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NEWBERRY — Services for Fred Leo Fulmer, Sr. will be at 2:00 p.m. Tuesday at Colony Lutheran Church. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. Visitation will be Monday from 6:00 - 7:30 p.m. at McSwain-Evans Funeral Home. Memorials may be made to Colony Lutheran Church, 48 Colony Church Road, Newberry, SC 29108 or to Palmetto Health Hospice, PO Box 352, Newberry, SC 29108.
Mr. Fulmer, 82, died February 11, 2007. Born in Little Mountain, he was a son of the late Lory Cohen and Blanche Mayer Fulmer. He was a U.S. Army veteran and a member of Colony Lutheran Church. He had retired from American Fiber and Finishing. He was a Mason and Shriner and more importantly, he was a loving husband, father and grandfather.
Surviving are his wife, Elizabeth Richardson Fulmer; sons, Fred Leo Fulmer, Jr. and wife, Beth, of Simpsonville, Daniel Walter Fulmer and wife, Suzie, and Richard Sidney Fulmer and wife, Roxanne, all of Newberry; grandchildren, Jacob and Natalie Fulmer, Angela Fulmer, Clayton Fulmer, Brittani Fulmer, Lori Fulmer and Sidney Fulmer. He was predeceased by his brothers, L.C., Ray and Jake Fulmer.
Active pallbearers: Fred Fulmer, Jr., Danny Fulmer, Richard Fulmer, Jacob Fulmer, Clayton Fulmer, Paul Hawkins, Dr. Joseph Frey and Brian Kunar. Honorary pallbearers: Carl Stoll, Juanita Stoll, Carolyn Sligh and her family, and Billy and Peggy Morris. The family wishes to express their appreciation to Mary Hill and Palmetto Health Hospice.
PROSPERITY - Services for Mary Frick Fulmer, 88, of 2133 Macedonia Church Road, will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Macedonia Lutheran Church by the Rev. Randall S. Derrick. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. The family is at her residence and will receive friends after the service in the church Fellowship Hall. McSwain-Evans Funeral Home is in charge. Memorials may be made to Macedonia Lutheran Church, 49 Macedonia Church Road, Prosperity, SC 29127.
Mrs. Fulmer, widow of Furman E. Fulmer, died Monday, April 29, 2002 at Newberry County Memorial Hospital. Born in Chapin, she a was a daughter of the late Lester E. and Bessie Arnold Frick. She had been a homemaker/gardener and a foster mother for Epworth Children's Home. She was an active member of Macedonia Lutheran Church, where she organized the "Goldies," serving as president for 17 years, taught Sunday School for 30 years, served as youth advisor for a number of years and was a member of WELCA, where she had held many offices.
Surviving are son,
Edward Fulmer of Columbia; daughters, Carolyn F. Garner-Harrison of North
Augusta, Jewel F. Oxner of Newberry, Sandra F. Metts of West Columbia, Janette
F. Cain of Prosperity, Faye F. Cannon of Chapin; sisters, Stella F. Wessinger,
Martha F. Glymph, Eleaner F. Rhodes, all of Chapin; 13 grandchildren; 11
great-grandchildren. She was predeceased by sons, Melvin Ray and Steve Randy
Fulmer; brother, Edgar R. Frick.
Norman Z. Frick
Peak - Norman Z. Frick, 63, of 1700 Mike Stuck Road, died Oct. 20, 2001, at his home. Born in Peak, he was a son of the late N.Z. and Tarzie Stoudemayer Frick. Service: U.S. Air Force. Retired: S.C. Electric and Gas Co., 40 years.
Survivors: Wife of 43 years, Evelyn Frick son and daughter-in-law, Roger and Lavenda Frick of Peak son, Russell Frick of Columbia daughter, Rhonda Livingston of Pomaria and five grandchildren.
Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m. today at McSwain-Evans Funeral Home. Service: 3 p.m. Monday at Mt. Hermon Lutheran Church. Burial: Church cemetery. Memorials: Lutheran Hospice, 1505 Blanding St., Columbia, SC 29201.
