U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
Alma Sales Richardson
GREENWOOD — Graveside services for Alma Sales “Mrs. Lee” Richardson, of 334 Carolina St., are at 2 Monday in Greenwood Memorial Gardens.
Visitation is from 7-8 Sunday at Robinson & Son Mortuary.
The family is at the home.
Robinson & Son Mortuary Inc. is in charge.
Annie Bell Anthony
TROY — Annie Bell Lipe Anthony, 58, of 2606 Five Notch Road, widow of Walter A. Anthony, died Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2002, at her home.
Born in Fort Mill, she was a daughter of the late Jess Lee and Rosie Reeves Lipe.
Survivors include two sons, Gerald Wayne Anthony and Floyd Daniel Lipe, both of the home; a daughter, Doris Anthony of Greenville; six sisters, Eva Baker and Edna Poole, both of Sharon, Betty Elkins of Gastonia, N.C., Myrtle Ayers of Richburg, Katie Osbourne of Fort Mill and Pansy Ayers of Rock Hill; two brothers, Wade Lipe of McCormick and Jess Lipe of Greenwood; and two grandchildren.
Services are at 4 Friday at Harley Funeral Home, conducted by the Rev. Dennis Ayers and the Rev. Tim Taylor. Burial is in Greenwood Memorial Gardens.
Pallbearers are Edward Weeks, Rodney Fleming, Johnny “Jr.” Fleming, James Fleming, Christopher Lipe and Scottie Lipe.
Visitation is from 7-9 tonight at the funeral home.
The family is at the home of a brother, Jess Lipe, 115 Annette Way.
Harley Funeral Home, Greenwood, is in charge.
Iris Brown
GREENWOOD - Iris Hayes Brown, 76, resident of 106 Woodhaven Court, widow of John Herbert Brown, died February 6, 2002 at her home.
Born in Spartanburg County, October 27, 1925, she was a daughter of the late Wilbur H. and Louise Murph Hayes. She was a graduate of Pacolet High School and attended Winthrop College and Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX. For over 30 years she was a public school teacher and librarian in Spartanburg and Union Counties, retiring from Pacolet High School.
Mrs. Brown is a member of the First Baptist Church in Pacolet where she taught the TEL Sunday School Class for many years. After moving to Greenwood in 1992, she attended West Side Baptist Church. She worked as a volunteer for the Spartanburg Autism Society and in 1984 was honored as the State Volunteer of the Year for the South Carolina Society for Autistic Children. After relocating to Greenwood, she became a volunteer for the Self Regional Hospital Auxiliary and served on the Auxiliary Nursing Scholarship Committee. She was also a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
Mrs. Brown was predeceased by a son, John Herbert Brown, II of Pacolet; two brothers, Wilbur "Buddy" Hayes of Central and Charles "Doc" Hayes of Rutherfordton, NC and a sister, Mrs. John (Elizabeth) McCulloch of Shelby, NC.
Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Greg (Iris Rose) Bullard and Mrs. Ebie (Beverly) Grier, both of Greenwood; two sisters, Mrs. Bob (Mary) Elliott of Forest City, NC and Mrs. Charlie (Rebecca) Ruth of Pawley's Island; five grandchildren, two step-grandchildren and three great-grandchildren; a cousin, Guy Carpenter of Wilmington, NC.
Funeral services will be conducted 11 AM Friday from the Blyth Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Doug Kauffmann and Rev. Hal Lane officiating.
Services will also be conducted 3PM Friday at the First Baptist Church in Pacolet with Rev. Doug Kauffmann and her grandson, Rev. John Gallman officiating. The body will be placed in the church at 2 PM Friday.
Burial will be in Pacolet Memorial Gardens.
Pallbearers will be nephews.
The family is at the home on Woodhaven Court and will receive friends at Blyth Funeral Home from 10 to 11 AM Friday and at Floyd's Chapel in Pacolet following the committal service.
Memorials may be made to Connie Maxwell Children's Home, PO Box 1178, Greenwood, SC 29648 or to First Baptist Church of Pacolet, Pacolet, SC 29372.
