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Doc Gainey, Jr

Doc Gainey, Jr

Aug 25, 2017

Hartsville, S.C. Doc Gainey, Jr. age 82 went home to be with his Lord and Savior on August 25. Funeral services will be held Sunday at 3:00 at Clyde Church of God. Rev. Don Childers and Mr. Bobby Gainey will officiate. Burial will be in the Clyde Church of God Cemetery directed by Norton Funeral Home. Visitation will...

Bobby Stephens

Bobby Stephens

Aug 25, 2017

Cassatt, S.C. Funeral services for Bobby LeRay Stephens age 65 will be held Tuesday at 3:00 at the Chapel Norton Funeral Home, Bishopville. Rev. Jack Cobb will officiate. Burial will be in the Bobby and Margaret Stephens Cemetery. Visitation will be Monday 5-7 pm at the funeral home. Bobby was born in Camden a son of the late...

Mr. Hugh Berry

Mr. Hugh Berry

Aug 18, 2017

Hartsville, SC

Graveside services for Mr. Hugh Wilson Berry age 99 widower of Evelyn Yates Berry will be held on Tuesday at 11:00am at Magnolia Cemetery. Pastor Carl Hunsucker will officiate, directed by Norton Funeral Home. Visitation will follow the graveside services.

Mr. Berry was born on Brushy Fork Road in Saluda County, SC...

Oscar Herringdine, Jr

Oscar Herringdine, Jr

Aug 17, 2017

Mister Oscar Clarence Herringdine, Jr., 72, of Darlington passed away Thursday, August 17th, 2017, at his residence. Oscar was born in Swainsboro, Georgia, a son of the late Oscar Clarence, Sr. & Frances Braddy Herringdine. He was employed with the cable company for 30 years in telecommunications. He is survived by his sons, Kyle (Christy Hyatt) Herringdine of...

Rogers Jeffords

Rogers Jeffords

Aug 16, 2017

Hartsville, SC

Mr. Rogers Adair Jeffords 81 passed away on Wednesday, August 16, 2017. He was born in Florence, SC on April 3, 1936, was the son of the late S. A. and Irene Rogers Jeffords Adair graduated from St. Johns High School and North Carolina Vocational Textile School. He was a Mason and a Shriner....

Mrs. Betty Morrison

Mrs. Betty Morrison

Aug 11, 2017

Hartsville, SC

Funeral services for Mrs. Betty Anderson Beasley Morrison age 88 will be held on Monday, August 14 at 2:00pm at The Chapel of Norton Funeral Home. Pastor Charlie Short will officiate, with burial in Magnolia Cemetery. Visitation will be held one hour prior to the services at the funeral home, other times at Tommy...

John Smith

John Smith

Aug 9, 2017

Mister John Douglas “Doug” Smith, 64, of Bishopville, passed away Wednesday afternoon, August 9th, 2017, at the Wm. Jennings Bryan Dorn VA Medical Center in Columbia. His funeral service will be held at 12 noon on Saturday in Hebron United Methodist Church. Reverend Charles McLendon will officiate with burial following in the church cemetery. The family will be...

Timothy Johnson

Timothy Johnson

Aug 8, 2017

Memorial services for Mr. Timothy Craig Johnson, age 49 will be held on Friday, August 11, 2017 at 11:00am at Kelleytown Baptist Church. Dr. Rod Elliott and Reverand Lin Kirkman will officiate, directed by Norton Funeral Home. Visitation will be following the services at the church.

Craig passed away on Tuesday, August 8, 2017. He was...

June Outlaw

June Outlaw

Aug 6, 2017

Hartsville, S.C.

Funeral services for June Grant Outlaw, age 60, will be held Wednesday at 1:00 at the Chapel Norton Funeral Home. Burial will be the Damascus Cemetery. Visitation will be one hour prior to the service at the funeral home.

Mrs. Outlaw was born in Darlington a daughter of the late Clyde Douglas...

Mrs. Sara Lee

Mrs. Sara Lee

Aug 6, 2017

Hartsville, SC Services for Sara Hodges Griggs Lee age 90 will be held on Wednesday at 4:00pm at Wilkes Chapel United Methodist Church. Pastor Burch Kelly will officiate, directed by Norton Funeral Home. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Visitation will be held Tuesday, 5-7pm at the funeral home.

Mrs. Lee passed away on August...

