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A second lucky ticket sold in Honea Path, matched all five white balls in Saturday night's drawing, but missed the Powerball number. That ticket also had the Power Play option, tripling the prize to $600,000.

The numbers drawn Saturday were: 12-14-15-21-43, Powerball: 30. The Power Play was three.

Tickets sold in Minnesota, New Hampshire and Rhode Island also matched the first five numbers, but missed the Powerball, for a $200,000 win.

Powerball is played in 29 states, Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The record jackpot was $365 million won by eight workers at a Nebraska meatpacking plant in February 2006.

Barber and husband, Josh, are part of a new trend: Young families moving to aging suburbs close to downtown, allowing them to raise their kids in subdivisions like the ones where they grew up.

“We never knew this neighborhood existed,” said Barber, who got a deal on a 1,900-square-foot house in Woodland Hills that her husband renovated before they moved in. “It’s our own little hidden paradise.”

The Barbers represent the future of the St. Andrews Road corridor, the affluent edge of Columbia in the 1970s.

Without young, new homeowners like the Barbers, growth and the attention of local governments will continue to focus on glossy new suburbs rippling toward Lake Murray.

It was the second day of activities honoring past and present soldiers. The celebration started Friday, featuring a Vietnam War re-enactment.

“It’s an opportunity for the citizens of Columbia to understand what the Army does and to show support,” said Fort Jackson’s commanding general, James Schwitters.

The significance of the celebration was also underscored by the ongoing war in the Middle East.

“It brings a sense of seriousness and realism to the day,” Schwitters said.

Rising costs and years of deferring maintenance, equipment and even operational costs have left the state’s prison system facing the prospect of running a deficit or closing two prisons.

Some, including Gov. Mark Sanford, are blaming state lawmakers, saying they have not made spending on the state’s prison system a priority.

Prisons spokesman Josh Gelinas said inflation has made food, fuel and especially medical care more expensive. Sanford and others say the Legislature, even during flush budget years, often has overlooked the prison system in favor of funding local luxuries through the state budget.

As a result, the prison system said last week it needs an extra $4.3 million to meet its costs. State budget officials said they are working with the agency to close the budget gap.

The commission also has chosen the NAI Avant company of Columbia to market and sell the 181-acre site, the largest downtown tract of land to come on the market in more than a century.

But that sale could shelve a development plan that city and state officials and regular citizens shaped three years ago with new urbanism guru Andres Duany.

The plan cost $390,000. The city of Columbia paid half. The state paid the other half.

The S.C. Supreme Court last year decided the Mental Health Commission, not the state of South Carolina, owns the land.

U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class George Koon of Leesville, who was recently identified through DNA, was buried with full military honors at Old Lexington Baptist Church Cemetery.

He was laid to rest with the granite marker that has borne his name. A memorial service was held in 1951 without his remains.

The Rev. John McKeown told more than 100 family members, friends and others attending the funeral that the family would again have to walk through a valley of tears.

“Out of an excruciatingly painful experience, this family now comes to bring closure to a haunting mystery that they have endured for 57 years,” he said.

Mayor Joe Riley’s comments to The (Charleston) Post and Courier came after an analysis released this week by fire experts found firefighters did not follow standard safety practices and had obsolete equipment when battling the Sofa Super Store blaze June 18, the nation’s worst loss of firefighters since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

An attorney for Sofa Super Store owner Herb Goldstein said the mayor’s comments were “not reality.” The city’s fire and code inspectors never pointed out any potential hazards or violations at the building, attorney Richard Rosen said.

“To blame Herb Goldstein for something nobody saw for over 10 years is not reality,” Rosen told the newspaper. “I think it’s silly to say that the code violations killed firefighters. I don’t think I need to address Joe Riley’s motivations. He’s a politician.”

Riley told the newspaper that he thinks the additions to the store compromised the building’s fire protection. The mayor has avoided criticizing Fire Chief Rusty Thomas, who announced he would retire before the report was released.

The winner of the June 10 Republican primary will face no formal opposition in the November general election because no Democrats filed for the four-year seat.

