Obituaries

Keith Parris

Keith Parris

Aug 25, 2017

Keith Reginald Parris, 72, of Spartanburg, SC, died Friday, August 25, 2017 at Mountainview Nursing Home. Born July 20, 1945 in Chesnee, SC, he was the son of the late Eolus Odysseus and Myrtle Estelle Henderson Parris. Mr. Parris was a U.S. Army Veteran. He was retired from the City of Spartanburg as an electrician. He was a member of...

Kenneth Morgan

Kenneth Morgan

Aug 24, 2017

Kenneth Ray Morgan, 77, of Inman, SC, died Thursday, August 24, 2017, at Spartanburg Regional Hospice Home. Born August 20, 1940, in Spartanburg, SC, he was the son of the late Grady Lee Morgan and Dora Splawn Morgan. Ken was a member of First Baptist North Spartanburg and retired from Lowe's contract sales after 20 years of service. Funeral services...

Glen Vick Ii

Glen Vick Ii

Aug 23, 2017

Glen Franklin Vick II, 72, of Spartanburg, SC, died Wednesday, August 23, 2017, at RoseCrest Healthcare Center. Born November 25, 1944, in Easley, SC, he was the son of the late Glen Franklin Vick and Carolyn Williams Vick Hendricks and stepson of Mr. B. L. Hendricks Jr. A 1963 graduate of Easley High School, Mr. Vick played on the 1962...

Robert Chapman Iii

Robert Chapman Iii

Aug 23, 2017

Robert Hett Chapman III, 66, of Spartanburg passed away on Wednesday, August 23, 2017, surrounded by his family. Born in Spartanburg, SC, he was the son of the late Harrison Shackelford Chapman and Robert Hett Chapman Jr. He was a graduate of Spartanburg Day School, University of the South, Institute of Textile Technology, Harvard Business School and National Cotton Council....

Michael Fields

Michael Fields

Aug 23, 2017

Michael DeWitt Fields, 57, of Spartanburg, SC passed away on Wednesday, August 23, 2017. Mike was the son of Rev. Dr. George DeWitt Fields and the late Mildred Ammons Fields. Born in Florence, SC, he was the son of a United Methodist minister and lived in many places including Florence, Andrews, Pickens, Rock Hill and Spartanburg. He especially loved his...

Louise Davis

Louise Davis

Aug 23, 2017

Mary Louise Deal Davis "MaMa", 100, of Boiling Springs, SC, died Wednesday, August 23, 2017, at Spartanburg Regional Hospice Home. Born March 18, 1917, in Hickory, NC, she was the daughter of the late Clarence Osborne Deal and Mary Ella Butler Deal and widow of Paul Leonard Davis. A graduate of Spartanburg High School, Mrs. Davis was a member of...

Sam Houston

Sam Houston

Aug 22, 2017

Sam W. Houston, 86, of Spartanburg, SC, husband of Edna H. Houston, died Tuesday, August 22, 2017, at Mary Black Memorial Hospital. Born February 22, 1931, in Spartanburg, he was the son of the late William Herbert and Pearl Tucker Houston. A longtime realtor and home builder, Sam was also employed by Norfolk Southern for 42 years. He was a...

Harvey Devoe, Jr.

Harvey Devoe, Jr.

Aug 22, 2017

Harvey Bernard DeVoe, Jr., 93, of Spartanburg, SC, died Tuesday, August 22, 2017, peacefully at his home. Born December 21, 1923, in Spring Valley, NY, he was the son of the late Harvey Bernard DeVoe, Sr. and Bessie Brown DeVoe. A veteran of the U. S. Army Air Corps during World War II, Mr. DeVoe was stationed in England in...

Debra Liner

Debra Liner

Aug 21, 2017

Debra Ann Whitener Liner, 62, of Pauline, SC, died Monday, August 21, 2017, at her home. Born April 14, 1955, in Union, SC, she was the daughter of the late Arlo Wilkerson Whitener and Lucy Beatrice Falls Whitener. Mrs. Liner was an avid gardener and loved animals. She was a member of Philadelphia Baptist Church and former server at Quincy's....

Susan Haddon

Susan Haddon

Aug 21, 2017

Susan Lynn Haddon, 63, of Pacolet, SC, died Monday, August 21, 2017, at Spartanburg Regional Hospice Home. Born April 16, 1954, in Spartanburg, SC, she was the daughter of the late Reuben Morrison Haddon and Pauline Penland Haddon. Susan was a member of Hammett Grove Baptist Church and retired from Mary Black Memorial Hospital after 20 years of service as...

Charles Ryan Sr.

