OBITUARIES
Barbara Marie Brudie
May 6, 2017
Barbara Marie Brudie, age 75, of Bluffton, SC and formerly of Ramsey, NJ died Saturday, May 6, 2017 at Coastal Carolina Medical Center in Hardeeville, SC. Mrs. Brudie was born on July 21, 1941 in Monroe County, WV, the daughter of Edna and Roscoe Carter. After completing nursing school she worked as a Registered Nurse with Holy Name Medical...
Leonard Vernon Bell
May 6, 2017
In loving memory of Leonard Vernon Bell September 23, 1921-May 6, 2017. Leonard Vernon Bell of 7 Long Cane Court Bluffton SC 29909 went home to be with his Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on May 6, 2017 at the age of 95. He had a blessed life. Leonard was employed by Cadillac Motors, Detroit MI for 41 years,...
Don James Ogden
May 5, 2017
Colonel Don James Ogden was born March 29th 1934, in Indianapolis, Indiana to Harvey and Lois Ogden. He grew up in Indianapolis and was a graduate of Purdue. He joined the Marine Corps in 1956 and served his Country honorably for 30 years. Distinctive tours included a command combat tour in Viet Nam, the U. S. Naval Post Graduate...
Richard H. "Dick" Bickford
May 4, 2017
Richard H. “Dick” Bickford, age 75, passed into God's hands peacefully on May 4, 2017. He is the beloved husband of Jan Bickford, of Abbey Glen, Hardeeville, SC.
Dick was born on April 16, 1942 in Hartford, CT, the son of Harold and Louise Bickford. He lived much of his life in Conn., having moved to his...
Horace Clifford Gaylord
May 4, 2017
Horace Clifford Gaylord, 74 of Hardeeville and husband of Jennie Clark Grimes Gaylord, passed away on May 4, 2017 at his home.
Mr. Gaylord was born in Hardeeville, SC on April 13, 1943 to the late John Atway Gaylord and Margaret Ann Gaylord. He was a truck driver; enjoyed hunting; tending to his garden and he was...
Anne Martin Hart Ellis
May 1, 2017
Anne Martin Hart Ellis passed away peacefully Monday, May 1, 2017. She was born in Savannah, Georgia on February 25, 1939, and is the daughter of Clifford and Emma Hart and wife of her late husband Howard L. Ellis. She died due to complications surrounding the leukemia which she battled for over fifteen years.
Anne began her...
Jean F. Heney
Apr 30, 2017
Jean F. Heney, age 77, of Hilton Head Island passed away on Sunday, April 30, 2017 after a courageous battle with pancreatic cancer. She was born on September 24, 1939 in Oconto, WI to her late parents Clark and Alfreda Davis. Jean grew up in Suring, WI and was a 1957 graduate of Suring High School. She moved to...
Elynor Dawson Carter Price
Apr 29, 2017
Elynor Dawson Carter Price, 77 of Ridgeland, SC passed away at her daughter’s home on April 30, 2017. Elynor was born in Ridgeland, SC on February 9, 1940 to the late Joseph Randolph Carter Jr. and Mary Elizabeth Dawson Carter. Elynor was retired from the South Carolina Forestry Commission; Co-Chairman of First Gopher Hill Festival; and designed the official...
Sandra Ann “Sandi” Matthews
Apr 27, 2017
Sandra Ann “Sandi” Matthews, age 69, of Sun City, SC and formerly of Arnold, MD, died Thursday, April 27, 2017 at Bayview Manor in Beaufort, SC. Mrs. Matthews was born on July 12, 1947 in Wilkes-Barre, PA, the daughter of the late Eleanor and Frank Kulick. She was a graduate of Wilkes University, earning a degree in German. She...
Ashley Lauren Toho
Apr 26, 2017
Ashley Lauren Toho, 24, of Bluffton, SC passed away Wednesday, April 26, 2017 at her home.
Ashley was born December 6, 1992 in Austell, GA to Kristen Toho. She was a homemaker, a Christian, and a devoted mother to her son. She enjoyed anything outdoors, country music, and her animals.
