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In shattered Sichuan province, quake-weary residents carried pillows, blankets and chairs from homes into the open or slept in cars after a statement from the National Seismology Bureau was read on television warning that there was a "rather great" chance of an aftershock measuring magnitude 6 to 7. Such jolts could cause major damage.

People in the provincial capital of Chengdu got in their cars and drove east - toward plains and away from the quake zone to the northwest. At intersections outside the city, clusters of people slept on bedrolls. Cars were parked along a service road to a highway, their drivers sleeping on the sidewalk.

In Mianyang, closer to the quake zone, a hospital moved patients into the square outside the rail station, setting up beds, medicine trays and tents.

The alarm compounded uneasiness in the region, which has been rumbled by dozens of aftershocks since the May 12 quake, including one on Monday night measured at magnitude 5.2 by the U.S. Geological Survey. No damage or injuries were reported.

John Rainey said thousands fewer workers than expected are filing for unemployment insurance. Since the beginning of the year, the number of new workers filing weekly has declined by more than half, from about 12,300 to 5,300. Rainey says that indicates the state's economy is not in a recession.

"This is contrary to what you'd expect to see," Rainey said at Monday's board meeting.

The board met as House and Senate members continued to work out differences in their $7 billion budget plan for 2008-09.

Last month, the economists said South Carolina would collect $90 million less than initially thought, prompting the Senate to cut money from the budget. The board made no changes Monday but decided to meet again in two weeks.

No homes are threatened for now, Deputy Fire Chief Aubrey Jenkins said, and no evacuations have been ordered. The fire was largely contained as of 2:45 p.m.

Firefighters were called to the wooded area off Branch Groom Road about 1:30 p.m., Jenkins said. Small brush trucks are being used to get water to the fire scene.

Fort Jackson and S.C. Forestry Commission personnel also are helping, he said.

— Rick Brundrett

People are still voting in The State’s online poll about what they would like to see change in downtown Columbia. But so far, the farmers market and increased food and retail along the river are the top choices.

The poll is part of a special section in Sunday’s State newspaper, Great Ideas for Downtown Columbia.

Other favorite ideas include:

• lighting up the buildings to bulk up the skyline
• bringing back city trolleys - but free of charge and with limited stops.

See Tuesday's State newspaper for more on a local shirt printing company.

As the trial began in Johnston County Superior Court, Assistant District Attorney Paul Jackson said Lynn Paddock had used tape to secure bindings around another adopted child, The News & Observer of Raleigh reported. That child survived.

Paddock, 47, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Sean Paddock and with felony child abuse for the beatings of two other children. Jackson said she should be tried simultaneously for Sean's death and for abusing the other children.

"This is a course of conduct that was related," Jackson said. "It was a pattern of abuse."

Before the trial began, Paddock's former husband, Johnny Paddock, said he didn't know what happened to the child while he was at work. He said he would help prosecutors.

The state’s top-rated high school, according to the index, is Charleston County’s academic magnet high school, which ranked seventh nationally. Dutch Fork High (Lexington-Richland 5) was ranked 385; Dreher High (Richland 1) was ranked 697 and Richland Northeast High (Richland 2) was ranked 1,056.

The index uses a formula that divides the number of Advanced Placement and similar tests that can lead to college credit by the number of students who graduated (a year ago).

“The rating is not a measurement of the overall quality of the school,” the two publications note, “but illuminates one factor that many educators consider important,” challenging students with tough course work.

All told, the new index includes the names of 1,358 public high schools, but does not include the names of any schools that have an average SAT score topping 1300 or an AP score of 29 or higher.

S.C. Highway Patrol reports indicate Carl Wesley Pringle, 36, of Sumter was killed when his car hit a culvert and overturned on Cains Mill Road in Sumter County at about 2:45 this morning.

Pringle was driving his personal vehicle at the time of the accident.

— Staff reports

Production was interrupted for a second time Wednesday when members of the International Alliance of Theatrical and Stage Employees were ordered to stay away from the set last week after not being paid, Variety.com reported.

