OBITUARIES
Edward Michael Kovacs "Pappy" Jr.
Sep 30, 2007
Edward Michael Kovacs, Jr., "Pappy", 67, died Sunday, September 30, 2007 at his home in Hilton Head Island, SC. He was born in Pittsburgh, PA on January 12, 1940. He was the son of the late Edward Michael and Clara Dobozy Kovacs.He was employed by Phillips Shoe Company and former owner of Kovacs Chrysler in High Point, NC. He was...
Pattie Ruth Johnston Covington
Sep 26, 2007
Pattie Ruth Johnston Covington, 81, widow of William Sidney Covington, died Wednesday, September 26, 2007 in the Hilton Head Regional Medical Center, Hilton Head Island, SC.She was born in Rome, Georgia on November 27, 1925. She was the daughter of the late Foy Edmond Johnston and Ruth Evangeline Striplin. She moved to Bluffton, SC from Dalton, GA .She was a...
Barbara Grubb
Sep 24, 2007
Barbara Hoffman GrubbBluffton, SCBarbara Hoffman Grubb, 66, wife of Jerry C. Grubb, died Monday, September 24, 2007 at her home.She was born in Hightstown, NJ on July 19, 1941. She was the daughter of the late Leo and Dorothy Malone Hoffman. She was a registered nurse. She was retired from R.A.M. Property Management Group. She served in the Peace Corps...
Wade Calvin Hilton
Sep 23, 2007
Wade C. HiltonBluffton, SCWade C. Hilton, 57, died Sunday, September 23, 2007 at the Coastal Carolina Medical Center, Hardeeville, SC.He was born in Cedartown, GA on April 6, 1950. He was the son of the late Luther and Maggie Strickland Hilton. He was the manger of BiLo of Hilton Head on Matthews Drive; he was a Baptist and he enjoyed...
Charles Raymond Smith
Sep 23, 2007
Charles Raymond SmithEarly Branch, SCCharles Raymond Smith, 85, died Sunday, September 23, 2007 in the Hampton County Regional Medical Center, Hampton, SC.He was born in Gilmania, SC on November 29, 1921. He was the son of the late Charles Hasty and Ola Tuten Smith. He was a retired machinist for the Marine Corps Recruit Depot; a member of the Gillisonville...
Annie Lou Fisher
Sep 22, 2007
Annie C. FisherSanford, FLAnnie Lou Collins Fisher, 79, died Saturday, September 22, 2007 in Central Florida Regional Hospital in Sanford, FL.She was born in Barnwell, SC on August 22, 1928. She was the daughter of the late Elijah Collins and Ariel Creech Collins. She was a Homemaker and a member of the Advent Christian Church.She is survived by her son,...
Gertrude Munch Dempsey
Sep 22, 2007
Gertrude Munch DempseyRidgeland, SCGertrude Munch Dempsey, 91, died Saturday, September 22, 2007 in her home in Grahamville.She was born October 10, 1915 in Ridgeland to Emily Everlina Vaigneur and Willie Allen Munch. She and her husband owned and operated Ridgeland Furniture Store for many years and after his death, she continued working as a secretary with several difference agencies which...
Robert James (Bob) Hoyer
Sep 21, 2007
Robert (Bob) James HoyerBluffton, SCRobert (Bob) James Hoyer, 60, died Friday, September 21, 2007 in the Palm Meadows Court, Hilton Head Island, SC.He was born in Eauclaire, Wisconsin on October 10, 1946. He was the son of the late Grant J. and Virginia Stortz Hoyer. He was retired from Southern Cross Corporation of Atlanta, GA. He was a Catholic. He...
Frank Stillman Horton
Sep 17, 2007
Frank S. HortonRidgeland, SCFrank Stillman Horton, 95, died Monday, September 17, 2007 at his home in Ridgeland, SC.He was born March 25, 1912 in Ridgeland, SC to the late Stanislaus Stillman Horton and Sarah Helen Ulmer Horton. During his long and productive life, he served as administrator of farming operations on several plantations in Jasper, Beaufort and Chatham counties that...
