MIDDLETON, Mary
Entered into eternal rest on Thursday, November 28, 2002, Ms. Mary Louise Middleton, daughter of the late Rev. and Mrs. Jessie Middleton, Sr. Late residence, 866 Tripe St., Ashleyville, Funeral notice later. Friends may call at PASLEY'S MORTUARY, 1115 5th Avenue Maryville, 571-2300.
ARTHUR, SR., Phynnis
Phynnis Edward Arthur, Sr., 73, husband of Nell Goodman Arthur, of Manning, S.C., died Thursday, November 28, 2002, at a Charleston hospital.
Funeral services will be held at Parks Funeral Home Chapel, Saturday afternoon, November 30, 2002, at 2 o'clock. Burial will be held in Summerville cemetery.
Flowers will be accepted or memorials may be made to the Shriners Hospital for Crippled Children, 950 W. Faris Road, Greenville, SC 29605.
Arrangements by PARKS FUNERAL HOME, SUMMERVILLE, S.C.
STOKES, Marion
COTTAGEVILLE - Mr. Marion Melvin Stokes, 72, of 24277 Augusta Highway, Cottageville, entered into eternal rest Friday morning, November 29, 2002, at his residence after a long illness.
Funeral services will be held 1:30 o'clock Sunday, December 1, 2002, in the Maple Cane Baptist Church with the Reverend Doctor David Anderson officiating. Interment will follow in Meeting House cemetery in Cottageville. Mr. Stokes will lie in state in the new sanctuary of Maple Cane Baptist Church Sunday at 12 noon. Pallbearers will be: Ricky Mixon, Bennie Drawdy, Randy Ferguson, Blake Anderson, Lance Anderson, and Chad Ridgeway.
Mr. Stokes was born October 16, 1930 in Cottageville and was a son of the late Emmett Wilsco "E.W." Stokes and Mattie Mae Ferguson Stokes. He was a United States Army Veteran having served in the Korean Conflict, and retired after twenty-six years as a paper finisher, from Westvaco in North Charleston. He was a faithful member of the Maple Cane Baptist Church where he was active in the church choir and was a former deacon.
Surviving are: his loving wife of forty-five years, Patsy Surofchek Stokes; his daughter, Teresa Stokes Baker and her husband Dr. Mark Baker of Anderson; a sister, Geraldine Rudd of Pregnall; a brother, E. Cleveland Stokes, Sr. of Cottageville; four grandchildren, Autumn Morgan Stokes, Patricia Emmaline Baker, Marion Mikell Baker, and Courtney Lennis Baker Ridgeway; and a mother-in-law, Goldie Ferguson Surofchek of Walterboro. He was preceded in death by his daughter, Mary Lillian Stokes and a son, Marion William "Bubba" Stokes.
Flowers will be accepted or memorials may be made in his memory to: Maple Cane Baptist Church Building Fund, 21287 Augusta Highway, Cottageville, South Carolina 29435.
Friends may call from 6 until 8 this Saturday evening, November 30, 2002 at THE BRICE W. HERNDON AND SONS FUNERAL HOME, WALTERBORO CHAPEL, 1193 Bells Highway, Walterboro, 843-538-5408.
CONNELL, Leila
On Wednesday morning, Leila Droze Connell quietly passed away from heart complications with the grace and dignity of a Southern lady. Dearly loved by many, her passing is a doleful loss to family, friends and the Summerville community. Although Leila will be sorely missed, most are comforted by the idea that she is finally with her husband of 42 years and that someday we may all be greeted at the Pearly Gates by the smell of "Maamaa's" collard greens cooking. Born the fifth daughter of eight children to Andrew Jackson Droze and Eliza Johnson Droze (both born 1881), Leila followed in a lineage who roots run deep in the Lowcountry. Birthed by midwife in a meek Knightsville dwelling on January 19, 1917, Leila's life growing up on a sharecropper's dirt farm in rural South Carolina was arduous by today's standards of economic prosperity. In 1924, an influenza epidemic swept through the Summerville area taking the life of a young Andrew Jackson Droze and leaving a wife and children (including seven-year-old Leila) to fend for themselves. Today Andrews rests in an unmarked grave somewhere in Knightsville (the family lacking the funds to give him a proper burial). With seven hungry mouths to feed, a pregnant Eliza would walk the 5 miles of Central Avenue (then, not much more than a dirt wagon road) into the town square of Summerville to work at a bakery. With the successful completion of 6 years of primary school, Eliza felt a young Leila had enough education to start working. For years the sweat of Leila's brow wetted the second floor of the Summerville Town Hall and she sewed and mended clothing for Summerville's privileged. Leila possessed an unspeakable beauty with striking blue/green eyes that broke the heart of many a Lowcountry boy. However, on April 17, 1935 it was the heart of an eighteen year Leila Droze that was captured as she fell in love with and married
by ship captain to a dashing, Georgia cracker named Louis Victor Connell. With most of her sisters married
off at 13 years of age, Leila was considered an old-maid, marrying at a ripe age of 18 years. During the war years, aside from being a homemaker, Leila found employment with the PWA issuing goods to Lowcountry residents. In 1942, she and Louis purchased several acres of property along an undeveloped woodland east of Summerville (in what was considered the country). Both Leila and Louis struggled to clear the land, construct a home, build an outhouse and otherwise make the home suitable for a young family that consisted of two beautiful daughters (Jean and Edna). Later, (after electricity was wired along the dirt road of West North Street) many of Leila's siblings, cousins, nephews, etc. made this area their home.
