Obituaries

Local Obituaries for Gray Funeral Home Located in Laurens, Clinton, and Whitmire, SC

Allan Carter

Allan Carter

Dec 12, 2015

Dateline – Piedmont, SC Allan Carter, age 65, of 561 Willimon Drive, passed away Saturday, December 12, 2015 at the Laurens County Hospice House. He was born in Polk County, GA and was a son of the late Isaac and Louise Ferguson Carter. Mr. Carter was retired from Alice Manufacturing of Easley. He was a US Marine Corp Veteran of...

Tony Mitchell Morgan

Tony Mitchell Morgan

Dec 12, 2015

Dateline – Greensboro, NC Tony Mitchell Morgan, age 51, of 6307 Rye Mill Court, passed away Saturday, December 12, 2015 at the Moses Cone Memorial Hospital. He was born in Prosperity, SC and was the son of Christine Morgan Corley and step-father, Bill Corley, of Joanna, and the late Jack D. Morgan. Mr. Morgan was a graduate of Clinton High...

Fred Fuller

Fred Fuller

Dec 10, 2015

Dateline – Clinton, SC Fred Fuller, age 71, of 288 Randall Drive, passed away Thursday, December 10, 2015 at his home. He was born in Laurens County and was a son of the late Euell and Lillian DeLoach Fuller. Mr. Fuller retired from Clinton Mills, Bailey Plant and was a Veteran of the SC National Guard. He was a member...

Kathryn J. Dicus

Kathryn J. Dicus

Dec 10, 2015

Kathryn J. Dicus Kathryn J. Dicus, of 303 ½ West Maple Street, passed away on December 10, 2015 at the Presbyterian Home of Clinton. Kat, to those who knew and loved her, was born June 19, 1925 to William Anderson Dicus and Mattie Ban Browning Dicus. A lifetime resident of Clinton, Kat was a graduate of Presbyterian College and Clinton...

Gail Marie Glymph

Gail Marie Glymph

Dec 9, 2015

Dateline – Whitmire, SC Gail Reeh Glymph, age 49, of 43 Tidmarsh Drive, passed away Wednesday, December 9, 2015. She was born in Lakeland, FL and was a daughter of the late Raymond Chester Reeh and Marguerite Schroll Norris. Gail was a Paramedic with the Newberry County EMS and a Critical Care Tech with Greenville County Detention Center. She was...

Dorothy J. Koon

Dorothy J. Koon

Dec 8, 2015

Dateline – Clinton, SC Dorothy J. Koon, age 71, of 13 Simmons St, passed away December 8, 2015 at her home. She was born in Laurens County and was a daughter of the late William Henry and Sarah Elizabeth Craine Fowler. She is survived by her husband Leslie E. Koon, of the home; her sons, Mark Couch, Charles Couch and...

Josie Penland Rhodes

Josie Penland Rhodes

Dec 7, 2015

Dateline – Clinton, SC Josie Mobley Penland Rhodes, age 81, formerly of 443 Mt. Vernon Church Road, Laurens, SC, passed away Monday, December 7, 2015, at NHC of Clinton. She was born in Laurens and was a daughter of the late Andrew Jackson and Theopa Mobley Penland. Mrs. Rhodes was a former employee of the Laurens County Department of Disabilities...

Carolyn H. Clary

Carolyn H. Clary

Dec 7, 2015

Dateline – Clinton, SC Carolyn H. Clary, age 82, formerly of 100 Jefferson Street, and widow of Dallas Clary, passed away Monday, December 7, 2015 at NHC of Clinton. She was born in Ninety-Six and was a daughter of the late James M. and Bertha Harter Harrison. Mrs. Clary was a retired employee of Dollar General Stores. She is survived...

Robert Elliott "Blake" Blakely

Robert Elliott "Blake" Blakely

Dec 7, 2015

Dateline – Clinton, SC Robert Elliott “Blake” Blakely, age 67, of 2150 Hwy 308, passed away Monday, December 7, 2015 at NHC of Laurens. He was born in Washington, D.C. and was a son of the late Elbert Erskine and Irene Powell Blakely. Blake enjoyed playing his guitar and writing lyrics. He briefly worked in the music industry as a...

Wallace W. Alexander

Wallace W. Alexander

Dec 6, 2015

Dateline – Whitmire, SC Wallace W. (Papa Wallace) Alexander, age 72, of 781 Church Street, passed away Sunday, December 6, 2015 at his home. He was born in Union County and was a son of the late Robert W. and Beatrice McMillian Alexander. Mr. Wallace was a US Navy Veteran and former Police Chief of Whitmire; he was also a...

