U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
Samuel Hopkins
COLUMBIA — Services for Samuel Lee Hopkins, are 2 p.m. Tuesday at Bostick-Tompkins Funeral Home; burial in Serenity Memorial Gardens. Born in Columbia to Eddie & Ella Palmer Hopkins, he died March 1, 2005. Surviving: daughter, Anita; mother, Ella; siblings, Carrie Carter, Dorothy Fair, Robert, Matthew, Joseph, Israel, & Mack Hopkins.
Robert Landers Sr.
COLUMBIA — Funeral Services for Mr. Robert Louis Landers, Sr., of 1800 Isabel Street, Columbia will be held Tuesday, March 8, 2005, at Gunter’s Chapel Baptist Church with interment in the St. Matthews Baptist Church Cemetery in Bishopville, SC. There will be a visitation at the funeral home this evening from 7:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. A. A. Dicks Funeral Home-Sullivan Chapel is in charge.
Mr. Landers died Thursday, March 3, 2005. He was employed as an Electronics Technician manager for 30 years at the Electronics Development Corporation in Boston, MA. He was also the former president of the Golden Acres Community Association. He was a veteran of the United States Air Force.
Survivors include his wife, Rosa McKenney Landers; 8 sons, Cornell Landers, Steve Harris, Frank Harris, Robert Landers, Jr., Christopher Bethea, Darrell Bethea, Nathan Landers, all of Boston, MA and Brian Landers, CA; 5 daughters, Roberta Kelly, Dora Harris, Aretha Lander, Jo Ann Brown, all of Boston, MA, and Kathie Harris, Miami, FL; brother, Douglas Lander, New York, NY; fourteen grandchildren; five great grandchildren, and a host of other relatives and friends.
Dr. J. Calvin Koonts
DUE WEST — Dr. J. Calvin ‘Cal’ Koonts, 80, resident of 10 Haynes St. husband of Cortlandt “Corky” Morper Koonts died Saturday March 5, 2005 at his home.
Born in Lexington, NC, he was a son of the late Harvey Hill and Elsie T. Koonts.
Dr. J. Calvin Koonts earned his AB degree, Magna Cum Lauda, from Catawba College and his MA and Ph.D. degrees from George Peabody College. After several years of teaching at Boyden High School, in Salisbury, NC, in 1949 he joined the faculty of Erskine College, where, in addition to holding various administrative posts, he was elected the first Chairman of the Faculty. Dr. Koonts received several fellowships and scholarships for postdoctoral study. They included study at Harvard, U.C.L.A., Oxford, and a Fulbright Grant to study education in Pakistan.
Dr. Koonts arrived in Due West in the fall in 1949 to begin a long and fruitful career as developer and head of the Education Department of Erskine College. He brought with him a strong belief in the worth of teacher education and a determination to develop at Erskine a program for which it could be proud. During his 41 years of service to Erskine, he has seen this aim flourish, and graduates of “his” program have distinguished themselves in the teaching profession and in related administrative areas. “Teachers of the year,” college professors, college presidents, superintendents, principles, curriculum coordinators, and thousands of teachers dedicated to teaching young people have “sat at his feet.”
While directing the teacher education program at Erskine, he contributed to progress of the program in the entire state. He organized the ASSOCIATION OF STUDENT TEACHING (now the ASSOCIATION OF TEACHER EDUCATORS) in South Carolina, servings as its first and twenty-fifth president and State Delegate to the National Convention on numerous occasions. He was an active member of the SOUTH CAROLINA ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES OF TEACHER EDUCATION, serving as president and executive board member. He served on the State Board of Education and, in 1964, was one of 15 Americans chosen to study education in Pakistan. In addition to these contributions, he served on the Board of Trustees at Piedmont Technical College, the Board of Advisors for Gardner-Webb College and on the Board of Trustees for his alma mater, Catawba College, which conferred on him an honorary doctorate. Dr. Koonts is listed in WHO’S WHO IN AMERICA.