The candidates are:

• James R. Metts, 61, of Lexington, who has been sheriff for more than 35 years

• Jimmy Brazelle, 60, of West Columbia, a program director of The Cooperative Ministry, a faith-based, nonprofit organization providing emergency assistance to Midlands residents

Myrtle Beach police Capt. David Knipes told The (Myrtle Beach) Sun News that the biker, whose name had not been released, died Saturday afternoon when he failed to make a turn near the Marriott Resort.

The other two deaths happened May 10.

The 10-day rally wraps up today and typically draws about 200,000 people to the 60-mile stretch of beaches from Georgetown to the North Carolina state line. Three people died in accidents last year.

“The intent was never to promote drinking, but we’ve had some concerns raised by students and bus drivers about what has become a rather rowdy bus ride home,” college president David DeCenzo told The (Myrtle Beach) Sun News. DeCenzo said a decision will be made in the next few weeks about whether to keep or change the late-night shuttle.

Coastal Carolina paid almost $60,000 to The Coast Regional Transportation Authority to take students the 10 miles between the campus in Conway and Broadway at the Beach, an area with restaurants, bars and shopping.

From August through February, the shuttle carried more than 4,800 passengers between 7:30 p.m. and 2 a.m. Friday and Saturday nights.

The school started the shuttle to provide students a safer ride to the beach and to let those without cars enjoy the area’s attractions, said Eddie Dyer, the university’s executive vice president.

Larhonda Hemphill, 20, of 947 Carolina Ave., faces two counts of assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature, said Lt. Jerry Waldrop of the Rock Hill Police Department.

Around noon Thursday, two female teenagers and a 20-year-old woman were traveling in a Honda along Carolina Avenue when they stopped at a stop sign. Hemphill pulled the car door open and a fight started, according to police.

The woman and teens in the car drove off and went to their mother’s house. A report says Hemphill followed the Honda in a purple Crown Victoria. “As (the victim) was getting out of her vehicle, (Hemphill) ran into her and pinned her between the two cars,” Waldrop said. “When the victim’s mother saw what happened, she came out (of the house) and was hit.”

When the victim’s mother fell to the ground, Hemphill backed up and ran over the woman’s foot, according to police. The woman suffered a broken right foot.

The second-grade teacher instructs behind 5-foot-tall partitions that divide her class from others going on in open classrooms next door.

“Most of the time, we don’t hear each other,” she said. “And you’re aware of the noise level (so you don’t get too loud).”

Structurally, Leaphart Elementary has remained largely the same since it opened in 1974.

But the needs of the 520 students at the school on Piney Grove Road have changed, so the Lexington-Richland 5 school board is planning to renovate the school.

Her heart remained there while living in apartments closer to downtown while she attended USC.

Hanson and her husband, John, Irmo’s town administrator, bought a home on Whitehall’s Tram Road in 2005, near the one she grew up in and where her parents still live.

“I really never moved away,” she said.

Sentiment like that made the 1,200-home Whitehall neighborhood a popular spot to live for the children and grandchildren of those who first moved in when the subdivision opened in the mid-1960s.

The institute creates awareness and stimulates interest in career opportunities in the transportation industry. Students will take part in academic experiences — mathematics, science and technological enrichment — that would enable them to pursue a career in transportation.

About 15 students will receive full scholarships to participate in the program.

The Federal Highway Administration, Office of Civil Rights, the S.C. division of the Federal Highway Administration, and the state Department of Transportation are sponsors.

For more information, call Robert L. Scott at (803) 705-4678.

Cigarette tax

Where it stands: The Senate passed a plan in March to raise the state’s lowest-in-the-nation cigarette tax by 50 cents a pack. The House last year passed a 30-cents-a-pack increase. The sides disagree on how to spend the money raised from the higher tax. House leaders want to spend the revenue on tax cuts for small businesses to buy health insurance for employees. The Senate wants to spend the money on smoking cessation programs and to help low-income workers buy health insurance.

What has to happen for it to pass: The House and Senate have to agree on the amount to raise the tax and how to spend the money. The House is scheduled to debate the tax Tuesday. That could move the sides toward compromise. It’s likely House and Senate versions of the cigarette tax will be settled in a conference committee.

