U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
Julius Fulmer
PROSPERITY — Julius Carlisle “Junebug” Fulmer, 84, of 2270 Macedonia Church Road, Prosperity, died Tuesday, May 3, 2005, at his residence.
Mr. Fulmer was born on December 29, 1920, in Lexington County, a son of the late Lemuel Mitchum and Rhoda Berley Shealy Fulmer. He was an Army veteran of World War II and a retired employee of Fairfield Tractor Company of Columbia with over 50 years of employment. He was a member of the Macedonia Lutheran Church, a charter member of Fairview Fire Department, and a former member of American Legion Post # 90.
A loving husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather, he is survived by his beloved wife of 63 years, Ruby Amick Fulmer of the home; two daughters and sons-in-law, Judy Carlisle Fulmer Bobb and Frederick Bobb of Prosperity and Retha F. Frick and J. Steven Frick of Little Mountain; a son and daughter-in-law, Leon F. Fulmer, Sr. and Brenda F. Fulmer of Prosperity; two sisters, Annie Julia Wessinger of Chapin and Gladys F. Amick of Prosperity; a brother, H. Grady Fulmer of the Lowman Home, White Rock; three grandchildren and spouses, Lynnette F. and Todd Lever of Pomaria, Leon Jr. and Meredith Fulmer of Chapin, and Rhonda E. Frick of Little Mountain; three great-grandchildren, William “Will” F. Lever, Shelby G. Lever, Leon “Lee” F. Fulmer, III.
He was predeceased by a sister, Katie Belle Seay and two brothers, Hubert and George Fulmer.
Funeral services will be conducted at 4 P.M. Thursday at Macedonia Lutheran Church by the Rev. Randall Derrick. Interment will be in church cemetery.
Visitation will be from 6:30 to 8 P.M. Wednesday at the Whitaker Funeral Home and the family will be at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Leon F. Fulmer, Sr., 2811 Dreher Island Road, Prosperity.
Memorial may be made to Macedonia Lutheran Church, 3216 Macedonia Church Road, Prosperity SC 29127.
The family would like to extend a Special thanks to Lutheran Hospice and Dr. Carroll Pinner, III for their assistance.
Whitaker Funeral Home, 1704 College Street, Newberry, is assisting the family.
Daisy Bennett
SWANSEA — Services for Daisy Lee Dickerson Bennett, 57, 2 p.m. Friday (viewing 1 p.m.) at Grace Baptist Church, West Columbia, burial in Southland Memorial Gardens, visitation 1-7 p.m. Thursday at Pearson’s Funeral Home, Columbia. Born in Lexington Co. to Geneva Suber and Perry Dickerson, she died April 29, 2005. Surviving: husband, Richard Bennett; son, Robert Dickerson; 5 siblings; 1 grandson.
Geneva Byrd
HARTSVILLE — Funeral services for Geneva Clark Byrd, 89, will be held at 4 p.m. Wednesday, May 4, 2005, at Mount Olivet Baptist Church. The Revs. Gary Wells and Frank Barwigg will officiate with burial in the church Cemetery, directed by Brown-Pennington-Atkins Funeral Home. Memorials may be made to the Mt. Olivet Baptist Church, 1652 Mt. Olivet Church Rd., Patrick, SC 29584.
Mrs. Byrd, widow of L.E. Byrd, died Monday, May 2, 2005. Born in Darlington Co., SC, she was a daughter of the late William Calvin and Hattie Teal Clark. She was a member of Mt. Olivet Baptist Church and taught Sunday School for 25 years.
Surviving are her son and daughter-in-law, Malcolm and Barbara Byrd of Hartsville, SC; daughters and son-in-law, Betty Lou Parson of Loganville, GA, Wynona and Eugene Perdue of Patrick, SC; sisters, Julia Chapman and Bonnie Jean Melton, both of Hartsville, SC; brother, Robert Clark of Hartsville, SC; 8 grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her son, Darrell Byrd; daughter, Doris Winburn; brother W. C. Clark.