Though his life was dedicated to the teaching of teachers, he found time to excel in other areas as well. Most notable, perhaps, is his writing of poetry. His writing first attracted notice when he won the Frantz Essay Award as an undergraduate at Catawba College. Since then he published a number of books of poetry. A SLICE OF THE SUN, his fifth book of verse, was his contribution to the 1976 Bicentennial and includes poetry which won the William Gilmore Simms Poetry Prize in 1973, the Unicorn Prize in 1974, the Lyrie Poetry Prize in 1975, and in 1977 the Elizabeth Boatwright Coker Award. These awards were made by the Poetry Society of South Carolina. Dr. Koonts is one of a number of South Carolina literary figures with connections to Erskine listed in a brochure called “The South Carolina Literary Tour” and printed by the Palmetto Book Alliance, an affiliate of the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress. Dr. Koonts is also named several times in the INTERNATIONAL WHO’S WHO In POETRY, Cambridge, England.
Dr. Koonts served on the town council of Due West and was a member of the Due West ARP Church where he served as a deacon and an elder.
Survivors are: wife, Cortlandt M. Koonts of the home; son, Carlisle Woodson Koonts and his wife, Linda of Hartsville, SC; daughter, Camille Koonts Stein and her husband, John of Medford, N.J.; grandchildren, Taylor and Cameron Koonts and step-granddaughter, Je Ne’ New; grandchildren, Christopher, Eric, Caroline and Will Stein; sister, Mrs. Hilda Koonts Comfort of Gulfport, Mississippi; niece, Mrs. Ralice Ostrom Gertz, Greensboro, NC and nephew, Ralph Kenneth Ostron of Irmo, SC.
Funeral services will be conducted Tuesday, March 8, 2005 at 11:00 AM from the Due West ARP Church with the Rev. Calvin Draffin and Dr. James Bell officiating. The burial will precede funeral services in the Due West ARP Church Cemetery.
The body is at The Chandler-Jackson Funeral Home. The family will receive friends Monday, March 7, 2005 at the residence, 10 Haynes St., Due West, SC.
Memorials may be made to the J. Calvin Koonts Education Scholarship Fund at Erskine College in Due West, SC 29639, or to the Due West ARP Church, Building Fund, Due West, SC 29639.
The Chandler-Jackson Funeral Home of Abbeville, SC is in charge of arrangements.
Frances McKeown
BLACKSTOCK — Service and burial for Frances Evelyn Davis McKeown, 89, widow of Andrew McKeown Sr. are 11 a.m. today (visitation following the service) at Hopewell ARP Church. Barron Funeral Home, Chester. Born in Fairfield Co. to William and Melinda Davis, she died March 5, 2005. Surviving: daughter, Mary Searle; 2 grandchildren; 2 great-grandchildren; sister, Jessie Mae Crozier.
James Mogan Jr.
COLUMBIA — Services for James L. Morgan Jr., of Columbia will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday, March 8, 2005, at Wesley United Methodist Church, 1725 Gervais Street, Columbia, with burial in St. Mark A.M.E. Cemetery, Pomaira, SC. The family will receive friends from 6-8 p.m., Monday, March 7, 2005 at Wesley United Methodist Church, Columbia and other times at the residence of his daughter, Tiffany (Rahn) Rose, 744 Fountain Lake Rd. Columbia. Memorials may be made to Wesley United Methodist Church Capital Fund, 1725 Gervais Street, Columbia, SC 29201.
Mr. Morgan died Sunday, March 6, 2005. Born to the late James Sr. and Susan Suber Morgan he leaves to treasure fond memories of him a wife, Eddie LaVernne Morgan; three daughters, Toni (Walter) Strawther, Trista (Jonathan) Miller, and Tiffany (Rahn) Rose; three sisters, Susie (Elmer) Wilson, Josephine Boyd and Patricia Morgan Davis; six grandchildren and a host of other relatives and friends.
Mr. Morgan joined the United States Marine Corps in 1965 and served in the Vietnam war, for which he earned a Purple Heart award. He was a loving person who will be dearly missed.
W.B. Crumel Funeral Home of North is in charge of arrangements.
