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Leon Shealy

PROSPERITY — Leon M. Shealy, 83, formerly of 206 Elm Street, Prosperity, widower of Frances Counts Shealy, died Wednesday, November 10, 2004, at Lowman Home.

Mr. Shealy was born on May 5, 1921 in Little Mountain, a son of the late L. Magnus and Mary Stoudemire Shealy. He was a Navy veteran of World War II and a retired employee of South Carolina Electric & Gas. He was a member of Grace Lutheran Church where he was a former member of the Congregational Council, a member and former teacher of the Happy Hearts Sunday School Class, a member and former treasurer of the Leisure Group, and a member of Lutheran Men. He was a former member of the Prosperity Town Council and a former member of the Prosperity Civitan Club.

Mr. Shealy is survived by three daughters and sons-in-law; Phyllis S. and Bill Barnette of Aiken, Marysue S. and Eddie Rivers of Prosperity, Marella S. and Fred Reid of Anderson; a sister, Marjorie Wicker of Little Mountain; and eight grandchildren; Laura B. Jackson, Keri B. Bukovitz, Chris Barnette, Suzanne R. Medlock, Katie Reid, Claire Reid, Hunter Reid, and Todd Reid; and one great-grandson, Bryce Medlock. He was predeceased by a brother, Robert D. Shealy and a sister, Evelyn Wicker.

Funeral services for Leon M. Shealy will be conducted Saturday at 2:00 P.M. at Grace Lutheran Church by the Rev. Eric Fink. Interment will be in Newberry Memorial Gardens.

Visitation will be from 7:00 P.M. to 8:30 P.M. Friday at the Whitaker Funeral Home.

Memorials may be made to Grace Lutheran Church, PO Box 188, Prosperity, SC 29127.

Whitaker Funeral Home, 1704 College St., Newberry is assisting the family.

Margie Sawyer

HAMER — Services for Margie Evelyn Sawyer, 80, 2 p.m. today at Cooper Funeral Home, Dillon; burial: Cedar Creek Cemetery, Nichols. Born in Horry Co. to Alton and Georgia Mae McDaniel, she died Nov. 10, 2004. Surviving: husband, Leon; children, Joyce Hayes, Leon Sawyer; siblings, Eunice Herrington, Clara Tuner, Lomeria Hickman, Mamie Phillips, Vernon McDaniel; grandchildren; great, great-great-grandchildren.

Allen Gainey

HEMINGWAY — Services for Allen Gainey, 84, are 1 p.m. today at J.J. Mitchum Center, burial in Walker Chapel’s Cemetery. Wilds’ Daughter Home for Funerals, Georgetown, is in charge. Born in Florence to Elijah and Sally Gainey, he died Nov. 6, 2004. Surviving: wife, Lila Gainey; children, Jerry, Allen Jr., Earl, Cynthia Gainey, Elizabeth McKorkle; six brothers; 1 sister; 6 grandchildren; 1 great-grandchild.

Oscar Wilson Jr.

COLUMBIA — Services for Oscar B. “Sonny” Wilson Jr., 2 p.m. Saturday at Gunter’s Chapel Baptist Church with entombment in Memorial Gardens of Columbia. Visitation is 7-8 tonight at Bostick-Tompkins Funeral Home. Born in Hartsville to Oscar Sr. and Mildred D. Wilson, he died Nov. 4, 2004. Surviving are wife, Stephanie; children, Anthony, Antoine, Dyron, Nekeisha; siblings, Connie, Merion, Willie Wilson.

Judy Williams

PINELAND — Services for Judy Williams, 7, 11 a.m. Saturday (visitation 7-8 tonight): Second Thankful Baptist Church; burial: Rockspring Baptist Church Cemetery. Bostick Funeral Home, Ridgeland, is in charge. Born in Pineland to Rufus Williams & Jeffrie Clark, she died Nov. 8, 2004. Surviving: parents; sisters, Brittany Orage, Bria Williams; grandparents, Doretha & Willie Kirkland, Betsy & Edgar Williams.