Odessa Jeffcoat
SWANSEA — The funeral service for Mrs. Odessa Simmons Jeffcoat, 59, of 152 Fats Drive, Paradise Park Community, Swansea, will be held 1 p.m. Thursday, May 5, 2005, at Mt. Moriah A.M.E. Church, Sandy Run Community near Swansea with Rev. S.L. Gordon, Sr. officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery.
Mrs. Jeffcoat died Saturday, April 30, 2005.
Survivors include five children, Tyrone (Cynthia) Jeffcoat, Lavette Hopkins, Yvette Jeffcoat, Reggie (Toni) Jeffcoat and Dwayne (Amy) Jeffcoat; Bartow Jeffcoat; six brothers, Samuel (Rosa) Simmons, Curtis (Joann) Simmons, Harry Simmons, Charles (Joyce) Simmons, Ben Simmons and Lonnie D. Simmons; three sisters, Emma (Gary) Sutton, Annie Ruth Simmons and Wanda Elaine Simmons; five aunts, three uncles, seven brothers-in-law; nine sisters-in-law; nineteen grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren and other relatives and friends.
Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, May 4, at W.B. Crumel Funeral Home of North.
Friends may call at the residence and at the funeral home.
Dorothy Huff
GARDEN CITY — Funeral service for Dorothy Mozell Huff, 79, formerly of Columbia, will be held Friday at 2 p.m. at Dunbar Funeral Home, Devine Street Chapel, with burial to follow in Greenlawn Memorial Park. Visitation will be Thursday 6-8 p.m. at the funeral home.
Mrs. Huff, wife of the late William David Huff, Sr., died Tuesday, May 3, 2005. Born in Columbia, she was the daughter of the late Jesse B. and Nellie Dawkins Sanders.
A beloved mother and grandmother, she is survived by sons, William David “Vic” Huff, Jr., and his wife, Martha Elizabeth Huff of Garden City, and Lewis Edward Huff and his fiancee, Jennie Wilm of Conway; daughters, Marlene Snelling and her husband, Larry of Myrtle Beach, and Nellie Huff of Garden City; grandchildren, Larry Snelling, II, Dorothy Sholtes, William Snelling, and William David Huff, III; 13 great-grandchildren; and a sister-in-law, Mary Sanders of Columbia.
Gertrude Black
COLUMBIA — Graveside service for Gertrude Creech Black, 89, will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday in Greenlawn Memorial Park. The family will receive friends from noon-1 p.m Thursday at Dunbar Funeral Home, Devine Street Chapel, prior to the graveside service. Memorials may be made to the Connie Maxwell Children’s Home, Greenwood, S.C.
Mrs. Black, wife of the late Benjamin Black, died Tuesday, May 3, 2005. Born in Barnwell, S.C., she was a daughter of the late Lee and Anna Gilliam Creech. She was a member of Reedy Branch Baptist Church in Barnwell.
Surviving are her sons and daughters-in-law, Olin and Shirley Black of Columbia, and Julian and Joan Black of Atlanta, Ga.; daughters and son-in-law, Mrs. Ruby Rease of Eastover, and Jeanette and Bill Jennings of Columbia; brothers, Caroll Creech and Harold Creech, both of Barnwell; sisters, Thelma Black of Barnwell, Ethel Hutto of North Charleston, Elizabeth Sanders of West Columbia; and 12 grandchildren; 24 great-grandchildren; and 1 great-great-granddaughter.
Samie Addleton Lee
SCRANTON — Services for Samie Addleton Lee, 80, widower of Bertie Lee, are 11 a.m. Thursday (visitation 7-9 tonight) at Brockington Funeral Home, burial in Riverside Cemetery. Born in Florence Co. to Murray and Myrtle Y. Lee, he died May 3, 2005. Surviving: daughters, Vivian Matthews, Gayle Barfield; grandchildren, Scott Matthews, Leigh Flowers, Michael, Kelly Barfield; siblings, Delano Lee, Althea Coker; great-grandchildren.