Edith Rich Ettinger

Edith Rich Ettinger

Dec 4, 2015

Dateline – Clinton, SC Edith Rich Ettinger, age 96, of 408 Chestnut Street, and widow of Carl Ettinger, Jr., passed away Friday, December 4, 2015 at NHC of Clinton. She was born in Schenectady, NY and was the daughter of the late Edwin and Florence Rich. Mrs. Ettinger was active in her community in Alexandria, VA, and Clinton, SC, those...

Shirley Reed Barlow

Shirley Reed Barlow

Dec 2, 2015

Dateline – Clinton Shirley Reed Barlow, age 80, of 154 Pine St. died Wednesday, December 2nd, 2015 at the Hospice House of Laurens County. She was born in Aragon, GA and was a daughter of the late Virgil and Opal Strayhorn Reed. Mrs. Barlow was retired from the Clinton Mills, Lydia Plant and of was of the Baptist Faith. Surviving...

Kathy Cauble Anderson

Kathy Cauble Anderson

Nov 26, 2015

Dateline – Greenville, SC Kathy Cauble Anderson, age 56, of 13 Catalina Drive, and formerly of Clinton, passed away Thursday, November 26, 2015 at the Heartland Healthcare Center in Greenville. She was born in Clinton, SC and was a daughter of Jean McGee Cauble and the late Harold “Sonny” Cauble. She is survived by her husband, Gordon Anderson of the...

Myrtle Murphy Foster

Myrtle Murphy Foster

Nov 24, 2015

Dateline – Clinton, SC Myrtle Murphy Foster, wife of J.C. Foster, passed away on Tuesday, November 24th at her home. is survived by her husband, J.C. Foster of the home; her son, Edgar N. Foster (Andrea) of New Ellenton, SC; her grandson, Nelson Foster (Rachel) and great-granddaughter, Makenzie Marie Foster of Des Moines, IA; her sisters, Edna Lackey of Greenwood...

Gladys Hipp Corley Gilliam

Gladys Hipp Corley Gilliam

Nov 20, 2015

Dateline – Clinton Gladys Hipp Corley Gilliam, age 90, formerly of Newberry, Saluda (SC) and Clinton, and widow of Thomas Allen Corley, Sr. and the Rev. James O. Gilliam, died Friday, November 20, 2015. She was born in Newberry County and was a daughter of the late Joseph Fincher Hipp, Sr. and Sarah Sligh Hipp. Mrs. Gilliam was very active...

Betty Bagwell Moates

Betty Bagwell Moates

Nov 20, 2015

Dateline – Kinards Betty Bagwell Moates, age 83, of 34385 Highway 76E, and widow of James F. Bagwell and George W. Moates, died November 20, 2015, in the Laurens County Hospital. She was born in Oconee County and was a daughter of the late Levis and Minnie Rozelle Williams Sluder. Mrs. Moates was a homemaker and a member of Community...

Mary Edge Simpson

Mary Edge Simpson

Nov 17, 2015

Dateline - Clinton Mary E. Simpson, age 91, of Lugoff, SC, was the widow of John C. Singleton of Conway, SC and Paul A. Simpson, Jr of Clinton, SC. She was the oldest daughter of thirteen children of the late William Duff and Etta Causey Edge of Conway, SC. Mary was a member of Trinity Baptist Church of Lugoff, SC...

Marvin L. Nelson

Marvin L. Nelson

Nov 16, 2015

Dateline – Laurens, SC Marvin L. Nelson, age 77, of 1761 Bellview Church Road, passed away Monday, November 16, 2015 at Hospice Care of the Piedmont in Greenwood, after a short battle with cancer. He was a lifelong resident of Laurens County, and was the son of the late Joe Reid and Clarice Baker Nelson. Mr. Nelson was retired from...

Lu Ann Tilley

Lu Ann Tilley

Nov 14, 2015

Dateline – Cross Hill, SC Lu Ann Tilley, age 60, of 576 South Lake Forest Drive, Cross Hill, SC, passed away Saturday, November 14, 2015 at Greenville Memorial Hospital after a brief illness. She is survived by her husband, Eddie Tilley of the home; her son, Michael Cothran of Cross Hill; her mother, Joan Burnette/Wagner and Step-Father, Michael Wagner of...

Marcie Sybil O'Shields Metts

Marcie Sybil O'Shields Metts

Nov 12, 2015

Dateline – Joanna, SC Marcie Sybil O’Shields Metts, age 89, of 119 James Road, and the widow of George Hubert Metts, passed away Thursday, November 12, 2015 at Hospice of Laurens County. She was born in Joanna and was the daughter of the late William Ernest and Sara Lois Duckett O’Shields. Mrs. Metts was a Postal Clerk/OIC in Joanna for...