Georgia Nichols
LEESVILLE — Services for Georgia Aull Nichols, 68, will be conducted at 2:00 p.m. Tuesday from Union Lutheran Church with the Rev. Mark Smith officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. Visitation will be Monday from 6 to 8 p.m. at Barr-Price Funeral Home Historic B-L Chapel. Memorials may be made to Union Lutheran Church, 4077 Hwy. 378 Leesville, SC 29070.
Mrs. Nichols died Sunday, March 6, 2005. Born in Saluda County, a daughter of the late Hubert Talmadge and Georgia Louise Moore Aull. She was a member of Union Lutheran Church and was retired from Michelin Tire.
Surviving are sons, Noah T. (Tally), Jeffery Lee (Buddy), Jimmy Allen Nichols of Leesville; a daughter, Celia Rogers of Batesburg; a brother, Parks Aull of Leesville; a sister, Betty Kirkland of Leesville; grandchildren, April Robertson, Michael, Joey, Melissa Nichols.
She was predeceased by a son, Marvin Nichols; a sister, Viola Rikard; a brother, James Aull.
The family is at the home of her son, Tally Nichols, 2517 Summerland Hwy., Leesville.
Gladys Nunn
WINDSOR — Funeral Services for Mrs. Gladys E. Nunn will be held on 2pm, Tuesday March 8, 2005 at the First Baptist Church of Windsor, Windsor, SC. Interment will follow in the church cemetery. Visitation will be Monday, March 7, 2005 from 6-8pm at George Funeral Homes, Historic Downtown Chapel, 211 Park Avenue, SW. Aiken.
Mrs. Nunn, 79, of Windsor died Saturday, March 5, 2005 at Agape Skilled Care in West Columbia. A lifelong resident of Windsor, she was a daughter of the late William and Eva (Odom) Eubanks. She was a member of the First Baptist Church of Windsor were she taught the Adult Sunday School Class for 47 years. She loved the Lord and her Church. Mrs. Nunn was a loved mother and grandmother. She will be missed.
In addition to her parents, she is pre-deceased by her husband, James L. Nunn, who died in 1996. Mrs. Nunn is survived by two sons, Roger B. Nunn, Lexington, and Michael (Carmen) Nunn, Columbia, SC., two granddaughters, Crystal and Monica Nunn both of Lexington, SC., her sister, Dorothy Crumpler, Chapin, SC, her brother, Leon Eubanks, Charleston, SC and a sister-in-law Frances Nunn, Windsor.
Memorial donations may be made to the Alzheimer’s Association or First Baptist Church of Windsor Cemetery Fund.
George Funeral Homes, Historic Downtown Chapel, 211 Park Avenue, SW Aiken, SC.
Christine Ricks
COLUMIBA — Services for Christine Walker Ricks, are noon Tuesday at Bostick-Tompkins Funeral Home; burial in Robinson Memorial Gardens. Born in Columbia to James and Sarah Gilyard Walker, she died, March 4, 2005. Surviving: daughter, Crystal Walker; mother, Sarah; siblings, Terry, Sylvia, Janeese, Arthea & Veronica Walker; grandchildren, Alicia and Christopher.
Perry Smith
SUMMERTON — Services with burial for Perry Holmes Smith, 76, U.S. Army veteran, are 11 a.m. Tuesday at Summerton Baptist Church, where he was a member. Visitation is 6-8 today at Stephens Funeral Home, Manning. Born in Cambridge, Md. to Charlie and Hildah Smith, he died March 6, 2005. Surviving: wife, Myrtle Bazzle Smith; children, Merrill Smith, Charles Smith; grand, Payton Smith.
Benjamin Bennett
LUGOFF — Services for Benjamin “RB” Bennett, 76, are 3 p.m. Tuesday at High Hill Baptist Church. Brown’s Funeral Home, Camden, is in charge. Born in Elgin to Willie and Lizze Johnson Bennett, he died March 5, 2005. Surviving are children, Bennie, Vera, Jacqueline Bennett, Kimberly Qualls; siblings, John Bennett, Ruby Jackson, Eartha White, Bertha Maddison, Eunice Samuel; grandchildren; great-grandchild.
