OBITUARIES
Deno Steve Caloudas
Sep 17, 2026
Deno Steve Caloudas, beloved husband, father, grandfather, and friend, passed away peacefully at home on September 17, 2026, surrounded by his family. Born on November 1, 1943, in Houston, Texas, Deno was the third child of his parents, Georgia and Steve Caloudas. He grew up alongside his three siblings, George, Elayne, and Steve Jr. After graduating from Bellaire High School,...
Helene Morgan Benson
Sep 15, 2026
Helene Morgan Benson, 65, died Tuesday September 15th while on a cruise. She was a native of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and a resident of Hardeeville, South Carolina. She was a graduate of Woodlawn High School and Northwestern State University in Louisiana and Spring Hill College in Alabama. She held Masters degrees in Elementary Education and Theology. She moved to Vicksburg,...
Richard "Dick" Louis Marriner
Sep 15, 2026
Richard Louis “Dick” Marriner, 83, of Bluffton, South Carolina, passed away peacefully surrounded by his family on September 15, 2026.
Dick was born March 30, 1943, in Neptune, New Jersey, to the late Gerald and Carolyn Marriner. He grew up in Freehold, New Jersey, and later made his home in Englishtown, where he and his wife, Elsie, raised their family. Dick...
Joan Eileen Wheeler
Sep 15, 2026
Joan Eileen Wheeler
Joan Eileen Wheeler, 89, of Bluffton, South Carolina, went home to be with her Lord and Savior on September 15, 2026, surrounded by her loving family. She was born in Oakdale, New York, on July 10, 1937, to Harold and Dorothy VanBumble. Joan was the second of two children and was preceded in death by her parents and...
Bernard Joseph Berger
Sep 13, 2026
SGM (Ret.) US Army, Bernard Joseph Berger, 83, of Bluffton, SC passed away Sunday, September 13, 2026 at NHC of Bluffton.
A funeral service will be held at 10:00 am, Friday, September 18, 2026 at Sauls Funeral Home, 90 Simmonsville Rd., Bluffton. Burial with full military honors will follow at 12:00 noon, at Beaufort National Cemetery, 1601 Boundary St., Beaufort.
Barbara B. Silcox Moylan
Sep 12, 2026
Barbara B. Silcox Moylan, 86, of Okatie, SC passed away September 12, 2026 at her home.
Barbara was born November 20, 1939 in Perrysburg, OH to the late Delbert A. and Louise Garbe Bruggeman. She held a great passion for teaching and spent many years in the classroom, helping children earn an education.
Barbara is survived by her children, Amy Silcox and...
Joseph Puhak
Sep 10, 2026
Joseph A. Puhak, 75, of Bluffton, SC passed away on Sept. 10, 2026. Joe was born in Hazleton, Pa. on July 14, 1951 to Andrew and Helen Puhak. They were very happy to welcometheir son as he already had two sisters.
Joe graduated Penn State University and was employed at Dupont in Delaware for many years. Upon moving to Virginia, he...
Virginia "Ginger" Anderson Gerspach
Sep 10, 2026
Virginia “Ginger” Anderson Gerspach
November 8, 1943 – September 10, 2026
Virginia “Ginger” Anderson Gerspach, 82, of Bluffton, South Carolina, passed away on September 10, 2026, at Tampa General Hospital in Tampa, Florida.
Ginger was born on November 8, 1943, in Easton, Pennsylvania. She was raised on College Hill, attended March Elementary School, and graduated from Easton Area High School in 1961. She...
Thomas Hamilton Rhodes
Sep 9, 2026
Thomas (Tommy) Hamilton Rhodes, 79, of Ridgeland, South Carolina, passed away at his home on September 9, 2026, surrounded by his loving wife and daughters. Born on October 21, 1946, in Ridgeland, he was the son of the late James Roland Rhodes and Edith Phillips Rhodes.
Tommy was a proud graduate of Ridgeland High School, Class of 1964. He continued his...
Genevieve A. Halk
Sep 5, 2026
Born on May 4, 1939, to Clement and Genevieve Quinn, Genevieve A. Halk was a woman whose kindness, strength, and warmth touched all who knew her.