Prospects of passing: Good. But a key to the cigarette tax hike becoming law is a veto-proof majority. Gov. Mark Sanford has said he could veto any cigarette tax increase that doesn’t spend the proceeds on tax cuts.

The strip mall has survived by remaking itself into a home for international Internet and telecommunications operations.

The center is among a handful of strip malls along St. Andrews Road having to reinvent themselves in a business climate where anchor stores have left patches of empty storefronts.

Teleperformance Group occupies 10,000 square feet in the renamed St. Andrews Center. The company employs 524 people in St. Andrews Center, a company spokesman said. Teleperformance arrived in 2003.

The parking lot shows most vehicles belong to people who work for Teleperformance or its smaller neighbor, AT&T. Shoppers are few.

The couple cheered and assisted their three sons’ sports teams at the park’s fields after moving nearby.

Now, the retirees in their mid-70s work out in the park’s gym and keep limber on the bicycle and walking paths at its 48-acre complex, near St. Andrews and Piney Grove roads.

“Besides the physical benefits, it’s a lot of socializing, which is really nice,” George Jefferson said.

Their experience exemplifies how the park’s role as a community hub is changing.

News that House Speaker Bobby Harrell, R-Charleston, won’t be running for governor was mildly surprising to The Buzz and especially bad news to one lawmaker: Greenville Rep. Harry Cato.

It’s no secret Cato wants to be speaker. He has been positioning himself to make a run for some time now. Over the past two sessions, Cato has been reaching across the aisle to Democrats and buddying up with his Republican colleagues to get a voting bloc needed to be elected.

Then Harrell announces he won’t seek the governor’s office.

The only question now is whether Cato will still seek the speaker’s job by challenging Harrell. Or will Cato want the next best thing, the speaker pro tem position being vacated by Spartanburg Rep. Doug Smith, who is not seeking re-election?

Nathaniel Goodwin, 44, of Bluff Road, died of multiple trauma, Richland County Coroner Gary Watts said.

Goodwin and the driver of a 2004 Dodge Intrepid were both headed east on Congaree Road when they collided, Highway Patrol Lance Cpl. Josef Robinson said. The incident occurred 14 miles east of Columbia about 9:40 p.m., the Highway Patrol reported. No charges had been filed.

Beth Carrigg and Tom Comerford are resuming a fight for the post started in 2004.

But this time Carrigg is the incumbent and Comerford is the challenger.

Much of the fight is over style.

Carrigg can be outspoken, describing herself as “determined” and “certainly tenacious.” Critics call her gruff and stubborn.

Sims Music, at 1110 St. Andrews Road, is about to start its second expansion this decade, owner Jerry Sims said.

Sims, 54, opened his flagship instruments and music lessons store in 1993 along the Richland County portion of the road.

His business has grown even as St. Andrews has ceased to be “a destination place,” Sims said.

“You look at any business area. They all diminish through time,” he said. “I’m not really upset with this area.”

The 64-member board voted and announced its decision Saturday in Baltimore.

Though he is not a politician, minister or civil rights icon, in Jealous the organization gets a young, connected leader familiar with black leadership and social justice issues. He takes over as the NAACP’s 17th president just months before the organization’s centennial anniversary, as the group grapples with dwindling membership and looks to boost its coffers.

“There are a small number of groups to whom all black people in this country owe a debt of gratitude, and the NAACP is one of them,” Jealous said before the board’s vote. “There is work that is undone ... the need continues and our children continue to be at great risk in this country.”

Jealous, a California native, has held positions with a Mississippi newspaper, the National Newspaper Publishers Association, Amnesty International and the Rosenberg Foundation. He succeeds Bruce Gordon, who resigned abruptly in March 2007, citing clashes with the board over management and mission issues.

But you’d never know it if you saw what was ending up in your landfill. As it turns out, Americans waste an astounding amount of food — an estimated 27 percent of the food available for consumption, according to a government study — and it happens at the supermarket, in restaurants and cafeterias and in your very own kitchen.

It works out to about a pound of food every day for every American.

