U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
Elda Shook
MARIETTA — A graveside service for Elda May Miller Shook, 78, is 2 p.m. Tuesday in Grand View Memorial Gardens. Visitation is 7-8:30 p.m. Monday at The Howze Mortuary, Travelers Rest. Born in Webster Co., W. Va. to John William and May Miller, she died Dec. 10, 2004. Surviving are siblings, John Miller, Agatha Shaver; grand, Robert Pittman; great-grandchildren, Kaitlyn, Hannah Pittman, Mattilyn Moss.
David Seymour
GREENWOOD — Services for David Talmadge “Tab” Seymour, 46, are 11 a.m. (viewing 10 a.m.) Monday at Hodges Church of God; burial with Greenwood Memorial Gardens. Visitation is 7-9 tonight at Harley Funeral Home. Born in Greenwood to Jimmie and Barbara Seymour, he died Dec. 11, 2004. Surviving: wife, Melissa Seymour; children, Sarah Evans, Barbara, David Seymour; one granddaughter; three brothers.
Everette Stallings
GRANITEVILLE — Services for Everette Martin Stallings, 76, are 3 p.m. Monday at Calvary Baptist Church with burial in Graniteville Cemetery. Visitation is 7-9 tonight at Napier Funeral Home. Born to Jessie and Gertie Ford Stallings, he died Dec. 10, 2004. Surviving are wife, Kathleen Adams Stallings; son, Leon Stallings; daughter, Dianne Morrison; sister, Lucille Gregory; six grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; others.
Evelyn Thomas
CLOVER — A memorial service for Evelyn Marie Baucom Thomas, 43, will be held at 1 p.m. Monday at The First Freewill Baptist Church. Bratton Funeral Home, York, is in charge. Born in Gastonia, N.C. to William and Jenny Barras Baucom, she died Dec. 9, 2004. Surviving are husband, Michael Thomas; sons, James, Robert Thomas; sisters, Mary Fowler, Helen Tweed; brother, James Baucom; one grand.
Tod Sturkie
NORTH — Services for Tod Franklin Sturkie, infant son of Patrick Sturkie and Amy Michelle Williams, will be held at 2 p.m. today at Culler-McAlhany Funeral Home with burial in North Pentecostal Holiness Cemetery. Born in Columbia, he died December 10, 2004. Surviving are parents; brother, Patrick Sturkie Jr.; grandparents; great-grand-parents.
Robyn Woody
SUMTER — Services for Robyn Jane Cole Woody, 51, will be private. Elmore Hill McCreight Funeral Home and Crematory is in charge. Born in Johnson City, N.Y. to Thomas and Jean Woodley Cole, she died December 7, 2004. Surviving are parents; sons, Ben, Daniel Vieczorak; 11 brothers and sisters.
Lillian White
TIMMONSVILLE — Services for Lillian Joyce White, 81, previously employed with A-Q Industries, are 4 p.m. Monday at First Baptist Church. Visitation is 4-6 tonight at Layton-Anderson Funeral Home. Born in Sardis Community to James and Lillian White, she died Dec. 10, 2004. She was an active member of First Baptist Church of Timmonsville. Surviving: daughter, Pam White; brother, J.P. White Jr.
William Price
IRMO — Service for William L. “Bubba” Price, 81, will be held Monday at 2 p.m. at Union United Methodist Church with burial in the church cemetery. Serving as active pallbearers will be Dr. Ted Bowe, Don Eng, Bob Hall, J.K. Hope, Bert Josey, Dr. Billy McCathern, Bud O'Dell, Jim Petty, Sr. and Ross Weed. Members of the Aline Leitner Fellowship Class will serve as honorary pallbearers. Visitation will be Sunday 3-5 p.m. at Dunbar Funeral Home, Dutch Fork Chapel.
Mr. Price, husband of the late Elizabeth Carswell Price, died Friday, December 10, 2004. Born in Lake City, he was a son of the late William Luther Price, Sr. and Mable Mathews Price. An Army-Air Corps veteran of WW II, he retired after forty-three years with Seaboard Coastline/L&N Railroad. He was a Mason, Jamil Shriner, board member emeritus of Sharing God’s Love and member of the Greenhorns.
A member of Union United Methodist Church, Mr. Price served on the board of directors of the church kindergarten; served as a church trustee; member of the administrative board; charter member of Aline Leitner Fellowship Class; past chairman of staff parish; ex-officio of the Sunday School board; past chairman of the Building Committee; and the Men’s Club. He was the recipient of the Special Missions Recognition Award and first annual recipient of the Jimmy Leitner, Sr. Award. He was also a Charter Member of Highland Park United Methodist Church in Florence.
Surviving are son and daughter-in-law, Bill and Linda Price of Irmo; daughters and sons-in-law, Celeste and Shuford Wall of Greensboro, N.C., Sharon and Greg Paul of Athens, Ga. and Julia and Chip Holton of Lexington; sisters, Elizabeth Chapman of Taylors, Mable Lee Draughn of Colorado Springs, Colo. and Ila Louise McCoy of Florence; grandchildren: Sara Price Powell and her husband, Shawn; Billy Price and his wife, Katie; Mary-Anne Wall; Beth Wall Bassett and her husband, Joseph; Celie Wall; Gregory Paul; Heather Paul; Emily Holton; and Benjamin Holton; and two great-grandchildren, Cole and Grace Powell.
Memorials may be made to Sharing God’s Love, 147 Friarsgate Blvd., Irmo, S.C. 29063 or Union United Methodist Church Piano Fund, being established in his memory.
