Sarah G. Thomas

"Just keep going", the voice said. Sarah was tired. She was eleven years old, and she was running away from her newest home. It was 1935 and Sarah had been adopted by Mrs. Effie Gibbs. However, she had a history of running away.

"Just keep going." Sarah walked into the nearby woods.  When it grew too dark to see, and she was too tired to care, Sarah dropped onto the fallen leaves.

"Just keep going." Sarah found a log and scooted across Fair Forest Creek.  She stumbled out onto a road and knocked on a door. The man who answered said, "Young lady, everybody in the county is looking for you! Come on, I'm taking you home."

"Just keep going."

When Sarah's college roommate asked her to double date with two handsome paratroopers, she agreed, and Sarah Florence Gibbs of Buffalo, SC met Henry Oliver Thomas of Leadville, CO.  Sarah and Henry married in 1943. After the war, they made their home in Buffalo with Mrs. Gibbs and her son, Dr. Rion Gibbs.

Sarah loved Buffalo Methodist Church.  She sang soprano in the choir, taught Sunday School, sponsored the Methodist Youth Fellowship, and worked with the Women of the Church.  Sarah also volunteered at Buffalo School.  She and Henry always helped to build the Halloween Haunted House.

Sarah "just kept going" when Henry passed away.  She loved her two grandchildren and was happy to be "GG" to her two great grandchildren.  Sarah loved animals and the outdoors. She fed stray cats, birds, squirrels, and two wild turkeys. She loved tending her lawn and her riding lawnmower.

Sarah's unknown voice led her through the good and the bad in life.  That voice was Sarah's rock -- a rock cleft for her during a stormy youth.  Throughout her life, she followed its command which has led her to her heavenly home.

Sarah is survived by two daughters, Dorothy Thomas Duff of Navarre, Fl, and Connie (John) McCrummen of Aberdeen, NC; two grandchildren, Audrey McCrummen of Orlando, FL, and Clay (Karen) McCrummen of Myrtle Beach, SC, and two great grandchildren, Ainsley and Blake of Myrtle Beach, SC.

Donations in memory of Sarah may be made to Buffalo Methodist Church.  The family plans to hold a private graveside service.