The first work stoppage occured May 9 when actors were told not to report to work by the Screen Actors Guild.

Robin Nalepa, rnalepa@thestate.com

A narcotics team will seize the home at 2424 Glenn Road near Gaston as part of a court order following the May 9 arrest of a person there for possessing crack and marijuana. In February, investigators arrested six people at the residence on charges of distributing crack. That sting also led to the arrest of 18 people suspected of coming to the home in pursuit of illegal drugs, the Lexington County Sheriff's Department said.

Some members of the family living there have arrest histories on drug charges dating to April 1993, the department said. Two shootings occurred at the home in 2004.

"The seizure of this home will terminate an illegal drug enterprise that has plagued the community for years," said Sheriff James R. Metts.

Residents can report illegal drug activity at Crime Stoppers of the Midlands, at (888) 559-8477, or they can call a narcotics hotline at (803) 785-8411.

Dunleavy is a Brooklyn, N.Y., native who started all four years (1973-76) at guard for the USC men’s basketball team under coach Frank McGuire. He ranks third on the all-time scoring list with 1,586 points and averaged eight points and 3.9 assists per game during 11-year NBA career. He is currently the coach of the L.A. Clippers coach.

Also being inducted are former major leaguer Bob Bolin, former Lower Richland and NFL player Ernie Jackson,Clemson All-American football player Levon Kirkland, three-time All-American golfer Dottie Pepper, USC alumnus Tom Price and former high school boys basketball coach Carl Williams.

— Staff reports

Police said Monday that Michael Arthur Howell, 40, of Indian Trail, was charged with first-degree murder and was being held in the Mecklenburg County jail, The Charlotte Observer reported. A police department spokesman didn't immediately return a telephone message seeking more information.

Sallie Rohrbach, 44, of Angier, hasn't been heard from since Wednesday. She was in Charlotte to investigate a complaint at the Dillworth Insurance Agency. WCNC-TV reported that Howell worked at the insurance agency.

Rohrback's state-owned Chevrolet Malibu was found Sunday morning at a Bojangles' restaurant in Charlotte, less than a mile from the agency.

Police had the agency cordoned off early Monday. They did not say how they linked Howell to Rohrbach or whether a body had been found.

Deputy Coroner Tony Segars told The Greenville News that 35-year-old Gregory Denisowski was trying to close a stuck window when he fell shortly before 5 a.m. Sunday.

Segars says witnesses told investigators Denisowski stood on a stool in the apartment to try to use his weight to push down the window. The window came out of the frame.

Segars says it appears to have been an accident when Denisowski fell about 18 feet and died at the scene.

An autopsy was planned Monday.

Paris Genici Avery, 25, is charged with homicide by child abuse following the death of 18-month-old Ra'Saan Cortez Avery Young.

According to authorities, Ra'Saan was found dead at about 12:35 a.m. Aug. 19, 2006, at the home of his baby-sitter and neighbor on Clydesdale Circle, Beaufort.

Beaufort County sheriff's deputies searched Avery's home and found a bottle of liquid anti-itch medication the child was being given for eczema, according to reports. The bottle was found half empty despite being filled just two days before, authorities said.

Ra'Saan's death was initially ruled suspicious, and an eight-month investigation ensued.

For the Durands, who were doing some last-minute browsing at Broadway at the Beach on Sunday, the last day of this year's Harley-Davidson spring rally, the event was less busy than the rally in 2004 - and the other spring bike rallies they've come to in Myrtle Beach since then, they said.

"We've sat in lines in traffic at red lights, and this year you go right on by," said Ron Durand, who drove from Charleston. "This weekend, there's hardly been anybody."

Many said Sunday there were fewer bikers this year than last.

But vendors still reported good sales toward the end of the week, and law enforcement officials reported few problems aside from three motorcycle-related deaths.

He had been a good child, mostly trouble free and an honor-roll student in elementary school. Then he went to middle school, where he worried about fitting in and started acting out.