The following obits contributed by Cathy Schmidt
Mrs. Ethel Bowers Fellers, 76, died early Tuesday morning at the Newberry Memorial Hospital. Mrs. Fellers was born in Newberry County, daughter of the late James M. and Lidie Sparks Bowers. For many years she was a teacher and principal of the West End School in Newberry. She was a member of the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer, the Lutheran Church Women, the United Daughters of the Confederacy, the South Carolina Retired Teachers Association, and the National Teachers Association. Her husband, F. Raymond Fellers, died 23 years ago. She is survived by one sister, Miss Clara Bowers of Newberry; one sister-in-law, Mrs. George S. Wise of Columbia; and several nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be conducted today (Thursday) at 3:30 p.m. from the Whitaker Funeral Home by Rev. E. B. Keisler, and Dr. Henry A. McCullough Jr. Burial will follow in Rosemont Cemetery. Active pallbearers will be Dr. James Underwood, Preston McAlbany, Herman Langford, Jesse Frank Hawkins, I. Schissell, Spence Wise, Emory Bowman, and Earl Bergen. Whitaker Funeral Home is in charge.
Mrs. Alice Dickert Folk, 84, of 2105 Evans Circle, widow of William Folk, died Monday afternoon at her residence. Mrs. Folk was born in Newberry County, a daughter of the late Jacob L. and Effie Counts Dickert. She was a member of the First Baptist Church, American Legion Auxiliary and the Clvin Crozier Chapter, UDC.
She is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Ruby Trice and Mrs. Anna Hawkins, both of Newberry; one brother, Forrest W. Dickert of Newberry; two granddaughters, Mrs. Beth Sparks of Greensboro, N.C. and Miss Lisa Folk, of Charlotte, N.C.
Funeral services were conducted at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the Whitaker Funeral Home by Rev. Charles Nanney. Interment was in Rosemont Cemetery. Active pallbearers were Dr. Elbert J. Dickert, Billie Windhorn, Carl Ringer, P. K. Fuller, Ray Dickert, and Hamilton Folk. Whitaker Funeral Home was in charge.
Mrs. W. J. Frick of Chapin Dies Wednesday
Mrs. Carrie Mae Lindler Frick, 77, wife of Walter J. Frick of Route One, Chapin, died early Wednesday morning at the Newberry County Memorial Hospital after a week's critical illness. Mrs. Frick was born and reared in Newberry county, a daughter of the late Wesley and Jean Boland Lindler. She spent most of her life in Lexington County, where she was a member of St. Peter's (Pineywoods) Lutheran Church and a life member of United Lutheran Church Women.
She is survived by her husband, Walter J. Frick; three sons, David W. and Carroll Leon Frick, both of Chapin, and Claude Richard Frick of Irmo; four daughters, Mrs. Virgil (Gertie) Fulmer, Miss Evangeline Frick, and Mrs. Sam (Nellie) Stoudemire, all of Chapin, and Mrs. Curtis (Mattie Lee) Martin of Prosperity; one sister, Mrs. Josne Amick of Chapin; three brothers, Clarence O. Lindler of Greenwood, Elton and Carl Lindler, both of Little Mountain; 19 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren.
Funeral will be conducted at 3 p.m. today (Thursday) at St.
Peter's (Pineywoods) Lutheran Church by Rev. John D. Zeigler and Rev. J. S.
Wessinger. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Active pallbearers will be the
grandsons. Honorary escort will be members of St. Peter's Lutheran Church
Council, Dr. B. M. Montgomery and Dr. W. W. King Jr.
Lillie Fulmer
PROSPERITY - Services for Lillie Mae Barrett Fulmer, 84, will be held at 2 p.m. Monday at Macedonia Lutheran Church, with burial to follow in the church cemetery. The family will receive friends from 6-8 tonight at McSwain-Evans Funeral Home. Memorials may be made to Macedonia Lutheran Church, 49 Macedonia Church Road, Prosperity, SC 29127.