Ruby Young
HEMINGWAY — A graveside service for Ruby Young, 65, is 3 p.m. today in Good Hope UMC Cemetery. Morris Funeral Home is in charge. Born in Hemingway to Rufus and Ela Moore Young, she died Dec. 10, 2004. Surviving are siblings, Marvin, Blonnie Young, Nancy Moore; foster son, Rob Young; nephews, Johnny, Steve Young; nieces, Yvonne Powell, Sherie Cribb, Tammy Moore; others.
Mary Ann Day
SUMTER — Services for Mary Ann Andrade Day, 68, 11 am Friday: St. Jude Catholic Church; burial: Evergreen Memorial Park Cemetery; prayer service 6-8 p.m. Thursday at Elmore Hill McCreight Funeral Home and Crematory. Born in Moorley, Colo., to Ralph and Maria Andrade, she died Dec. 12, 2004. Surviving: husband, David; children, Linda Fink, Lisa Martinez, David Day; siblings; grandchildren.
Dorothy Fields
NORWAY — Services for Dorothy New Fields, 70, will be held at 1 p.m. Wednesday at Sunny Vista Church of God, North, with burial in the church cemetery. Visitation is 6-8 tonight at Folk Funeral Home, Williston. Mrs. Fields died December 12, 2004.
Irene Neuffer
COLUMBIA — Irene LaBorde Neuffer, author and co-author with her late husband, Professor Claude Henry Neuffer, of books on South Carolina history and literature, died Saturday evening, December 11.
Daughter of Pierre Fabian LaBorde and Irene Thomas LaBorde, Mrs. Neuffer was born December 16, 1919, and graduated from Columbia City schools and the University of South Carolina, Phi Beta Kappa, with McKissick award in Journalism.
Her varied career included York High School teacher and basketball coach; Captain in U.S. Army Air Corps-WWII veteran; Assistant Professor of English, USC; columnist for The State newspaper; Governor Edward’s appointee to Commission on Women; speaker for local churches, political, civic, and literary organizations; and being elected and serving on Richland country Council.
With her late husband, Mrs. Neuffer was able to establish Names in South Carolina (1953-1983), the first state place-name journal in the United States. This journal recorded legends and origins of place names in the state at a time when that information was being lost to history. It has served as a model for other states to use to preserve their past. Many persons young and old have been entertained by Mrs. Neuffer’s columns, radio talks and presentations explaining the origins of South Carolina names ranging from Two Notch Road to the Congaree River. Correct Mispronunciations of Some South Carolina Names and The Name Game are two publications which sprang from this research.
With her late husband, she re-issued a long out-of-print work of South Carolina poet J. Gordon Coogler, Purely Original Verse. This work received national recognition by literary critics in the 1910’s as well as in the 1980’s with its reissue by Professor and Mrs. Neuffer. “Alas for the South her poets grow fewer.”
Mrs. Neuffer was predeceased by her husband, Claude Henry Neuffer and a son, Pierre LaBorde Neuffer. She is survived by a daughter, Rene LaBorde Neuffer and son, Francis Henry Neuffer, both of Columbia; and three grandchildren, John Henry Neuffer, Katherine Kelly Neuffer, and Mary Caroline Neuffer.
The family will be at the Neuffer home, 3917 Kenilworth Road, Columbia, Tuesday from 4 to 6 p.m.
In lieu of flowers memorials may be sent to St. John’s Episcopal Church or the University of South Carolina Department of Southern Studies.
Services will be held Wednesday 2:00 p.m. at St. John’s Episcopal Church, 2827 Wheat St., Columbia, S.C. with burial to follow at Elmwood Cemetery. Dunbar Funeral Home, Devine Street Chapel, is in charge of arrangements.
Rufus Washington
COLUMBIA — Services for Rufus “Buster” Washington will be held at 3 p.m. Wednesday (visitation 7-8 tonight) at Bostick-Tompkins Funeral Home with burial in Serenity Memorial Gardens. Born in Columbia to Rufus Sr. and Rut Goodwin Washington , he died Dec. 10, 2004. Surviving are siblings, Charlie, William, Eddie, Mark, Mary Goodwin, Josi Pittman, Vannie Richardson, Brenda Hicks.
Harry Rast Jr.
ORANGEBURG — Harry Dreher Rast, Jr. died Monday, December 13, 2004. Graveside Service will be held Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2004, in Mt. Carmel Baptist Church Cemetery (Jamison Community) Orangeburg. The family will receive friends after the service in the social hall. Thompson Funeral Home, Inc. is in charge of arrangements.
Willie Lloyd Jr.
EASTOVER — Homegoing Service for Deacon Willie “Bill” Lloyd, Jr., 94, of Eastover, will be held 2:00 p.m. Wednesday at Pleasant Grove Baptist Church, with burial to follow in the Church Cemetery.
Bostick-Tompkins Funeral Home, 2930 Colonial Drive is in charge.
Deacon Lloyd died Dec. 11. Born in Eastover, he was the son of the late Willie Sr. and Irene Goodwin Lloyd.
Surviving are his loving and devoted wife, Juanita Lovett Lloyd; six sons, Dec. Robert (Mary), Dec. Ernest (Lula), Ulysses (Barbara), Dec. Jimmie (AzaLee), Willie (Judy) and Anthony (Sylvia) Lloyd; one daughter, Cora (Donald) Joyner; daughter-in-law, Ann (the late Frank) Lloyd; brother, Walter (Yvonne) Lloyd; sisters, Lillie Mae Anderson, Ruth McCray and Susie Sims; thirty-two grandchildren, forty-three great-grandchildren.