“He put himself into a situation where he really shouldn’t have been,” Scott said. “He just got mixed up with the wrong person who he thought was a good person and turned out not to be.”

Scott won’t elaborate on what put her only child, William, on the brink of expulsion from the Richland 2 school system, but she thinks low self-esteem played a part. Richland 2 officials gave Scott and her son two options — expulsion or Anna Boyd School, the Midlands’ only alternative school solely for elementary and middle school students.

Mother and son both cringed when an alternative school was mentioned. But the school, now at the end of its first year of operation, proved a success for William.

Not many people get to see Columbia the way Gordon sees it.

Early every morning, 49-year-old Gordon of Dentsville hops on his bicycle and heads to work in Columbia. Some days, Gordon and his bike catch a ride to Columbia on a city bus. Other days — if the weather is good — he and his bike face the day alone.

“I’d say I ride at least 50 to 60 miles a day. More than that, that’s just an average ’cause I ride all the time everywhere. I just enjoy riding,” Gordon says.

A jack of many trades, Gordon makes a living as a carpenter, barber, landscaper and a shipping and receiving clerk for a local, family-owned business.

WHAT’S THE PROPOSAL? A penny sales tax, collected for eight years, would raise $521.5 million to pay for:

• Road construction, paving and maintenance

• Extended bus routes and more frequent pickup times for riders

• A system of sidewalks, bike lanes and urban trails.

The winning ticket bought in West Columbia matched all six numbers: 12-14-15-21-43, Powerball: 30. The Power Play was three.

The lump sum cash payout of the prize is estimated at $17.2 million. Winners were not identified Sunday.

The second lucky ticket was sold in Honea Path and matched the first five white balls in Saturday night’s drawing, but missed the Powerball. That ticket also had the Power Play option, tripling the second-place prize to $600,000.

“The last time a Powerball jackpot was won in South Carolina was in April 2007 in Florence for $15 million,” South Carolina Education Lottery executive director Ernie Passailaigue said in a news release Sunday. “I’d say it’s about time our state hit the big jackpot again.”

The first 18 weeks of school, the 38-year-old Lugoff-Elgin High School teacher said he was up until 10:30 each night, grading papers and finishing lesson plans. Through mid-February, he also coached football and basketball.

That didn’t leave a lot of time for his wife and three children.

But as the school year has worn on, Deese says he has learned to take advantage of his planning period at school and put away his work when he’s at home.

The year “has gone well, better than I expected,” he said.

The number of S.C. students using state-funded scholarships to attend college in the state continues to soar.

Last fall, 87,867 students used the scholarships to go to S.C. colleges and universities, an increase of 2,251 from 85,616 a year earlier.

Over the last five years, the number of S.C. students using the state’s scholarships has increased by 23,812, a 37 percent growth in the program, according to new statistics from the state Commission on Higher Education.

Last fall, the program increased the size of its grants to the state’s brightest students and those majoring in math, science and engineering.

There is Orville Wright, supine and centered on the lower wing of the fragile heavier-than-air craft, gliding a few feet above the flat sands near Kill Devil Hill. His brother Wilbur is a few feet from the right wing tip, frozen in chase. It is a famous frame, the inspiration for postage stamps and the silhouette forever in flight above the numbers of North Carolina license plates.

“We in North Carolina pay homage to that famous photograph of that first flight,” said Larry Tise, the Orville and Wilbur Wright distinguished professor of history at East Carolina University.

It was the first picture taken, but not the first published of the aviation pioneers in flight. That distinction belongs to an image captured May 14, 1908 — 100 years ago this past week — by one of America’s first photojournalists, James H. Hare, according to Tise’s tireless research into all things involving the Wright Brothers.

Taken at long range, it shows a tiny image of a Wright machine, an airborne speck above the dark sand, with Big Kill Devil Hill rising ghostly gray in the distance. The image on the old photograph is very difficult to detect.