Ruth Catoe
COLUMBIA — Funeral services for Mrs. Ruth Stogner Catoe, 79, of Columbia, will be held 3 o’clock (Wednesday), May 4, 2005, at Shives Funeral Home, Colonial Chapel. Interment following in Crescent Hill Memorial Gardens.
Mrs. Catoe, widow of Amos H. Catoe, died Monday, April 2, 2005. Born in Lancaster, SC, she was a daughter of the late James “Buck” and Odessa Stogner. She was preceded in death by her husband, Ret. Mgst. Amos H. Catoe. After 30 years as an Army wife, she and her husband owned and operated Plant Paradise before health problems caused their retirement.
Survivors include her son and his wife, Dennis Wayne and Nicole Catoe of Columbia, daughters and their husbands, Linda and Floyd Derrick of Chapin, SC, and Cathy and Steve Athans of Ponte Vedra, FL; grandchildren, Michael Derrick and his fiance Jessie Carlson, Bryan Derrick and his fiance Chelsea Shoemaker of Columbia and Shelby Derrick of Chapin, SC; sisters, Bea Montgomery and Ruby Hildreth of Monroe, NC; nieces, Barbara Ellis, Monroe, NC, Rita Rodgers of Laurinburg, NC, Janice Autry and Dianne Kelly of Pageland, SC, and her beloved poodle, Little Bit. We would like to thank the wonderful nurses and doctors and Lexington Medical Center that made her unexpected passing as easy as possible and helped her family with their loss.
Polly Suiter
DALEVILLE, Ala. — Polly Mozingo Suiter, a resident of Daleville, and formerly of Columbia and Cayce, S.C., crossed over to be with her family and friends who went before her, on April 29, 2005. She was 72.
After facing, with dignity and bravery, a battle with ALS (Lou Gherig’s Disease), she passed in peace at 10:37 p.m.
Born August 20, 1932, in Wayne County, N.C., to Eddie P. and Addie L. Mozingo, she was the ninth of eleven children, on the family farm. She met Leo F. Suiter and married him in 1950. Of that marriage they had three sons, Eddie F., Noah Michael and Robert J. She was a world traveler and enjoyed the open road. She had lived in Goldsboro, Fayetteville and Wilmington, N.C., Columbia and Cayce, S.C., Atlanta, GA, New Orleans, LA, Friedburg, Germany, Dothan and Daleville, AL. She toured Europe, Canada and most of these United States. She danced the Can-Can, and drove a racecar (though not professionally). From the late 80s through the mid 90s she worked as a Home Health provider, primarily with Alzheimer’s patients. She retired in 1996 and returned to Daleville to be near her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her son, Mike in 1982, her sisters, Laura and Dolly and her brothers, Wyatt and Troy.
She is survived by her sons, Eddie and his wife Debbie, Robert; her grandsons, Steven and Noah; her great-granddaughter, Samantha; her grandsons mother, Elaine Lily and her husband Mark; her sisters Mildred, Alice, Eunice, Emma, Marie; her brother, Donald; many nieces and nephews; her friend and caregiver, Brenda and her friends and neighbors, Karen and Sarah.
With warm thoughts to those who came to care for her, we request donations be made to MDA, 3300 E. Sunrise Drive, Tucson, AZ 85718 or Wiregrass Hospice, PO Drawer 2127, Dothan, AL 36302.
