Floyd Clark Simpkins, 90, of Woodruff, went home to be with the Lord, Thursday, December 29, 2022, at Spartanburg Medical Center. He was born November 5, 1932, in Georgetown, South Carolina to the late Floyd Lee and Francis Smith Simpkins Brown and was the widower of Betty Nettles Simpkins, they […]

Dr. Stokes Fishburne, of Fort Myers, Florida, died December 1. Stokes was a rocket scientist, who earned his Ph.D. at Ohio State. In 1970, when Stokes was working as a scientist for Grumman Aerospace Corporation, he and his partner developed the algorithms for bringing the astronauts aboard Apollo 13 safely […]

Randell “Randy” Price Smith, age 87, of Laurens, SC, widower of Sarah Porter Lester Smith, passed away Sunday, November 13, 2022 at Langston Place. He was born July 19, 1935 in Scottsburg, IN, and was a son of the late Randell Pope Smith and Ernestine “Tina” Phillips Smith. Mr. Smith […]

TThe Reverend Alberry Charles Cannon, Jr., of Flat Rock, N.C., died Thursday, Oct. 27, 2022. Born May 12, 1936, in Greenville, he was the son of the late A.C. Cannon and Mary Cogswell Cannon, and the eldest great-grandchild of Greenville textile pioneer, F. W. Poe. Fr. Cannon was known for […]

Sloan P. Martin, Jr., MD, of Easley, passed away July 26, 2022. He was born in Anderson, SC, the son of the late Sloan P. Martin, Sr., and Aldene Bowie Martin. Dr. Martin was a graduate of Boys High School in Anderson, the Citadel and The Medical University of South […]

CAPT James R. Fuqua, Jr., USN, Ret., of Virginia Beach, Va., July 10, 2022, surrounded by his wife and children. He was born February 28, 1936 in Orlando, Florida, to James Richard Fuqua, Sr. and Flora Morrie Wells. Jim spent his childhood years in Florida. He attended The Citadel in […]

George D. Moorhead of Greensboro, NC died June 14, 2022. After graduation from the Citadel, Mr. Moorhead served as 2nd Lieutenant in the U.S. Army in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany and in the NC National Guard. He was founder and President of Electronic Security Systems, Inc. until his retirement in 1995. He […]

Hal Butts, Jr., of Marietta, Ga., went to be with the Lord on the morning of June 10, 2022, following a long and hard-fought battle with Parkinson’s disease. He is survived by his four children Ashley Remik, Kevin Butts, Samuel Ivey, and Nathanael Ivey and their spouses, along with his […]

Samuel Eugene “Gene” Poteat, a retired senior Central Intelligence Agency scientific intelligence officer, inventor, teacher, and association executive, died May 22, 2022, in Alexandria, VA, after a long illness. Gene was born in Bessemer City, North Carolina in 1930 to Eugene Justice and Sarah Darnell Poteat. The family settled in […]

Jim Cliatt, of Fairfax, Va., was born in Salisbury, NC, and was the son of the late James “Jay” E Cliatt, Jr. and the late Ethel Greer Cliatt. He was a member of the First Baptist Church in Laurens, SC and a Rotarian in Laurens County, SC. Dr. Cliatt earned […]

Ogden Stokes, a native of Nashville, TN, was the son of the late Mabel and Jordan Stokes III. He is survived by his beloved wife, Barbara Stokes, Nashville; their daughter, Demitri Bowen (Scott); three granddaughters, Sydney, Kelsey, and Whitney; and his brother, McNeill Stokes. He attended Clemmons School, the school […]

Erle Johnson Davis, 86, of Summerville, South Carolina, entered into eternal rest on Monday, February 14, 2022. His Funeral Service will be held Saturday, February 19, 2022 in the J. Henry Stuhr Inc., Downtown Chapel, 232 Calhoun Street, at 2:00 pm. The family will receive friends prior to the service […]

William Bill Randolph Derr (86), of Pensacola, Fla., went to be with our Lord on January8, 2022. Bill was born on September 29, 1935, in Paterson, New Jersey to Eugene Kies Derr andLema Florence Derr, nee PopeBill spent the first six years of his life around family and friends in […]

James (Jim) Russell Gore, 86, of Easley, passed away on January 13, 2022. Born on September 2, 1935 in Goretown, SC in Horry County, he was the husband of the late Sidney Ann Hickman Gore and son of the late Kermit Bunyan Gore and Florene Graham Gore Whittington of Loris, […]

Funeral services for Claude Wylie “Sonny” Calder, Jr., 86, of Bamberg, SC, will be held 2 o’clock p.m. Monday, December 13, 2021 at Trinity United Methodist Church, Bamberg, SC with the Reverend Kevin Dalton officiating. The family will receive friends starting at 12:45 until 1:45 in the church fellowship hall […]