Sunday, January 24, 2010 MORNING NEWS www.scnow.com Funerals Today Colean Reed-Best 2:30 p.m. St. James AME Church, Marion. Pearly E. Britt 3 p.m.
Macedonia United Methodist Church. Charlene A. Brown 2 p.m. Peoples Funeral Service of Florence Chapel. Alvin Wesley Chambers 2 p.m.
Greater Highway Church Of Christ, Marion. Horace Legrand "H.L." Cribb 3 p.m.. Chapel of Richardson Funeral Home. Doris Ann Cook Foster 3 p.m. Devotion Garden, Mullins.
Larry E. Kelly 3 p.m. Chapel of Layton-Anderson Funeral Home. Eliza Maxwell 2 p.m.. Greater Highway Church of Christ, Marion.
I Lessie Rea L. McKenzie 2 p.m. Redeemed Holiness Church. Jeffrey Taylor Stephens 3 p.m. Forest Hills United Methodist Church.
Sarah Eugenia Temple 2 p.m. Central United Methodist Church. Death Notices Nikki Renee Gainey, 24, of Darlington died Saturday, Jan. 23, 2010. Arrangements will be announced by Belk Funeral Home.
Helen Stevens Gerald, 86, of Florence, died Friday, Jan. 22, 2010. Arrangements will be announced by Ward Funeral Home of Loris. The family will receive friends Monday from 2-3 p.m. at the funeral home.
Callie Ruth Allen Godfrey, 82, of Ninety-Six, died Friday, Jan. 22, 2010. Arrangements will be announced by Harley Funeral Home Crematory, Greenwood. Robert Rush, Jr. of Andrews, died Jan.
23, 2010. Arrangements will be announced by Nesmith-Pinckney Funeral Home, Hemingway. Ella Jane Coates Taylor, 99, of Sanford, N.C., formerly of Dillon, died Friday, Jan. 22, 2010. Arrangements will be announced by Kannaday Funeral Home, Dillon.
Visitation will be from 6-8 p.m. today at the Funeral Home. Mendel Watson, 72, of Kingstree died Friday, Jan. 22, 2010. Arrangements will be announced by Henryhand Funeral of Kingstree.
The family is receiving friends at the residence, 313 Short Kingstree. Lillie Casselman Brown ANDREWS Lillie Casselman Brown, 90, joined her husband, Walter Brown in the heavenly presence of the Lord on Thursday, January 21, 2010, with family members at her side. Lillie was born on July 31, 1919 to Marion and Kate Casselman. She married Walter Brown on August 25, 1939. She devoted her life to her family, friends and church.
All of her children and grandchildren felt like they were her favorite because her favorite was the one who needed her on that particular day. She will be remembered for her hospitality to her friends and family. Any one could call her and request a cake and she would immediately start cooking. She loved the outdoors and spent many hours tending to her flowers and the vegetables in her garden. She was a member of Piney Forest Baptist Church and she was happy when her family attended church with her.
Her greatest desire was that her family members would know the Lord as she did. She was also predeceased by: two brothers, Levern Casselman and Marion Casselman, and three sisters, Dorothy Murray, Thelma Cannon, and Mamie Baxley. She leaves behind: one son and daughter-in-law, Bruce and Ann Brown; four daughters and one son in law, Sandra Williams, Selma Cantley, Velma and Sammy Mobley and Diane Keller; and a brother, Olin Casselman. She has fourteen grandchildren, Angela Rogers, David Brown, Brian Bannister, Pam Engel, Charles Bannister, Wendy Morris, Dusty Cantley, Sandy Tilton, Melodie Bone, Crystal Blake, Bridget Watson, Amber, Drew and Alexis Barbaresi. Her greatgrandchildren include Kelly, Ashley, and Catherine Rogers, Rick, Randy and Emily Brown, Richard and Phillip Bannister, Christa Reed, Nikki Mesecher, Eric Engel, Brian and Morgan Morris, Elek and Sammie Jo Tilton, Kelda Thomas, and John David Bone, Alllie, Joseph and Noah Blake, Justin, Brittany, and Cole Watson.
Greatgreatgrandchildren include Hayden Rogers, Lane Tilton, Taylor Reed and Madison Bannister. Funeral services will be on Monday morning; January 25, 2010, at ten o'clock at Piney Forest Baptist Church. Officiating will be the Rev. Ben Walker and Rev. Thad Jacobs.
Burial will follow in Piney Forest Cemetery. Sign a guestbook at www.mayerfuneralhome.c International, P. O. Box 1263, Lake City, SC 29560. (Please sign our guestbook on line www.carolinafun eralhome.net).
Sign or read the guest book for this Obituary at www.scnow.com Lorraine C. Mead MARION Mrs. Lorraine Catherine Keller Mead, 81, wife of Warren Edward Mead, died Friday, January 22, 2010 at McLeod Hospice House in Florence after an illness. Mrs. Mead was born September 11, 1928 in Queens, New York, a daughter of the late Emil and Hellen Terry Keller.