Mrs. Fulmer, widow of Eddie Leroy Fulmer, died May 10, 2002. Born in Chapin, she was a daughter of the late Charles and Elvira Dailey Barrett. Mrs. Fulmer was a homemaker and a member of Macedonia Lutheran Church, the Goldies, and the Petrea Circle.
Surviving are her sons, James Fulmer, Heyward Fulmer, Wayne Fulmer, and Eddie Fulmer, all of Prosperity; daughter, Dianne Vining of West Columbia; brother, Charlie Claude Barrett of Mount Pleasant; 19 grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren. She was predeceased by son, Jerry Fulmer.
Miss Berdell Fuller - contributed by Dean Long
NEWBERRY- Miss Berdell S. Fuller, 78, died Friday at Newberry County Memorial hospital. Born in Richland County, she was the daughter of the late W.G. and George Ann Amick Fuller. Surviving are one sister, Mrs. Blanche Watson of Charlotte, N.C., a brother, Glenn Fuller of Mineral, Calif., an several nieces and nephews. Services will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday at Capers? Chapel United Methodist Church, with burial in Newberry Memorial Gardens. The family suggests that those who wish may make contributions to the Capers? Chapel United Methodist Church. McSwain Funeral Home is in charge.
Mrs. Margaret Feagle died at her home near Pomaria, the 1st instant (June 1, 1878), in the 69th year of her age. Mrs. Feagle was the mother of nine children, one of them Mrs. U. B. White, and the grandmother of twenty-eight. She was buried at St. Paul's of which Church she had long been a faithful member.
Mrs. Armanda Fair, wife of the Rev. Robert A. Fair, who for several years was pastor of the Presbyterian church at this place (Newberry), died at the home of her son, the Rev. James Y. Fair in Richmond, on the 17th inst. The Rev. James Y. Fair, her son, is quite a well known divine, only recently having received a call in the Independent church of Savannah, one of the oldest churches in this country, being situated on land granted by George II. It is thought he will accept the call.
Col. Simeon Fair, died at Glenn Springs So. Ca. July 15th, 1873, from an attack of Diarrhoea. The writer has known the deceased citizen for many years notice hereunto attached from the Columbia Phoenix [p.154] [clipping] Colonel Simeon Fair, a distinguished citizen and eminent lawyer, departed this life, on the 15th instant, at Glenn Springs, from an attack of diarrhoea. His remains were carried to Newberry yesterday, where they will be interred to-day. He was elected Solicitor of the Middle Circuit in 1846, which position he occupied until 1868 - nearly a quarter of a century. Colonel Fair was in his seventy-third year, having been born in Newberry District in April, 1801. He leaves three sons, one daughter and a host of relatives, friends and neighbors.
The Charleston Mercury September 22, 1856
Death of Capt. M. H. Fair - By a letter just received from Kansas, we are pained to learn that Capt. Milton H. Fair, of the Newberry company of emigrants, died at Leavenworth city on the 3d inst. - Newberry Mirror.
Newberry Katharine B. Floyd, 82, widow of John Reuben Floyd
Sr., of Presbyterian Home, Clinton, died Sunday, June 3, 2001. Born in Newberry,
she was a daughter of the late Gaston F. and Sallie Davenport Boozer. Member:
Smyrna Presbyterian Church. Survivors: Sons, Rooney Floyd of Aiken, Gaston Floyd
and Yancy Floyd, both of Newberry a sister, Myrtle B. Martin, of Newberry and
five grandchildren. Service: 11 a.m. today at Smyrna Presbyterian Church.
Burial: Church cemetery. The family will receive friends in the church
fellowship hall following the committal service. -- McSwain-Evans Funeral
Home.