Date of birth: April 17, 1965

Description: Jones is 6 feet 1 inch tall, weighs 230 pounds and has black hair and brown eyes

Wanted by: Lexington County Sheriff’s Department

Charges: first offense criminal domestic violence

But Jackson’s challenger in the June 10 primary says the four-term Democrat isn’t visible enough in his Lower Richland district.

After 12 years without opposition, Jackson, the charismatic leader of Bible Way Church of Atlas Road, has drawn opposition for his District 21 Senate seat for the second consecutive election cycle.

His challenger is Wendy Brawley, the 49-year-old chairwoman of the Richland 1 school board and publisher of IMARA Woman magazine.

“I believe, as a resident of District 21, Senator Jackson has been absent in meeting the needs of the district,” Brawley said.

While doing a social work internship at the S.C. HIV/AIDS Council in 2007, James — then a student at Benedict College — came up with the idea of raising money to help HIV-positive students.

He dubbed his project the “Hope Scholarship.”

“It was an innovative idea coming from a social work intern that really demonstrates how young minds can be of the advantage to many,” said Bambi Gaddist, executive director of the S.C. HIV/AIDS Council.

James organized a car, truck and bike show in 2007 at Hopkins Middle School where hipsters came to show off their vehicles.

Ron Fenstermaker, president of IMC Resort Services, a management group that oversees about 50 condominium and small housing communities throughout Bluffton and Hilton Head Island, said he has seen delinquencies grow “exponentially” in the past six months due to a variety of factors, including an increase in home foreclosures and generally tight budgets among homeowners.

He knows of one neighborhood where the delinquency rate is as high as 20 percent.

Fenstermaker said he sees the highest number of assessment delinquencies in neighborhoods with a lot of investment properties, where the homes were bought to be sold for a profit when the housing market was booming. There are also more delinquencies in lower-priced neighborhoods, he said.

At least one upscale gated community in the area has not reported an increase in delinquencies. Peter Kristian, general manager of Hilton Head Plantation, said delinquencies in the plantation historically hover in the 4 percent range, and he has not seen that change. The plantation usually works out a payment plan with the property owner, he said.

Anne Weir was named the agency’s Volunteer of the Year. She was joined by Steve Morrison, who received the Innovative Leadership award; Frank Cox, who received the Service Award; and Jenks Farmer, who was honored for Special Contributions.

Weir has served in various volunteer capacities within the foundation since 1994. The retired educator transferred her love for history, preservation and gardening to the Historic Columbia Foundation, leading school group tours and serving on the Education Committee and the Woodrow Wilson Restoration Committee.

Morrison, a partner with the law firm of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough and past president of the Historic Columbia Foundation, assisted in securing the first $100,000 gift in the organization’s history. He also led the foundation through its recent strategic planning process.

Cox assisted in the foundation’s Collections and Interpretation Department researching and organizing files, while researching years of magazine articles, notes and newspaper clippings.

“At first, we had no food service, no lodging, no transportation,” executive director Scott Holmquist said. “We would cater food from Three Little Pigs (barbecue restaurant). It was a wonderful, humble beginning.”

Twenty years later, the Billy Graham Training Center at The Cove has become a major operation and part of the world-renowned pastor’s ministry. There are dozens of employees and volunteers, a chapel and visitors center, the training center, an administration building, two inns and a lodge.

About 10,000 people visit each year for Cove-sponsored training and events, while another 10,000 come from churches that rent space. The site — which celebrated its 20th anniversary with an open house on Saturday — is also visited by about 26,000 tourists annually.

