Obituaries

Louise Hart

Louise Hart

Apr 23, 2012

Carolyn Louise Odom Hart, 79, of Spartanburg died Monday, April 23, 2012, at Spartanburg Regional Medical Center. Born December 2, 1932, in Goldsboro, NC, she was the daughter of the late Eldon S. Odom and Dessie Mae Casey Odom Mallard, and her step-father, the late, Dr. Alvin L. Mallard. She was a member of Morningside Baptist Church and the Discovery...

Elizabeth Welch

Elizabeth Welch

Apr 23, 2012

Elizabeth Norris "Boo" Welch, 92, of 2780 East Main Street, Spartanburg, died Monday, April 23, 2012, at Eden Terrace. Born November 17, 1919, in Greenville, SC, she was the daughter of the late Allen Middleton Norris and Ruth Stokes Norris Kimmel and stepdaughter of Leon Kimmel. Boo was married, for 68 years, to the late Jack Tatum Welch. A graduate...

Donald Horton

Donald Horton

Apr 23, 2012

Donald Lee Horton, 78, of Spartanburg, died Monday, April 23, 2012, at Spartanburg Regional Hospice Home. Born January 15, 1934, in Spartanburg, he was the son of the late Oliver Ore and Addie Sue Cochran Horton. "My gentle giant, country gentleman, humble servant, Christian brother, and true friend, Don Horton is with Jesus now. I will truly miss him." quoted...

Harold Bailey

Harold Bailey

Apr 22, 2012

Harold James Bailey, 54, of Gaffney, SC, died Sunday, April 22, 2012, at his home. Born February 5, 1958, in Baltimore, MD, he was the son of Billy Robert Bailey, Sr. and Ruth Ann King Bailey. Mr. Bailey was fully retired from the U. S. Army after 22 years of service, served as the Commander and Quarter Master of VFW...

Mary Morrow

Mary Morrow

Apr 22, 2012

Mary Eloise Pettit Morrow, 84, of Spartanburg, formerly of Pauline, SC, died Sunday, April 22, 2012, at Magnolia Manor-Spartanburg. Born May 9, 1927, in Pauline, SC, she was the widow of Robert Nelson Morrow, and daughter of the late Silas Spurgeon and Grace Allen Pettit. Mrs. Morrow was a loving wife, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother who was devoted entirely to...

John Dover

John Dover

Apr 22, 2012

John C. Dover, 75, of Pacolet, died Sunday, April 22, 2012, at Spartanburg Regional Hospice Home. Born April 22, 1937, in Hiawassee, GA, he was the son of the late Robert Alonzo and Lula Mae Eller Dover. Mr. Dover was a retired principal of Pacolet Junior High School and also a former teacher and administrator in Spartanburg District 3 for...

Richard Strasser

Richard Strasser

Apr 22, 2012

Richard Strasser, 67, of Boiling Springs, SC, died Sunday, April 22, 2012, at his home. Born September 8, 1944, in Atlanta, GA, he was the son of the late Karl Lenard and Hazel Arden McEachern Strasser. Mr. Strasser was a U. S. Army veteran of the Vietnam War. He retired as Director of Corporate Communication from Milliken & Company after...

John Bradberry

John Bradberry

Apr 22, 2012

John Henry Bradberry, 93, of Spartanburg, formerly of Anderson, SC, died Sunday, April 22, 2012, at Spartanburg Regional Medical Center. Born May 23, 1918, in Townville, SC, he was the son of the late John Will and Mattie Lou Price Bradberry. He was educated in the Anderson City schools and attended Clemson University. Mr. Bradberry was a past master and...

Machele Bollinger

Machele Bollinger

Apr 21, 2012

Machele Elizabeth Bollinger, 51, of 235 N. Lake Emory Drive, Inman, died Saturday, April 21, 2012 at Spartanburg Regional Medical Center. Born November 30, 1960, at Camp Lejeune, Jacksonville, NC, she was a daughter of Bill and Barbara Mauzy Creek of Moore, SC. She was a graduate of H. C. Conrad High School in Wilmington, DE and of the University...

Joseph Cody

Joseph Cody

Apr 21, 2012

Ret. U.S. Army Major Joseph W. Cody, 70, of Charleston, went to be with our Lord on Saturday, April 21, 2012. Born June 6, 1941, in Spartanburg, SC, he was the son of the late Dillard E. and Catherine Owens Cody. Major Cody enjoyed a distinguished military career as an Army aviator and signal officer, which included two tours of...

Rev. Parker Sr.