Charles Ryan Sr.

Aug 19, 2017

Charles "Joe" Joseph Ryan Sr., 65, of McDonough, GA, died Saturday, August 19, 2017, at his home. Born March 13, 1952, in Spartanburg, SC, he was the son of the late Elbert Lacon Ryan, Jr. and Amelia Victoria "Vicki" Miller Ryan. A lover of his family and the great outdoors, Joe was employed with Halperns' of Atlanta, GA. Survivors include...

Terry Dempsey

Terry Dempsey

Aug 18, 2017

Terry Martin Dempsey, 70, of Spartanburg, SC, died Friday, August 18, 2017, at Rolling Green Village, Greenville, SC. Born April 12, 1947, in Union, SC, she was the daughter of the late William Jones and Eula Lee Woodle Martin and widow of William Noel Dempsey. Mrs. Dempsey enjoyed cross stitch, reading, music, and her dogs. A graduate of Converse College,...

Gary Edwards

Gary Edwards

Aug 17, 2017

Gary Eugene Edwards, 81, of Spartanburg, SC, died Thursday, August 17, 2017, at Spartanburg Regional Hospice Home. Born September 15, 1935, in Drayton, SC, he was the son of the late Willard Chester and Grace Waddell Edwards and husband of the late Joyce Cudd Sizemore Edwards. A 1953 graduate of Spartanburg High School and U. S. Navy veteran, Mr. Edwards...

Bettye Easler

Bettye Easler

Aug 16, 2017

Bettye Dean Suddeth Easler, 78, of Chesnee, SC, died Wednesday, August 16, 2017, at Spartanburg Medical Center. Born August 1, 1939, in Spartanburg, SC, she was the daughter of the late Jefferson Dean and Lila Maude Powell Suddeth and widow of Wayne O. Easler. Bettye was a 1958 graduate of Boiling Springs High School where she played trumpet in the...

Shirley Pack

Shirley Pack

Aug 15, 2017

Shirley Wooten Pack, 83, of Moore, SC, died Tuesday, August 15, 2017, at Spartanburg Regional Hospice Home. Born December 11, 1933, in Spartanburg, SC, she was the daughter of the late James Edmond Wooten and Nannie Mae Morris Wooten and wife of 41 years to the late Cecil Coran Pack. Mrs. Pack retired from Cateswood Arkwright Plant after 40 years...

H. Walker

H. Walker

Aug 15, 2017

Henry Garland Walker, 86, of Spartanburg, SC, died Tuesday, August 15, 2017, at Park Ridge Hospital, Hendersonville, NC. Born October 28, 1930, in Polk County, NC, he was the son of the late Henry Grady Walker and Margaret Shehan Walker. A U. S. Army veteran of the Korean War, Mr. Walker retired after 20 years of service as a transportation...

Maurice Blevins

Maurice Blevins

Aug 14, 2017

Maurice Everett Blevins, 89, of Spartanburg, SC, died Monday, August 14, 2017, at Spartanburg Regional Hospice Home. He was the only child of Ernest Irvin and Rachel Viola (Cavanagh) Blevins, born 30 March 1928 in Franklinville, Franklin Township, Gloucester, New Jersey. He grew up in a variety of places including Mingo, Iowa; Sevierville, Tennessee; Meeker, Colorado; Ovid, Colorado; and Misenheimer,...

Elizabeth Whitworth

Elizabeth Whitworth

Aug 13, 2017

Elizabeth "Betty" Barr Whitworth, 92, of Spartanburg, SC, died Sunday, August 13, 2017, at her home. Born February 20, 1925, in New Bedford, MA, she was the daughter of the late William and Minnie McElroy Barr and widow of James Webster Whitworth. Mrs. Whitworth was a devoted and loving mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. She enjoyed gardening and bird watching. She...

Dr. Lambert

Dr. Lambert

Aug 12, 2017

Dr. Sharon E. Lambert of White Oaks, Spartanburg, SC passed away peacefully on Saturday, August 12, 2017 after a brief illness. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Sharon was the daughter of the late John Stuart Lambert and Dorothy Spears Lambert. She was raised in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and spent summers on the New Jersey shore. Sharon graduated from Moravian Preparatory School in...

Ruth Foerster

Ruth Foerster

Aug 11, 2017

Susan Foerster, 88, of Spartanburg, SC, passed away on Friday, August 11, 2017, after a brief illness. Susan was born in Anklam, Germany, on August 5, 1929. After graduating from the Technische Hochschule in Halle in 1950 as a chemical technologist, she worked at the University of Greifswald, where she met her future husband, Paul. They were married in 1953...