ARTS AT SHANDON PHOTO CONTEST AND EXHIBIT: “Celebrating Creation: Nature, Life and Art,” June 1-8, Shandon Presbyterian Church, Woodrow at Devine St. Entries due Tuesday through Thursday. Awards: $50 for best of each topic; $75 for best in show. Children’s division also available. (803) 771-4408, ext. 27; www.shandonpres.org

ARTS

“DAMN YANKEES”: Through May 31, 8 p.m. Wednesdays-Saturdays, 3 p.m. Sunday, Town Theatre, 1012 Sumter St. Adults, $18; seniors/military/college, $15; ages 17 and younger, $12. (803) 799-2510; www.towntheatre.com

“SOUTHERN BAPTIST SISSIES”: Through May 31, 7:30 p.m. Thursdays, 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 3 p.m. Sunday, 520 Lady St. $15-$20; student discounts available. (803) 254-9732; www.trustus.org

EdVenture Children’s Museum, 211 Gervais St., is hosting three Foodplay performances Saturday, at 10:30 a.m., 1:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m.

The colorful characters in the group use juggling, music, skits, live theater, magic and fun to promote nutrition and encourage kids to engage in healthy habits.

Childhood obesity rates have doubled among elementary school children and tripled among adolescents during the past 20 years.

Barbara Stroper, a national leader in children’s nutrition, created Foodplay, which has received an Emmy Award for “Best Children and Youth TV Special” when made for television.

Yoos, 56, succeeds retiring Bishop David A. Donges, 67, who will leave the top post July 31 after 12 years as bishop and eight as an assistant bishop. Yoos was elected on the fifth ballot of an ecclesiastical process that began Friday night during the S.C. Synod’s annual assembly. Yoos will lead 63,000 Lutherans in 163 congregations around the state.

“I felt a strong sense that God was calling me through the synod to this leadership position,” Yoos said Sunday evening, hours after the assembly wrapped up the three-day meeting at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center.

More than 700 voting members winnowed a field of 84 candidates down to seven, and then three. Yoos was able to address the assembly in a five-minute speech where he said “I talked about the importance of reclaiming prayer through the Scriptures.”

Using a verse from Romans 12: “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds, so that you may discern what is the will of God,” Yoos said he talked “about how we are called to be transformed” in a 24/7 world through ancient prayer disciplines.

GOVERNMENT

Blythewood Town Council: 7 p.m. today at the Community Center, 311 Blythewood Road. Will have a public hearing and initial vote on the 2008-09 budget.

Richland County Council: 6 p.m. Tuesday, Richland County Administration Building, 2020 Hampton St., Columbia.

Columbia City Council: 9 a.m. Wednesday, City Hall, 1737 Main St.

Melrose Heights Neighborhood

Within Melrose Heights stand a few examples of an interesting outgrowth of the original one-and-a-half-story traditional bungalow form that is prevalent throughout this architectural conservation district. Retaining many of the features typically expected from their more prevalent cousin, “airplane bungalows” feature a distinctive partial second story, or “cockpit,” that projects above the “wings” of its roof. Often containing a sleeping porch or bedrooms, these cockpits afforded homeowners a panoramic view through multiple banks of windows. The airplane bungalow form originated in California during the 1910s and illustrates the fascination with early air travel at that time in American culture. Other dominant design features of this asymmetrical residence include an L-shaped porch, which engages both the building’s principle and secondary street elevations, and low-pitched projecting gables supported by trapezoidal tapered columns. Smaller details include a twelve-light prairie-style front door and six-over-six paned windows throughout the majority of the structure’s facades.

—T. Gordon McLeod and John M. Sherrer, III

1935: British soldier T.E. Lawrence, also known as “Lawrence of Arabia,” died in Dorset, England, six days after being injured in a motorcycle crash.

1943: In an address to the U.S. Congress, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill pledged his country’s full support in the fight against Japan.

1962: During a Democratic fundraiser at New York’s Madison Square Garden, actress Marilyn Monroe performed a sultry rendition of “Happy Birthday to You” for guest-of-honor President Kennedy.

1967: The Soviet Union ratified a treaty with the United States and Britain banning nuclear weapons from outer space.

1. “The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian,” $56.6 million

2. “Iron Man,” $31.2 million

3. “What Happens in Vegas,” $13.9 million

4. “Speed Racer,” $7.6 million

Opened in 1917 as a one-room, wooden-frame building off Farrow Road in the State Park neighborhood, the school was one of the community’s first primary schools for black students.

