Joyce Randolph Townsend
Miss Joyce Randolph Townsend, 65, of Youngblood Road in Trenton, died Friday, Sept. 16, 2011 at her residence.
Graveside services were held Monday, Sept. 19, at 11 a.m. at Eastview cemetery in Edgefield.
Miss Townsend was a native of Tennessee and was a homemaker.
Survivors include two daughters, Renee Arnold and Sharon Courtney; three sons, Garry Moore, Terry Hornsby and Max Townsend; a sister, Ethel Randolph; three brothers, Leroy Randolph, Jimmy Randolph and Tommie Randolph; seven grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
Memorials may be made to Edgefield Mercantile Funeral Home, P. O. Box 389, Edgefield, SC 29824.
Edgefield Mercantile Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
Margaret Sisk Haynie
Date of Birth: October 17, 1945
Date of Death: August 04, 2011
Service Date/Time: August 06, 2011 2:00 PM
Service Location: Harley Funeral Home Chapel
Services: Services will be held at 2PM on Saturday at Harley Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Chuck Sprouse and Rev. Dennis Reynolds officiating. Burial will be in Elmwood cemetery.
Visitation: The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Friday from 7 to 9 PM.
Margaret Sisk Haynie, 65, of 521 Circle Drive, widow of Charles W. Haynie, Sr. died Thursday, August 04, 2011 at her home. born in Greenwood, she was a daughter of Mary Ruth Reynolds Anderson and the late Hubert Larry Sisk. Margaret was a paper carrier for the Index Journal and was of the Pentecostal Holiness faith. She was preceded in death by a brother, Donald Larry Sisk. Surviving are her mother and father, Ray Anderson of Greenwood; five children: Charles W. Haynie, Jr., Lisa Haynie Coker (Ricky), Traci Haynie Temples (Jeff), all of Ninety Six, Tina Haynie of Ware Shoals and Michael (Wendy) Haynie of Greenwood; a sister, Diane White of Greenwood; nine grandchildren; and eleven great grandchildren. Pallbearers will be Gary Skidmore, Scotty Skidmore, Rusty Haynie, Kevin Haynie, Scotty Collins and Eddie Fain. Honorary escort will be Gary Haynie, Keith Skidmore and Wayne Collins. Memorials may be sent to HospiceCare of the Piedmont, 408 West Alexander Avenue, Greenwood, SC 29646. The family is at the home.
Mary E. Littlejohn
Date of Birth: April 18, 1928
Date of Death: August 08, 2011
Service Date/Time: August 11, 2011 2:00 PM
Service Location: Graveside Service - Oakland cemetery, Gaffney, SC
Services: Graveside services will be held in the Littlejohn family plot in Oakland cemetery at 2 p.m. Thursday with the Rev. Marc Coker officiating. Memorials may be sent to Friends of the Library, Limestone College, 1115 College Drive, Gaffney, SC 29340.
Mary Elizabeth Littlejohn, 83, of Magnolia Manor, Greenwood, SC and formerly of 128 Russell Street, Gaffney, SC, died Monday, August 8, 2011 at Hospice House, Greenwood, from a massive stroke. She was the daughter of the late James Frank Littlejohn and Mamie Jane Tate Hill Littlejohn. A graduate of Gaffney High School and Winthrop College, Miss Littlejohn worked in secretarial positions in Washington, DC, Culver City, CA and Charlotte, NC. She moved back to Gaffney in 1973. Her avocation was writing. She published four volumes of sonnets-one for each season of the year. She also wrote short stories and limericks-many of them comical. She played the piano and enjoyed watching political programs on television. Miss Littlejohn was raised in the Baptist faith and attended Unitarian Universalist Churches in Washington, DC and California. She read a lot of religious books, particularly on the life of Christ. She is survived by a niece, Melissa Daniel Sizemore of Waterloo, SC and three nephews, Dr. David E. Daniel of Midland, TX, Henry Jefferson Smith of Hawaii and Andrew Lee Smith of California. Also surviving is a cousin, Watson Burts of Charlotte, NC. She was preceded in death by her parents and two half sisters, Helen Hill Daniel Martin of Gaffney and Blacksburg, and Mozelle Hill Smith of Fort Bragg, CA and a special cousin, Ruth Littlejohn Burts. The family expresses gratitude for the ten years of loving care provided to Mary by all the staff of Magnolia Manor, Greenwood, and Health Related Personnel, Greenwood. Thankfulness is also expressed to Self Regional Healthcare and Hospice House, Greenwood. Thanks also to her lifelong friends, Shirley Upton Parris, Steve and Joyce Smith, Jerome Wilson, roommate, Shirley Morse and her sitter, Geraldine Tinch.
James Leonard Wideman
Date of Birth: October 21, 1948
Date of Death: August 08, 2011
Service Date/Time: August 10, 2011 1:00 PM
Service Location: Graveside Service - Wideman cemetery, McCormick
Services: Graveside services will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday at Wideman cemetery, McCormick, with Preacher Heath Easton officiating. The family is at the home, 152 Orange Avenue and at the home of his sister, Lorene Whitfield, 511 Davis Street. In lieu of flowers, it is requested that memorials be made to the account of James Leonard Wideman, c/o Harley Funeral Home and Crematory, PO Box 777, Greenwood, SC 29648.
