U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
A.C. Davis
FAIRFAX — Mr. A.C. Davis, the husband of Louise Davis, died Saturday morning at his residence after an extended illness. He was 73.
Mr. Davis was born April 14, 1931 the son of the late Artimus Davis and Mary Walker Davis. He was retired signal supervisor for CSX railroad. He was a member of the Fairfax First Baptist Church and the Masonic Lodge.
Surviving besides his wife are 1 son: Art C. Davis of Simpsonville; 1 daughter: Brenda D. Clamp of Edisto Island; 2 sisters: Carolyn D. Weber of Hartsville, Linda Pauley of Goose Creek. There are 6 grandchildren. He was predeceased by 1 brother W. Tommy Davis of Denmark
Funeral services will be held Monday afternoon at 2:00 pm in the Fairfax First Baptist Church with burial following at Mt. Pleasant Cemetery. Visitation will be held Sunday afternoon from 3-5 pm at Smith-Rhoden Funeral Home. Smith-Rhoden Funeral Home of Allendale is in charge of arrangements.
Kay Davis
LEESVILLE — Cynthia “Kay” Nunn Davis, 57, of Leesville, died at her Lake Murray home, Friday, November 12, 2004. She has entered into rest after a nine month long battle with cancer.
Funeral services will be held at 3:00 p.m. Monday, November 15, 2004, at Still Waters Baptist Church with interment in Ridge Crest Memorial Park, Rev. Jackie Nix officiating. Pallbearers will be Rusty Schumpert, Jack Jackson, B.J. Shepherd, Tom Schuler, Jim Kinyon and Jacob Hallman.
Mrs. Davis was born in Augusta, GA to Evelyn Whitaker Nunn and the late Gerald Nunn. She was a member of Still Waters Baptist Church. She was a supervisor in the Human Resources Department at Dorn V.A. Hospital in Columbia. She was a loving wife, mother and grandmother.
Surviving are her mother, Evelyn Whitaker Nunn; husband, Stephen K. Davis of Leesville; son and daughter-in-law, Brian Keith and Kandi Davis of Leesville; daughter and son-in-law, Kelli and Marty Ingram of Aiken; grandchildren, MacKenzie Leigh Davis, Ashleigh Brooke Davis, Emileigh Kaye Davis and Billy Ingram.
Family will receive friends from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Sunday, November 14, 2004, at Milton Shealy Funeral Home, other times at her residence. Memorials can be made to:
S.C. Oncology Center, P.O. Box 2046, West Columbia, SC 29171 or Duke Medical Research Center, Durham, N.C., or American Cancer Society, 128 Stone Mark Lane, Columbia, S.C. 29210.
Milton Shealy Funeral Home 803-532-6100 is in charge of all arrangements and inquiries.
Ben Ehrhardt
COLUMBIA — Services for Benedict Groseclose Ehrhardt, 82, will be held at 11:00 a.m. Monday at Redeemer Lutheran Church with burial at the Ehrhardt Cemetery, in Ehrhardt, SC at 2:00 p.m. Dunbar Funeral Home, Devine Street Chapel, is in charge. Memorials may be made to Newberry College, 2100 College Street, Newberry, S.C. 29108.
Mr. Ehrhardt, husband of the late Margaret Wright Ehrhardt, died Thursday, November 11, 2004. Born in the small South Carolina town of Ehrhardt, founded by his great-grandfather Conrad Ehrhardt, he was the son of the late Ruth Ehrhardt Copeland.
An early career choice took Mr. Ehrhardt to Orangeburg and a position at Orangeburg High School. Though he was there only two years, his stay in Orangeburg affected his professional career and his personal life. It was in Orangeburg that he met Margaret, who became his wife of 52 years. She was working as a librarian with the Orangeburg Public Schools at the time. Ehrhardt’s subsequent marriage to Margaret convinced him that a teacher’s salary was simply too low to allow them to live comfortably, so he resigned his teaching job and accepted a position with Southern Bell Telephone Company, but not before teaching an English composition and an advanced typing course during a summer school session at Lenoir Rhyne College in North Carolina.