Anna Love Boyd, affectionately called “Mother Boyd,” founded the school and contributed the first $5 to buying property for a building, according to history compiled by her church, Zion Canaan Baptist Church. She lived to be 100, dying in 1957.

Boyd is somewhat of a mythical figure. No one seems sure where she was from. But they know of her ambition and her dedication to education. For that, she and the school now are being remembered in a Richland 2 history project.

“She always tried to instill in young people to be somebody,” said Evelyn McDonald, 71, who went to Anna Boyd School from 1942-51.

Jonathan Vargas used the upcoming birthdays and ages of his four siblings to determine his winning numbers: his three younger siblings will turn 12, 14 and 15 this year, and his older brother will be 21. The last number he chose was for his mother, who turned 43 on Sunday.

He guessed 30 as the final Powerball number.

The winning ticket was the first one Vargas has ever purchased.

The first purchases he plans to make include a new, bigger home for his mother, Patricia Richardson, and trust funds for his three brothers and a sister.

Born in Spartanburg to the late Mahlon E. Padgett, Jr and Bonita Atkinson Padgett she was raised in Bennettsville, SC, and graduated from Bennettsville High School where she was voted Best-All-Round. She was a Converse College graduate and completed her Masters of Science in Education at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. Bonita was an accomplished artist, amateur photographer and taught in the public school system in and around Marion before retiring after 30+ years. She was active in coaching, bridge, the arts and all things social. Her most proud accomplishment was raising her three children. She was pre-deceased by husband Fleet Patterson Crowell.

The family would like to give thanks to Professional Nursing Services of Marion, Hospice Care of the Lowcountry, The Carolina House of Bluffton, The Broad Creek Care Center and their staffs; in addition special friends, Max and Sally Johns and Ann Parker Gallop, Betty and LeeAnne Owens, Gail and Arthur Moore and the members of the Marion Presbyterian Church.

Survivors include: her son Lt Col John S. McLaurin, Jr. currently stationed at Cannon Air Force Base in Clovis, NM, his wife Laurie and their two sons, Daniel and Brian. Daughter Lila McLaurin Konecny and her husband Buddy of Hilton Head Island SC. Daughter Paget McLaurin Tisdale, her husband Julian, and their two children, Lila Delaney and Evan of Charleston, SC; brother Mahlon E. Padgett, Jr. from Ocean Isle Beach, NC; former husband J. Sharp McLaurin of Mullins and many special nephews and nieces.

In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to Hospice Care of the Lowcountry.

Mr. Simon died Thursday, May 15, 2008. Born in Eastover, he was the son of the late Gaddie D. Lottie McBeth Simons.

Surviving are his wife, Jean Dillard Simon; children, Annette, Harmon, Jr., Jacquelina, Darnell, Suzette and Lottie; 15 grands; two great-grands; sisters, Lillie Mae (John Henry) Flemming and Mozelle Wilson; with a host of nieces, nephews and special niece, Clotel Ash.

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Surviving are his parents, Richard and Cynthia Minus; sisters, Elaine Dickens, Monique Williams, Karen Glover, Angela and Kendra Minus, Jessica and Brandy Frazier; brothers, Darius Krider and Richard Frazier; fiance, Melissa Grant; godson, Jeremiah Dilwood; and a host of other loving relatives.

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«Obituary posted: May 19, 2008»

Born in Goodwater, Alabama, she was the daughter of the late Calvin Woodrow Saxon and the late Wilma Louise Pate Saxon.

Mrs. Craig was a member of Alice Drive Baptist Church and a retired store manager. Mrs. Craig fought a courageous and gallant fight for over five years with Colon Cancer and Waggoners Disease. She endured 27 hospital stays and 14 operations for her husband, children, and grandchildren whom were constantly by her side. She was a wonderful lady, wife, mother and grandmother. Mrs. Craig had a bright smile and personality and always had energy for all. She raised 3 beautiful, successful children whom are raising outstanding straight “A” grandchildren.