James Leonard Wideman, 62, of 152 Orange Avenue, died Monday, August 8, 2011 at his home. born in McCormick, he was a son of Maggie Mae Turnage Wideman and the late Ralph Marion Wideman, Sr. He was a carpenter and attended White Hall Church of God. He was preceded in death by his son, James Clay Wideman, his wife, Peggy Joann Wideman and a brother, Ralph Marion Wideman. Surviving is his mother of the home; brothers and sisters, Thomas Lee Wideman, Charles J. Wideman, Lorene Whitfield, Elizabeth Wideman Brock, Curtis Edward Wideman (Jane), Shirley Wideman Lowery, Patrick O’neal Wideman and Richard Allen Wideman (Frances); sister-in-law, Ann Wideman and many nieces and nephews.
Stanley Edward "Busta" Walker
Date of Birth: February 13, 1941
Date of Death: August 13, 2011
Service Date/Time: August 16, 2011 10:00 AM
Service Location: Greenwood Memorial Gardens
Services: Graveside, 10:00 AM Tuesday, August, 16, 2011 Greenwood Memorial Gardens.
Visitation: Following Service
Stanley Edward “Busta” Walker, 70, of 2909 County Farm Road, widower of Bonnie Fowler Walker, died Saturday, August 13, 2011 at his home. born in Greenwood County; he was the son of the late Woodrow Workman Walker and Florence Sears Walker. Busta was a U.S. Army Reserves veteran for 35 years and received the Distinguish Service medal and Distinguish Rifleman medal. He was a fuel oil truck driver for Greenwood Petroleum for 35 years and retired from Milliken in Clinton. Busta was an avid rabbit hunter and enjoyed riding Whizzer motorbikes. Surviving are two daughters, Mary Beth Provan(Freddie) and Florence Ann Bryant (Michael); a sister, Ivey Walker Blum (Mike); and four grandchildren, Brock McDonald, Walker Provan, Devin Bryant and Lacie Bryant. Graveside services will be held at 10 AM on Tuesday at Greenwood Memorial Gardens with the Rev. Dr. Keith Polk officiating. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be sent to HospiceCare of the Piedmont, 408 West Alexander Avenue, Greenwood, SC 29646. The family is at the home.
Robert C. Adams
Mr. Robert C. Adams, 61, of Breezy Hill Road in Graniteville, died Friday, Dec. 17, 2010 at his residence.
Funeral services were held Thursday, Dec. 23, at 1 p.m. at Jacksonville Missionary Baptist Church, with Elder James Arthur Adams officiating. Burial was in the church cemetery.
Mr. Adams was a 1967 graduate of Martha Schofield High School. He was a member of Jacksonville Missionary Baptist Church and was a trustee. He also served in the R.V. Palmer Gospel Chorus, Male Chorus and Boys to Men Ministry.
Survivors include three daughters, Tonya (Alphonso) Reeves, Augusta, Ga., Bellamesia Curry and Luxema Williams, both of Graniteville; three sons, Cody Kimble, North Carolina, Arsenio Williams, Edgefield, and Tony Anderson, Graniteville; three sisters, Thomasina (Freddie) Dais, Eleanor Adams, and Brenda (Douglas) Dandy, all of Graniteville; Elder James Arthur (Edith) Adams, Clearwater, Charles Adams, Edgefield, and Larry (Brenda) Adams, New Ellenton; six grandchildren; 1 goddaughter, Demetria (James) Godwin, Atlanta, Ga.; and a host of other relatives.
G.L. Brightharp & Sons Mortuary, Aiken, was in charge of arrangements.
Betty Cosnahan Herron Baum
Mrs. Betty Cosnahan Herron Baum, 79, of Trenton, wife of the late Vincent C. Baum, died Friday, Dec. 24, 2010 in Cartersville, Ga.
Graveside services were held Thursday, Dec. 30, at 2 p.m. at Sunset Gardens Memorial Park in Edgefield.
Mrs. Baum was born in Bath and was of the Baptist faith. She was a retired seamstress and the retired owner and operator of Vogue Dry Cleaners on Deans Bridge Road in Augusta, Ga. She was the daughter of the late Charlie and Bertha Lofton Cosnahan.
Survivors include a son, Alvin (Carol) Herron, Cartersville; a daughter, Judy (Hamp) Holmes, Trenton; six grandchildren, Russ (Ann) Herron, Lancaster, Henry (Tracey) Herron, Saluda, Mike (Kristi) Herron, Cartersville, Lisa Herron (Mark ) Carter, Cartersville, Connie Holmes (David) Reynolds, Lexington, Hamp (Stephanie) Holmes III, Trenton; seven great-grandchildren; and two step-great-grandchildren; two sisters, Dorothy (Ray) Dixon, Nola Irene (Don) Steimel; and a brother, J.T. (Mary) Cosnahan. Edgefield Mercantile Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
B. Joel Bedenbaugh
B. Joel Bedenbaugh, 40, of Edgefield, died Monday, Dec. 20, 2010 at Select Specialty Hospital.
Funeral services were held Thursday, Dec. 23, at 11 a.m. at Antioch Baptist Church, with burial in the church cemetery.