Blyth Funeral Home is in charge.
John F. Crocker
COLUMBUS, N.C. — John Frank Crocker, 25, of 107 Scott Lane, died Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2002.
Born in Lexington County, he was a son of Terry Carnell Crocker and Carolyn Messer Crocker. He was a member of Landrum Church of God.
Survivors include his father of Columbia, S.C.; his mother of the home; two sisters, Megan McCants and Debra McCants, both of the home; three brothers, Jackie Crocker of the home, Herbert Crocker of Anderson, S.C., and Terry Clayton Crocker of Columbia; and maternal grandparents, Herbert Messer and Evelyn Messer, both of Greenwood, S.C.
Services are at 2 Friday at Harley Funeral Home, Greenwood, conducted by the Rev. Cook. Burial is in Edgewood Cemetery.
Visitation is from 7-9 tonight at the funeral home.
Harley Funeral Home, Greenwood, is in charge.
James E. Dunn
ABBEVILLE — James E. Dunn, 74, of 514 Highway 71, husband of Mae Todd Dunn, died Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2002, at Self Regional Medical Center in Greenwood.
He was a member of Beulah Baptist Church.
Graveside services are at 2 Friday in Melrose Cemetery, conducted by the Rev. David Cobb and the Rev. James R. Alewine.
Visitation is at the home of Ricky and Nancy Dunn, 1083 Stevenson Road, from 6-8 tonight.
Harris Funeral Home is in charge.
Eddie Martin
ABBEVILLE — Eddie Martin, of 23 Gray Lane, died Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2002, at Abbeville County Memorial Hospital.
Services will be announced by Richie Funeral Home, which is in charge.
Chrystine Strickland
GREENWOOD — Chrystine Wells Strickland, 75, resident of 1120 Cornelia Circle, wife of Ralph R. Strickland, Sr., died February 6, 2002.
Born in Greenwood County, October 10, 1926, she was a daughter of the late George Glenn and Viola Ouzts Wells. She was a graduate of Greenwood High and she retired from Monsanto.
Mrs. Strickland was a member of Woodfields Baptist Church.
Surviving in addition to her husband of the home are a daughter, Janet S. Yon of Greenwood; two sons, Ralph R. “Dusty” Strickland, Jr. and Ted W. Strickland of Greenwood; two sisters, Helen Purdue of Dacula, GA and Elizabeth Conwell of West Columbia; five grandchildren, Kristin Y. Loper of Greenwood, Amy B. Yon of Atlanta, Tanner Strickland, Robby Strickland and Brandon R. Strickland, all of Greenwood; a great-granddaughter, Addison Loper of Greenwood.
She was predeceased by a brother, George Bruce Wells.
Funeral services will be conducted 2 PM Friday at Woodfields Baptist Church with Dr. Robert Miller officiating.
Burial will be in Greenwood Memorial Gardens.
Pallbearers will be Dr. Asa Hatfield, Carey Wells, Jones Buchanan, Ken Flinchum, George Bruce, “Chuck” Wells, Jr. and Glen Conwell.
Honorary escort will be Jimmy Simpson, Randolph Kizer, Harry Nickles, Bill Hinton, Sen. John Drummond, Dr. Joseph Logan, Roy Dellinger, Furman Ponder, Jim Martin, George Jones and Wade Batson.
The body is at Blyth Funeral Home and will be placed in the church at 1 PM Friday.
The family is at the home of a granddaughter, Kristin Loper, 1106 Jefferson Street and will receive friends at Blyth Funeral Home from 6 to 8 Thursday evening.
Blyth Funeral Home is in charge.
Bessie Hood Yon
CALHOUN FALLS — Bessie Louise Hood Yon, 73, of 518 Anderson St., wife of William G. “Bill” Yon Sr., died Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2002, at McCormick Health Care Center.
Born in Anderson County, she was a daughter of the late Walter Stanley and Sara Belle Duncan Hood. She was a homemaker and a member of Calhoun Falls Church of God of Prophecy.