Ashley is survived by her...
Anthony J. “Tony” Pavilonis, Jr.
Apr 26, 2017
Anthony J. “Tony” Pavilonis, Jr., age 84, of Bluffton, SC died Wednesday, April 26, 2017 at his home. He was born on November 20, 1932 in New York City, NY, the son of the late Elizabeth and Anthony John Pavilonis. He is survived by his wife of 56 years, Dorothy Pavilonis; daughters, Denise Pavilonis and Debra Pavilonis; son, Anthony...
Mark Edward Burtell
Apr 24, 2017
Mark Edward Burtell of Hilton Head Island passed away Monday, April 24 at his home. Mark was born August 29, 1958 in Pittsburgh, PA to Edward and Mary Lou Burtell. He was a 1977 graduate of North Allegheny High School in McCandless, Pennsylvania. Mark operated Burtell Painting for over 20 years until health problems made it difficult for him...
Anthony J. Ginexi
Apr 24, 2017
Anthony J. Ginexi, 70, of Bluffton died Monday, April 24th at Hilton Head Hospital. Visitation will be from 5:00 – 7:00 p.m., Wednesday, April 26th at Sauls Funeral Home, 90 Simmonsville Rd., Bluffton. A funeral mass will be celebrated at 10:30 a.m., Thursday, April 27th at St. Gregory the Great Catholic Church, 31 St. Gregory Dr., Bluffton.
John Claire Cook
Apr 24, 2017
John Claire Cook, 72, of Hilton Head, SC and Brighton, MI, passed away Monday April, 24, 2017 after a hard fought 14-year battle with prostate cancer. He was born to the late Cecil and Augusta Cook, March 25, 1945, in Detroit, MI. John graduated from Bloomfield Hills High School in 1963 and was a graduate of Michigan State University....
James Boswell Inniss
Apr 20, 2017
James Boswell Inniss (94) passed away on April 20, 2017. He was the second son of Vernon Boswell and Amy Inniss and was preceded in death by a brother Leonard Boswell Inniss of La Mesa, CA. Jim was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, British West Indies on January 3, 1923. In 1945, at the age of 22, he...
James Lawrence Hurlburt
Apr 20, 2017
James Hurlburt, 59 of Bluffton passed away on April 20, 2017 at his home. The family will receive friends from 5:00 pm until 7:00 pm on Tuesday, April 25, 2017 at Sauls Funeral Home, 90 Simmonsville Rd., Bluffton.
John R. Barlow
Apr 20, 2017
John R. Barlow, 43 of Bluffton passed away on April 20, 2017 at Coastal Carolina Hospital, Hardeeville, SC. John was born in Greenfield, MA on February 6, 1974 to John Barlow and Marianne White. John is survived by his wife, Krista Solley Barlow of Bluffton; his father and mother and one sister, Anne Marie Barlow of FL. He was...
William “Bill” Leroy Freeman
Apr 17, 2017
William “Bill” LeRoy Freeman, age 76, of Beaufort, SC and formerly of Hilton Head, SC died Monday, April 17, 2017. Mr. Freeman was born on October 7, 1940 in Portland, IN, the son of the late Iris and Orville Freeman. He was a graduate of the University of Cincinnati, earning a degree in Interior Design. He was a member...
Carol D. Lewis
Apr 17, 2017
Carol D. Lewis, age 79, of Bluffton, SC and formerly of West Grove, PA died Monday, April 17, 2017 at MUSC in Charleston, SC. Mrs. Lewis was born on September 8, 1937 in Philadelphia, PA, the daughter of the late Ruth and Franklin Dickey. She attended Temple University in Ambler, PA where she studied Landscape Architecture. She worked for...
Thomas William Barnes Jr.
Apr 17, 2017
Thomas W. Barnes, Jr of Bluffton, SC, age 93, passed away on April 17, 2017. Tom was born March 8, 1924 in Atlanta, GA to the late Thomas and Edith (Camp) Barnes. He graduated from Bessemer (AL) High School in 1942, and served in the Army Air Corps as a pilot in the Pacific theater in WWII. After the...
