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Local Obituaries for Aiken South Carolina & Surrounding Areas.

Joseph L. Taylor

Joseph L. Taylor

Jul 27, 2007

AIKEN, SC – JOSEPH L. TAYLOR, 77, beloved husband of Margaret Holley-Taylor, died Friday, July 27, 2007 at Aiken Regional Medical Centers. Mr. Taylor was born on September 29, 1929 in Aiken County to Joseph Willie and Bertie Shellhouse Taylor. He was a graduate of Aiken High School, served in the navy during the Korean Conflict and was retired from...

Thelma Rodgers Snipes

Thelma Rodgers Snipes

Jul 26, 2007

AIKEN, SC – THELMA RODGERS SNIPES, 94, widow of Alvin Judson Snipes, died Thursday, July 26, 2007 at her residence. Mrs. Snipes was a native and lifelong resident of Aiken County. She was a daughter of the late Allen and Daisey Seigler Rodgers and was retired from the Graniteville Co. She was a lifetime member of Central Baptist Church, where...

Sam Aubrey Lever

Sam Aubrey Lever

Jul 22, 2007

AIKEN – Mr. Sam Aubrey Lever, 82, of Aiken, died Sunday, July 22, 2007 in Kenosha, WI. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 AM Thursday at Millbrook Baptist Church. Reverend Dr. Eddie Leopard will officiate. Interment will follow in Westover Memorial Park, Augusta. Mr. Lever was born in Augusta, GA, a son of the late Sam Jones Lever and...

Lawrence Stearns Potter, Jr.

Lawrence Stearns Potter, Jr.

Jul 21, 2007

AIKEN, SC—LAWRENCE STEARNS POTTER, JR., 78, died Saturday, July 21, 2007 at Aiken Regional Medical Centers. A native of Philadelphia, PA, Mr. Potter was a son of the late Lawrence Stearns and Mary Dubbs Potter, Sr.. He was a graduate of Lawrence University in Appleton, WI and earned his Masters of Physics at Syracuse University. He was a veteran of...

Shirley Champlin Parker

Shirley Champlin Parker

Jul 18, 2007

AIKEN – Ms. Shirley Champlin Parker, 78, of Aiken, died Wednesday, July 18, 2007 at Aiken Regional Medical Centers. A Memorial service will be held at 11 Am Friday, July 27, 2007 at in the Shellhouse Funeral Home Chapel, Hayne Ave.. Interment will be private. Mrs. Parker was born in Alfred, NY, a daughter of the late Archie Earl and...

Louise McClung Kemp

Louise McClung Kemp

Jul 17, 2007

AIKEN, SC- Louise McClung Kemp, 78, died Tuesday, July 17, 2007 in Benson, NC. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 PM Friday at Millbrook Baptist Church. Interment will follow in Westover Memorial, Augusta, GA. A native of Hawkinsville, GA, Mrs. Kemp was a daughter of the late Samuel Alexander and Mittie Torbert McClung. She was preceded in death by...

Melissa Martindale Bernard

Melissa Martindale Bernard

Jul 16, 2007

Melissa Erin Martindale Bernard, 34, died Monday, July 16, 2007 in the University of Alabama, Birmingham Medical Center in Birmingham, AL after an eight month battle with cancer. Melissa was born in St. Louis, Missouri and moved to Aiken when she was a child. She was raised in Aiken and graduated from S. A. High School and attended USC-A. She...

Donald Louis McGee

Donald Louis McGee

Jul 15, 2007

Graniteville- Donald Lousi McGee, 63, died July 15 at home. Funeral services will be held at 4:00 PM July 17 at Shellhouse-Rivers Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Tom Grice officiating. The family will Recieve friends following the service. He was a lifelong resident of Aiken Co., member of Unity Holiness Church and Ret. Security Guard at Aiken Regional Hospital....

Harry Lee Butler

Harry Lee Butler

Jul 11, 2007

AIKEN – Mr. Harry Lee Butler, 74, of Aiken, died Wednesday, July 11, 2007 at his residence. Funeral services with military honors will be held at 2:30 PM Sunday at St. Johns United Methodist Church The Reverend Dr. George K. Howle will officiate. Honorary pallbearers will be members of the Gas Car Club. The family will receive friends following the...

Ronald F. Anderson

Ronald F. Anderson

Jul 11, 2007

AIKEN, SC – RONALD F. ANDERSON, 65, beloved husband of Ellen Carpenter Anderson, died Wednesday, July 11, 2007 at his residence. A native of Winter Garden, FL, Mr. Anderson was a son of the late Ruben and Annis Cannon Anderson. He attended the University of Florida, University of Alabama and graduated from Rollins College. He was a retired engineer with...

