Obituaries

Local Obituaries for Aiken South Carolina & Surrounding Areas.

Virginia Erikson

Virginia Erikson

Mar 29, 2008

Mrs. Virginia E. Erikson, 89, died Saturday, March 29, 2008, at Aiken Regional Medical Centers, Aiken, S.C. She is survived by her loving husband of 67 years, J. Harold Erikson Jr.; her son, Robert B. Erikson, and daughter-in-law, Mary Jo Erikson; her daughter, Pamela J. Light, and son-in-law, Richard N. Light; and grandchildren, Christopher and Heather Erikson and Thomas and...

Caleb Thomas Jordan

Caleb Thomas Jordan

Mar 26, 2008

Wagener, SC-Caleb Thomas Jordan, died Wednesday, March 26, 2008 at Aiken Regional Medical Center. Graveside service will be held privately Saturday at Shiloh Baptist Church Cemetery with Reverend Taylor Wells and Reverend Kenneth Catoe officiating. Infant son of Shannon Hoyt and Lori Anderson Jordan; one sister, Hannah Rose Jordan; maternal grandparents, Rev. Louie and Jeanette Anderson, Aiken, SC; paternal grandparents,...

Geneva Mixon Grandy

Geneva Mixon Grandy

Mar 25, 2008

AIKEN, SC – GENEVA MIXON GRANDY, 76, widow of Rodney Leon Grandy, Jr., died Tuesday, March 25, 2008 at her residence. A native of Waynesboro, GA, Mrs. Grandy was a daughter of the late Wade Hampton and Irene Blackburn Mixon. She had retired with her husband to Aiken for the last 16 years and was a homemaker. She was a...

Charles Acton

Charles Acton

Mar 24, 2008

AIKEN - Charles Francis Acton, 89, passed away peacefully on Monday, March 24, 2008, at Aiken Regional Medical Center with his beloved wife of 54 years, Marian, and his loving daughter, Sara, at his side. Charlie was born in Bedford, IN to Edgar Charles and Alice Hall Acton on April 1, 1918. He served his country courageously in the U.S....

Chlora Reynolds

Chlora Reynolds

Mar 22, 2008

Services will be held privately

Judy Smith

Judy Smith

Mar 21, 2008

AIKEN, SC – JUDITH “JUDY” McDANIEL SMITH, 63, beloved wife of Gene Smith, died Friday, March 21, 2008 at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. A native of Baton Rouge, LA, Mrs. Smith was a daughter of the late Alex Floyd and Minnie Delilah Hutchinson McDaniel. She moved to Aiken 23 years ago from Louisiana and was a...

Helen Bolster Blow

Helen Bolster Blow

Mar 19, 2008

AIKEN, SC – HELEN BOLSTER BLOW, 69, beloved wife of David C. Blow, died Wednesday, March 19, 2008 at her residence. A native of Towanda, PA, Mrs. Blow was a daughter of the late Floyd and Leona Kimball Bolster. She was a retired bookkeeper and had moved to Aiken 2 ½ years ago from Gillette, PA. She was a member...

James Richard "Bo" Taylor

James Richard "Bo" Taylor

Mar 16, 2008

AIKEN – Mr. James Richard "Bo" Taylor, 74, beloved husband of Blanche Hartsell Taylor died Sunday, March 16, 2008. Mr. Taylor was born in Lexington, SC to the late James Rufus and Elise Allie Taylor. He retired from Western Electric Company after 30 years of service, retired from Nortel and Six R Communications. He was a member of St. John’s...

Barbara Gay Stevens

Barbara Gay Stevens

Mar 16, 2008

AIKEN – Mrs. Barbara Gay Stevens, 72, beloved wife of the late E. N. Stevens died Saturday, March 16, 2008. Mrs. Stevens was born in Commerce, GA to the late Theo and Ula Faye Vaughn Swindle. She had lived in Aiken for 39 years and was a member of Holy Resurrection Orthodox Church. She retired from Automatic Switch Company. Survivors...

James Warren Parrish

James Warren Parrish

Mar 15, 2008

AIKEN – Mr. James Warren Parrish, 85, died Saturday, March 15, 2008. Funeral services will be held Monday at 2:00 at Shellhouse Funeral Home Chapel. Reverend Dr. Eddie Leopard will officiate. After Graduation from H.S. and WWII came into being, his service time was spent at Norfolk, VA with the U.S. Navy Air Patrol. After the war ended he returned...