Surviving are her husband of Sumter; a daughter, Cyndi Gallop of Sumter; two sons, Mark H. Wagner of Pelham, AL, Tim Wagner of Sylacauga, AL; three sisters, Linda Benson of Shelby, AL, Judy Moss and Barbara Nell Saxon both of Sylacauga, AL; a brother, Woodrow Saxon of Sylacauga, AL; 8 grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren.

Memorial services will be private. The family will receive friends any time after 5 p.m. Monday at the home of her daughter, 888 Trailmore Circle.

Mrs. Bradley, widow of Charles L. Bradley, died Saturday, May 17, 2008. Born in Greenup County, Kentucky, she was a daughter of the late Jesse Stevens and Avaline Smith Stevens. She loved sewing and quilting and had great faith in God. Mrs. Bradley was a member of the Old Kentucky Church.

Surviving are daughters, Delores (Don) Haltiwanger of Chapin, Helen Rothberg of Columbia, Carol (James) Corley of West Columbia, Betty (Roger) Gugel of Katy, Texas; numerous grandchildren; brother, George and Emma Stevens of Kentucky; and sister, Effie Wilburn of Ohio.

Mrs. Bradley was predeceased by sons Ernest and Bill; and by daughters Leona, Reva and Edna.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Abundant Life Hospice, 6963 St. Andrews Road, Ste. C, Columbia, SC 29212.

«Obituary posted: May 19, 2008»

Henry is survived by his wife, Lois Wren Sartor; his daughters, Victoria (Harry) Catoe of Lexington, SC, and Elaine (John) Seigler of Plum Branch, SC; four grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; a brother, J. Douglas Sartor of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is further survived by nieces, nephews and many friends. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by two sisters, Lillian S. Hillman of Columbia, SC, and Myrtle S. Wilkins of Durham, NC.

Services for William H. Sartor will be held at 3:00 p.m. Tuesday, May 20, 2008, at First Baptist Church of Lexington, 415 Barr Road, Lexington, SC. Reverend Ralph Schneck, pastor, will officiate. Burial will be in Woodridge Memorial Park. Relatives and friends are welcome one hour prior to the service at First Baptist Church of Lexington. Memorials may be made to the First Baptist Church of Lexington Building Fund.

The family wishes to express their gratitude to Dr. Joseph Brannigan, the team at Midtown Dialysis Center, and those from Palmetto Hospice for their care and help.

Woodridge Funeral Home is honored to assist the Sartor family.

«Obituary posted: May 19, 2008»

Mrs. Walker, wife of the late Porter H. Walker, died Saturday, May 17, 2008. Born in Lancaster, she was a daughter of late Bervard H. and Mary Lillian Nix Steele. A devout Christian, she attended the Church of God and was dedicated to her family.

Surviving are children: Mary Joan Stich and her husband, Timothy, of Seneca, Larry R. Walker of Summerville, Timothy C. Walker and his wife, Dianne, of Columbia, Wanda Dunn and her husband, Jerry, of Chapin, Robert D. Walker and his wife, Sharon, of Cumming, Ga., and Lenoard B. Walker and his wife, Donna, of Irmo; brother, Donald Steele of Lexington; grandsons, Patrick Stich, Joseph Stich, Jonathan Stich, Brian Stich, Robbie Walker, Christopher Walker, Timothy Walker, Jacob Walker, Michael Walker, Jeffery Dunn, Larry Walker, Porter Walker and Wesley Walker; granddaughters, Amber Russell, Ashley Yandle and Hope Walker; eleven great-grandchildren; and numerous special nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by son, David Walker; and siblings, J.B. Steele, Raymond Steele, Brice C. Steele, Cecil Steele, Dorothy Grady, Ruth Tankersley and Edith Steele.

Memorials may be made to American Cancer Society, 128 Stonemark Lane, Columbia, SC 29210.

Please sign online guest book at www.dunbarfunerals.com.