Raised in West Hempstead, New York, Genevieve dedicated her life to caring for others, first as a nurse and always as a loving wife, mother, grandmother, and friend. She was predeceased by her sister, Eileen...
Georgina Smith
Sep 4, 2026
Georgina Smith of Hilton Head South Carolina, a fighter to the end, passed away peacefully on Friday, September 4, 2026, with her loving husband Skip by her side.
Gina was born on October 7, 1950 in Bayreuth, Germany to the late Derrel “Sarge” Mullikin and Babette Roder Mullikin. Gina lived in many places throughout her life, but her favorite was the...
Courtney Kawchak
Sep 4, 2026
Courtney Kawchak, age 31, passed away peacefully on Friday, September 4, 2026 surrounded by her family.
Born on May 27, 1995, she was the cherished daughter of Debbie Kawchak and Steve Kawchak. Courtney touched the lives of everyone she knew with her loving personality and contagious sense of humor. She had a gift for sensing when others were in pain and...
Elizabeth "Bette" A. Sundell
Aug 31, 2026
Elizabeth A. “Bette” Sundell passed away Monday, August 31, 2026, from her battle with Dementia, at Life Care Center of Hilton Head Island, SC.
Bette was born August 23, 1941 in Hamburg, NY to the late Francis and Maybelle Wakelee. Bette was a hard worker in all that she did. She was a pioneer mom, who raised her children to be...
Dževad & Mirjana Dizdarević
Aug 25, 2026
In Loving Memory of Dževad and Mirjana Dizdarević
Dževad Dizdarević, 73, and Mirjana Dizdarević, 71, of Bluffton, South Carolina, passed away together on August 25, 2026, following a devastating house fire caused by a lightning strike during a severe storm.
Dževad and Mirjana shared a life together for more than 50 years. Their story began in Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, where they...
Catherine Senatore
Aug 25, 2026
Catherine “Cathy” Senatore, 69, passed away peacefully and embraced by family in Bluffton, South Carolina, on August 25, 2026, after a brave battle against aggressive lung cancer and other significant setbacks to her health.
Cathy was born on May 19, 1957, in Queens, New York, to Dominick and Margherita Senatore. She was raised in West Islip with her three siblings until...
Sharon Knott
Aug 24, 2026
Sharon Lee Knott, of Bluffton, South Carolina, passed away peacefully on August 24, 2026 surrounded by her loving family. Born in Elmira, New York, Sharon was the daughter of Leonard and Mary Colson Wojnarek. She grew up in Elmira and later lived in Greenlawn, New York, before making her home in Bluffton, South Carolina. Throughout her life, Sharon remained deeply...
Claude A. Hair
Aug 23, 2026
Claude Adrian Hair was born August 20, 1939 in Ridgeland, S.C to Claude Layton Hair and Ethel Nettles Twitty. He died at home on August 23, 2026. He is survived by his wife, Barbara Brantley Hair and son, Adrian Brantley Hair of Johns Island, S.C.; two sisters, Faye Hair Jones and Kathy Twitty Goen both of Ridgeland; and many nieces...
Michael Charles DeCamp
Aug 23, 2026
Michael Charles DeCamp, 79, of Bluffton, SC, passed away peacefully on August 23, 2026 at his home after a brave battle with stomach cancer. He was surrounded by his family in his last moments. Mike lived a life full of quiet strength, hard work, and deep love for his family. He was full of life experience and always had a...
Raul Joshua Pacheco
Aug 22, 2026
Raul J. Pacheco, 28, of Beaufort, SC, formerly of Miami, FL, passed away unexpectedly on Saturday, August 22, 2026.
A funeral service will be held at 4:00 pm, Saturday, August 29, 2026 at Sauls Funeral Home, 90 Simmonsville Rd., Bluffton. The family will receive friends beginning at 3:00 pm until the time of the service at the funeral home.
In lieu of...
Bonnie Owens Linne
Aug 20, 2026
Bonnie Owens Linne, 84, of Bluffton, SC passed away August 20, 2026 at Emory Johns Creek Hospital in Johns Creek, GA. She was born July 24, 1942 in Norristown, PA to the late Irwin E. and Esther Printz Owens. She was preceded in death by her husband, Robert Samuel Linne.
A memorial service will be held at 11:00 am, Monday, October...
