OBITUARIES
Sharon Lorraine Murphy Smith
Nov 6, 2008
Sharon Lorraine Murphy Smith, "The Cheesecake Lady", 70, died Thursday, November 6, 2008 at Coastal Carolina Medical Center in Hardeeville, SC. She was born December 17, 1937 in Detroit MI. She was the daughter of the late Raymond and Lorraine Seymour Murphy. She was a homemaker and baked the best cheesecake in Bluffton. She was a member of the Bridge...
John Z. Taran
Nov 4, 2008
John Z. Taran, 93, died Tuesday, November 4, 2008 at Coastal Carolina Medical Center in Hardeeville, SC.He was born November 1, 1915 in Ansonia, CT. He was a member of Lowcountry Presbyterian Church in Bluffton, SC. He was a retired mechanical engineer, a Navy Veteran of World War II, and a member of the Sun City Veterans Club. He was...
Marie Louise Vanvechten Sigerist
Nov 4, 2008
BLUFFTON, SC- Marie Louise Van Vechten Sigerist died peacefully on November 4, 2008 at the Carolina House in Bluffton, SC at the age of 94. She was born in 1913 in Elizabeth, NJ to Arthur and Rieta Van Vechten. She was predeceased by both parents, her husband Fred Sigerist, and her sister Anne Van Vechten Coupe.Marie Louise attended Kent Place...
Dr. J. M. Bennett Jr.
Nov 3, 2008
Dr. J. M. Bennett Jr., 79, died Monday, November 3, 2008 in the Coastal Carolina Medical Center, Hardeeville, SC.He was born in Ruffin, SC on August 6, 1929. He was the son of the late Joe Monnie and Versie Breland Bennett.He was a Medical Doctor who graduated from the MUSC School of Medicine. He was Board Certified in Forensics and...
Eulalie Cooler Simmons
Nov 1, 2008
Eulalie Cooler Simmons, 90, widow of Hoyt Simmons, died Saturday, November 1, 2008 after a long illness.She was born in Ridgeland, SC on July 8, 1918. She was the daughter of the late Walter Russell and Lela Corene Smith Cooler.After graduation, she lived in Charleston, SC where she worked for the Port of Embarkation as a secretary. She married the...
Stephen Wayne Sease
Oct 31, 2008
Stephen W. Sease, 61, died Friday, October 31, 2008 at his home in Ridgeland, SC.He was born in Barnwell, SC on July 25, 1947. He was the son of the late Eugene and Ruby Morris Sease.He moved to Ridgeland in 1958 from Barnwell, SC. He retired from Hargray Telephone Company in 2003 after 37 years. He was a US Army...
Damian Whelan Kernan
Oct 30, 2008
Damian Kernan, 39, formerly of Glasnevin Ave., Dublin, Ireland tragically died on October 30, 2008.He was the beloved husband of Martina (nee Scanlon-Sligo) and doting Dad of Sean and Sarah and son of the late Peter P. Kernan. He will be very sadly missed by his loving family, Mary his Mother, brothers and sisters, Lorna, Sandra, Pamela, Peter, Brian, John,...
Jessie Niver Boulware
Oct 30, 2008
Jessie Niver Boulware, 80, died Thursday, October 30, 2008 at her home in Port Wentworth, GA.She was born July 6, 1928 in Bluffton, SC to the late William Thomas and Louise Mason Niver.She was a member of Bluffton United Methodist Church in Bluffton, SC. She was a former employee of Levys Department store on Broughton Street in Savannah, GA and...
David Hathaway Clark
Oct 30, 2008
David Hathaway Clark, age 80, died October 30, 2008. He is survived by his wife of 60 years, Barbara Noaker Clark, his 4 children and their families: Charles and Melissa (Weers) Clark and their daughter Elise, of Monroe, GA; Deborah (Clark) and Paul Batchelder of Jackson, MI and their children Kristin (Batchelder) and Randy Boratyn, of Sylvania, OH, Andrew and...
Jack Donald (Bubba) Cooler Jr.