Leaving Southern Bell in 1965, Mr. Ehrhardt’s aspirations to return to teaching coincided with personnel needs of the USC’s College of General Studies, the direct predecessor of the College of Applied Professional Sciences. He taught, but he also was an administrator on a 12-month contract until heart problems forced him to relinquish his administrative responsibilities and concentrate solely on being a teaching faculty member on a 10 ½ month contract.
From 1969-1977, Mr. Ehrhardt was a board member for the S.C. Business Education Association; from 1970-1972 he was first vice-president and then president of that organization. In 1982-1983 he was treasurer and a board member of the Administrative Management Society. He also took 18 hours of course work beyond his master’s degree, with most of these hours in marketing or education at USC-Columbia. In May 1972 he published an article entitled “Evaluating Business Education in South Carolina” that was published in the S.C. Business Education Association Newsletter.
Mr. Ehrhardt devoted considerable time to his and Mrs. Ehrhardt’s cattery, which is registered with Cat Fanciers’ Association. He judged cats worldwide, but his favorite cats were Persians and he showed many cats nationally. Cats were his passion.
Ben is survived by his sister, Ruth Jane Holly of Charleston; his son and daughter-in-law, Glen and Deborah Ehrhardt and his grandchildren, Nicholas & Emily Ehrhardt all of Longbranch, Wash.
Hattie Grayson
HOPKINS — Funeral service for Hattie Mae Grayson of 1802 Lower Richland Blvd. will be held 3:00 P.M. Monday, November 15, 2004, at New Light Beulah Baptist Church. Interment in Church Cemetery. Visitation will be held Sunday, 4-9 at funeral home.
J.P. Holley Funeral Home, Garners Ferry Rd. Chapel is in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Grayson died Thursday, November 11, 2004. Born in Richland County, she was the daughter of the late Paul Jenkins and Jane Lee Goodwin.
She is survived by her grandchildren; Donald Grant, Sheila Grant Brown, Fredderick Grant, Regina Grant Wilson, Taent Grant, Grayson Grant, Paul Grant. Eleven great-grandchildren; nephews; and nieces.
Mary Himes
WEST COLUMBIA — Mrs. Mary Jean “Jerri” Himes, 83, of West Columbia. SC. died Thursday, November 11, in the S.C. Episcopal Home at Still Hopes., West Columbia, SC.
Funeral services will be held at 3:00 PM Tuesday, November 16, at the Shellhouse Funeral Home chapel in Aiken, SC. Rev. Dr. Fred Andrea, III. will officiate. Internment will take place at Sea Pines Memorial Gardens, Edgewater. FL at a later date.
Mrs. Himes was born in Toledo, OH, to. the late Reuben and Mary Whitmer Patch. She was a former resident of New Smyrna Beach, FL and Aiken, SC. She was a social worker and a member of First Baptist Church. in Aiken. She was a graduate of Miami University at Oxford, OH. She enjoyed traveling the United States with her late husband Lowell “Hickory” Himes.
Survivors include two daughters, Cynthia Carr, Columbia, SC, Jean Carr, West Columbia, SC; three sons, Dr. Stephen Carr. Aiken/New York, David Carr, Mt. Pleasant; SC Jim Carr, Lexington, SC a step daughter, Rexine Fernandez, Deltona, FL.; two stepsons, Robert Himes, Columbus, OH. Scotty Himes, Cattlesburg, KY; and their spouses; 19 grandchildren; and five great grandchildren. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Lowell “Hickory” Himes.
Memorials may be directed to the Alzheimer’s Association, P.O. Box 7044, Columbia, SC 29202.
The family will receive friends one hour prior to the services at Shellhouse Funeral Home, Inc., 924 Hayne Ave., Aiken.
Bruce Johnson
COLUMBIA — Celebration of life and praise services for Bruce Johnson, 46, will be held at 5 p.m. Monday at International Praise Church of God, 1516 Daulton Road, Columbia, S.C., 29223. Rev. Doyle Roberts will officiate. Greenlawn Funeral Home is in charge. Bruce is now and forever with the Lord. He is survived by his wife Emily and stepson Aaron Jackson Taylor.