Jerry Fulmer
PROSPERITY - Services for Jerry R. Fulmer, 58, will be held at 3 p.m. Monday at Macedonia Lutheran Church, with the Rev. Randall Derrick officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. Active pallbearers will be J.R. King, John Larden, Win Hughey, Danny Young, Thomas Barr, Dwayne Jackson, Mike Litton, and Ray Smith. Honorary pallbearers will be members of the Carolina SeaBee Reunion Association, Eddie Mims, James Tinsley, and Jesus Rivera. The family will receive friends from 4-6 p.m. today at McSwain-Evans Funeral Home. Memorials may be made to the National Cancer Institute specified for Mesothelioma Research, Bldg. 31, Room 11 A16, 900 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20892, or to the Seabee Memorial Scholarship Association, PO Box 6574, Silver Spring, MD 20916.
Mr. Fulmer died February 15, 2002. Born in Prosperity, he was a son of Lillie Mae Barrett Fulmer and the late Eddie Leroy "Bill" Fulmer. Mr. Fulmer was a military veteran, having trained at the San Diego Naval Base, where he then served aboard the USS Montrose from 1961-64. He retired from Naval Construction Forces as a chief utilitiesman in 1991. Mr. Fulmer retired from the SC Department of Corrections in 2001, worked part-time at Sears in the Columbiana Mall, and was a member of Macedonia Lutheran Church. He was a recipient in 1989 and 1993 of the Newberry County Little Red Schoolhouse Award, a pressbox spotter for 25 years at Mid-Carolina football games, a former head BBQ cook for the Mid-Carolina Band Boosters, Fairview Fire Department, and occasionally the Lake Murray Rescue Squad. Mr. Fulmer was co-founder and president of the Carolina SeaBee Reunion Association, a retired member of the Fairview Fire Department, and a member of Masonic Lodge #281.
Surviving are his mother of Prosperity; wife, Yvonne "Vonnie" Marie Gothier Fulmer; sons and daughter-in-law, Danny Fulmer and Billy (Claudia) Fulmer, all of Garland, Texas; daughters and son-in-law, Wendy Furstenberg and Christy Ann Fulmer, both of Columbia, Jenny (Timothy) Hall of Aiken; brothers and sisters- in-law, James Fulmer, Heyward (Carol) Fulmer, Wayne (Kathy) Fulmer, and Eddie (Debby) Fulmer, all of Prosperity; sister and brother-in-law, Dianne (Wayne) Vining of West Columbia; grandchildren, Mary Furstenberg, Amanda Furstenberg, Joseph Furstenberg, David Furstenburg, and Jordan Hall.
Little Mountain - Henry Thomas Farr, 77, died Monday at his home after a long illness. Mr. Farr was a native of Newberry County, a son of the late George and Mamie Stockman Farr. He was a retired mechanic. Service will be held today at 3:30 p.m. in Holy Trinity Lutheran Church with burial in Newberry Memorial Gardens. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Eunice Amick Farr; two daughters, Mrs. Paul Shoren of Oak Ridge, Tenn., and Miss Ellie Farr of Little Mountain; a son, Howard T. Farr of Irmo; two brothers, John D. and Boyd Farr of Little Mountain; and a sister, Mrs. Henry Fulmer of Little Mountain. McSwain Funeral Home is in charge.
Hattie
Riggs O'Dell Ferguson, 95, formerly of 1307 Kinard St., died Thursday, Jan. 24,
2002. Survivors: daughters, Frances O. Bannister, Elizabeth O. Sligh
and Martha F. Prather; a son, Billy O'Dell; sisters, Dorothy Zeigler and Hazel
Huskey; 16 grandchildren; and a number of greatgrandchildren and
great-greatgrandchildren. Predeceased: Husband, Edgar S. O'Dell and John
T. Ferguson; and sons, Jesse O'Dell and Rudolph Ferguson. visitation: 6 to
7:30 tonight at Whitaker Funeral Home. Service: 2 p.m. Saturday at the
funeral chapel. Memorials: Central United Methodist Church, P.O. Box
67, Newberry, SC 29108
Clarence Fulmer
LEESVILLE - Services for Clarence R. Fulmer, 89, will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 14, 1999 at Macedonia Lutheran Church Cemetery, with the Revs. Gary Brandenburg and Rev. J. Hilton Roof officiating. Pallbearers will be Berley, Carroll, Larry, Monroe, and Wyman Fulmer and John Carroll Swygert. Visitation will be 6:30-8 tonight at Charles R. Shealy and Son Funeral Home. Memorials may be made to Macedonia Lutheran Church, 49 Macedonia Church Road, Prosperity 29127, or Cedar Grove Lutheran Church, 1220 Cedar Grove Road, Leesville 29070.