She retired as executive secretary for the Board of Cooperative Education Services. Mrs. Mead was an avid quilter and was a member of the Swamp Fox Quilters and the Pee Dee Patchwork Quilters. She was a member of the Eastern Star. Mrs.
Mead was a member of St. Barnabas' Episcopal Church. Next to her family, Mrs. Mead got great joy from her love for quilting. Surviving Mrs.
Mead in addition to her husband of the home are: 3 Daughters: Christina (Lee) Wolansky of Oak Island, N.C., Joanne (Paul) Martucci of West Sayville, N.Y., and Ellen (Anthony) Valvo of Grand Island, N.Y.; a Son: Paul (Alice) Mead of Lake Ariel, a Brother: William Keller of Brunswick, Maine; 11 Grandchildren; 2 Great Grandchildren; and her 2 loving pets: Leah and Petey. Memorial services will be held at 11:00 A.M. Monday, January 25 at St. Barnabas' Episcopal Church in Dillon, with the Reverend H. Frederick Gough officiating.
The family will receive friends Sunday evening from 6:00 until 8:00 P.M. at Smith Collins Funeral Home. Memorials may be made to McLeod Hospice, P.O. Box 100551, Florence, S.C. 29502.
Sign or read the guest book for this Obituary at www.scnow.com Television pioneer Frances Buss Buch dies at 92 HENDERSONVILLE, N.C. Frances Buss Buch, a pioneer of network TV and the first female TV director, has died. She was 92. Her great-nephew, Mark Spencer, confirmed Saturday that Buch died Tuesday at Four Seasons Compassion for Life Elizabeth House in Hendersonville. Spencer said his greataunt's boldness led to her success "at a time when broadcasting was definitely a man's world." The family says Buch joined CBS as a receptionist in 1941 and was soon to be in front of the camera.
By 1945, CBS promoted her to be TV's first female director. Buch directed the first color TV program in 1951 for CBS. She and her late husband, Bill Buch, moved to Hendersonville in 1985. The Paley Center for Media inducted her into the "She Made It" class of 2007. SC now To read obituaries posted on our Web site or to review and sign guestbooks, visit www.scnow.com and type in keyword "obits." www.scnow.com 'Guys and Dolls' actress Jean Simmons dies at 80 By Bob Thomas Associated Press LOS ANGELES Jean Simmons, whose ethereal screen presence and starring roles with Hollywood's top actors made her a midcentury film icon, has died at age 80.
The actress, who sang with Marlon Brando in "Guys and Dolls;" costarred with Gregory Peck, Paul Simmons Newman and Kirk Douglas; and played Ophelia to Laurence Olivier's Hamlet, died Friday at home in Santa Monica, her agent Judy Page told the Los Angeles Times. She had lung cancer. Already a stunning beauty at 14, Simmons made her movie debut in the 1944 British production "Give Us the Moon." Several minor films followed before British director David Lean gave the Londonborn actress her breakthrough role of Estella, companion to the reclusive Miss Havisham in 1946's "Great Expectations." That was followed by the exotic "Black Narcissus," and then Olivier's Oscar-winning "Hamlet" in 1948, for which Simmons was nominated as best supporting actress. She would be nominated for another Oscar, for best actress for 1969's "The Happy Ending," before moving largely to television roles in the 1970s, '80s and '90s. She won an Emmy Award for her role in the 1980s miniseries "'The Thorn Birds." Her other notable films included "Elmer Gantry" (with Burt Lancaster), "Until They Sail" (with Newman), "The Country" (Peck), "Spartacus," (Douglas), "This Earth Is Mine" (Rock Hudson), "All the Way Home" (Robert Preston), "Mister Buddwing" (James Garner) and "Rough Night in Jericho" (Dean Martin).
Simmons had left Britain for Hollywood in 1950, accompanied by her future husband Stewart Granger. by reclusive tycoon Howard There, they were befriended Hughes, who flew them to Tucson, for a surprise wedding. "When I returned from the honeymoon," Simmons told a reporter in 1964, "I learned that Hughes owned me he had bought me from (British producer) J. Arthur Rank like a piece of meat." What followed was a string of films that she would later dismiss as terrible, although she took some solace in the fact Hughes, legendary in those days as a womanizer, never bothered her. "I was married to Jimmy (Granger's real name was James Stewart), so Hughes remained at a distance," she recalled.
"But those movies! So terrible they aren't even on videocassettes." Among the titles: "Angel Face," "Affair with a Stranger" and "She Couldn't Say No." Simmons finally ended up suing Hughes for the right to make more prestigious films at other studios, and the result was "Young Bess" (as young Queen Elizabeth I), "The Robe" (the first movie filmed in CinemaScope), "The "The Egyptian" and "Desiree." In the latter film, in 1954, she played the title role opposite Brando's Napoleon. The pair teamed again in 1955 for "Guys and Dolls," the Samuel Goldwyn-produced musical in which Simmons is Sarah Brown, a Salvation Army-style reformer conned into a weekend fling in Havana by gambler Sky Masterson. She loved the rehearsals fo. that film, Simmons recalled in 1988, "especially the dancing routines with Marlon trying not to step on me and choreographer Michael Kidd looking very worried." "I got to sing," she added, "because Sam Goldwyn said, 'You might as well wreck it with your own voice than somebody else's." By the 1970s, her career as a lead film actress had ended, but Simmons continued to work regularly on stage and in television. In the 1980s and '90s she appeared on such television shows as "Murder, She Wrote," "In the Heat of the Night" and "Xena: Warrior Princess." She also appeared in numerous TV movies and miniseries, including a 1991 version of "Great Expectations," in which she played Miss Havisham this time.