Minerva Johnson Lefler

Minerva Johnson Lefler

Mar 13, 2008

AIKEN – Mrs. Minerva Johnson Lefler, 90, died Thursday, March 13, 2008. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 AM Saturday at St. Johns United Methodist Church. Reverend Dr. George K. Howle will officiate. Mrs. Lefler will be laid to rest next to her husband of 53 years in a private ceremony at Sunset Memory Gardens The family will receive...

Paul Arden Clayton

Paul Arden Clayton

Mar 12, 2008

JOHNSTON – Mr. Paul Arden Clayton, 57, died Wednesday, March 12, 2008 at the Medical College of Georgia. A memorial service will be held at 2:00 PM Sunday in the Shellhouse Funeral Home Chapel, Hayne Ave. Interment will be private. Paul was born in Heidelberg, Germany, a son of the late Harry Arden and Elsie Rose Whitman Clayton. He moved...

Sherry Pulver Bryant

Sherry Pulver Bryant

Mar 11, 2008

SALLEY, SC – SHERRY PULVER BRYANT, 62, beloved wife of Shelton Bryant, Sr., died Tuesday, March 11, 2008 at Aiken Regional Medical Centers. A native of Sulpher, LA, Mrs. Bryant was a daughter of the late Franklin Lane and Willyhugh Griffith Pulver. She was a homemaker and had lived in Aiken County, SC for 25 years. Survivors, in addition to...

Patricia Chambers Koelker

Patricia Chambers Koelker

Mar 10, 2008

AIKEN – Mrs. Patricia Chambers Koelker, 90, died Monday, March 10, 2008. Mrs. Koelker was born in Omaha, NE, a daughter of the late Fred Fitch and Verna Newell Chambers. She studied art in Omaha, Chicago, Shenandoah, IA, and has exhibited at the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, the Des Moines Art Center in Iowa and was a studio artist...

Harold Williams Harmon

Harold Williams Harmon

Mar 9, 2008

AIKEN – Mr. Harold Williams (Carly) Harmon, Capt. US Navy Ret., 80, died Sunday, March 9, 2008 at his residence. Mr. Harmon was born in Lexington, SC, a son of the late George Lee Harmon, Sr. and Catherine Ann Harmon. Funeral Services will be held Wednesday, at 4:00 PM at St. Paul Lutheran Church with Pastor Robert T. Byrne officiating....

Bonnie Hodges Garrick

Bonnie Hodges Garrick

Mar 8, 2008

AIKEN – Mrs. Bonnie Hodges Garrick, 88, died Saturday, March 8, 2008. Mrs. Garrick was born in Statesboro, GA, a daughter of the late Ancil and Gertrude Donaldson Hodges. Funeral Services will be held Wednesday, at 2:00 PM at Millbrook Baptist Church with the Rev. Dr. Eddie Leopard officiating. Interment will follow at Southlawn Cemetery. She had been a resident...

Terry Harvey Maurer

Terry Harvey Maurer

Mar 6, 2008

AIKEN – Mrs. Rosemary Thersa “Terry” Harvey Maurer, 89, died Thursday, March 6, 2008 . Private funeral services will be held in Camden, NJ at a later date. Mrs. Maurer was born in Philadelphia, PA, a daughter of the late William J. and Anna Anderson Harvey. She had been a resident of Aiken since 1990, and was formerly a fashion...

Glenn Shadell Beaufort

Glenn Shadell Beaufort

Mar 2, 2008

AIKEN, SC – Minister Glenn Shadell Beaufort, 52, beloved husband of Paulette Jefferson Beaufort, passed away Sunday March 2, 2008. Mr. Beaufort was born in Charleston, SC, to the late Herbert and Gloria Nesbitt Beaufort. He served in the United States Marine Corpe and had lived in Aiken for 11 years. He worked at Wal-Mart as a supervisor. He was...

Ray Burnette

Ray Burnette

Mar 2, 2008

AIKEN, SC – Mr. Ernest Ray Burnette, 40, passed away Sunday March 2, 2008 Mr. Burnette was born in Bedford Shire, England to Ernest Ray Burnette and to the late Mary Kathleen Coston Burnette. He had lived in Aiken for 24 years and was a mechanic at Crawfords Auto. He also was a member of the New Ellenton Fire Deptment....

Inoise Willis McKeown

Inoise Willis McKeown

Feb 27, 2008

AIKEN – Mrs. Inoise “Penny” Kneece Willis McKeown, 86, died Wednesday, February 27, 2008. A memorial service will be held at 2:00 PM Saturday at St. John United Methodist Church, Graniteville. Pastor Larry Watson will officiate. The family will receive friends following the service. Mrs. McKeown was born in Aiken County, a daughter of the late Julian Pace and Lucie...