Mr. Fulmer died
Tuesday, Oct. 12, 1999. Born in Chapin, he was a son of the late Thomas and Emma
Frick Fulmer. He was a member of Cedar Grove Lutheran Church, and retired as a
truck driver from R.H. Smith Lumber Co. He was also a farmer. He was predeceased
by his wife, Louise Swygert Fulmer. Surviving are his brother, Curtis N. Fulmer of Ward; a
number of nieces and nephews.
Lillie Folk
NEWBERRY - Lillie Mae
Folk, 82, of 1421 Wheeler Street, Newberry, died Thursday April 7, 2005, at her
residence.
Miss Folk was born August 28, 1922, in Newberry, a daughter of the late Christian Milton and Lily May Caldwell Brown Folk. She was a life long member of Beth-Eden Lutheran Church, a member of the church choir, an officer of the WELCA and served on various committees of the church. She had retired from J.F. Hawkins Nursing Home.
Miss Folk is survived by a sister, Mary F. Lominick of Pomaria; eight nieces and nephews, Olin Lominick, Jr., Jane L. Ringer, Bobby F. Lominick, Chris F. Lominick, Dianne Lominick, M. Hayne Folk, J. Wayne Folk, and J. David Folk; a number of great-nieces and nephews; and a number of great-great-nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by three brothers, Hamilton Folk, James D. Brown, and R. Haskell Brown and a sister, Sarah Adelaide Folk.
Funeral services for Lillie Mae Folk will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Beth-Eden Lutheran Church by the Rev. Rodney Gunter. Interment will be in the church cemetery.
The
family will be at the residence, 1421 Wheeler Street, Newberry. Memorials may be made to Beth-Eden Lutheran Church, 228 Jalapa Road,
Newberry, SC 29108. Active pallbearers will be nephews.
Messages to the family may be sent via email to
notes@whitakerfuneralhome.com. Whitaker Funeral Home,
1704 College Street, Newberry, is assisting the family.
R. Samuel
Franklin
NEWBERRY - Services for R. Samuel "Sam" Franklin, 71,
will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday at Beth-Eden Lutheran Church with burial in the
church cemetery. Visitation will be 6-8 this evening at Whitaker Funeral Home.
Mr. Franklin died Monday in Newberry County Memorial Hospital. Born in Newberry, he was a son of the late Benjamin Giffin and Augustus Danzler Franklin. He was a peacetime veteran of the U.S. Army, a Mason and a member of Beth-Eden Lutheran Church.
Surviving are brothers, Buford, Daniel Franklin; nieces and nephews;
dear friend, Mary B. Summer.
John S. Fair
Cokesbury, June 16 - John S. Fair died at his late residence on Thursday morning in the 60th year of his age. His remains were carried to Newberry on Friday accompanied by his wife, his daughters, Miss Lillie and Mrs. T. N. Gaines, and his sons, J. S. and Herndon Fair, where the interment took place in Rosemont cemetery.
For the past 16 years Mr. Fair has been in declining health. Five years of the time he has been a physical wreck, and almost helpless.
Mr. Fair graduated with distinction in Washington and Lee university in 1873. He afterwards practiced law at Newberry with his brother-in-law, Y. J. Pope. He was for 18 years the treasurer of the city council of Newberry, and also held the position of trial justice, and was for eight years postmaster of Cokesbury.
He married Miss Hannie
Herndon, a daughter of Col. B. Z. Herndon of Cokesbury, and leaves surviving him
his wife and the following children: J. Sims, Herndon and Miss Lillie Fair and
Mrs. Tn N. Gaines.