Oct 27, 2008
Jack D. (Bubba) Cooler, Jr. Chechessee, SC Jack Donald Cooler, Jr., 43, died October 27, 2008 at his home in Chechessee, SC. He was born October 14, 1965 in Ridgeland, SC to Esther Rivers Cooler and the late Jack Donald Cooler Sr. He was a Commercial Fisherman and Auto Mechanic. He loved the outdoors and his animals. He is survived...
Patricia Walters Shaw
Oct 24, 2008
Patricia Walters Shaw passed away on Friday, October 24, 2008 at The Fraser on Hilton Head Island, SC.She was born in Chicago, IL in 1930 to Edward Worthington (Worthy) Walters and Georgetta (Stubby) Van Slyck (both deceased). She grew up in Highland Park, IL graduating from Highland Park High School in 1948. She attended Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY...
Joel Franklin Cannington Jr.
Oct 24, 2008
Joel F. Cannington, 80, passed away on Friday, October 24, 2008 at the Veterans Victory House, Walterboro, SC.He was born in Cummings, SC on November 27, 1927. He was the son of the late Joel F. Cannington Sr. and Catherine Searson Cannington.He was retired Mst. lst Sergeant with the US Army serving in World War II, Vietnam and Korea. He...
Sue Ann Malphrus Snead
Oct 24, 2008
Sue SneadFernandina Beach, FLSue Ann Malphrus Snead, 92, widow of William R. Snead, passed away October 23, 2008 at her home in Fernandina Beach, FL.She was born in Ridgeland, SC on November 30, 1915 to the late William F. Malphrus and Sushannah O
Charles Edward Watson
Oct 21, 2008
Charles Edward Watson, 31, died Tuesday, October 21, 2008 at Coastal Carolina Medical Center in Hardeeville, SC. He was born on November 7, 1976, in Monterey, CA. He was the son of Susan K. Watson and the late John F. Watson.He worked as a framer for Sigler Construction Company and was a member of the Palmetto State Shooting Range. He...
Geneva Louise Sullivan Harriman
Oct 20, 2008
Geneva Louise Sullivan Harriman, 91, wife of Harold E. Harriman, passed away on Monday, October 20, 2008 in the Coastal Carolina Medical Center, Hardeeville, SC.She was born in Hamilton County, IL on January 7, 1917. She was the daughter of the late Leonard James and Laura Mae Gulley Sullivan.She was formerly of Rockville, Maryland. She was a cryptographer for the...
Brenda Ann Tysinger
Oct 18, 2008
Brenda Ann Tysinger, 57, passed away on Saturday, October 18, 2008 at her home in Hardeeville, SC.She was born in High Point, NC on May 21, 1951. She was the daughter of Gracie Walls Tysinger and the late Oscar William Tysinger Jr.She was a retired legal secretary for the Tom Johnson
Carl Conrad Herzog
Oct 16, 2008
Carl Conrad Herzog, 90, of Bluffton, SC died Thursday, October 16, 2008 at Coastal Carolina Medical Center in Hardeeville, SC.He was born October 4, 1918, the son of the late Conrad and Marie Schuttle Herzog, in Baltimore, MD.He was a retired Manufacturer Owner for Yarrington & Johns, Inc. in the warehousing industry.He moved to Bluffton in 1996. He was a...
Lorene Dean Horton Langford
Oct 13, 2008
Lorene Dean Horton LangfordRidgeland, SCLorene Dean Horton Langford, 84, widow of Jasper L. Horton and Bryson Langford passed away October 13, 2008 at her home in Ridgeland, SC.She was born in Spartanburg, SC on October 19, 1923 to the late Jake Dean and Hannah Heape Dean.She was the caregiver for 18 years for her first husband, Jasper Horton who was...
Mary Jane Orifice Tippett
Oct 7, 2008
Mary Jane Orifice Tippett, 77, wife of Paul R. Tippett, passed away on Tuesday, October 7, 2008 at her home in Bluffton, SC.She was born in Reading, PA on September 1, 1931. She was the daughter of the late Salvatore and Anna Orifice. She moved from Towson, MD to Bluffton, SC in 2000.She was a homemaker; a member of the...
