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Beaufort County Obituaries South Carolina |
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Dr. Louise
Thompson Anders The family will receive friends Tuesday evening from 6 until 8 p.m. at Copeland Funeral Home. Funeral services will be Wednesday at 11 a.m. at The Baptist Church of Beaufort. Interment will be Thursday at 11 a.m. in Woodlawn Cemetery, Greenville, South Carolina. Dr. Anders was born September 30, 1919, in Greenville, South Carolina, a daughter of Haskel Benjamin Thompson and Eliza Floyd Thompson. She attended Converse College, was a graduate of Spartanburg Methodist College and received a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Furman University in 1956. She received a Master of Arts from Furman University in 1958 and a Doctor of Education Degree from the University of South Carolina in 1973. She
formerly taught in Spartanburg City Schools, Laurel Bay and Parris Island,
South Carolina, and retired from the Beaufort County School District in
1985 as the Director of Adult Education and Secondary
Schools. She was a member and Past President of the Ribaut Garden Club, member and Past President of the South Carolina Chapter of the American Association of University Women; member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Stephen Elliott Chapter; founder and past Board Chairman of the Coastal Speech and Hearing Committee, served on the Beaufort County and South Carolina Council on Drug and Substance Abuse and served on the Lowcountry Council of Governments. She was a member and Past President of the South Carolina Administrators Association, South Carolina Principals Association and the South Carolina Adult Education Association. She was a National Consultant on Migrant Education and was on the South Carolina Task Force for Juvenile Discipline. She was former President of the WilLou Gray Reading Council. She was a member and former South Carolina Vice-president of Alpha Delta Kappa Sorority and was a member of Delta Kappa Gamma Sorority. She was the South Carolina Business & Professional Women's Club Woman of the Year in 1969, Beaufort Career Woman of the Year in 1969, and the La Sertoma Club Woman of the Year in 1978. She was named the Outstanding School Administrator of the Year in 1979 and the Outstanding Adult Education Director of the Year in 1973. She was a member of the University Professors of Adult Continuing Education Association, the South Carolina Supervision Curriculum Association and was a former Board Chairman of the Palmetto Unified School District Board of Corrections Educational Division. She was a member of the Beaufort Historical Society, the Beaufort County Open Land Trust, Friends of the Library and the Christian Woman's Club. She is listed in the Marquis Who's Who in the South and Southwest, the Dictionary of International Biography, Two Thousand Women of Achievement, the World Who's Who of Women, the Community Leaders and Noteworthy Americans and the Who's Who Biographical Record of School District Officials. She was predeceased by her husband; her only child, Mrs. Elliott D. (Patricia A.) Dulaney of Jacksonville, Florida; four brothers, Maxie H. Thompson, Haskel B. Thompson, Jr., Marion Floyd and Edward Thompson; and three sisters, Mrs. G.B. (Elizabeth) White, Evelyn Thompson and Mrs. Tony (Betty) Groce, all of Greenville, South Carolina. Surviving are her son-in-law, Elliott D. Dulaney and his wife Julie; a sister, Achsa Rollins and her husband, Don of Greenville, South Carolina and Mrs. Billy J. (G'Nell) Gilstrap of Pickens, South Carolina; one brother William P. "Bill" Thompson of Greenwood, South Carolina; and two grandchildren, Mr. and Mrs. John (Barbara) Dulaney and Mr. and Mrs. Cole (Ellen D.) Reeves and one great-granddaughter, Amelia Reeves, all of Jacksonville, Florida. The family suggests that memorial contributions be made to the Dr. Louise T. Anders Endowment Scholarship, USC-Beaufort, 801 Carteret Street, Beaufort, South Carolina 29902. (The State (Columbia, SC) - February 22, 2005; contributed by Lois Anderson) |
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