W. B.
Franklin
Newberry, Aug. 6 – Mr.
W. B. Franklin, who during the Civil war was a member of Company B., First South
Carolina regiment, and a brave and faithful soldier, dropped dead at his home in
the county yesterday afternoon. Mr. Franklin has attended every general reunion
of Confederate veterans for the past 10 or 12 years. He was about 70 years of
age. His remains were buried at Rosemont cemetery this afternoon.
Elizabeth
Fant
HOUSTON - Graveside services for Elizabeth DuBose Fant, 56, will be held at 2 p.m. today in Silverstreet Lutheran Church Cemetery, with the Rev. H. Wyman Dowd officiating. A memorial service was held December 30, 2001, at Memorial Drive Lutheran Church, Houston, Texas, with the Rev. Sam Koenning officiating. McSwain-Evans Funeral Home is in charge of local arrangements. Memorials may be made to the American Diabetes Association, 2711 Middleburg Drive, Suite 311, Columbia, SC 29204.
Ms. Fant died December 27, 2001. Born in Newberry in 1945, she was a daughter of the late Thomas Maffett Fant Sr. and Edna DuBose Fant. Ms. Fant was a registered nurse and worked in Greenville and Houston.
Surviving are her sisters and brothers-in-law, Carolyn
(Allen) Thames of Houston, Edna Earle F. (the Rev. H. Wyman) Dowd of Prosperity;
brother and sister-in-law, Thomas Maffett (Shirley) Fant Jr. of Silverstreet;
nieces; nephews.
Travis W. Floyd
Newberry Travis W. Floyd, 30, of 2509 Henry Ave., Newberry, died Saturday, Oct. 18, 2003, at the Newberry County Memorial Hospital.
Mr. Floyd was born on Jan. 11, 1973, in Newberry, a son of William W. "Bill" and Judy Ann Watts Floyd. He was employed by Newberry Industries and a member of Silverstreet Lutheran Church. Mr. Floyd is survived his parents, of Newberry a brother, Troy J. Floyd, of Silverstreet and maternal grandmother, Martha A. Watts, of Newberry.
Funeral services for Travis W. Floyd will be conducted 4 p.m. Tuesday at the Silverstreet Lutheran Church by the Rev. Floyd Sides and the Rev. Robert McCollum. Interment will be in Silverstreet Lutheran Church Cemetery. Visitation will be from 2:30 to 4 p.m. and 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Monday at the Whitaker Funeral Home. The family will be at the residence, 2509 Henry Ave. Newberry.
Memorials may be made to Ruth Pugh Foundation, 115 Nance
Street, Newberry, SC 29108, or to Silverstreet Lutheran Church, 120 Church St.,
Silverstreet, SC 29145. Messages to the
family may be sent via email to notes@whitakerfuneralhome.com. -- Whitaker
Funeral Home, 1704 College St., Newberry, SC is assisting the family.
Eddie
Fulmer
PROSPERITY - Services for Eddie Leroy Fulmer, 83, of 2645 Macedonia Church Rd., will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at Macedonia Lutheran Church with burial in the church cemetery. The family is at the residence and will receive friends 6-8 tonight at McSwain-Evans Funeral Home, which is in charge. Memorials may be made to the church, 3216 Macedonia Church Rd., Prosperity, SC 29127.
Mr. Fulmer died
Wednesday, January 12, 2000 at Providence Hospital. Born in Prosperity, he was a
son of the late William Eddie and Rebecca Elizabeth Connelly Fulmer. He was a
retired employee of Kendall Company, Oakland Plant, and was a farmer. He was a
member of Macedonia Lutheran Church, where he was a member of the Goldies and a
life member of Lutheran Men. He formerly served on the Church Council.
Surviving are his wife, Lillie Mae Barrett
Fulmer; sons, James L., Heyward E., J. Wayne, Jerry R., and Eddie C. Fulmer, all
of Prosperity; daughter, Dianne F. Vining of West Columbia; 12 grandchildren;
seven great-grandchildren.