Clara Forstner Fredericks

Clara Forstner Fredericks

Jul 9, 2007

AIKEN, SC -- Clara Fredericks, 91, of Cutchogue, New York Clara Fredericks, 91, of Cutchogue, NY, died Monday, July 9, 2007 at her daughter’s residence in Aiken, SC. She was born in Brooklyn, New York on January 29, 1916. She lived in Springfield Gardens, Queens from 1951-1978 when she and her husband retired to Cutchogue, New York. She was predeceased...

William R. "Willie" Parker

William R. "Willie" Parker

Jul 5, 2007

AIKEN, SC -- Mr. William Randall “Willie” Parker, 62, of Aiken, died Thursday July 5, 2007 at Uninversity Hospital in Augusta, GA. Mr. Parker was born in Hannah Community of Florence County, to the late William Earl and Florence Flowers Parker. He graduated from Hannah High School and attended the South Carolina Police and Fire Academy. Willie retired from the...

James Woodrow Walters

James Woodrow Walters

Jul 3, 2007

James Woodrow “Jim” Walters, 66, of Aiken, loving husband and father of two sons, brother, uncle, and friend to many, died July 3 of cancer at University Hospital in Augusta, G.A. Funeral services will be held in Aiken, S.C. at 2:30 p.m. this Sunday, July 8, at Cedar Creek Church www.cedarcreekchurch.net and a reception will follow at Woodside Plantation Country...

Beatrice Mary Wright McKellar

Beatrice Mary Wright McKellar

Jun 30, 2007

Mrs. Beatrice Mary Wright McKellar (Betty) , 85, died Saturday, June 30, 2007, at her residence. She was born September 23, 1921 in Rome, Italy to the late Charles William and Helen Bree Dunstan Wright. She graduated from the Chatelard School, Les Avants, Switzerland, the Madeira School, Greenway, VA. and Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY. In 1944, while serving as a...

Lecil Drummond Cushman

Lecil Drummond Cushman

Jun 30, 2007

Funeral services will be held at 11:00 AM July 3 at Aiken First Baptist Church with the Rev. Dr. Fred Andrea, III officiating. Interment will follow at Historic Behtany Cemetery downtown Aiken. Memorials may be diredted to Aiken First Baptist Church, 120 Chesterfield St., Aiken, SC 29801. Please visit Mrs. Cushman’s online memorial at shellhousefuneralhome.com. The family will receive friends...

Audrey Miano

Audrey Miano

Jun 16, 2007

Aiken – Mrs. Audrey Coleman Miano, 85, of Aiken, died Saturday, June 16, 2007. Funeral services will be held at 1:00 PM Tuesday, June 19, 2007 in the Shellhouse-Rivers Funeral Home Chapel. Interment will follow in Southlawn Cemetery. Mrs. Miano was born in Wagener, SC a daughter of the late James Duncan and Mary Cullum Coleman. She was a lifelong...

Charles Warner

Charles Warner

Jun 15, 2007

Aiken – Mr. Charles Osborn Warner, 84, of Aiken, died Friday, June 15, 2007 at Cumberland Hills. A memorial service will be held at 11:00 Am Monday, June 18, 2007 at First Presbyterian Church. The Reverend Dr. David Cozad will officiate. Interment will be held at a later date. The family will receive friends in the church parlor following the...

Veronica Mellema

Veronica Mellema

Jun 14, 2007

AIKEN – Mrs. Veronica Mary Vincent Mellema, 81, died Thursday, June 14, 2007 at her residence. Funeral services will be held at 10 AM Tuesday, June 19, at Millbrook Baptist Church. Reverend Dr. Eddie Leopard and Reverend Mike Chandler will officiate. Entombment will follow in the Sunset Memory Gardens Mausoleum. Honorary pallbearers will be members of the Millbrook Chapel Sunday...

Ronnie Corley

Ronnie Corley

Jun 11, 2007

AIKEN – Mr. Ronald “Ronnie” Corley, 51, found the peace he searched for June11, 2007 at Aiken Regional Medical Centers. Funeral services will be held at 4 PM Wednesday in the Shellhouse Funeral Home Chapel, Hayne Ave. Reverend Mark Miller and Reverend Richard Swift will officiate. Interment will be held privately. Honorary pallbearers will be Mike Allen, Duane Beck, Mark...

Paulette Hallman

Paulette Hallman

Jun 9, 2007

AIKEN-Paulette Thorne Hallman, 54, died June 9. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 PM Tuesday at Shellhouse-Rivers Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Carl Jordon, Rev. John Anderson, and Rev. Richard Swift officiating. Interment will follow at Redds Branch Baptist Church Cemetery. She was born in Aiken to the late Paul Lamar Thorne and Betty Parris Thorne, New Ellenton,...

