Obituaries
Local Obituaries for Gray Funeral Home Located in Laurens, Clinton, and Whitmire, SC
Roberta "Bobbie" Fowler Stoddard
Oct 29, 2021
Roberta “Bobbie” Fowler Stoddard, age 89, died Friday, October 29, 2021 at her home. She was born in Laurens, SC on September 22, 1932 and was the daughter of the late Wesley and Neva Fowler. Mrs. Stoddard was a bookkeeper of Piedmont Rural Telephone Company for several years, and in her second career became the Secretary of the First Presbyterian...
Jimmy Knight
Oct 29, 2021
Jimmy Knight, age 75, passed away Friday October 29, 2021 at Self Regional Medical Center. He was born in Greenville, SC and was the son of the late Groce Ezell and Nannie Kate Garrett Knight. Mr. Knight was retired from Boiler Tube of America, a former employee of BF Shaw and a US Army Veteran of Vietnam. Mr. Knight is...
Ted L. Wilson Sr.
Oct 28, 2021
Dateline – Laurens, SC Ted L. Wilson, Sr., age 74, passed away Thursday, October 28, 2021, at the Hospice of Laurens County. He was born in Clinton and was a son of the late Johnny William Wilson and Evelyn Marie Braswell Wilson. Mr. Wilson retired from Greenwood Construction and was a former employee of B. F. Shaw and Lowery Mechanical....
Judy Dunlap Simmons
Oct 25, 2021
Judy Dunlap Simmons, age 83, widow of Bobby Joe Simmons, passed away Monday, October 25, 2021 at the Prisma Health - Laurens County Memorial Hospital in Clinton, SC. She was born August 21, 1938 in Goldville, SC she was a daughter of the late William James Dunlap, Sr. and Romola Tinsley Dunlap. Mrs. Simmons was a member of the First...
Mary Holmes Tiller
Oct 21, 2021
Mary Holmes Tiller, age 100, formerly of 312 Nottingham Rd., passed away Thursday, October 21, 2021, at the Presbyterian Home in Clinton, SC. She was born November 30, 1920 in Lanford, SC, and was a daughter of the late Arch Rhett and Carrie Thomas Holmes of Lanford, SC. She was predeceased by two husbands, James N. Tiller of 42 years...
Kenneth Lindsay Holcombe Jr.
Oct 21, 2021
Kenneth Lindsay Holcombe, Jr., age 94, passed away Thursday, October 21, 2021, at National Health Care in Clinton, SC. He was born March 22, 1927 in Greenville, SC and was the son of the late Kenneth Lindsay Holcombe, Sr. and Callie Marie Wade Holcombe. He was a veteran of the US Army and a former Security Guard. He was an...
Robert Wayne Tinsley
Oct 19, 2021
Robert Wayne Tinsley, age 79, passed away Tuesday, October 19, 2021 at his home. He was born November 20, 1941 and was a son of the late Alvin Tinsley and Beatrice Owenby Tinsley. Mr. Tinsley was retired from Michelin Proving Grounds, a veteran of the South Carolina National Guard. He was a member of First Baptist Church and active choir...
Anna Lou Davenport
Oct 19, 2021
Dateline – Enoree, SC Anna Lou Davenport, age 80, of 92 Memory Lane, and widow of the late William Davenport, passed away Tuesday, October 19, 2021. She was born in Bluegrass, VA, and was a daughter of the late Cornelius McKinley Colaw and Mildred Racey Warner Colaw. Mrs. Davenport is survived by her sons, Michael Miller (Cassie) of Richardson, Texas,...
Ruth Elaine Addison
Oct 18, 2021
Ruth Elaine Addison, age 82, passed away Monday, October 18, 2021 at the Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center in Charlotte, NC. She was born October 8, 1939 in Bowling Green, FL, the cherished daughter of the late John Arthur Addison and Ida Mary Cliett Addison of Clinton, SC. She was a graduate of Clinton High School Class of ’57. Elaine...
Dennis Gerald Dease Sr.
Oct 18, 2021
Dennis Gerald Dease, Sr, age 76, passed away Monday, October 18, 2021, at the McCall Hospice House in Simpsonville. He was born March 24, 1945 in Spartanburg, SC, to Lewis Hunter Dease and Francis Nadine Dease. On July 14, 1992, he married Harriett Dease, his partner and love of his life. Dennis loved the outdoors, fishing and duck hunting and...
