Obituaries

September 1, 2010

Lorine Tidwell Branson Broadway, 86, wife of Thomas W. Broadway, died Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010, at her home in Manning.

August 31, 2010

Walter Leon “Blackie” Blackwelder, 89, husband of Frances Godley Blackwelder, passed away at Clarendon Memorial Hospital on Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010.

August 30, 2010

Dewey Burdell Coker Jr., 60, passed away at his home on Monday, Aug. 30, 2010.

August 30, 2010

Queen Ester Miller Young, 75, widow of Booker T. Young Sr., died Monday, Aug. 30, 2010, at Clarendon Memorial Hospital, Manning.

August 30, 2010

Robert James Geddings, 83, husband of Dorothy Bradford Geddings, died Monday, Aug. 30, 2010, at Tuomey Regional Medical Center.

August 28, 2010

Elwell Gaymon died Saturday, Aug. 28, 2010, at Palmetto Health Baptist, Columbia.

August 27, 2010

Clark Howell Williams, 74, beloved husband of 54 years to Evelyne Huisse Williams, died Friday, Aug. 27, 2010, at Duke University Hospital.

August 27, 2010

Lurena Williams McDaniel, widow of Ronald McDaniel, was born June 30, 1955, in Clarendon County, a daughter of Rosa Mae Magazine and the late Elder Josephus Washington and stepdaughter of the late David Magazine. She departed this life on Friday, Aug. 27, 2010, at Tuomey Regional Medical Center.

August 27, 2010

ADEL, Ga. -- Sylvia Bradham Barr, 73, Adel’s First Lady, passed away peacefully at her home on Friday, Aug. 27, 2010, after a valiant fight with cancer.

August 25, 2010

FREDERICKSBURG, Va. - Aletha Sinkler Devine, daughter of the late Harkless and Dinah Jackson Sinkler, was born on Aug. 25, 1936, in Clarendon County.

August 25, 2010

George Lauren Baker, 49, passed away on Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010, at McLeod Regional Medical Center in Florence.

August 25, 2010

NEW YORK, N.Y. – Sarah M. Ceasar, 78, widow of Hayes Ceasar, died Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010, at Bellevue Hospital, New York, N.Y.

August 24, 2010

ITHACA, N.Y. - Donald Graham, 78, husband of Jenny Graham, passed on Aug. 24, 2010, in Ithaca.

August 24, 2010

John Francis “Bo Jack” Ridgeway, 72, husband of the late Christine Driggers Ridgeway, died Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010, at his home after a long illness.

August 23, 2010

Marianne Reaves King, died Monday, Aug. 23, 2010, at her home in Manning.

August 21, 2010

The Clarendon School District 1 community was rocked with news of CSD1 Board member James Edmond “Ed” Tallman’s death at his home in Summerton on Saturday.

August 21, 2010

Retired Master Sgt. William Morgan Strickland Jr., 79, died Saturday, Aug. 21, 2010, in Regency Hospital in Florence. Born Oct. 17, 1930, in Robbins, Tenn., he was a son of the late William Morgan Strickland Sr. and the late Ethel Mae West Strickland. He was of the Methodist faith, a retired Air Force veteran, a Mason and a Shriner, and retired from the mobile home business in Sumter and West Columbia.

August 16, 2010

Eartha Lee Thames Bennett, 59, entered eternal rest on Monday, Aug. 16, 2010, at Tuomey Regional Medical Center.

August 16, 2010

Inez Gamble Mallett, 85, widow of Isaac Eugene Mallett, died Monday, Aug. 16, 2010, at Tuomey Regional Medical Center.

August 14, 2010

Elsie Sanderson Hilton, 72, wife of Robert Arthur Hilton, passed away on Saturday, Aug. 14, 2010, at Roper Hospital in Charleston.

August 13, 2010

Gracie Evelyn Burke Hinson, 77, wife of Lewis Edward “Ed” Hinson, died Friday, Aug. 13, 2010, at NHC of Sumter.

August 12, 2010

Bessie Wilson Brock, widow of Mood Brock, died on Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010, at Clarendon Memorial Hospital, Manning.

August 12, 2010

HIGH POINT, N.C. -- David “Pap” Green, 65, died Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010, at Wesley Long Community Hospital, Greensboro, N.C.

August 12, 2010

Harry Charles Simeral Sr., age 85, died Aug. 12, 2010, at a Sumter nursing facility, after an illness.