyn, N.Y. and Andre Sanders of Queens, N.Y.; seven sisters, Azalee Martin, Laura Jones, Gertrude Dunn and Mary Burrough, all of Brooklyn, N.Y., Lillie Ham of Hartsville, Connie (Jerome) Ham of New Haven, Conn., Barbara (Eugene) Gregg of Columbia; five brothers, James (Connie) Mumford, Joe Lewis Jackson, Melvin (Linda) Jackson, James Walter Mumford and Monroe Jackson Jr., all of Brooklyn, N.Y.; an aunt, Romella Richardson of Newark, N.J.; 21 grandchildren; and an adopted daughter, Daisy Mae Allen of Hartsville.
WILLIS USHER SR.
CHERAW – Graveside services for Willis A. Usher Sr., 76, were held at 3 p.m. Saturday, March 24, 2001, at Chatham Hill Memorial Gardens in Cheraw, directed by Norton Funeral Home of Cheraw. Memorials can be made to the National WWII Memorial in Washington, D.C., or to the charity of your choice.
Mr. Usher died Thursday, March 22, in Rock Hill. Born in the Brightsville Township of Marlboro County, he was the son of the late Thomas Boyd and Mary Willis Usher. He was a supervisor with J.P. Stevens Co. and retired after 31 years of service. He was also a salesperson with the Cheraw Hardware and Supply Co. for several years. He was a U.S. Navy veteran serving in WWII as a gunner's mate. He was a member of First Baptist Church in Cheraw.
He is survived by sons, Willis A. (Debbie) Usher Jr. of Hartsville and Michael (Debbie) J. Usher of Rock Hill; and a grandson, Michael B. Usher of Rock Hill. Mr. Usher was predeceased by his wife, Margie Teal Usher and brother, Thomas Boyd Usher.
EDWARD M. BABB
Graveside services for Edward Morris Babb, 77, were held at 11 a.m. Monday, March 26, 2001 in Magnolia Cemetery with the Revs. Tim Tomlinson and Dr. Bob Cline officiating and directed by Brown-Pennington-Atkins Funeral Home. Memorials may be made to West Hartsville Baptist Church.
Mr. Babb died Saturday, March 24. Born in Gray Court, S.C., he was a son of the late Joel Melmoth and Mamie Stone Babb. He was a member of West Hartsville Baptist Church and a member and former teacher of the Men's Bible Class. He was retired from Bi-Lo as a district manager and was a World War II veteran.
Surviving are his wife, Mary Blakely Babb of Hartsville; daughter and son-in-law, Jane and Michal Kielar of Florence; brothers, Joel M. Babb and Eugene E. Babb; sister, Mary B. Rossiter; and two grandchildren, Alexis K. LaBarge and Nicholas E. LaBarge.
JOHN MOSES
John (Studa) Moses Jr., 66, died Monday in McLeod Regional Medical Center after an illness. Arrangements will be announced by Young & Young Funeral Home.
JOHN MOSES JR.
Services for John (Studa) Moses Jr., 66, will be held at 3 p.m. today, March 30, 2001, at Second Baptist Church with burial in Greenlawn Cemetery directed by Young & Young Funeral Home.
Mr. Moses died Monday, March 26, at McLeod Regional Medical Center after an illness. He was born
Jan. 7, 1935, in Lee County and was a son of the late John and Grace Johnson Moses Sr. He was a member of Second Baptist Church and was educated in Lee County public schools.
Surviving are his wife, Elder Christine Brown Moses of Hartsville; two sisters, Shirley Moses of Hartsville and Mamie Moses of Paterson, N.J.; two brothers, Calvin Moses of Hartsville and James Moses of Bronx, N.Y.; five step-daughters, Helen Prince, Joyce (Marvin) McCall and Jeanine (Leroy) Edwards, all of Hartsville, Jean (Larry) Olimb of Seattle, Wash., and Jackie (Leon) Hickmon of Columbus, Ga.; three step-sons, Henry (Nina Mae) Prince and Walter (Patricia) Prince, both of Hartsville, and Calvin Prince of Columbia; nieces, nephews; 16 step-grandchildren; four step great-grandchildren and other close relatives and friends.