Survivors include her husband of the home; two sons, the Rev. William G. Yon Jr. and James Stephen Yon; two daughters, Rebecca Hughes and Gloria Willoughby; a sister, Clovie Ladd; a brother, Bill Hood; and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Services are at 2 today at Calhoun Falls Church of God of Prophecy, conducted by the Rev. Michael Ford and the Rev. Haskel Gibson. Burial is in Forest Lawn Memory Gardens, Abbeville.
Calhoun Falls Funeral Home is in charge.
Helen Etheredge Chieri
SALUDA - Services for Helen Etheredge Chieri will be held at 2 pm Saturday at her family home in Saluda, with graveside service to follow at Red Bank Baptist Church of Saluda. The family will receive friends from 1 pm until the funeral service begins at 2. Ramey Funeral Home is in charge.
Memorials may be made to Red Bank Baptist Church or to the Saluda Historical Society.
Helen Etheredge Chieri died on Monday, February 4, at the Saluda Nursing Center. Born June 28, 1913, she was the oldest child of Rodney Hammond and Ora Hester Padget Etheredge. She was educated at Winthrop, and then was invited by her aunt to come to Italy as a tutor to her aunt's two young sons. While in Italy, Helen met her future husband, Pericle Chieri, whom she married in Saluda in 1938.
Dr. Chieri became a professor of engineering at Louisiana State University in Lafayette, Louisiana, and he and Helen lived most of their lives there. Helen, always an avid gardener, became an accredited flower show judge and was very active in garden club and civic work in her community. She worked actively to promote protection of the environment and to increase the growing, showing, and sharing of all kinds of flowers.
Helen and her husband continued throughout their marriage of more than fifty years to travel to Italy to visit his family and friends, and to tour other parts of Europe. They amassed a substantial library of books on many subjects, including art, gardening, and Victorian antiques, china and silverplate, in which Helen was especially interested.
Helen was also a certified Red Cross swimming instructor, and this was one of the great joys of her life. She came home to Saluda every summer for more than twenty years to run the swimming program at the Saluda Jaycee Swimming Pool. She organized and taught swimming classes on all levels, water safety, lifesaving, as well as synchronized swimming and water ballet. During the same time, she went every summer to Ecole Champlain, a French speaking camp in Vermont, where she also ran the swimming program for more than twenty years. She later moved her summer operations to Camp Rockbrook in Brevard, North Carolina, where she headed her last Red Cross Swimming program, and lived as a cabin counselor with groups of six year olds. After more than twenty summers in Brevard, she ended her camp experience in the mid 80's when she was in her 70's.
Staying in Saluda for several weeks each year on either side of her camp experience had kept her in close touch with family, friends, and church in her home town. When her health began to weaken, both she and her husband moved back to Saluda to be near the family of her sister Caroline. She lived with her sister until her declining health required assisted living and then nursing home care.
Mrs. Chieri was predeceased by her parents, her husband, her brother Alvin Etheredge and her sister Caroline Etheredge Hembel. She is survived by her nieces, Helen Etheredge Hembel, and Caroline Hembel Brazil, her nephew Henry Hammond Hembel, eight great nieces and nephews, and four great-great nieces and nephews.
Jimmy Cromer
WARE SHOALS — James Hampton Cromer, 61, of 151 S. Greenwood Ave., husband of Myra Morgan Cromer, died Monday, Feb. 4, 2002, at Self Regional Medical Center.
Born in Newberry County, he was a son of the late George Spencer Cromer and Thelma Doolittle Brown. He was a truck driver and an Army Vietnam War veteran. A Hejaz Shriner, he was a member of Ware Shoals Lodge 306 A.F.M. and Hodges Church of God.
Survivors include his wife of the home; three daughters, Kimberly Jones and Lynn Davis, both of Greenwood and Angela Burdette of Anderson; two sons, Robert “Tony” Morgan of Tignall, Ga., and James Hampton Cromer II of Houston; a sister, Addie Keasler of Greenwood; his stepfather, J.B. Brown of Greenwood; seven grandchildren and a great-grandchild.