The careers of both Simmons and her husband Granger had flourished in the 1950s, he as a swashbuckler, she as the demure heroine. But long absences on film locations strained their relationship, and they divorced in 1960. They had a daughter, Tracy. Shortly after her divorce, Simmons married Richard Brooks, who had directed her in "Elmer Gantry" and would again in "The Happy Ending." Their marriage, which produced a daughter, Kate, failed. The couple separated in 1977 and later divorced.
om. The family will receive friends at Piney Forest Baptist Church on Sunday, January 24, 2010, from six until eight o'clock. Arrangements are by the Andrews Chapel of Mayer Funeral Home. The family wishes to extend special thanks to Winyah Community Hospice for the loving care provided. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Winyah Community Hospice, Dozier Blvd, Suite 200, Florence, SC 29501.
Sign or read the guest book for this Obituary at www.scnow.com Faye Dennis Lee LAKE CITY Mrs. Faye Dennis Lee, 71, wife of the late Willie W. Lee, died Saturday, January 23, 2010, at McLeod Hospice House after an illness. Mrs. Lee was born on September 17, 1938, in Florence County, a daughter of the late E.
Parker Dennis and Marian Flowers Dennis. She was a graduate of Lake City High School and was a former employee of Wentworth Manufacturing Company for several years and later joined the staff of the Lake City Housing Authority as Housing Manager from which she retired after twenty-two years of service. Her employment and involvement with these families was a very fulfilling service to this community, and she will long be remembered for all of her love and concern. Survivors are her daughter, Donna Lee Welch and her husband, Randy of Lake City; sister, Rosalind Collins and her husband, Robert of Coward; brother, Robert "Bobby" Dennis and his wife, Barbara of Phoenix, Arizona; grandchildren, who were dearly loved by her and the joy of her life, Amanda Lee Welch of Myrtle Beach and Bradley Carson Welch of Lake City; niece, Leslie Hanco*ck of Phoenix, Arizona; nephew, Mark McAllister of Lake City; and a number of nieces nephews on the Lee side who reside in Charleston and Summerville, South Carolina. Mrs.
Lee was predeceased by a sister, Lois D. McAllister and a nephew, Robbie Collins. Funeral services will be at 2:00 P.M. Monday, January 25, 2010, at Carolina Funeral Home Chapel, 215 E. Highway 378 ByPass, Scranton, SC.
Burial will follow in Lake City Memorial Park. The family will receive friends from 7:00 9:00 P.M. Sunday at the funeral home. Memorials may be made to Free Will Baptist Home for Children, 5232 Turbeville Highway, Turbeville, SC 29162, or the Gideon's THE CHALIAN-ROCK April Wright was happy to come home Friday to see her favorite dog Trouble had been found. Trouble had gotten himself stuck in the sewer and was rescued by city employees on Wednesday.
Here comes 'Trouble' Dog found in storm drain was returned home HARTSVILLE April Wright has a surprise waiting for her when she got home on Friday afternoon: her favorite dog, Trouble. When Trouble saw her, he wagged his tail, licked the air and circled her. Trouble had been missing since Jan. 16. Jerome Wright, April's father, said he asked all his neighbors if they had seen the dog and looked for him for several days.
Trouble had been tied up in the yard, but the clever pooch pulled a Houdini and escaped. "That dog is so smart. He knows how to open the neighbor's Jose- Ernest (June Bug) Graham 09-17-1933 01-24-06 Many things about tomorrow we don't seem to understand. But I know who holds tomorrow and I know who holds our hands. Missing you still, Celia (Issac), Keichia, Carolyn (John) phine Wright, April's mother, said.
Both Jerome and Josephine were thrilled to have their Trouble home; safe and sound. The Wrights two other dogs also greeted Trouble with licks and flailing tails. The leader of their pack had been returned thanks to City of Hartsville and Hartsville Fire Department employees. Kathy McDonald of the Darlington County Humane Society and Bay Creek Retrievers dropped him off at his home on Logan Avenue earlier that day. Trouble was found Jan.
20 in the sewer on Brewer Street, just one street down from his home. A woman living across the street from the storm drain called the city to say she heard the dog whining and barking. Kevin Gray, superintendent of environmental services for the city, said the woman told him she heard the dog for the first time Jan. 18 but didn't figure out where the dog was until two days later. Jerome said that he lives near an open drainage ditch on Ninth Street that runs into the covered drains under the streets.
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