Grocery stores discard products because of spoilage or minor cosmetic blemishes. Restaurants throw away what they don’t use. And consumers toss out everything from bananas that have turned brown to last week’s Chinese leftovers. In 1997, in one of the few studies of food waste, the Department of Agriculture estimated that two years before, 96.4 billion pounds of the 356 billion pounds of edible food in the United States was never eaten. Fresh produce, milk, grain products and sweeteners made up two-thirds of the waste. An update is under way.

The study didn’t account for the explosion of ready-to-eat foods now available at supermarkets, from rotisserie chickens to sandwiches and soups. What do you think happens to that potato salad and meatloaf at the end of the day?

Add his current post to the list.

When he met his new staff on his first day running a division of the N.C. Department of Commerce in 1995, three of them announced they had no assigned duties.

He assumed his next job in 1997, as an executive with the community college system, and found his division had overpromised businesses on the amount of job training the schools could provide.

Now Ralls is being bashed in some quarters as timidly handling the controversy over whether the state’s 58 community colleges should admit illegal immigrants.

But a volunteer crew doesn’t cut it anymore. Not with tony subdivisions and colossal new homes starting at $500,000. Still, a blaze in this rural community often gets fought by a pair of men — one on the truck and one on the hose.

It’s a shortage that vexes fire departments across rural Wake County, home to roughly 180,000 people. Firefighters are pushing for $7.6 million over the next three years to pay for bigger, full-time crews.

With subdivisions popping up on old farmland, and firetrucks needed at every fender-bender or heart attack, firefighters say Wake County’s far-flung communities cannot stay safe with weekend volunteers. More full-timers are needed to reduce long response times, man stations when volunteers have to work, and field bigger crews to battle blazes.

Professional firefighters are also needed to compensate for the steady decline in the number of volunteers willing to fight fires. In the past 10 years, the roster of volunteers has shrunk by 24 percent, Wake fire chiefs say.

What demographers call a natural decrease has been occurring for years in tiny rural towns and in some retirement meccas in the South. But the phenomenon is relatively new in metropolitan areas in the Northeast, the Rust Belt of the Middle West and Appalachia.

Hospitals are closing obstetrics wards and converting them to acute care. Local governments and other social service providers are adjusting to the emergence of entire neighborhoods where the average age is soaring.

Since 1980, Pittsburgh’s population has plunged from 423,000 to about 312,000. Since 2000 alone, the metropolitan area has lost 60,000 people.

While natural decrease occurred in many Southern cities that were magnets for retirees, the overall population was replenished by the influx of younger migrants. But in Pittsburgh and other places outside the South, not only has the population aged in place, but also, to a lesser extent, the very old — often disabled and widowed — have returned to spend their last years with children and grandchildren and avail themselves of better medical treatment and transportation.

Aid workers shackled by the country’s military regime struggled to get even the most basic data about the needs of up to 2.5 million survivors. The Red Cross warned that a lack of clean water may swell the ranks of the dead.

Myanmar state television said the official death count from the May 3 cyclone was 77,738, with 55,917 others missing.

The toll was nearly double the 43,000 previously reported, but the TV announcement suggested it might be close to a final figure. It said the government had “carried out search and rescue and relief work and collection of data, promptly, immediately and extensively.”

The release of the figures led to dire warnings from the United Nations and renewed calls for the military regime to allow international aid workers access to devastated areas.

Back in Washington, the Bush administration bowed to congressional pressure and agreed to temporarily stop filling a key government oil stockpile, potentially increasing supply even further.

One day, two moves designed to allay concerns about an overheated oil market that’s squeezing drivers and inflating the prices of all sorts of goods.

The response from oil traders? They did what they’ve been doing for months now, and pushed crude oil and gasoline futures to new highs.

“All in all, we’re seeing another strong move here on little fundamental news,” said Jim Ritterbusch, president of Ritterbusch & Associates, an oil trading advisory firm in Galena, Ill.

For them and other couples who lost an only child in this week’s massive earthquake, the tragedy has been doubly cruel. Robbed of their sole progeny and a hope for the future, they find it even harder to restart their shattered lives, haunted by guilt, regret and gnawing loss.

“She died before becoming even a young adult,” said Bi, an intense, wiry chemical-plant worker, standing beside the grave of 13-year-old Yuexing — one of dozens sprinkled amid fields of ripened spring wheat and newly planted rice. “She never really knew what life was like.”