James Huggins

James Huggins

Aug 6, 2017

Mister James Purvis Huggins, 85, of Las Vegas, Nevada and formerly of Hartsville, passed away Sunday, August 6th, 2017. A graveside funeral service with military rites will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, August 22nd, 2017, in the Sacramento, California National Cemetery. Mister Huggins is survived by his wife, Alice Hollaway Huggins of Sacramento, California; son, Dave...

Mrs. Nora Copeland

Mrs. Nora Copeland

Aug 3, 2017

Hartsville, SC

Nora Lee Manship Copeland age 75 went home to be with her heavenly father on August 3. Funeral services will be held Sunday at 3:00 at the First Church of The Nazarene. Rev. Michael Smith and Rev. John Griggs will officiate. Burial will be in the Magnolia Cemetery directed by Norton Funeral Home. Visitation...

Christine Kneisley

Christine Kneisley

Aug 1, 2017

Christine Renee Ellefson “Chris” Kneisley, 57, of West Columbia, died Tuesday, August 1, 2017, after fighting a courageous battle with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease). Born in Northfield, Minnesota on November 28, 1959, she was a daughter of the late Delores Sigurdson Ellefson and Winston Ellefson. Chris worked as a Registered Nurse in various positions throughout South Carolina including...

Sandra Smitt

Sandra Smitt

Aug 1, 2017

Mrs. Sandra Faye Smitt, 75, of Hartsville, wife of Mr. Larry Smitt, passed away Tuesday afternoon, August 1st, 2017. Mrs. Smitt was born in Birmingham, Alabama, a daughter of the late Minzer Jeffcoat Yawn & Lois Frances Sivley. Before residing in Hartsville, she lived in Birmingham, Alabama, Biloxi Mississippi, Amarillo Texas, Rapid City, South Dakota, Misawa Japan, Sault...

Preacher Smith, Jr

Preacher Smith, Jr

Jul 31, 2017

Hartsville, SC

Services for Preacher John C. Smith, Jr. age 75 will be held on Friday, August 4 at 6:00pm at Forest Hills Independent Baptist Church. Pastor Jim Murray and Pastor Tom Lancaster will officiate, directed by Norton Funeral Home. Visitation will be held on Friday 5:00-6:00pm at the church, the family will be speaking to...

Ernest Baskins

Ernest Baskins

Jul 30, 2017

Cassatt, S.C. Funeral services for Ernest Randolph (Randy) Baskins, age 61 will be held Tuesday at 5:00 pm at the Chapel Norton Funeral Home, Hartsville. Visitation will be one hour prior to the service at the funeral home. Randy was born in Camden a son of the late Carl F. Baskins and Ruby Baker Baskins. He was retired...

Nancy Blackmon

Nancy Blackmon

Jul 28, 2017

Hartsville, S.C.

Funeral services for Nancy King Blackmon age 83, will be held Monday at 3:00 at the Chapel Norton Funeral Home. Rev. Brad Grise will officiate. Burial will be in the Chapel Hill Baptist Church Cemetery. Visitation will be Sunday 4-6 at the funeral home.

Mrs. Blackmon was born in Hartsville a daughter...

Janie Tyner

Janie Tyner

Jul 27, 2017

Hartsville, S.C. Funeral services for Janie Rhea Tyner age 66, will be held Sunday at 3:00 at the Chapel Norton Funeral Home. Rev. Margaret Vance will officiate. Burial will be in Magnolia Cemetery. Visitation will be one hour prior to the service at the funeral home. Janie was born in El Paso, Texas a daughter of Arlene Webster...

Karsen Davis

Karsen Davis

Jul 24, 2017

Darlington, S.C.

Graveside services for Karsen Sawyer Davis, infant son of Skylar and Peyton Davis will be held Wednesday at 10:00 at the Wayside Cemetery in Bishopville, directed by Norton Funeral Home, Bishopville.

Surviving are his parents, Darlington; two sisters, Piper Davis and Paislee Davis, Darlington; Maternal grandparents, Cynthia Bass, Florence, Alex Hickman, Newberry;...

Richard Outlaw, Jr

Richard Outlaw, Jr

Jul 21, 2017

Patrick, S.C.

Richard Lee (Sam) Outlaw, Jr. age 37 passed away July 21. A memorial service will be held Saturday at 4:00 at the Middendorf Church Of The Living God. Rev. Nathaniel Brown will officiate.

Richard was born in Florence a son of Janet Goforth and the late Richard Lee Outlaw, Sr.

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