Mr. Bedenbaugh was born in Augusta, Ga. and was a member of Antioch Baptist Church. He was the son of B. Asbury and Anna Miller Bedenbaugh. He was a graduate of Strom Thurmond High School and Lander University. He was a former textile employee of Avondale Mills.
In addition to his parents, survivors include: a sister, Stacie (Shaun) Randall, Gilbert; a niece, Jessica Randall; and a nephew Jacob Randall.
Memorials may be made to the charity of one's choice.
Edgefield Mercantile Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
John Henry Corley
Mr. John Henry Corley, of Johnston, died Sunday, Dec. 19, 2010.
Funeral services were held Thursday, Dec. 23, at 2 p.m. at Mine Creek Baptist Church, with Pastor George Key, presiding, and the Rev. Larry Raiford, as eulogist. Burial was in the B & L cemetery in Batesburg.
Survivors include his wife, Georgia Mae Corley; nine daughters, Johnnie Mae (Larry) Raiford, Georgia (Jasper) Byrd, Mary (Anthony) Jones, Hattie (Thomas) Dukes, Nadine Gartrell, Sheila Corley and Ella Mae Dukes, all of Johnston, Jannie Mae (Kinny) Malonoux, Columbia, and Ethel (J.C.) Colon, Manchester, Conn.; three sons, Melvin (Ora Belle) Corley, Wayne (Annie) Corley and James (Debbie) Corley, all of Johnston; devoted daughters-in-law, Charlie Mae Corley, Aiken, and Ora Bell Corley, Johnston; two sisters, Fairy Belle Ouzts, Saluda, and Mary Louise Coleman, Johnston; two sisters- in-law; Daisy Corley and Annie Bush, both of Johnston; 50 grandchildren; 70 great-grandchildren; and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins and other relatives.
Amos & Sons Funeral Home, Johnston, was in charge of arrangements.
Dale Francis Moseley
Mr. Dale Francis Moseley, of Augusta Road in Edgefield, died Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010 at his residence.
Funeral services were held Monday, Dec. 27, at 11 a.m. at Edgefield United Methodist Church. Burial followed at Sunset Memorial Gardens.
Mr. Moseley was born on Aug. 22, 1922, in McCormick, to Henry Thomas Moseley and Leila Wideman Moseley. As a young man he joined the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and worked at Sequoia National Park in California. He served in World War II as a gunner's mate aboard the USS Barnes, CVE-20. Afterwards, he and Mary married
and reared their children in Edgefield. In 1988, he retired from Graniteville Company after 46 years of service. He was a member of the American Legion Post #30 and Edgefield United Methodist Church where he was a lay speaker and Sunday School teacher.
He is survived by his wife, Mary Lee McCullough Moseley; children, Kenneth Dale (Lori) Moseley of Miramar, Fla., Loyd Brogdon Moseley and Patricia Ann Moseley of Edgefield; grandchildren, Alexis Lauren Moseley and Jonathon Cohen Moseley of Miramar, Fla.; and sisters, Annie Davis of Charlotte, N.C., and Mary (Jimmy) Edmunds of McCormick; as well as nieces and nephews.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Epworth Children's Home, PO Box 50466, Columbia, SC 29250.
Edgefield Mercantile Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
Evelyn E. O’Connell
A Funeral Mass for Mrs. Evelyn E. O'Connell, 87, of Aiken, was celebrated at St. Mary Help of Christians Catholic Church on Monday, Dec. 27, 2010 at 7 p.m. Burial followed Tuesday, Dec. 28, at 10 a.m. at Calvary cemetery.
Mrs. O'Connell died in her home on Wednesday, Dec. 22, as a result of brain cancer.
The widow of Dennis O'Connell and the daughter of Sarah and Joseph Galloway, Mrs. O'Connell was an active, inquisitive, and caring person. She retired from the Savannah River Plant, where she worked as a federal employee in the payroll department for forty years, attaining the rank of federal coordinator. She was an active member of the community and cared for her husband through a prolonged illness. In her later years, she enjoyed participating in a number of community organizations. She was especially fond of her friends in Town and Country. Mrs. O'Connell was a great traveler and someone who sought continually to grow in her understanding and appreciation of others.
She is survived by her two sons, Dennis J. O'Connell, Aiken, and Sean P. O'Connell, New Haven, Conn.
Donations in her memory may be made to the American Cancer Society, 128 Stonemark Lane, Columbia, SC 29210.
George Funeral Home & Cremation Center, Aiken, was in charge of arrangements.
Mary B. Riley
Mrs. Mary B. Riley, 87, of Edgefield Road in North Augusta died Thursday, Dec. 23, 2010 at her residence.
Funeral arrangements are incomplete at this time and will be announced later.
Rowland Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
