Obituaries
Billy Banks Martin
Oct 4, 2018
Billy B. Martin Gaffney, SC. Billy B. Martin, 76, husband of Edna Adams Martin passed away Thursday, October 4, 2018 at Spartanburg Medical Center after a long illness. Born June 6, 1942 in Cherokee County, he was a son of the late Thomas Edward Martin and Lucy Scruggs Martin. Mr. Martin was retired from Duke Power and also the Charles...
Allen Lee Lawter
Sep 22, 2018
Allen L. Lawter Cowpens, SC Allen Lee Lawter, 62, loving husband of Barbara Horton Lawter passed away Saturday, September 22, 2018 at his home. Born October 4, 1955 in Spartanburg he was a son of Charles Lawter and Lavonia Pye. He was formerly employed with Beaumont Mills and was of the Baptist faith. Surviving in addition to his wife are...
Kenneth "Peanut" Blake
Sep 21, 2018
Peanut Blake Cowpens, SC Kenneth Lovon “Peanut” Blake, 52 of Corn Mill Road, passed away Friday, September 21, 2018 at Spartanburg Medical Center. Born February 15, 1966 in Cowpens, he was a son of Ruth Tucker Blake and the late Kenneth D. Blake. He was a former Landscaper and of the Baptist faith. Surviving in addition to his mother is...
Bobby Joe Humphries
Sep 18, 2018
Bobby Joe Humphries Sr. Mayo, SC. Bobby Joe Humphries Sr., 76, loving husband of Gail Watt Humphries of Mayo Road passed away Tuesday, September 18, 2018 at Mary Black Memorial Hospital. Born December 16, 1941 in Spartanburg County, he was a son of the late J.B. Humphries and Essie Mae Blackwell Humphries, He was retired from Hoechst Celanese and was...
Dylan Earl Pruitt
Sep 12, 2018
Dylan E. Pruitt Chesnee, SC. Dylan Earl Pruitt, 16, passed away Wednesday September 12, 2018 at his home. Born June 5, 2002 in Spartanburg, he was a son of Steve Pruitt and Lisa Shields Pruitt. Dylan was a senior at Chesnee High School and was a member of The Garden Church. Surviving in addition to his parents are his brothers,...
James Broughton Gilbert
Sep 1, 2018
Broughton Gilbert Chesnee, SC James Broughton Gilbert, 88, widower of Mary Littlejohn Gilbert, of 315 Jonas Circle went home to be with the Lord, Saturday, September 1, 2018 at Spartanburg Medical Center. Born June 19, 1930 in Spartanburg County, he was a son of the late Daniel Pink Gilbert and Meldora Henderson Gilbert. He proudly served our country during the...
Brenda Emory Ledford
Aug 31, 2018
Brenda E. Ledford Mayo, SC. Brenda Emory Ledford, 74, loving wife of Teddy Ledford went home to be with the Lord, Friday, August 31, 2018 at her home surrounded by her family. Born June 17, 1944 in Spartanburg County, she was a daughter of the late Woodrow Emory and Ernestine Blanton Emory. She was employed in the Business Office at...
Nathaniel Eli Mosley
Aug 19, 2018
Nathaniel E. Mosley Chesnee, SC. Nathaniel Eli Mosley, 82, husband of Betty Camp Mosley, passed away Sunday August 19, 2018 at his home. Born July 10, 1936 in Cherokee County, he was a son of the late John Arthur Mosley and Ruth Davis Mosley. He was retired from Mosley Dry Wall and was a member of Brooklyn Baptist Church. Surviving...
Steve Ezell
Aug 18, 2018
Steve Ezell Shelby, NC. Terry “Steve” Ezell, 64, formerly of Chesnee, passed away Saturday, August 18, 2018 at Cleveland Regional Medical Center. Born January 28, 1954 in Spartanburg, SC., he was a son of the late J.B. Ezell and Joyce Henderson Ezell. He was employed with Walmart, was a former employee with Kohler, a U.S. Army veteran and was a...
Bill Tennyson
Aug 16, 2018
Bill Tennyson Chesnee, SC James “Bill” Tennyson, 79, husband of Betty Bishop Tennyson passed away, August 16, 2018. Born December 3, 1938 in Spartanburg County, he was the son of the late Fred Tennyson and Willie Mae Foster Tennyson. Mr. Tennyson was retired from the grocery business where he worked at several local Grocery Stores. He was currently employed with...