Trannie Werdt

LEXINGTON — Services for Trannie Lee Werdt, 80, of Lexington, will be held at 2pm Saturday in the Chapel of Thompson Funeral Home of Lexington, officiated by Rev. John Culp and Rev. Dr. Steven Sweat. Burial will follow at Southland Memorial Gardens. The family will receive friends from 6-8pm Friday at the funeral home. Memorials may be made to Lexington Medical Center Extended Care.

Mrs. Werdt, widow of Paul L. Werdt, died Wednesday, November 10, 2004. Born in Lexington, she was the daughter of the late Frank and Dellie Rish Sharpe. Mrs. Werdt was a member of Mt. Hebron United Methodist Church and was retired from Richland School District #1.

Surviving are her daughter, Barbara Derrick of West Columbia; son and daughter-in-law, John and Carolyn Deaver of Columbia; grandchildren, Wendy Leonard, John W. Deaver III, Todd Deaver; and five great grandchildren. Mrs. Werdt was predeceased by her brother, Rudolf Sharpe; and sisters, Gladys Caughman and Lula Mae Truesdale.

William Watford

TIMMONSVILLE — Services with burial for William B. “June Bug” Watford, 69, widower of Martha Thompson Watford, 2 p.m. Saturday: Salem UMC; visitation 6-8 tonight: Layton-Anderson Funeral Home. Born in Florence Co. to Bryant and Mary P. Watford, he died Nov. 11, 2004. Surviving: mother; children, Joe Watford, Martha White, Wendy Lee; siblings, Jackie, Jerry Watford, Mary Odom, Shelby Smoak; more.

Daniel Walker

COLUMBIA — Services for Daniel Walker, 1 p.m. Saturday: Palmer Memorial Chapel (visitation 6 tonight); burial: Palmetto Cemetery. Born in Columbia to Jessie & Mattie Walker, he died Nov. 8, 2004. Surviving: children, Thomas, Sarina; siblings, Delores English, Ruth Anthony, Carrie Tucker, Joan Burns, Sallie Humphries, Brenda Wright, Quellen Roland, Mable Cayruth, Thurmond Bell, Randy Leagones.

Clara Tucker

RIDGEWAY — Services with burial for Clara Green Tucker, 83, are 2:30 p.m. Saturday at Mt. Pilgrim Baptist Church, where she was a member of the Senior Choir. Wake services are 6-7 tonight at Collins Funeral Home, Camden. Born in Kershaw County to Ernest and Emma Nelson Green, she died November 7, 2004. Surviving are sons, Eugene and Harold Tucker; grand, great, step and great-step grandchildren.

Amanda Taylor

COLUMBIA — Services for Mrs. Amanda Felicia Allen Taylor, 97, of 112 Old Springs Rd, will be held 11:00 am Saturday at Trinity UM Church, Orangeburg, with interment to follow in the Orangeburg Cemetery. Visitation is 7:00 pm Friday at Palmer Memorial Chapel. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be sent to the “Allen-Taylor/Dibble-Taylor Endowment Scholarship Fund” at Claflin University, 400 Magnolia St., Orangeburg, SC 29115.

Born in Seneca, she was the daughter of the late Alexander “Doc” and Amanda Stegall Allen and granddaughter of the late Alfred Forch and Martha Oglesby Allen, who lived in a log cabin along the Tugaloo River, in Indian Territory, which later became Pickens District.

She was educated in Seneca, Atlanta and later enrolled at Allen Home, a Methodist Boarding School, in Asheville, NC. In 1922, she entered Claflin University Preparatory School for her high school and earned her Normal School Degree in 1928. There, she met and later married a college schoolmate, John Benjamin Taylor, Jr. They both taught school in the rural community of Saint George, SC.

She was employed for more than 30 years as a cartographer for several Federal Government agencies, retiring from the US Naval Oceanographic Office, in 1972. She loved drafting maps as they pertained to military bases, small-uninhabited islands across the globe, as well as charting many waters, including the oceans for hurricanes, icebergs and other atmospheric conditions. She was an expert in world geography being knowledgeable of many countries and small places unknown to the average person. She received numerous citations and awards for her dedicated and devotional work in a male dominated field.

In 1993, she moved back to South Carolina, after more than 70 years, settling in Columbia, to live with her daughter Elsie.

Mrs. Taylor was preceded in death in 1980, by her beloved husband of 52 years, and her eldest daughter, Catherine Taylor McConnell, in 1996.