Rev. Parker Sr.

Apr 21, 2012

Rev. Melvin Lawrence Parker, Sr., 79, of Spartanburg, went home to be with his Lord and Savior on Saturday, April 21, 2012, at Spartanburg Regional Hospice Home. He was born February 11, 1933, in Marion, NC, and was the son of Alvin F. and Lena Jackson Parker. Rev. Parker was a member of First Baptist Church of Spartanburg, a deacon,...

Lena Caldwell

Lena Caldwell

Apr 20, 2012

Lena Mae Holland Caldwell, 93, of Spartanburg, died Friday, April 20, 2012, at her home. Born May 13, 1918, in Valley Falls, SC, she was the widow of John Dean Caldwell, and daughter of the late Boyce Edwin and Inez Floyd Holland. She was a member of Oak Grove Baptist Church. Surviving are her sons, John V. Caldwell and wife...

Joseph Fowler

Joseph Fowler

Apr 19, 2012

Joseph Joshua Fowler, 81, of Spartanburg, was healed and went home to be with Jesus to celebrate his birthday, Thursday, April 19, 2012, at Spartanburg Regional Medical Center. Born April 20, 1930, in Spartanburg, SC, he was the son of the late Arthur O. and Edna Gossett Fowler. Mr. Fowler was a U. S. Army veteran of the Korean War....

Irving Hahn Jr.

Irving Hahn Jr.

Apr 19, 2012

Irving Daniel Hahn, Jr., 79, of Duncan, died Thursday, April 19, 2012, at Spartanburg Regional Hospice Home. Born February 10, 1933, in Hackensack, NJ, he was the son of the late Irving D. Hahn, Sr. and Charlotte Thornton Hahn. Mr. Hahn was a U. S. Army veteran of the Korean War. He retired from Torrington Fafnir Bearings and was a...

Ann Mccollum

Ann Mccollum

Apr 19, 2012

Ann Wyatt McCollum, 77, of 238 Overcreek Road, Chesnee, died Thursday, April 19, 2012, at her home. Born July 26, 1934, in Spartanburg, she was a daughter of the late Glen and Ceda Bishop Wyatt and was married for 37 years to the late Stephens Perry McCollum. She was retired from Abbott Laboratories after 20 years of service and was...

Lloyd Israel

Lloyd Israel

Apr 18, 2012

Lloyd George Israel, 87, of Spartanburg, died Wednesday, April 18, 2012, at his home. Born November 8, 1924, in Inman, SC, he was the son of the late Samuel B. and Ollie Bell Israel. Mr. Israel was a veteran of the 8th Army Air Corps and a military policeman. He retired, with over 40 year's service, as the owner-operator of...

Daniel Glover

Daniel Glover

Apr 16, 2012

Daniel E. Glover, 73, of Spartanburg, died Monday, April 16, 2012, at Spartanburg Regional Hospice Home of Lou Gehrig's Disease (ALS). Born in Spartanburg, SC, he was the son of the late Claude Clarence and Lois Suber Glover. Mr. Glover was retired from the SC Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) after 33 years of service. He was a...

Jacqulyn Parker

Jacqulyn Parker

Apr 16, 2012

Jacqulyn "Jackie" Parker, 60, of Pacolet Mills, died Monday, April 16, 2012, at Spartanburg Regional Medical Center. Born February 2, 1952, in Pacolet Mills, she was the wife of Stephen Parker, and daughter of Roy and Oleene Nation Ellison, also of Pacolet Mills. She was employed at the South Carolina School for the Deaf and the Blind and attended Friendship...

Estelle Wyatt

Estelle Wyatt

Apr 15, 2012

Estelle Ruth Bullman Wyatt, 96, of Rockville, MD, died Sunday, April 15, 2012, at Casey House-Montgomery Hospice, Rockville, MD. Born September 4, 1915, in Spartanburg, SC, where she lived until 1996, she was the widow of Guy H. Wyatt, and daughter of the late Horace Bullman and Nettie Groce Bullman Kirby. She was a member of Golightly United Methodist Church....

W. Lattimore, Sr.

W. Lattimore, Sr.

Apr 15, 2012

W. Wayne Lattimore, Sr., 88, of Spartanburg, died Sunday, April 15, 2012 at Hospice of the Carolina Foothills-Landrum. Born September 15, 1923 in Duncan and raised in Hickory Grove, SC, he was the son of the late William Carson Lattimore, Sr. and Mamie Spencer Lattimore. Mr. Lattimore formerly worked with A. T. Sistare Construction Co. and was a member of...