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Wallace Dean Lanier

Wallace Dean Lanier

Nov 24, 2020

Mr. Wallace Dean Lanier, age 70 of 107 Lanier Lane, Union, passed away Tuesday, November 24, 2020 at his home.

Mr. Lanier was born in Union, July 25, 1950, a son of the late Jake and Maggie Burgess Lanier. He was a retired auto mechanic and had previously own a landscaping company. Mr. Lanier had also done...

Burley Hawkins

Burley Hawkins

Nov 23, 2020

Mr. Burley Hawkins, age 86, husband of Margie Lawson Hawkins of 208 Seigler Rd., Union, passed away Monday, November 23, 2020 at Mary Black Hospital.

Mr. Hawkins was born in Union, July 31, 1934, a son of the late Henry and Lizzie Enlow Hawkins. He was a graduate of Union High School and Jones Business College. Mr....

Bobbie Lee Moore

Bobbie Lee Moore

Nov 18, 2020

Miss Bobbie Lee Moore, age 87, of Lovers Lane Rd., Union, passed away Wednesday, November 18, 2020 at Spartanburg Regional Medical Center.

Miss Moore was born in Union, June 26, 1933, a daughter of the Dewey Lee Moore and Gladys Williams Moore. She was a graduate of Union High School and Retired from Milliken and Co., Cedar...

Clara Spencer Holt

Clara Spencer Holt

Nov 18, 2020

Mrs. Clara Spencer Holt, age 88, widow of Joel Holt of 408 C. Street, Jonesville, passed away Wednesday, November 18, 2020 at her home.

Mrs. Holt was born in Union Co., November 29, 1931, a daughter of the late Herbert and Lidia Tucker Spencer. She was a graduate of Jonesville High School and retired from Milliken and...

Valerie Webber Medford

Valerie Webber Medford

Nov 18, 2020

Mrs. Valerie Webber Medford, age 93, of 276 Vernon Foster Rd., Union, widow of Arville Ray Medford, passed away Wednesday, November 18, 2020 at her home.

Mrs. Medford was born in Florence, January 19, 1927, a daughter of the late Fontain Wilkes Webber and Marie Fowler Webber. She was a graduate of Jonesville High School and retired...

Bobby Joe Hawkins

Bobby Joe Hawkins

Nov 17, 2020

Mr. Bobby Joe Hawkins, age 74, of 259 Eaves Rd., Whitmire, widower of Mary Lou Matthews Hawkins passed away Tuesday, November 17, 2020 at Spartanburg Regional Medical Center after a brief illness.

Mr. Hawkins was born in Union, August 7, 1946, a son of the late Albert Hawkins and Willie Mae Peigler. He was retired from Earnhart...

Ned Stanley Howell

Ned Stanley Howell

Nov 17, 2020

Mr. Ned Stanley Howell, age 76, husband of Rita Witt Howell, passed away Tuesday, November 17, 2020 at Spartanburg Medical Center.

Mr. Howell was born in Union, September 24, 1944, a son of the late Ned E. and Wilma Fowler Howell. He was a graduate of Swannanoa High School and attended Mars Hill College. He was retired...

States James Lawson, Jr.

States James Lawson, Jr.

Nov 16, 2020

Mr. States James Lawson, Jr., age 78 of 209 Davis St., Union, passed away Monday, November 16, 2020 at the home of his sister in Seneca.

Mr. Lawson was born in Union, September 6, 1942, a son of the late States James Lawson, Sr. and Gladys Bentley Lawson. He was a graduate of Union High School and...

Lillian Estelle Anderson Pettie

Lillian Estelle Anderson Pettie

Nov 15, 2020

Mrs. Lillian Estelle Anderson Pettie, age 70 of 1517 Peach Orchard Rd., Union, passed away Sunday, November 15, 2020 at her home.

Mrs. Pettie was born in Union, December 14, 1949, a daughter of the late Willie Jackson Anderson and Bessie Austin Anderson. She was a graduate of Union High School and was a homemaker. Mrs. Pettie...

Ruth Smith Parks

Ruth Smith Parks

Nov 14, 2020

Ruth Smith Parks ,98, died peacefully on Saturday, November 14, 2020 at Ellen Sager Retirement Center in Union, SC.

She was predeceased by her parents Frank and Bessie Edwards Smith of Union, her husband of 59 years Thomas Bailey Parks, and her son William Mark Parks.

She is survived by her daughter Caroline Parks Crocker...