Years later, the Alston Segregated High School used the area across the street for their athletics field (today, the Summerville Fire Station). It was in this location that Leila and Louis made their home and raised a family. After Jean and Edna, came other equally beautiful and talented children: Mary, Louis Jr., and (Andrew) Ronnie. A sixth sibling (Don) died at birth with complications associated with the child delivery. He rests under a small tombstone next to his grandmother Eliza in Knightsville. In 1977, Leila nearly lost her life in an automobile accident with a drunk driver that sadly took the life of her faithful husband. She never remarried
. Instead, Leila devoted her time to her children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, family and friends. Leila was notorious for her cooking, her storytelling (which was intertwined heavily in local folklore), her resourcefulness and her kind heart. Leila is preceded in death by her husband Louis; daughter, Jean; son, Don; brothers, Ashley, Grover, Wardell; sisters Rilla, Clara, and Ruth; and parents Andrew and Eliza. She is survived by her sister, Lula; children, Edna (Jack) Chaplin of Summerville, SC; Mary (Jerry) McGuire of Richland, WA; Louis Connell of Summerville, SC and Ron (Myra) of Summerville, SC; her 13 grandchildren: Kim Diebold, Tanya Waldrop, Sheila Blackburn, Jack and Darren Chaplin, Michael, John and Jeremiah McGuire; Karen Armstrong, Judson, Lorean, Dustin and Celeste Connell; and her seven great-grandchildren: Derek, Evan and Hillary Diebold; Mathew and Mark Waldrop and Seth and Cole Chaplin. She will be missed by all who had the fortune of knowing Leila.
Funeral services will be held Saturday, November 30, 2002 at Parks Funeral Home Chapel at 11 AM. Burial will be in Summerville cemetery.
Arrangements by PARKS FUNERAL HOME, SUMMERVILLE, SC.
ADKINS, Buck
EUTAWVILLE Mr. Jasper Buck Adkins, 70, of 834 Wesgar Ave., Eutawville, SC died Thursday, Nov. 28 at his home.
The funeral will be 2 PM Sunday, December 1, 2002 at Pressley Memorial Pentecostal Holiness Church with Rev. Dale Phillips and Rev. Buddy Odom officiating. Burial will follow in the Black Creek UMC cemetery. The casket will be placed in the church at 1 PM.
Pallbearers will be Josh Adkins, Randy Garrett, Jr., Dale Kizer, Tommy Adkins, George Wren and Jim Lee.
Honorary pallbearers will be J. P. Wren, Edgar Adkins, and Garrett Adkins.
Mr. Adkins was born October 12, 1932 in Orangeburg County a son of the late Adam Adkins and Bertha Clark Adkins Myers. He was a member of the Adkins Hunt Club and attended Pressley Memorial Pentecostal Holiness Church.
Survivors include his wife, Exie Garrett Adkins of the home; daughter, Joyce A. West of Eutawville; sons, Roger and John G. Adkins both of Eutawville; sisters, Mellie Mae Myrick of Barnwell, Barbara Langston of Cross, and Mary Weatherford of Holly Hill; brother, Virgil Adkins of Eutawville; and four grandchildren.
Friends may call at AVINGER FUNERAL HOME OF HOLLY HILL from 6 to 8 PM this Saturday, November 30, 2002 and other times at the residence.
Memorials may be made to Pressley Memorial Pentecostal Holiness Church, PO Box 537, Holly Hill, SC 29059.
JACKSON, Jr., Lycurgus
The relatives and friends of Mr. and Mrs. Lycurgus "Buck" Jackson are invited to attend the funeral services for the former at 11 a.m., Saturday, November 30, 2002, at the JAMES A. MCALISTER CHAPEL, 1620 SAVANNAH HWY. The burial will be in Live Oak Memorial Gardens. Friends may call this morning from 10 a.m. until time of the service. The family will accept flowers or memorial contributions made in Mr. Jackson's name to Palmetto Health Hospice, P.O. Box 50820 Summerville, S.C. 29485. Arrangements are by JAMES A. MCALISTER, INC., 1620 SAVANNAH HWY., 766-1365.