Shirley Ann Deely
Sep 15, 2007
Shirley Ann DeelyBluffton, SCShirley Ann Deely passed away on September 15, 2007 at the Hilton Head Regional Medical Center, Hilton Head Island, SC due to a massive stroke.She was born to Enzie and Bascom Woliver in Lee County, Virginia on October 3, 1935. She relocated to Washington, DC and worked for the Navy Department, the Defense Intelligence Agency and the...
Edward William Horton Sr.
Sep 14, 2007
Edward William Horton Sr.Anderson, SCEdward William Horton, Sr., 85, died Friday, September 14, 2007 in the Richard Campbell Veterans Nursing Home, Anderson, SC.He was born in Ridgeland, SC on March 17, 1922. He was the son of the late S.S. and Sarah Ulmer Horton. He was a retired automobile mechanic with Utilities Construction Company of Charleston, SC. He was a...
John Robert Mcgavisk
Sep 10, 2007
John (Pete) McGaviskHilton Head Island, SCJohn (Pete) McGavisk, 79, died of cancer at his home on Monday, September 10, 2007. He formerly lived in Hillsborough, NJ. He was born in Olean, NY on October 6, 1927. He was the son of the late Roy and Elizabeth Turner McGavisk. He was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II. He was...
Adam Thomas Pinckney
Sep 8, 2007
Adam Thomas PinckneyBluffton, SC Adam Thomas Pinckney, 24, died Saturday, September 8, 2007 in Bluffton, SC. He was born in Savannah, GA on September 19, 1982. He was the son of Thomas C. (Clay) Pinckney and Tamela Harrell Maxim. He was a student and a lifetime member of the Georgia Salzburger Society. He was a Christian. He was a former...
Julia Branch Burgess
Sep 6, 2007
Julia Branch BurgessBluffton, SCMrs. Julia Branch Burgess, 91, of Bluffton, SC, died Thursday, September 6, 2007. She was the mother of Jane T. Upshaw, University of South Carolina Beaufort Chancellor.Mrs. Burgess was born in Chambers County, AL on October 16, 1915. She was the daughter of the late William Emory and Margaret Knight Branch. She moved to the Fairfax community...
Annie Mae Mulligan Smith-Jones
Sep 4, 2007
Annie Mae Mulligan Smith-Jones, 87, widow of M. Randolph Smith, died Thursday, October 4, 2007 at Life Care of Hilton Head, Hilton Head Island, SC.She was born in Ridgeland, SC on September 1, 1920. She was the daughter of the late James Edward and Jenny McBride Mulligan Sr.She was a homemaker. She was a member of the Bluffton Garden Club;...
Colonel James Thomas Mcgibony Jr.
Sep 3, 2007
Colonel James Thomas McGibony, Jr.Bluffton, SC Colonel James Thomas McGibony, Jr., (US Army retired), age 65, died peacefully on September 3, 2007. Born in Washington, DC, he had resided in Ponte Vedra Beach, FL since 1990, and spent the last year and a half in Sun City Hilton Head, SC. Col. McGibony received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the...
William Edward Littles
Aug 31, 2007
William Edward LittlesBluffton, SCWilliam Edward Littles, 81, died Friday, August 31, 2007 in the Hilton Head Regional Medical Center, Hilton Head Island, SC. He was born in Pearl River, NY on January 14, 1926. He was the son of the late William D. and Naomi Eckert Littles.He lived his entire life in Pearl River, NY moving to South Carolina in...
W. Steve Martin, P.E.
Aug 29, 2007
W. Steve Martin, P.E.Ridgeland, SCW. Steve Martin, P.E., 55, died Wednesday, August 29, 2007 at the St. Joseph
Robert Charles Thurnau
Aug 25, 2007
Robert Charles ThurnauBluffton, SCRobert Charles Thurnau, 84, died Friday, August 24, 2007 in the Hilton Head Regional Medical Center, Hilton Head Island, SC. He was born in Palisade, Fort Lee, NJ on December 21, 1922. He was the son of the late Theodore Diedrick and Anvernette E. LeBourveau Thurnau. He was former Executive Vice President of Bank One Financial Services....