Yuexing, a bright sixth-grader, was in school when Monday’s quake struck, bringing the Fuxin No. 2 Primary School crashing down, killing her and 200 other students. Teachers had locked all but one of the school’s doors during break time, parents said, leaving only a single door to escape through.

Many among the more than 22,000 people killed across central China were students. Nearly 6,900 classrooms collapsed, government officials said Friday, in an admission that highlighted a chronically underfunded education system especially in small towns and compounded the anger of many Chinese over the quake.

The stage-managed tour appeared aimed at countering global criticism of the junta’s failure to provide for survivors of Cyclone Nargis, which left at least 134,000 people dead or missing.

The junta flew 60 diplomats and U.N. officials in helicopters to three places in the Irrawaddy delta where camps, aid and survivors were put on display. The diplomats were not swayed.

“It was a show,” Shari Villarosa, the top U.S. diplomat in Myanmar, told The Associated Press by telephone after returning to Yangon. “That’s what they wanted us to see.”

Meanwhile, a French navy ship that arrived Saturday off Myanmar’s shores loaded with food, medication and fresh water was given the now familiar red light, a response that France’s U.N. ambassador, Jean-Maurice Ripert, called “nonsense.”

Jesse Laintz, 27, received the J.P. Strom Award at a ceremony at the academy Friday. Laintz joined the Sheriff’s Department in 2006 as a correctional officer with the jail.

Contributing: Delawese Fulton, staff reports

About two miles from where she is standing sits a silent sand lot — the only sound, the rustling of some plastic wrap that holds some dead $4 roses.

It was there six months ago that her son, William Rhea, and six of his friends died in a fire that to her is still burning.

Lee came to Ocean Isle Beach just for the day — to watch as the town memorializes her son with a cross and some flowers in a private ceremony.

Eventually, she will cross the Odell Williamson Bridge and slide into the sleepy beach town to stand at 1 Scotland St. to see the place that has changed her.

Currently superintendent of a school system with 16,000 students, Mack starts his new job July 1.

“It’s exciting for me. I’m flattered they have the confidence to pick me to lead that district,” Mack, 57, said when reached by phone Friday morning.

Details of Mack’s contract must still be hammered out, but Richland 1’s board advertised that it is willing to pay between $195,000 and $230,000 a year. Allen Coles, who steps down as superintendent next month, receives $175,000. Mack’s current salary is $141,398.

Richland 1 trustee Dwayne Smiling voted for Mack because he has “the right temperament to lead us where we want to go. He’s the right leader at the right time.”

“I know in my heart, when I look in the mirror each morning, that contributions don’t influence me. I answer to myself and what I know is right.”

— Rep. Harry Cato, R-Greenville, saying the $5,000 in contributions he has taken from payday lending companies had no bearing on how a bill putting new restrictions on the industry fared in the committee he chairs. Cato, chairman of the Labor, Commerce and Industry Committee, said last week the payday lending bill would not survive his committee.

S.C. PRIMARY

Days left until the June 10 primary: 23

Their plan would include the county’s 14 towns as well as unincorporated areas.

Supporters want a uniform limit instead of a patchwork in which restrictions would be in effect at some of the 804 restaurants and 70 bars across the county but not at others.

“If they don’t buy it, we can’t do it,” Councilman Bill Banning of West Columbia said of the municipalities. “I would not support doing it unless we can do it countywide.”

Supporters are willing to go forward if the largest communities — Batesburg-Leesville, Cayce, Irmo, Lexington and West Columbia — are in favor.

S.C. Sen. Joel Lourie, D-Richland, said Friday that many Senate and House members were frustrated by the decision of a powerful member of the S.C. House to let the bill passed by the Senate Feb. 19 die in House committee.

So, on Thursday, Lourie and S.C. Sen. Gerald Malloy, D-Darlington, amended a House bill regarding payday lending oversight to include the provisions of the Senate bill restricting the number and amount of loans.

They say the measures are designed to restrict consumers from becoming trapped in a chain of debts from the small, two-week loans that carry interest equal to a 391 percent annual percentage rate.

Payday lenders, including Spartanburg-based Advance America, the nation’s largest payday lender, say the loans provide convenient credit to households facing financial emergencies.