Grady Ware Force
Funeral services for Grady Ware Force, 85, were conducted at 11 a.m. today at Silverstreet Lutheran Church with burial in the church cemetery. Memorials may be made to Silverstreet Lutheran Church, 120 Long St., Silverstreet, SC 29145.
Active pallbearers: Lewis Dale, Pete Stoudemire, Maffett Fant, Michael Sheppard, Larry Longshore and Pat Longshore.
Mr. Force died Tuesday, Jan. 20 at Newberry County
Memorial Hospital. Born in Saluda, he was a son of the late John A. and Lena
Kelly Force. He was retired from Spartan Grain, was a member of Silverstreet
Lutheran Church and was a volunteer for the Silverstreet Fire Department.
Mr. Force is survived by his wife, Gertrude
"Cricket" Blair Force; 2 daughters, 2 grandchildren, 1 step-grandson, and 2
great-grandchildren. McSwain-Evans
Funeral Home was in charge. Condolence notes may be sent to
www.mcswainevans.com.
Edna Havird Fly
SILVERSTREET - Edna Havird Fly, 96, of 268 Lake Forest
Drive, Spartanburg, widow of Edward Leroy Fly, died Thursday, June 5, 2008, at
the Spartanburg Regional Hospital.
She was born on April 1, 1912 in Silverstreet to the late
Benjamin Mayer and Maggie Susan Long Havird. Mrs. Fly was retired from Green Textile and was a member
of St. Johns Lutheran Church of Spartanburg. She is survived by three sons, Edward Leroy Fly of Warner
Robins, Ga., John Mayer Fly and Thomas Havird Fly, both of Spartan-burg; a
sister, Mildred Havird Vincent of Ft. Belvoir, Va.; seven grandchildren and
seven great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Sunday at
Silverstreet Lutheran Church by the Rev. Steve Jackson. Interment will be in the
church cemetery. Memorials may be made
to Silverstreet Lutheran Church, PO Box 48, Silver-street, SC, 29145.
Messages to the family may be sent via e-mail
to notes@whitakerfuneralhome.com. Whitaker Funeral Home, Newberry, is assisting
the family.
Emma Fellers
NEWBERRY - Services for Emma R. Fellers, 81, will be held at 3 p.m. Friday, September 22, 2000 at Colony Lutheran Church by the Rev. Harold Jefferies. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. The family is at the residence and will receive friends 6-8 p.m. today at the McSwain-Evans Funeral Home.
Mrs. Fellers, widow of E.R. Fellers, died September 19, 2000 at Palmetto Richland Memorial Hospital. Born in Chapin, she was a daughter of the late Jonas Pickens and Minnie Ada Lindler Rister. She was a member of Colony Lutheran Church, the WELCA and area garden clubs.
Surviving are her son,
Eddie Fellers of Charleston; daughter, Mary Jane Dailey of Forest City, N.C.;
sisters, Eva "Pearlie" Lewis of Smyrna, Tenn. and Louise Werts of Newberry; four
grandchildren; a great-grandchild.
Charles Edward Fulmer
World War II Army Veteran
NEWBERRY - Charles Edward Fulmer, 82, of Newberry died Sunday, Nov. 12, 2006.
Born in Chapin, he was a son of the late Murray Oscar and Mary Jane F. Fulmer. He was a World Ward II Army veteran, and was a retired textile industry consultant. Mr. Fulmer was a member of Colony Lutheran Church where he served in the Lutheran Men in Mission, the Colony Friendship Group and was a Congregational Councilman. He was also a member of the Newberry Lions Club, the Bush River Young Farmers, the Bush River Athletic Association and the Jalapa Hunting Club.