Surviving are three daughters, Joan Taylor Lee, Dorothy B. Taylor and Elsie Taylor Goins; a son, John Benjamin Taylor, III; a son-in-law, Dr. Roland C. McConnell; eleven devoted grandchildren, Wendell A. (Mindy) Goins, Felicia L. Goins, William M. Goins, E. Newton Jackson, Jr., Dawn K. Howard, Jon (Ruthie) Howard, Angela D. Howard, Theresa H. Diallo, Catherine M. Howard, Charles P. Howard, III and John B. Taylor, IV; and eleven great-grandchildren.

Edith Stover

COLUMBIA — Services for Mrs. Edith Beatrice Hare Stover, of 4711 ½ Linden St., will be held 3:00 pm Saturday at First Nazareth Baptist Church, with interment in Palmetto Cemetery. Palmer Memorial Chapel is in charge.

Mrs. Stover died Tuesday, November 9, 2004. Born in Columbia, she was the daughter of the late Kassie and Lucille Craft Hare. She was the oldest member of the Craft family. She was a member of First Nazareth Baptist Church for 57 years and the Vineyard Workers Club.

Surviving are a son, George R. Stover, Jr.; daughter, Arnetta Speach (Robert) Wood; sister, Albertha Heller; grandson, Michael Stover; granddaughters, Traci Stover Harris and Valerie Johnson, Marcedes (Stan) Gray and Robin Wood; great-grandchildren; nieces and nephews.

Mary Scott

COLUMBIA — Services for Mrs. Mary Jane Mitchell Scott are 2 p.m. Saturday (viewing at 1 p.m.) at Oak Grove Baptist Church with burial in Lincoln Cemetery. Wake services are 7 this evening at Leevy’s Funeral Home, Taylor Street Chapel. Surviving are her daughters, JoAnn, Joe Ann, Lillie, Peggy, Mary and Latrenda; sons, Joseph, Malachi and Johnny; sister, Annie; brother, Louis; 18 grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren.

Alice Scott

EASTOVER — Funeral service for Alice L. Scott of 212 Chalk Street will be held 1:00 P.M. Saturday, November 13, 2004, at Mt. Nebo Baptist Church. Interment will follow in Pleasant Grove Baptist Church Cemetery, Gadsden. Visitation will be held Friday, November 12, 2004, 3-9 P.M. at the funeral home.

J.P. Holley Funeral Home, Garners Ferry Road Chapel is in charge of arrangements.

Ms. Scott died Tuesday, November 9, 2004. Born in Eastover, SC she was the daughter of the late Luke Scott, Sr., and Anna Ruth Scott. She was a member of Pleasant Grove Baptist Church.

She is survived by her sons, Melton R. (Wanda) Scott, Keith G. (Pamela) Scott, Kenneth G. (Rena) Scott, Leonard L. Scott; sisters, Melvina Macon, Lillian Woodruff, Geneva Weaver, Benay Jones; eighteen grandchildren; seventeen great-grandchildren.

Hugh Rucker Jr.

WILLISTON — Services for Hugh David Rucker, Jr., age 71, will be held eleven A.M. Saturday, November 13, 2004 at the Williston First Baptist Church, the Reverends Posey Belcher, Kyle Harman and David Richardson, officiating. Burial in the Williston Cemetery with Masonic Rites accorded. Visitation 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at Folk Funeral Home in Williston. Memorials may be made to Williston First Baptist Church, P.O. Box 366, Williston, SC 29853, Williston Town Library, P.O. Box 482 in Williston or the Secret Santa.

Mr. Rucker died Wednesday at his residence. Born in Sandy Run SC, he was a son of the late Hugh D. Rucker, Sr. and Willie Mae Saylor Rucker. He was a member of the Williston First Baptist Church, Hope Masonic Lodge #126, local weather net reporter for WIS Channel 10 in Columbia and was a deacon. Mr. Rucker retired from Westinghouse at SRS and was retired military. He was a former member of the Williston Rescue Squad.