Mr. Wells was born August 12, 1925, in Columbia, SC and passed away Friday, May 16, 2008. He was a son of the late William H. and Mary McFarland Wells. He was employed by Columbia Heating and Cooling and a lifetime member of UA Local 421.

Mr. Wells is survived by his daughter, Sandra Wilson, of Irmo; son, Mike Wells, of Spain; granddaughter, Nikki (Chip) Cross, of Irmo; sisters, Verdie Lewis (Dan) Christmus, of Columbia and Mary Helen (Gordon) Walhood, of New Mexico; brothers, Robert (Mary) Wells, of Blythewood, Wally (Judy) Wells, of Alaska and Monty (Sandie) Wells, of Florida. Mr. Wells was predeceased by his sister, Edna Earle Wells.

The family would like to extend special thanks to Hal Lominick and Agape Nursing Center for all their love, care and support.

Dad, I cherish the special time that we had together and I am looking forward to seeing you again.

Mrs. Ogden died Saturday, May 17, 2008. Born in Abbeville, she was a daughter of the late William H. and Annie Bell Rice Crews. She loved collecting Hummingbirds.

Surviving are her husband of 45 years, Roy Ogden; son, Larry A. Ogden of Lugoff; daughter, Robin D. (Michael Weatherford) Hyman of Lugoff; twin brother, Victor L. (Mary) Crews of Greenville; brother, Randy C. (Linda) Crews of Newberry; and a grandson, Steven D. Hyman. She was predeceased by brother, Billy H. Crews Jr.; and sister, Faye Lain.

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«Obituary posted: May 18, 2008»

Mr. Lyles was born in Darlington County, son of the late Oby Coleman and Julia Ellis Lyles. He was married to the late Kathryn Garrison Lyles for 61 years. He served his country during the World War II in General George Patton’s 3rd Army in Europe, Company A, 104 Regiment, 26th Yankee Division. He had retired as manager of WHSC radio station of Hartsville after more than 35 years and also managed Cable TV of Hartsville. Mr. Lyles was past President of S.C. Broadcasters Association, member of the Hartsville Lions Club and voted Hartsville’s Citizen of the Year.

He was a youth baseball coach and avid tennis player. He was also a loyal fan of the USC Gamecocks, Boston Red Sox and Washington Redskins.

Mr. Lyles was a lifelong member of Trinity United Methodist Church where he was active in church functions and was a Sunday School teacher.

Surviving are his son and daughter-in-law, Oby Garrison and Debbie Lyles of Greenville, two daughters and son-in-law, Kathryn Elizabeth and Raymond Young of Cheraw and Margaret Clelia Lyles of Darlington; four grandchildren, two great-grandchildren and a brother, William Lyles of Greenwood.

Mr. Shumate, widower of Sarah Frances Howard Shumate, died Saturday, May 17, 2008. Born in Milton, NC, he was the son of the late Thomas Henry and Pearl Davis Shumate. He was a U.S. Army WWII veteran, member of Lakeshore Drive Church of God, member of J. Leroy Belk Post 17 of the American Legion, Camden Highsteppers, former member of Kershaw Country Club and an avid deep sea fisherman.

Surviving besides his wife of Camden are sons, Charles Wayne Shumate of Lugoff, Dennis Barry Shumate of Camden and Howard Malloy Shumate Jr. of Cassatt; 8 grandchildren and 9 great-grandchildren.

Mr. Shumate was predeceased by 2 brothers, James Tucker Shumate and Thomas Henry Shumate Jr.

Kornegay Funeral Home, Camden Chapel, is in charge.

Survivors include a son, Michael L. Hendrix and wife Myra of Spartanburg; two daughters, Martha Ann Baker and husband David of Manning, SC and Janet Rebecca Coggins and husband Bobby of Simpsonville, SC; two stepdaughters, Roberta Montgomery Richardson of Simpsonville and Georgia Montgomery Sizemore of Greenville; eight grandchildren; and one great-grandchild; a sister, Voncile Munn Lee of Cassett, SC; and a brother, Ernie Munn of Gambrills, MD. She was predeceased by a sister, Margaret Munn Harris.