Local Obituaries for Aiken South Carolina & Surrounding Areas.

Joseph L. Taylor

Joseph L. Taylor

Jul 27, 2007

AIKEN, SC – JOSEPH L. TAYLOR, 77, beloved husband of Margaret Holley-Taylor, died Friday, July 27, 2007 at Aiken Regional Medical Centers. Mr. Taylor was born on September 29, 1929 in Aiken County to Joseph Willie and Bertie Shellhouse Taylor. He was a graduate of Aiken High School, served in the navy during the Korean Conflict and was retired from...

Thelma Rodgers Snipes

Thelma Rodgers Snipes

Jul 26, 2007

AIKEN, SC – THELMA RODGERS SNIPES, 94, widow of Alvin Judson Snipes, died Thursday, July 26, 2007 at her residence. Mrs. Snipes was a native and lifelong resident of Aiken County. She was a daughter of the late Allen and Daisey Seigler Rodgers and was retired from the Graniteville Co. She was a lifetime member of Central Baptist Church, where...

Sam Aubrey Lever

Sam Aubrey Lever

Jul 22, 2007

AIKEN – Mr. Sam Aubrey Lever, 82, of Aiken, died Sunday, July 22, 2007 in Kenosha, WI. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 AM Thursday at Millbrook Baptist Church. Reverend Dr. Eddie Leopard will officiate. Interment will follow in Westover Memorial Park, Augusta. Mr. Lever was born in Augusta, GA, a son of the late Sam Jones Lever and...

Lawrence Stearns Potter, Jr.

Lawrence Stearns Potter, Jr.

Jul 21, 2007

AIKEN, SC—LAWRENCE STEARNS POTTER, JR., 78, died Saturday, July 21, 2007 at Aiken Regional Medical Centers. A native of Philadelphia, PA, Mr. Potter was a son of the late Lawrence Stearns and Mary Dubbs Potter, Sr.. He was a graduate of Lawrence University in Appleton, WI and earned his Masters of Physics at Syracuse University. He was a veteran of...

Shirley Champlin Parker

Shirley Champlin Parker

Jul 18, 2007

AIKEN – Ms. Shirley Champlin Parker, 78, of Aiken, died Wednesday, July 18, 2007 at Aiken Regional Medical Centers. A Memorial service will be held at 11 Am Friday, July 27, 2007 at in the Shellhouse Funeral Home Chapel, Hayne Ave.. Interment will be private. Mrs. Parker was born in Alfred, NY, a daughter of the late Archie Earl and...

Louise McClung Kemp

Louise McClung Kemp

Jul 17, 2007

AIKEN, SC- Louise McClung Kemp, 78, died Tuesday, July 17, 2007 in Benson, NC. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 PM Friday at Millbrook Baptist Church. Interment will follow in Westover Memorial, Augusta, GA. A native of Hawkinsville, GA, Mrs. Kemp was a daughter of the late Samuel Alexander and Mittie Torbert McClung. She was preceded in death by...

Melissa Martindale Bernard

Melissa Martindale Bernard

Jul 16, 2007

Melissa Erin Martindale Bernard, 34, died Monday, July 16, 2007 in the University of Alabama, Birmingham Medical Center in Birmingham, AL after an eight month battle with cancer. Melissa was born in St. Louis, Missouri and moved to Aiken when she was a child. She was raised in Aiken and graduated from S. A. High School and attended USC-A. She...

Donald Louis McGee

Donald Louis McGee

Jul 15, 2007

Graniteville- Donald Lousi McGee, 63, died July 15 at home. Funeral services will be held at 4:00 PM July 17 at Shellhouse-Rivers Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Tom Grice officiating. The family will Recieve friends following the service. He was a lifelong resident of Aiken Co., member of Unity Holiness Church and Ret. Security Guard at Aiken Regional Hospital....

Harry Lee Butler

Harry Lee Butler

Jul 11, 2007

AIKEN – Mr. Harry Lee Butler, 74, of Aiken, died Wednesday, July 11, 2007 at his residence. Funeral services with military honors will be held at 2:30 PM Sunday at St. Johns United Methodist Church The Reverend Dr. George K. Howle will officiate. Honorary pallbearers will be members of the Gas Car Club. The family will receive friends following the...

Ronald F. Anderson

Ronald F. Anderson

Jul 11, 2007

AIKEN, SC – RONALD F. ANDERSON, 65, beloved husband of Ellen Carpenter Anderson, died Wednesday, July 11, 2007 at his residence. A native of Winter Garden, FL, Mr. Anderson was a son of the late Ruben and Annis Cannon Anderson. He attended the University of Florida, University of Alabama and graduated from Rollins College. He was a retired engineer with...