Cynthia Reese Shaheed
COLUMBIA — Services for Mrs. Cynthia Reese Shaheed were held 1:30 p.m. Monday at Masjid Muslameen with burial in Masjid As-Salaam Cemetery. Leevy’s Funeral Home, Taylor Street Chapel, was in charge. Surviving are her husband, Omar Shaheed; sons, Kenneth (Heather) and James Reese and Omar II and Saleem Shaheed; daughters, Melanie Reese and Rasheedah McGil; brothers, Walter (Danni), William (Regena), and Barry (Collette) Priester; sisters, Jacqueline Priester, Wilhemina (Gregory) Doughty, Patricia (Jerald) Samuels, and Josephine (William) Conley. In lieu of flowers, a scholarship in the name of Cynthia Reese Shaheed has been set up at Wachovia Bank.
Jesse Cole
LUGOFF — Funeral services for Jesse Allan Cole, 51, will be held on Thursday, May 5, 2005, at 11 a.m. at New Covenant Pentecostal Fellowship Church with burial to follow in Greenlawn Northeast Memorial Park. Rev. Bobby Keating will officiate. The family will receive friends on Wednesday, May 4, 2005, from 6-8 p.m. at Kornegay Funeral Home, Lugoff Elgin Chapel. Memorials may be made to New Covenant Pentecostal Fellowship Church, 114 Battleship Road, Camden, SC 29020.
Mr. Cole died Tuesday, May 3, 2005. Born in Mullins, W.Va., he was the son of the late Jess and Ida Thompson Cole. Mr. Cole was a former West Virginia coal miner and a member of New Covenant Pentecostal Fellowship Church, where he served as an Elder.
Surviving are his wife, Donna Mitchell Cole; daughter, Loretta Hornsby and her husband, Allan, of Lugoff; sisters, Janet Messer of Culpepper, Va., Margaret Mills of Shady Springs, W.Va., Easter Johnson of Odd W.Va., Mettie Blankenship of Coral City, W.Va.; brothers, John Cole of Lugoff, Hershel Cole of Johnson City, TN, Charles Cole of Ghent, W.Va., and Larry Cole of Lugoff. He was predeceased by a sister, Jenny Cole Bolen.
Flora Hill
SALUDA — Services with burial for Flora Lee B. Hill, 85, widow of Willie Hill, are 3 p.m. Thursday at New Salem CME Church, where she was a member. Butler & Sons Funeral Home is in charge. Born in Saluda County to John and Inez Stevens Blocker, she died May 1, 2005. Surviving: children, Jessie, A.C., Willie Mae Hill, Edna Baker, Rosetta Hall, Velma Barnes, Lois Cannon; grandchild, great, great-great-grandchildren.
Walter Stewart
GEORGETOWN — Walter C. Stewart, 85, widower of Etta Mae Marlowe Stewart, died Sunday, May 1, 2005, in Waccamaw Community Hospital.
Funeral services will be held Friday, May 6, 2005, at 11:00 a.m. at Graves Southern Baptist Church. Officiating will be Rev. Alan Main and Mike Goude. Entombment, directed by Graham Funeral Home, will follow in Pennyroyal Memorial Gardens Mausoleum.
He was born June 9, 1919, in Williamsburg County, a son of the late Lewis Hamer Stewart and Ella Frances Jernigan Stewart.
Mr. Stewart had retired as a maintenance employee from International Paper. He retired in 1981 with thirty seven years of service and was also a member of the Quarter Century Club with the company. He was a member of Graves Southern Baptist Church and the Men’s Sunday School Class and Men’s Fellowship. He enjoyed reading as his hobby.
Surviving are two sons, Walter Homer Stewart of Florence and David Stewart of Dayton, Texas ; four daughters, Martha Goude of Georgetown, Mary Hall of Brunswick, Georgia, Stella Maddox and Faye Byers, both of Dayton, Texas ; three sisters, Frances Evans of New Zion, Eva Verrett of Crowley, Louisiana, and Inez Bradshaw of North Charleston; twelve grandchildren, five great-grandchildren and a number of nieces and nephews.
The family will receive friends from 6-8 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.
Memorials may be made to Graves Southern Baptist Church, P.O. Box 542, Georgetown, SC 29442.