The family will receive friends from 2:00-3:30 p.m. on Sunday, May 18, 2008, at Rolling Green Village, with services to follow at 3:30 p.m., conducted by the Rev. Joel Jenkins. Another visitation will be held from 1:00-2:00 p.m. on Monday, May 19, 2008, at the Baker Funeral Home, Kershaw, SC, with funeral services following at 2:00 p.m. in the chapel. Burial will follow in the Kershaw City Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Alzheimer’s Association of the Upstate, 301 University Ridge, Suite 5000, Greenville, SC 29601.

An online guest register is available at www.floydmortuary.com.

«Obituary posted: May 18, 2008»

Born in Lexington, SC July 16, 1943, he was the son of the late Adair Z. McCartha and Marjorie McCartha Shealy.

He attended Lexington public schools and graduated from Camden Military Academy and North Carolina State University.

Douglas retired as a Flight Inspection Pilot with the FAA flying out of Anchorage, Atlanta and Oklahoma City. During his service he covered the Alaska, South and Central U.S., Cental and South America, the Caribbean and Ascension Island.

He was a member of Lexington Lodge # 152 and was a 32 year member of the Elks Lodge in Fairbanks, Alaska. Prior to his years with the FAA, Douglas was a bush pilot in Alaska. This was one of his more enjoyable experiences.

Mrs. Carmichael passed away Wednesday, May 14, 2008. She was born in Lakeview, SC, to the late Ed C. and Helen Miller Hayes.

Surviving are her daughter, Dannette Hayes Carmichael; her son, Wilson Hill Carmichael, Jr.; her grandchildren, Mason and Dara Carmichael.

«Obituary posted: May 18, 2008»

A 30 year resident of the Columbia area, she was born in Omaha, NE August 23, 1931. She was the oldest of four daughters of the late Francis M. and Kathryn M. Sork Bollig of Las Vegas, NV, where she spent many of her early years. She lived and traveled extensively in Germany, England and throughout Europe and much of the United States with her husband of 22 years, the late Lt. Col. Francis J. Seymour Jr., of Long Beach, CA, who was a 27-year Air Force veteran and a Vietnam War veteran. She enriched the lives of thousands of students as a math teacher for over fifteen years at School District 5 of Richland and Lexington County at the Irmo Middle School Campus I, where she was awarded “Teacher of the Year” in 1983.

Pat was a 1953 graduate of Mount Saint Mary’s College in Los Angeles, CA, majoring in English, and obtained her Master’s in Education from Converse College, SC, in 1989. She was a member of the Roman Catholic Church. Her family and many loyal friends will fondly remember her for the numerous gifts and talents she so lovingly shared through her novel writing, painting, music, gardening and remarkable sense of humor.

Surviving are her sister, Susan Bollig Glenn of Reno, NV; six sons, Frank Seymour of Macon, GA, Fred Seymour of Denver, CO, Kurt, Eric, Keith and Alex Seymour, all of Columbia, SC; three daughters, Ann Marie Seymour Herr of Clifton Forge, VA, Kim Seymour Daley and Christy Seymour Smith, both of Columbia, SC; three daughters-in-law, Lori Zuersher Seymour of Georgia, Cindy Poehnert Seymour of Colorado, Debra Welch Seymour of Columbia, SC; four sons-in-law, Dane Herr of Virginia, Cliff Daley, Eric Smith and Tom Kantor, all of Columbia, SC; 17 loving grandchildren who will dearly miss their “Gran,” Nicole and C.J. Seymour of Georgia, Thomas and Sarah Seymour of Colorado, Rhianna, Logan, Morgan and Savanna Herr, all of Virginia, Zach, Carly and Jessica Seymour, Frances, Bobby, Heidi and Patti Daley, Aubrey and Allison Smith, all of Columbia, SC. In addition to her parents and husband, she was preceded in death by her sisters, Peggy Bollig Reber and Kay Bollig Dykes of Las Vegas, NV. A family memorial service will take place at Fripp Island, SC at a later date. Memorials may be made to the Arthritis Foundation of S.C. or the Epilepsy Foundation of S.C.