Local Obituaries for Aiken South Carolina & Surrounding Areas.

Virginia Erikson

Virginia Erikson

Mar 29, 2008

Mrs. Virginia E. Erikson, 89, died Saturday, March 29, 2008, at Aiken Regional Medical Centers, Aiken, S.C. She is survived by her loving husband of 67 years, J. Harold Erikson Jr.; her son, Robert B. Erikson, and daughter-in-law, Mary Jo Erikson; her daughter, Pamela J. Light, and son-in-law, Richard N. Light; and grandchildren, Christopher and Heather Erikson and Thomas and...

Caleb Thomas Jordan

Caleb Thomas Jordan

Mar 26, 2008

Wagener, SC-Caleb Thomas Jordan, died Wednesday, March 26, 2008 at Aiken Regional Medical Center. Graveside service will be held privately Saturday at Shiloh Baptist Church Cemetery with Reverend Taylor Wells and Reverend Kenneth Catoe officiating. Infant son of Shannon Hoyt and Lori Anderson Jordan; one sister, Hannah Rose Jordan; maternal grandparents, Rev. Louie and Jeanette Anderson, Aiken, SC; paternal grandparents,...

Geneva Mixon Grandy

Geneva Mixon Grandy

Mar 25, 2008

AIKEN, SC – GENEVA MIXON GRANDY, 76, widow of Rodney Leon Grandy, Jr., died Tuesday, March 25, 2008 at her residence. A native of Waynesboro, GA, Mrs. Grandy was a daughter of the late Wade Hampton and Irene Blackburn Mixon. She had retired with her husband to Aiken for the last 16 years and was a homemaker. She was a...

Charles Acton

Charles Acton

Mar 24, 2008

AIKEN - Charles Francis Acton, 89, passed away peacefully on Monday, March 24, 2008, at Aiken Regional Medical Center with his beloved wife of 54 years, Marian, and his loving daughter, Sara, at his side. Charlie was born in Bedford, IN to Edgar Charles and Alice Hall Acton on April 1, 1918. He served his country courageously in the U.S....

Chlora Reynolds

Chlora Reynolds

Mar 22, 2008

Services will be held privately

Judy Smith

Judy Smith

Mar 21, 2008

AIKEN, SC – JUDITH “JUDY” McDANIEL SMITH, 63, beloved wife of Gene Smith, died Friday, March 21, 2008 at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. A native of Baton Rouge, LA, Mrs. Smith was a daughter of the late Alex Floyd and Minnie Delilah Hutchinson McDaniel. She moved to Aiken 23 years ago from Louisiana and was a...

Helen Bolster Blow

Helen Bolster Blow

Mar 19, 2008

AIKEN, SC – HELEN BOLSTER BLOW, 69, beloved wife of David C. Blow, died Wednesday, March 19, 2008 at her residence. A native of Towanda, PA, Mrs. Blow was a daughter of the late Floyd and Leona Kimball Bolster. She was a retired bookkeeper and had moved to Aiken 2 ½ years ago from Gillette, PA. She was a member...

James Richard "Bo" Taylor

James Richard "Bo" Taylor

Mar 16, 2008

AIKEN – Mr. James Richard "Bo" Taylor, 74, beloved husband of Blanche Hartsell Taylor died Sunday, March 16, 2008. Mr. Taylor was born in Lexington, SC to the late James Rufus and Elise Allie Taylor. He retired from Western Electric Company after 30 years of service, retired from Nortel and Six R Communications. He was a member of St. John’s...

Barbara Gay Stevens

Barbara Gay Stevens

Mar 16, 2008

AIKEN – Mrs. Barbara Gay Stevens, 72, beloved wife of the late E. N. Stevens died Saturday, March 16, 2008. Mrs. Stevens was born in Commerce, GA to the late Theo and Ula Faye Vaughn Swindle. She had lived in Aiken for 39 years and was a member of Holy Resurrection Orthodox Church. She retired from Automatic Switch Company. Survivors...

James Warren Parrish

James Warren Parrish

Mar 15, 2008

AIKEN – Mr. James Warren Parrish, 85, died Saturday, March 15, 2008. Funeral services will be held Monday at 2:00 at Shellhouse Funeral Home Chapel. Reverend Dr. Eddie Leopard will officiate. After Graduation from H.S. and WWII came into being, his service time was spent at Norfolk, VA with the U.S. Navy Air Patrol. After the war ended he returned...