Mrs. McGlothlin died Saturday evening. She was born in Charleston, S.C., to the late Hazel Elizabeth James and Chambliss Brown. Surviving are her sons Donald (Angela) Spoon and David (Wanda) Spoon of Beebe, Ark., and Msg. USAF Dean (Casey) McKendree of Germany; sisters Joan Marie (Charles) Fairchild of Bamberg, S.C., and Pamela Kemp of Orangeburg, S. C.; brother Dan S. (Lorna) Brown of Columbia, S.C.; grandchildren, a great-granddaughter, nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her son, Frank Daniel “Danny” Spoon and her brothers, Chambliss Brown, Jr., and James Cornelius “Neil” Brown.

The family will receive friends from 3 to 4 p.m. Monday at Dukes-Harley Funeral Home.

Memorials may be made to Heartland Hospice House at 141 Stoneridge Drive in Columbia, S.C. 29210.

«Obituary posted: May 19, 2008»

Mrs. McVicker was born August 6, 1936, in Friona, TX, a daughter of the late John Wesley York and the late Maurine Furlong York Fent. Beth was Salutatorian of Dibble High School in Dibble, OK. She graduated in 1954. She was a licensed realtor and insurance agent. She was a member of St. Paul’s United Methodist Church in St. Matthews and a member of Bill Sadler’s Sunday School Class and the Anne Godbold Women’s Circle.

She was an avid reader and wrote book reviews for the Calhoun Times. She was extremely witty and articulate. Her first job was at Oklahoma Press Assoc. in Oklahoma City, OK. She then worked at Tinker Air Force Base in Midwest City, OK. She lived in Tuddenham, England, with her husband David for three years while he was stationed at the Air Force Base there. She was preceded in death by two brothers, Tim York and Stephen K. York.

Surviving are her husband, David D. McVicker of St. Matthews, SC; daughter, Tania (Ronald) Houck of Fort Motte, SC, grandchildren, Gretchen (Billy) Wise of Sandy Run, SC, and Erica Houck of Ft. Motte, SC; daughter, Bronwyn (Mike) Stinecipher of Honolulu, Hawaii, grandchildren, Krystal (Lance) Swygert of St. Matthews, Joshua Jimenez of Chapel Hill, NC, Mitch Stinecipher and Bethani Jimenez, both of Honolulu, Hawaii; son, David (Gloria) McVicker Jr. of Alice, TX, grandchildren, Shawn (Betty) Thomas of Binghamton, NY, Victoria McVicker of St. Matthews, SC, and Mallorie (Keith) Parrish of Swansea, SC, great-grandchildren, Ashton Thomas of Binghamton, NY, Jeremiah Knotts and Tarique Parrish, both of Swansea, SC; son, Mark McVicker of Frametown, WV, grandchildren, Jacob McVicker and Danielle McVicker, both of Pocahontas, AR; brothers and sisters, John York of Austin, TX, June Edington of Chandler, TX, Laverne Gobs of Hamilton, VA, Richard York of Denton, TX, Kathy E. Dunn of Norman, OK, Mary Dughi of Olivehurst, CA, Paul York of St. Matthews, SC, and Cynthia M. Raney of Noble, OK.

«Obituary posted: May 19, 2008»

A service will be held at 4 p.m. Tuesday, May 20, 2008, at the Chapel of Thompson Funeral Home of West Columbia. Officiating will be Pastor Dean Carlisle. Burial will follow in Southland Memorial Gardens. The family will receive friends from 3-4 p.m. prior to the service. Memorials may be made to The Children’s Hospital at Palmetto Health Richland, 5 Richland Medical Park Drive, Columbia, SC 29203-8000.

The parents would like to send much gratitude to all the thoughts and prayers that were sent from a long line of prayer chains. Also, thank you to all the support from family and friends including the Cayce Police Department and the Columbia SDA Church. Much acknowledgement to the physicians, nurses and staff of Palmetto Richland Children’s Hospital for all they did for our baby, Madi.

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«Obituary posted: May 19, 2008»

«Obituary posted: May 19, 2008»