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Born in the Pisgah Community of Sumter County, he was a son of the late Leroy Frank Baker and the late Eady Mae Watson Baker. Mr. Baker was a lifelong member of Pisgah Baptist Church. He served thirteen years in the Army National Guard and retired from Becker County Sand and Gravel Company.

Survivors include one brother, Dr. J. Frank Baker of the Pisgah Community; two sisters, Gladys B. Huggins (Olin) of the Pisgah Community, and Elise “Lisa” B. Oxendine (Ernie) of Sumter; three stepchildren, Linda, Katherine and Tony; and a number of nieces and nephews.

Funeral services will be held at 4 p.m. Monday at Pisgah Baptist Church with the Rev. Dr. Donald West and the Rev. Marvin Jones officiating.

Burial will be in the church cemetery.

Earline’s siblings were Mary Felicia (Byrd), Ruby Lee (Nesbitt), Edgar Clarence, James Garvin, and Jerrie (Flynn). Her paternal grandparents were Joseph Eli Ross and Mary Amanda Barefoot; her maternal grandparents were Josephus Morton and Mary Melinda Treece.

Earline began working in the Hartsville Cotton Mill in January, 1939, and drew her first payroll of $4.64 for her first week in the Spool room. She played softball in school and on the Mill’s team, and played the guitar.

Earline married Malcolm Benard Hopkins who also worked in the Mill in October, 1939, and continued working in the Mill while having three children: William Malcolm, Jack Lee and Betty Earline.

Family genealogy became Earline’s passion in later life and she and sister Ruby spent years going through courthouse records, exploring and documenting cemeteries, and interviewing extended family members about family relationships. Her pet peeve has been obituaries that gave no useful genealogical information.

«Obituary posted: May 18, 2008»

Funeral services will be held 3 p.m. Monday, May 19, 2008, in the Old St. George Baptist Church with Reverend Tim Marcengill officiating. Burial will follow in the Heaton Cemetery. Pallbearers will be Anthony McAlhany, Chris McAlhany, Rodney Faulling, Eric Patten, Russ Rickborn and Brandon Rickborn. Visitation will be 4 to 6 p.m. Sunday at Bryant Funeral Home, 607 N. Parler Ave., St. George.

Doc was born on February 19, 1918, in Reevesville, a son of the late Berry Benjamin and Emma Walters McAlhany. He was a member of Old St. George Baptist Church, a farmer and Fire Warden for S.C. Forestry Commission. He was pre-deceased by a son, James Kenneth McAlhany, a grandson, Rodney Rickborn, a granddaughter, Sally Alicia Glasser and a sister, Connie McAlhany Maxey.

Surviving are two sons, Thomas Larry McAlhany and his wife Linda Ann, and Donald Berry McAlhany and his wife Rosemary, all of Reevesville, daughters, Patricia M. Glasser and her husband Robert of Mt. Pleasant, B.J. Broadway of Reevesville, grandchildren, Denise and Rodney Faulling, Anthony and Julie McAlhany, Abigail Caroline Broadway, all of Reevesville, Donna and Eric Patten of St. George, Dr. Chris and Hillary McAlhany of Columbus, Ohio, Russ Rickborn of Charleston, Mary Ashton Glasser of Mt. Pleasant, and great-grandchildren, Brandon, Brittany and Grayson Rickborn, Jessica Byrd, Kacie and Andrew Faulling, Thomas, Nicholas and Julianna McAlhany, Adam and Brantley Patten and Sophie McAlhany; and a sister, Bernice M. Westbury of St. George.

Memorials may be made to The Heaton Cemetery Fund, 930 Cross Creek Road, Reevesville, SC 29471.

Mrs. Skinner was born in Orangeburg County, a daughter of the late Lucius and Luebell Hoover Chavis. She was married to the late Aubrey W. Skinner.

She is survived by 3 sons, Benjamin W. Skinner, David C. Skinner and John W. Skinner, all of Fredericksburg, VA, 6 sisters, 1 brother, 4 grandchildren and 9 great-grandchildren.

The family will receive friends from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Monday at Culler-McAlhany Funeral Home in North, S.C. Memorials may be made to Beaver Creek Indians in Salley, S.C.

«Obituary posted: May 18, 2008»