Graveside services, with Masonic rites, were at 2 Wednesday in Greenwood Memorial Gardens, conducted by the Rev. Charles Caldwell.
Pallbearers were Donnie Young, Michael Young, Len Young, Ralph Davenport, Bill Rickman, Larry McCullough and Robert Baldwin.
The family is at the home.
Memorials may be made to Hodges Church of God, Highway 25, Hodges, S.C. 29653 or the Shriner’s Hospital for Crippled Children, 2100 N. Pleasantburg Drive, Greenville, S.C. 29609-3194.
Harley Funeral Home, Greenwood, was in charge.
Statia Edwards
GREENWOOD — Statia Perrin Edwards, 89, of 107 Yosemite Drive, widow of Rufus O. Edwards, died Feb. 7, 2002, at Self Regional Medical Center.
Born in Greenwood County, she was a daughter of the late Thomas Chiles and Annie Culbertson Perrin. She graduated from Greenwood High School, and she operated a baking and catering service from her home for many years. A charter member of North Side Baptist Church and a member of the Mary Martha Sunday School Class, she was a former member of South Main Street Baptist Church.
Survivors include a son, Dr. Barry R. Edwards of Greenwood, and four grandchildren.
Services are at 2 Saturday at Blyth Funeral Home, conducted by Dr. Jeff Lethco. Burial is in Greenwood Memorial Gardens.
Pallbearers are David Perrin, Ricky Perrin, Wayne Perrin, William Whatley, Mike Patterson, Tom South, C. Barry Edwards and Micky Baker.
Visitation is from 7-9 tonight at the funeral home.
The family is at the home of Dr. and Mrs. Barry Edwards, 117 Rutledge Road, Forest Hills.
Memorials may be made to North Side Baptist Church Building Fund, 409 W. Northside Drive, Greenwood, S.C. 29649.
Blyth Funeral Home is in charge.
Bessie Garrett
DONALDS — Bessie Garrett, 102, of 434 Olin Smith Road, died Thursday, Feb. 7, 2002, at Anderson Area Medical Center.
The family is at the home and at the home of a daughter, Vivian Makin, 440 Olin Smith Road.
Services will be announced by Holloway’s Funeral Home, Belton, which is in charge.
Ellen C. Mattison
ABBEVILLE — Services for Ellen Crawford Mattison, of 128 Adams Drive, are at 2 today at Haigler Street Church of Christ, conducted by Brother Raymond Pressley and Elder I.V. White. Burial is in the church cemetery. The body will be placed in the church at 1.
The family is at the home of her parents, McKinley and Eune Crawford, 128 Adams Drive.
Brown and Walker Funeral Home is in charge.
Sylvester Vernon Pickens
RALEIGH, N.C. — Sylvester Vernon Pickens, 90, died Thursday, February 7, 2002 at his residence, 1200 Carlos Dr., Apt. 309. Mr. Pickens was born in Anderson, SC. He served in the Greenwood Police Department and retired from Greenwood Mills. He served in many capacities as a member of Tranquil United Methodist Church. He was a member of Woodman of the World.
Mr. Pickens is survived by his wife of 62 years, Elvira McGill Pickens; his son, Samuel Sylvester Pickens; three grandchildren, Dina Pickens, Allison Spencer and Bradley Pickens, all of Raleigh; great granddaughter, Emma Maddox; two brothers, Robert Lee Pickens of Charlotte and Augustus David Pickens, Jr. of Baltimore, MD; and one sister, Marjorie Butler of Greenwood.
Funeral services will be held at Tranquil United Methodist Church, 1702 McCormick Hwy., Greenwood, SC on Saturday, February 9 at 11 a.m. Burial will follow at the church cemetery.
The family will receive friends after the service in the Church fellowship hall.
In lieu of flowers, please send memorials to Tranquil United Methodist Church.
Blyth Funeral Home, Greenwood, is in charge.