Betty Bates

Betty Bates

Nov 14, 2020

Mrs. Betty Vanderford Bates, age 77, wife of George Bates of 110 Ralph Ridge Road, Union, SC 29379, passed away Saturday, November 14, 2020 at Spartanburg Regional Medical Center.

Mrs. Bates was born June 10, 1943, a daughter of the late Malcombe Jack Vanderford and the late Bonnie Wilkie Vanderford. Mrs. Bates attended Union High School and...

Charles Aubrey Cabaniss, Jr.

Charles Aubrey Cabaniss, Jr.

Nov 13, 2020

Mr. Charles Aubrey "Chuck" Cabaniss, Jr., age 43, formally of Lockhart, husband of Gina Leigh Deal Cabaniss, passed away suddenly Friday, November 13, 2020 at his home in Bigfork, Montana.

Mr. Cabaniss was born August 26, 1977 in Union, SC, a son of the late Charles "Jimmy" Cabaniss and Beatrice Gregory Cabaniss. He attended Lockhart and Union...

Deborah Gail Pelham

Deborah Gail Pelham

Nov 13, 2020

Debra Gail Pelham, 67, of 315 Harris Street Jonesville, widow of Steven Brent Pelham, passed away Friday, November 13, 2020 at Mary Black Hospital.

Mrs. Pelham was born February 12, 1953 in Union, a daughter of the late Neil Bailey and late Deannie Vaughan Bailey. Mrs. Pelham was retired from the textile industry.

Surviving family...

Terry Lee Mcneace

Terry Lee Mcneace

Nov 13, 2020

Mr. Terry Lee McNeace, age 71, husband of Debbie Blackwell McNeace of 202 Robinson Farm Road, Jonesville, SC passed away Friday, November 13, 2020 surrounded by family at his home.

Mr. McNeace was born February 19, 1949 in Union, SC, a son of the late Lester Greer (L.G.) McNeace and Ruth Williams McNeace. He was a 1969...

James "Cotton" Eaves

James "Cotton" Eaves

Nov 11, 2020

Mr. James "Cotton" Eaves, age 84, husband of Emily McBride Eaves, of 111 McBride Dr., Union, passed away, Wednesday, November 11, 2020 at Spartanburg Regional Medical Center.

Mr. Eaves was born June 29, 1936 in Kelton, a son of the late Mardis Eaves and Pearl Gault Eaves.  He was retired from the South Carolina Department of Transportation. ...

Wayne E Gregory

Wayne E Gregory

Nov 10, 2020

Mr. Wayne E. Gregory, Sr., age 68, husband of Susan Holseburg Gregory, of 116 Partridge Rd., Union, went to be with the Lord Tuesday, November 10, 2020 at Spartanburg Rehabilitation Hospital.

Mr. Gregory was born June 13, 1952 in Union, a son of the late States E. Gregory and Ouida Brewer Gregory.  He was a graduate of...

Horace Randy Smith

Horace Randy Smith

Nov 10, 2020

Mr. Horace Randall "Randy" Smith, age 65, husband Cheryl Shetley Smith of 228 Shetley Rd., passed away Tuesday, November 10, 2020 at his home.

Mr. Smith was born in Cowpens, March 12, 1955, a son of the late Horace Bomar Smith, Jr. and Thelma Poole Smith. He was retired from R.R. Donnelly Printers and was a member...

Walter Hope Garner

Walter Hope Garner

Nov 10, 2020

Mr. Walter Hope Garner, age 77, husband of Barbara Fowler Garner of 138 Woodhaven Dr., Union, passed away Tuesday, November 10, 2020 at Spartanburg Regional Hospice Home.

Mr. Garner was born October 21, 1943 in Union, a son of the late Archie Garner and Catherine Sanders Garner.  He was a graduate of Jonesville High School and retired...

John Strong Kerr

John Strong Kerr

Nov 8, 2020

John Strong Kerr went home to be with the Lord on Sunday, November 8, 2020.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Patricia Knox Kerr, his parents Edgar "Pa Kerr and Louise Strong Kerr, brothers Jim and Ernest "Shot" Kerr and a sister, Bernice Blackwell.

He proudly served his country in WWII at the...

Phyllis Farmer Ingle

Phyllis Farmer Ingle

Nov 8, 2020

Mrs. Phyllis Farmer Ingle, age 65, wife of Ronnie K. Ingle of 868 Tinker Creek Rd., Union, passed away Sunday, November 8, 2020 at Mary Black Hospital.

Mrs. Ingle was born in Newberry, April 18, 1955, a daughter of the late Clyde and Margie Sanders Farmer. She worked as a teacher's aide at Buffalo Elementary School and...

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