He was twice married, first to the late Helen Corley Fulmer and secondly to Mrs. Roxanne Long Fulmer, who survives. He is also survived by: three daughters, Mrs. Judith F. Chapman of Union, Mrs. Don (Kathy) Morgan Sr. of Pauline and Mrs. Dale (Joyce) Wicker of Newberry; two step-sons, James T. (Crystal) Long of El Paso, Texas and Rodney (Amy) Long of Georgetown; a stepdaughter, Penny Hamm of Prosperity; a sister, Mrs. Gerry (Rudine) Hodges of Newberry; a brother, Heyward (Doris) Fulmer of Saluda; eight grandchildren, Dana Chapman, Charles E. Chapman and wife DeLisa, Andrew Chapman and wife Jennifer, Ryan Wicker, Austin Wicker, Rachel Wicker, Don Morgan Jr. and wife Johanna and Tressa Hasking and husband Robert. He was predeceased by brothers, James Fulmer, Leon Fulmer, Carlisle Fulmer and Harold Fulmer; sisters Leona F. Motley and Althea Barsamian and a grandson, Charles Hunter Chapman.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Colony Lutheran Church by the Rev. Jerry Trantham. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. Visitation will be Tuesday from 6 until 7:30 p.m. at the McSwain-Evans Funeral Home.
Memorials may be made
to Colony Lutheran Church, 48 Colony Church Road, Newberry, S. C. 29108.
The family is at the home of his daughter,
133 Sand Trap Drive, Newberry, S. C. A
condolence note may be sent to the family at www.mcswainevans.com. McSwain-Evans Funeral Home has charge of
arrangements.
Elizabeth Fulmer
NEWBERRY - Funeral services for Elizabeth "Bessie" Paysinger Fulmer, 93, of Newberry, SC, will be conducted by The Rev. Floyd Sides on Sunday, May 25, 2003, at 3:00 p.m. at Colony Lutheran Church, Newberry. Interment will follow in the church cemetery after which the family will receive friends in the Church Fellowship Hall. Visitation will be held Saturday from 4:30-6:00 p.m. at McSwain-Evans Funeral Home.
Mrs. Fulmer died Thursday, May 22, 2003, after a brief illness. Born on October 18, 1909, in Newberry, she was the daughter of the late Jacob Robertson and Sara Summer Paysinger. She was married to the late Harold Carland Fulmer. Mrs. Fulmer was a graduate of Newberry High School and Newberry College. She taught at Hartford Grade School and, later, taught math and was chairperson of the math department at Mid-Carolina High School until her retirement.
Mrs. Fulmer was a life-long member of Colony Lutheran Church where she was active in the Sunday School program and the WELCA. She regularly attended evening bible study sessions that were taught by the pastor. After her retirement she enjoyed quilting and gardening. She crocheted many beautiful and useful pieces. Her favorite pastimes involved cooking and providing for her children and grandchildren.
She is survived by a daughter and son-in-law, Elizabeth F. and Allen S. Hawkins, of Lugoff, and four sons and daughters-in-law: Robert C. and Bettye H. Fulmer, Harold M. and Lynne M. Fulmer, and Carol P. and Susan H. Fulmer all of Newberry, and Karl E. and Georgie Faye G. Fulmer of Chapin. Also surviving are eight grandchildren, two step-grandchildren, one great-grandchild and four step great-grandchildren. Mrs. Fulmer is also survived by one sister, Miss Mary Nell Paysinger.
Memorials may be made
to Colony Lutheran Church, 48 Colony Church Rd., Newberry, SC, 29108.
Eva
Fulmer
CHAPIN -- Eva Kelly Shealy Fulmer, 82, of Birchtrace Court died Thursday, May 30, 1996, at Richland Memorial Hospital.
She was born in Newberry County. She was the widow of Clarence R. Shealy. She was the former owner and operator of Chapin Beauty Shop and was a member of Mount Horeb Lutheran Church. Survivors include her husband, H. Bernard Fulmer; a son, James B. Shealy of Myrtle Beach; two grandchildren; and a great-grandchild.
The funeral will be at 11 a.m. today at Mount Horeb Lutheran Church. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Whitaker Funeral Home of Chapin is in charge of arrangements. Memorials may be made to Mount Horeb Lutheran Church.