Clara Forstner Fredericks

Clara Forstner Fredericks

Jul 9, 2007

AIKEN, SC -- Clara Fredericks, 91, of Cutchogue, New York Clara Fredericks, 91, of Cutchogue, NY, died Monday, July 9, 2007 at her daughter’s residence in Aiken, SC. She was born in Brooklyn, New York on January 29, 1916. She lived in Springfield Gardens, Queens from 1951-1978 when she and her husband retired to Cutchogue, New York. She was predeceased...

William R. "Willie" Parker

William R. "Willie" Parker

Jul 5, 2007

AIKEN, SC -- Mr. William Randall “Willie” Parker, 62, of Aiken, died Thursday July 5, 2007 at Uninversity Hospital in Augusta, GA. Mr. Parker was born in Hannah Community of Florence County, to the late William Earl and Florence Flowers Parker. He graduated from Hannah High School and attended the South Carolina Police and Fire Academy. Willie retired from the...

James Woodrow Walters

James Woodrow Walters

Jul 3, 2007

James Woodrow “Jim” Walters, 66, of Aiken, loving husband and father of two sons, brother, uncle, and friend to many, died July 3 of cancer at University Hospital in Augusta, G.A. Funeral services will be held in Aiken, S.C. at 2:30 p.m. this Sunday, July 8, at Cedar Creek Church www.cedarcreekchurch.net and a reception will follow at Woodside Plantation Country...

Beatrice Mary Wright McKellar

Beatrice Mary Wright McKellar

Jun 30, 2007

Mrs. Beatrice Mary Wright McKellar (Betty) , 85, died Saturday, June 30, 2007, at her residence. She was born September 23, 1921 in Rome, Italy to the late Charles William and Helen Bree Dunstan Wright. She graduated from the Chatelard School, Les Avants, Switzerland, the Madeira School, Greenway, VA. and Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY. In 1944, while serving as a...

Lecil Drummond Cushman

Lecil Drummond Cushman

Jun 30, 2007

Funeral services will be held at 11:00 AM July 3 at Aiken First Baptist Church with the Rev. Dr. Fred Andrea, III officiating. Interment will follow at Historic Behtany Cemetery downtown Aiken. Memorials may be diredted to Aiken First Baptist Church, 120 Chesterfield St., Aiken, SC 29801. Please visit Mrs. Cushman’s online memorial at shellhousefuneralhome.com. The family will receive friends...

Audrey Miano

Audrey Miano

Jun 16, 2007

Aiken – Mrs. Audrey Coleman Miano, 85, of Aiken, died Saturday, June 16, 2007. Funeral services will be held at 1:00 PM Tuesday, June 19, 2007 in the Shellhouse-Rivers Funeral Home Chapel. Interment will follow in Southlawn Cemetery. Mrs. Miano was born in Wagener, SC a daughter of the late James Duncan and Mary Cullum Coleman. She was a lifelong...

Charles Warner

Charles Warner

Jun 15, 2007

Aiken – Mr. Charles Osborn Warner, 84, of Aiken, died Friday, June 15, 2007 at Cumberland Hills. A memorial service will be held at 11:00 Am Monday, June 18, 2007 at First Presbyterian Church. The Reverend Dr. David Cozad will officiate. Interment will be held at a later date. The family will receive friends in the church parlor following the...

Veronica Mellema

Veronica Mellema

Jun 14, 2007

AIKEN – Mrs. Veronica Mary Vincent Mellema, 81, died Thursday, June 14, 2007 at her residence. Funeral services will be held at 10 AM Tuesday, June 19, at Millbrook Baptist Church. Reverend Dr. Eddie Leopard and Reverend Mike Chandler will officiate. Entombment will follow in the Sunset Memory Gardens Mausoleum. Honorary pallbearers will be members of the Millbrook Chapel Sunday...

Ronnie Corley

Ronnie Corley

Jun 11, 2007

AIKEN – Mr. Ronald “Ronnie” Corley, 51, found the peace he searched for June11, 2007 at Aiken Regional Medical Centers. Funeral services will be held at 4 PM Wednesday in the Shellhouse Funeral Home Chapel, Hayne Ave. Reverend Mark Miller and Reverend Richard Swift will officiate. Interment will be held privately. Honorary pallbearers will be Mike Allen, Duane Beck, Mark...

Paulette Hallman

Paulette Hallman

Jun 9, 2007

AIKEN-Paulette Thorne Hallman, 54, died June 9. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 PM Tuesday at Shellhouse-Rivers Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Carl Jordon, Rev. John Anderson, and Rev. Richard Swift officiating. Interment will follow at Redds Branch Baptist Church Cemetery. She was born in Aiken to the late Paul Lamar Thorne and Betty Parris Thorne, New Ellenton,...

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