James Edgar Langston
Oct 16, 2021
James Edgar Langston, age 70, passed away Saturday, October 16, 2021 at the Prisma Health – Laurens County Memorial Hospital. He was born August 28, 1951 and was a son of the late Burley McDuffie Langston and Gladys Leona Lawson Langston. He was retired from the Enoree Mills. James was known for his great gardens, amazing Southern Home Cooking, his...
Robert Gary Wallace
Oct 15, 2021
Robert Gary Wallace, age 87, widower of Margaret Senn Wallace, passed away Friday, October 15, 2021 at Prisma Health - Laurens County Memorial Hospital. Born October 28, 1933 in Gray Court, he was a son of the late Harold Saxon Wallace and the late Ione Jenkins Wallace. Mr. Wallace was a 1951 graduate of Clinton High School and retired from...
Doris Mckellar Ellis
Oct 13, 2021
Doris McKellar Ellis, age 92, widow of Gayal Ellis, passed away, Wednesday, October 13, 2021 at the Heritage Greens Senior Living in Greensboro, North Carolina. She was born July 3, 1929 and was the daughter of the late Owen McKellar and the late Maude Jacks McKellar. She was a kind and loving lady. Mrs. Ellis was a member of Hurricane...
Patricia "Kathie" Barker
Oct 13, 2021
Patricia "Kathie" Barker, age 74, passed away Wednesday, October 13, 2021 at the Hospice House of Laurens County. She was born August 12, 1947 and was a daughter of the late John W. Bledsoe and Katherine Crow Bledsoe. She was retired from the Clinton Mills and was a member of Broad Street United Methodist Church. She is survived by her...
David Ryan Poag
Oct 12, 2021
David Ryan Poag, age 73, of Whitmire, husband of Patty Earle Poag, passed away Tuesday, October 12, 2021, at Prisma Health - Laurens County Memorial Hospital. He was born February 3, 1948 in Whitmire, SC and was a son of the late Ryan Poag and Nellie Grace Bostic Poag. Mr. Poag was an Army Veteran having served in the Vietnam...
Marion "Butch" Starnes Jr.
Oct 9, 2021
Marion “Butch” Starnes, Jr., age 70, passed away Saturday, October 9, 2021 at his home. He was born July 14, 1951 and was the son of the late Marion Loyd Starnes, Sr. and Carrie McMurtury Malone. He was retired from Cone Mills after 41 years of service, a Veteran of the South Carolina National Guard, a former member of the...
Mary Ann Miller
Oct 9, 2021
Mary Ann Payton Mack Miller, age 70, passed away Saturday, October 9, 2021 at Edgefield Post Acute in Edgefield, SC. She was born December 1, 1950 and was the daughter of the late Alton Payton and Gertrude Howard Payton, and was a graduate of Clinton High School Class of 1969. Mrs. Miller is survived by her husband, David Miller of...
Mitchell D. Prather
Oct 7, 2021
Mitchell D. Prather, age 72, of Mountville, SC, widower of Judy Lawson Prather, passed away Thursday, October 7, 2021 at his home. He was born February 15, 1949 in Clinton and was a son of the late Macon Dennis and the late Bernice Ellis Prather. Mr. Prather was a proud United States Army Veteran who served two tours in the...
Tony Curtis Wyatt
Oct 7, 2021
Tony Curtis Wyatt, age 68, passed away Thursday, October 7, 2021 at Self Regional Healthcare. Mr. Wyatt was born in Abbeville, SC and was a son of the late James Melvin Wyatt and Helen Wyatt Fleming. Tony worked at Clinton Mills, was a Veteran of the United States Marines Corp and attended the First Assembly Church. He loved his fur-babies...
Mary Shaw Anderson
Oct 6, 2021
Mary Shaw Anderson, 89, formerly of Charleston, SC, died peacefully on October 6, 2021, in her home in Laurens, SC. She was surrounded by the love of her family. Mary was born November 21, 1931 in Atlanta, GA, daughter of the late Bulmer and Alma Shaw. She is preceded in death by her devoted husband, Tom Brooks Anderson in 1992,...
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