Survivors include his loving and devoted wife of 51 years, Patricia Ray Rucker; daughter and son-in-law, Susan R. & Richard “Ricky” Creech of Barnwell; son, Gregg “Guppy” Rucker of West Columbia, adopted son, Allen Fillyaw of Athens, Tennessee; sisters, Bernice R. Lybrand and Hilmer R. Watts , both of Swansea; six grandchildren, three great-grandchildren and two adopted grandchildren. He was predeceased by his son, Hugh Mitchell “Mitch” Rucker.

James Prescott

HARTSVILLE — Services for Minister James N. Prescott, 64, 1 p.m. Saturday at the Butler High School Gym, burial: Mt. Calvary Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery. Hines Funeral Home is in charge. Born in Lee Co. to Frierson and Nora Benjamin Prescott, he died Nov. 8, 2004. Surviving: wife, Margaret; children, Calvin, Eric, James Prescott, Tywanda Ligon, Margetta Mack; 4 siblings; 13 grandchildren; 1 great-grandchild.

Kathleen Poole

COLUMBIA — The Mass of Christian Burial for Kathleen Walsh Poole, 71, will be celebrated Saturday at 10 a.m. at St. Joseph Catholic Church, with Final Commendation and Farewell Prayers in St. Peter’s Catholic Cemetery. Msgr. Thomas F.X. Hofmann will officiate. The Wake and Rosary will be recited Friday at 6 p.m. at Dunbar Funeral Home, Devine Street Chapel, with visitation following until 8 p.m.

Mrs. Poole, wife of Deacon Charles P. Poole, Jr., died Wednesday, November 10, 2004 after an heroic battle with cancer. Born on November 12, 1932 in Manhatten, New York, she was the daughter of the late Edward Joseph Walsh, Sr. and Mary Ellen Mulvihill Walsh, both of whom had been born in Ireland. After her marriage in 1953, she lived in College Park, Md. for five years and then in Verona, Pa. for six years, before settling in Columbia in 1964, where she lived the remainder of her life and raised five children: Kathleen, Charles III, Michael, Mary Ellen Jackson, and Elizabeth Loeffler. She served as the administrative assistant of the St. Thomas More Newman Center at the University of South Carolina from 1964 to 1976, and for several years during the 1990’s, and she organized the first pro-life student group, USC Students for Life, which remains active today. During her late teens and early twenties she was active in the Legion of Mary and in the Campaigners for Christ, which devoted its time to proclaiming the Gospel and advancing social causes through street preaching at Union Square and elsewhere in lower Manhatten.

Mrs. Poole devoted the last 30 years of her life to pro-life work, and was the longest serving member of the South Carolina Citizens of Life Board of Directors. She was chairman of the board at the time of her death. Mrs. Poole organized the first March for Life in South Carolina on January 22, 1974. Seven people marched from USC to the State House to bring to elected officials the message of the intrinsic value of human life, and to call for an end to abortion. The March for Life has been an annual event ever since, chaired by Mrs. Poole until recently, and now it attracts thousands of pro-life marchers each year. Mrs. Poole also established the pro-life booth at the State Fair in 1974, reaching many thousands of people each year with right-to-life educational material. Most recently the South Carolina Citizens for Life Board of Directors honored Mrs. Poole as Defender of Life in a resolution expressing deep and abiding appreciation for her exemplary life, and her witness to the pro-life movement.

She received music education at Carnegie Hall in Manhatten, and sang professionally prior to her marriage in 1953. During the late 1960’s she sang in the Choir at St. Peter’s Church in Columbia.

Mrs. Poole has been a member of St. Joseph Catholic parish since 1964. She and her husband were affiliated with the First Order of Friars Minor of Holy Name Province on February 17, 1976, for the volunteer service work that she performed for the Franciscans at the USC Newman Center. She also spent several years helping the Dominicans at St. Martin de Porres school. Over the years she has encouraged and nurtured many vocations to the priesthood and the religious life. Her family and friends knew her for her rich Irish heritage. She sang ballads in the Irish Language, and was well known for her gala celebrations of St. Patrick’s Day.

In addition to her husband, Mrs. Poole is survived by her brother, Kevin Walsh, her five children, and her fifteen grandchildren. She was pre-deceased by her brother, Edward Joseph, Jr., and her sisters, Mary Reilly and Anne. Memorials may be made to the South Carolina Citizens for Life, 1411 Barnwell Street, Suite 3, Columbia, SC 29201.

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