Minerva Johnson Lefler

Minerva Johnson Lefler

Mar 13, 2008

AIKEN – Mrs. Minerva Johnson Lefler, 90, died Thursday, March 13, 2008. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 AM Saturday at St. Johns United Methodist Church. Reverend Dr. George K. Howle will officiate. Mrs. Lefler will be laid to rest next to her husband of 53 years in a private ceremony at Sunset Memory Gardens The family will receive...

Paul Arden Clayton

Paul Arden Clayton

Mar 12, 2008

JOHNSTON – Mr. Paul Arden Clayton, 57, died Wednesday, March 12, 2008 at the Medical College of Georgia. A memorial service will be held at 2:00 PM Sunday in the Shellhouse Funeral Home Chapel, Hayne Ave. Interment will be private. Paul was born in Heidelberg, Germany, a son of the late Harry Arden and Elsie Rose Whitman Clayton. He moved...

Sherry Pulver Bryant

Sherry Pulver Bryant

Mar 11, 2008

SALLEY, SC – SHERRY PULVER BRYANT, 62, beloved wife of Shelton Bryant, Sr., died Tuesday, March 11, 2008 at Aiken Regional Medical Centers. A native of Sulpher, LA, Mrs. Bryant was a daughter of the late Franklin Lane and Willyhugh Griffith Pulver. She was a homemaker and had lived in Aiken County, SC for 25 years. Survivors, in addition to...

Patricia Chambers Koelker

Patricia Chambers Koelker

Mar 10, 2008

AIKEN – Mrs. Patricia Chambers Koelker, 90, died Monday, March 10, 2008. Mrs. Koelker was born in Omaha, NE, a daughter of the late Fred Fitch and Verna Newell Chambers. She studied art in Omaha, Chicago, Shenandoah, IA, and has exhibited at the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, the Des Moines Art Center in Iowa and was a studio artist...

Harold Williams Harmon

Harold Williams Harmon

Mar 9, 2008

AIKEN – Mr. Harold Williams (Carly) Harmon, Capt. US Navy Ret., 80, died Sunday, March 9, 2008 at his residence. Mr. Harmon was born in Lexington, SC, a son of the late George Lee Harmon, Sr. and Catherine Ann Harmon. Funeral Services will be held Wednesday, at 4:00 PM at St. Paul Lutheran Church with Pastor Robert T. Byrne officiating....

Bonnie Hodges Garrick

Bonnie Hodges Garrick

Mar 8, 2008

AIKEN – Mrs. Bonnie Hodges Garrick, 88, died Saturday, March 8, 2008. Mrs. Garrick was born in Statesboro, GA, a daughter of the late Ancil and Gertrude Donaldson Hodges. Funeral Services will be held Wednesday, at 2:00 PM at Millbrook Baptist Church with the Rev. Dr. Eddie Leopard officiating. Interment will follow at Southlawn Cemetery. She had been a resident...

Terry Harvey Maurer

Terry Harvey Maurer

Mar 6, 2008

AIKEN – Mrs. Rosemary Thersa “Terry” Harvey Maurer, 89, died Thursday, March 6, 2008 . Private funeral services will be held in Camden, NJ at a later date. Mrs. Maurer was born in Philadelphia, PA, a daughter of the late William J. and Anna Anderson Harvey. She had been a resident of Aiken since 1990, and was formerly a fashion...

Glenn Shadell Beaufort

Glenn Shadell Beaufort

Mar 2, 2008

AIKEN, SC – Minister Glenn Shadell Beaufort, 52, beloved husband of Paulette Jefferson Beaufort, passed away Sunday March 2, 2008. Mr. Beaufort was born in Charleston, SC, to the late Herbert and Gloria Nesbitt Beaufort. He served in the United States Marine Corpe and had lived in Aiken for 11 years. He worked at Wal-Mart as a supervisor. He was...

Ray Burnette

Ray Burnette

Mar 2, 2008

AIKEN, SC – Mr. Ernest Ray Burnette, 40, passed away Sunday March 2, 2008 Mr. Burnette was born in Bedford Shire, England to Ernest Ray Burnette and to the late Mary Kathleen Coston Burnette. He had lived in Aiken for 24 years and was a mechanic at Crawfords Auto. He also was a member of the New Ellenton Fire Deptment....

Inoise Willis McKeown

Inoise Willis McKeown

Feb 27, 2008

AIKEN – Mrs. Inoise “Penny” Kneece Willis McKeown, 86, died Wednesday, February 27, 2008. A memorial service will be held at 2:00 PM Saturday at St. John United Methodist Church, Graniteville. Pastor Larry Watson will officiate. The family will receive friends following the service. Mrs. McKeown was born in Aiken County, a daughter of the late Julian Pace and Lucie...