Jennie Crocker
Aug 11, 2018
Jennie Crocker Mayo, SC Genevieve “Jennie” Lewis Crocker, 83, loving wife of Jack Crocker, went home to be with the Lord, Saturday, August 11, 2018 surrounded by her loving family. Born March 15, 1935 in Spartanburg County, she was a daughter of the late Cofer Lewis and Mamie Roddy Lewis. She was a graduate of Chesnee High School and the...
Blain Lamb
Aug 9, 2018
Blain Lamb Chesnee, SC. Buford Blain Lamb, 77, passed away Thursday, August 9, 2018 at Valley Falls Terrace. Born May 9, 1941 in Spartanburg County, he was a son of the late Buford Lamb and Jessie Ezell Lamb. He was a retired maintenance worker with Spartanburg Medical Center and a member of Piedmont Baptist Church. Surviving are his sisters, Debbie...
Manuel Jesus Garnica-Togra
Jul 29, 2018
Manuel Jesus Garnica-Togra, 50, of Chesnee, husband of Patricia Elena Bueno-Garnica, passed away Sunday, July 29, 2018, at Spartanburg Medical Center after a prolonged illness. Manuel was born in the country of Ecuador, on June 1, 1967, to Manuel Jesus Garnica and Mercedes Imelda Togra. Manuel was employed by Epsilon Plastics in Spartanburg where he was a packager. He is...
Kay Morrison Hines
Jul 27, 2018
Kay M. Hines Lake Bowen, SC. Kay Morrison Hines, wife of Lynn Hines of Lake Bowen passed away Friday, July 27, 2018 at Spartanburg Regional Hospice Home after a long battle with Lung Cancer. Born, August 6, 1947 in Spartanburg, SC., she was a daughter of the late Richard M. Morrison and Catherine G. Morrison. Kay was a graduate of...
Rhonda Bailey
Jul 25, 2018
Rhonda C. Bailey Mayo, SC. Rhonda C. Bailey, 36, loving wife of Brandon Bailey of 691 Cudd Road gained her Angel Wings Wednesday, July 25, 2018 at Mary Black Memorial Hospital. Born September 8, 1981 in Spartanburg, she was a daughter of Vickey Hill Reynolds of Chesnee and the late Randy Clay Reynolds. Rhonda was a graduate of Chesnee High...
Donna Lou Fowler
Jul 21, 2018
Donna L. Fowler Inman, SC. Donna Lou Fowler, 64 of Inman went home to be with the Lord, Saturday, July 21, 2018 at Spartanburg Medical Center. Born November 29, 1953 in Spartanburg, she was a daughter of the late Walter “Pete” Bagwell and Blanche Fowler Bagwell. She was formerly employed with Rainbow Child Care and attended Momentum Church. Surviving is...
Terry Leon Blackwell
Jul 1, 2018
Terry L. Blackwell Chesnee, SC. Terry Leon Blackwell, 50, husband of Jill Goode Blackwell, passed away Sunday, July 1, 2018 at Spatanburg Medical Center. Born March 18, 1968 in Spartanburg, he was a son of the late Christopher Dean Blackwell and Linda Kay Crocker Blackwell and also his biological father Joseph Terral Wayne Godeaux. Surviving in addition to his wife...
Douglas Thrift
Jun 19, 2018
Rev. Doug Thrift Mayo, SC. Reverend Douglas Thrift, loving husband of Deborah Robinson Thrift of Mayo Rd. went home to be with the Lord, Tuesday, June 19, 2018 at Regional Hospice Home. Doug was born in Mayo, South Carolina. He was a son of the late Joe Wofford Thrift and Winnie Elizabeth Cudd Thrift. Doug was a 1964 graduate of...
James Allen Pogue
Jun 17, 2018
Graveside services for James Allen Pogue, 90, will be held Wednesday morning, June 20, 2018, at 10:00 o'clock a.m., in Broad River Baptist Church Cemetery. Mr. Pogue passed away in his Spartanburg home surrounded by his two sons, Terry and Tony after a brief illness. James was born in the state of Arkansas on May 16, 1928, to James Allen...
Rhonda H. Gossett
Jun 15, 2018
Rhonda H. Gossett Cowpens, SC. Rhonda Paulet Hutchins Gossett, 64, loving wife of 45 years to Larry Gossett of East Cudd Road, passed away Friday, June 15, 2018. Born August 10, 1953 in Spartanburg, she was the daughter of the late Rev. Guy Edward Hutchins Sr. and Janette Price Hutchins. She was a retired Park Ranger with Cowpens National Battlefield,...