EASTMAN, Wesley
The relatives and friends of Mr. and Mrs. Wesley F. Eastman are invited to attend the funeral services of the former in J. HENRY STUHR, INC. MT. PLEASANT CHAPEL, Tuesday morning, December 3, 2002, at 11:30 o'clock. Entombment, Mt. Pleasant Memorial Gardens. Friends may call at J. Henry Stuhr's Mount Pleasant Chapel, Monday afternoon, December 2, 2002, between 5 and 7 o'clock.
Memorials may be made to John Ancrum Society - SPCA, 535 Longpoint Road, Mt. Pleasant, S.C. 29464.
KNIGHT, Kathy
The relatives and friends of Mrs. Kathy A. Knight are invited to attend her funeral services Saturday, November 30, 2002 at J. HENRY STUHR, INC., MT. PLEASANT CHAPEL, at 1 o'clock. Interment will follow at Mt. Pleasant Memorial Gardens.
Friends may call in Stuhr's Mt. Pleasant Chapel.
HIGHT, Evelyn H.
Relatives and friends of Evelyn Huggins Hight, widow of Herbert Lee Hight, are invited to attend her funeral services in J. HENRY STUHR, INC., NORTH AREA CHAPEL, Sunday, December 1, 2002, at 2:30 o'clock. Interment will follow in Carolina Memorial Park. Friends may call at Stuhr's North Area Chapel, 2119 Dorchester Road, Saturday, November 30, 2002, from 6 until 8 o'clock.
HOATS, Mildred
Entered into eternal rest on the morning of November 29, 2002, Mildred E. McKnight Hoats, wife of W.B. Bill Hoats, Jr. Residence, Charleston, SC. The relatives and friends of Mr. and Mrs. W.B. Hoats are invited to attend the funeral services of the latter Sunday at three thirty o’clock in J. HENRY STUHR, INC., DOWNTOWN CHAPEL. Interment, St. Paul’s Episcopal Churchyard. Friends may call at Stuhr’s Downtown Chapel Saturday between five and seven o’clock.
Mrs. Hoats was born December 6, 1925 in Lake City, SC, the daughter of Willie
She was retired from James Island Dry Cleaners after 26 years. She was a member of American Legion Ladies Auxiliary (James Island) and Charleston Drove No. 231 B.P.O. Does.
She is survived by her husband of Charleston; two sons: Keith Hoats of Summerville, SC and Tim Hoats of James Island, SC; one daughter: Beth Hoats Wolff of North Charleston, SC; two brothers: Don McKnight of Hartford, CT. and Bobby Marshall of James Island, SC; one sister: Jackie Smith of Florence, SC and three grandchildren.
BANOV, Edna
Entered into eternal rest on the evening of November 28, 2002, Edna Ginsberg Banov, widow of Milton A. Banov. Her funeral services were held Friday at two o’clock in Synagogue Emanu-El with the interment in Emanu-El cemetery.
Mrs. Banov was born September 15, 1908 in Charleston, SC the daughter of Isaac Ginsberg and Pauline Kop Ginsberg. She was a charter member of Synagogue Emanu-El., past president of Emanu-El Sisterhood, past president of Council of Jewish Women; past president of Hadassah and served on the Board for many years with the American Cancer Society and the Florence Crittenton Home. She volunteered her time on the staff of local hospitals. Mrs. Banov worked with her husband in Banov’s on King and Spring Street for many years and she founded the Edna G. Banov Market Research Company, which she directed for many years. She was a prolific writer of poetry, journals and short fiction. She was a life long learner and voting advocate.
She is survived by her son, Charles H. Banov, M.D. of Charleston, SC; two daughters: Linda B. Stern of Old Westbury, NY and Caren B. Masem of Greensboro, NC; one sister: Bernice G. Greenspan of Palm Beach, FL; 9 grandchildren, 9 great grandchildren and many nieces and nephews.
Memorials may be made to Synagogue Emanu-El, Edna and Milton Banov Library Fund, 5 Windsor Drive, Charleston, SC 29407.
Arrangements were made by J. HENRY STUHR, INC., DOWNTOWN CHAPEL.
RENNER, Homer
Entered into eternal rest on Thursday evening, November 28, 2002, Homer James Renner, husband of Marie Turpin Renner. Residence, Summerville, South Carolina. All funeral services will be private. Arrangements by J. HENRY STUHR, INC., GREENRIDGE ROAD CHAPEL. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Alzheimer’s Disease Association, Coastal Carolina S.C. Chapter, P. O. Box 80459, Charleston, SC 29416-0459.
Mr. Renner, 88, was born in Rockcastle County, Kentucky on December 21, 1913 a son of John Andrew Renner and Lucy Ann Parker Renner. He was a retired electrician with Dupont, Savannah River Plant.
Surviving are his wife of Summerville, SC; a son, John W. Renner of Summerville, SC; two brothers, Horbert Renner of Livingston, TN and Clifford Renner of Evansville, IN; a sister, Deli Smith of Jacksonboro, TN; and a granddaughter, Pamela Renner.