Norma Knox
POMARIA — Services for Norma Livingston Knox will be at 2:30 PM Sunday at New Hope United Methodist Church with burial to follow in the church cemetery. Memorials may be made to New Hope Methodist Church Building Fund, c/o Robert Davis, 256 Graham Cemetery Road, Pomaria, SC 29126. McSwain-Evans Funeral Home is in charge.
Mrs. Knox, 66, widow of Olin D. Knox died November 12, 2004. Born in Newberry, she was a daughter of the late Thomas O. and Sally Frances Stoudemire Livingston. She was retired from Allied Chemical and was a member of New Hope United Methodist Church.
Surviving are sons and daughters-in-law, Mark and Wanda Livingston, and Michael and Aline Livingston all of Pomaria; a brother Edward Livingston of Pomaria; sisters, Jessie Robbins of Lexington and Alliene Sease of Newberry, grandchildren; Joshua and Craig Livingston, step-grandchildren; Tina Porter, Buffie Wicker, Lisa Gaitan, and James Harrison and 3 step-great-grandchildren.
Raymond Loftis Jr.
CHERAW — Mr. Raymond Loftis, Jr., 77, of Cheraw, South Carolina, passed away on November 12, 2004, at McLeod Medical Center, Florence, South Carolina. Mr. Loftis is survived by his wife of 59 years, Louise (Meek) Loftis, one daughter Vicki (George) Evans of Greenville, NC, and one granddaughter, Lori Evans of Los Angeles, CA. He was preceded in death by his parents, Raymond and Iva Linnie (Ball) Loftis, one brother, James Loftis, and one sister, Dola Rhea Moore.
Mr. Loftis was born in Shawnee Oklahoma, on February 7, 1927. He was a graduate of Shawnee (OK) High School where he was a talented left-handed pitcher. He served in the United States Army, 82nd Airborne, in the European campaign during World War II. Mr. Loftis retired in 1989 after a career spanning forty years with oil and gas pipeline companies, most recently as a terminal supervisor with Dixie and Exxon. He was a member of the North Cheraw Baptist Church.
He loved the outdoors and was an avid parachutist and private pilot as a young man with a passion for motorcycles. He was a talented mechanic and an avid backyard barbeque chef. Mr. Loftis will be especially remembered as a caring and loving husband, father, and grandfather. A kind, gentle, and compassionate Christian man with a quiet strength, he had a special fondness for children, the family pets and a game of pitch. He was respected and loved by all who crossed paths with him during his lifetime.
Visitation will be held at Kiser Funeral Home, Cheraw, SC, from 6-8 pm, Sunday, November 14, 2004. Graveside services will be conducted at Resthaven Memorial Park, Shawnee, Oklahoma, with John Meek officiating. Arrangements are pending. Memorials may be made to Hospice of Chesterfield County, South Carolina.
Christopher McClary
SALTERS — Services for Christopher Kennedy McClary, 22, are 2 p.m. Monday (visitation 6-8 tonight) at Williamsburg Funeral Home with burial in Kingstree Memorial Gardens. Born in Florence to Mallory McClary and Nancy McClary Taylor, he died Nov. 13, 2004. He was a member of Kingstree UMC. Surviving: parents; sisters, April, Jennifer McClary; grandparents, Claude and Ester McClary.
Dolia McCullough
PELION — Services for Dolia “Midge” Lawson McCullough, 82, will be held at 3pm Monday in Harmony Baptist Church, conducted by Reverend Gary R. Farmer, with burial at the church cemetery. Pallbearers will be her nephews. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8pm Sunday at Thompson Funeral Home of West Columbia.
Mrs. McCullough died Friday, November 12, 2004. Born in Lexington County, she was a daughter of the late James Willie and Ruby Baltzegar Lawson. She was a member of Harmony Baptist Church and Erlene Rickard’s Sunday School Class. Mrs. McCullough retired from Compton’s Kitchen.
Surviving are her sisters, Wiladeen Freeman of Columbia, Alma Leach of Cayce and Reatha Mae Bates of West Columbia; brothers, Allen Lawson of Pelion and Dewey Lawson of Augusta, GA.
She was predeceased by brothers, J.W. Lawson, Elmer Lawson and Buck Lawson.
