NTSB: Crashed plane slightly overloaded

2004 aircraft tragedy in Greenwood left four people dead

April 7, 2005

By WALLACE McBRIDE
Index-Journal senior staff writer

An airplane that crashed last year in the Wellington Green subdivision was slightly overloaded, according to a report issued by the National Transportation Safety Board.
A Cirrus SR20 crashed shortly after leaving the Greenwood County Airport April 19, 2004, killing the pilot and three passengers.
While an official explanation for the crash is pending, the NTSB has released a “factual” report outlining the details of the incident.
The plane, piloted by Troy Sufferling, 37, of Kennesaw, Ga., crashed about 1 p.m. in the Wellington Green subdivision, less than 100 feet from three homes on Chatham Court.
An airport mechanic told investigators he saw the airplane taxing onto runway 27 with both doors open and the flaps in the retracted position.
The airplane taxied onto the active runway and departed without conducting an engine “run-up,” a procedure used to locate engine problems before takeoff.
Another pilot later reported seeing the airplane struggle during takeoff before going into a vertical nosedive.
The airplane hit two trees before slamming into the ground behind a row of homes in the Wellington Green subdivision 1,800 feet from the airport, according to the report.
Sufferling and his passengers all died as a result of “blunt head trauma.”
All four were working on the construction of a Piggly Wiggly grocery in Coronaca.
The Cirrus SR20 had been inspected March 30, 2004, and was last flown the day before the crash. Its destination on the day of the crash was Kennesaw, Ga.
While the report draws no conclusions, it does determine that the aircraft was slightly overweight. On April 19, the plane carried 45 pounds more than the 3,000-pound maximum gross weight for takeoff for a Cirrus SR20.
Sufferling had a third-class medical certificate issued with no restrictions in 2002 and had reported 500 total flight hours on his application for this certificate. He completed training Jan. 8, 2004 at the Aero Atlanta Flight Center. He had 5.5 hours of ground school and 6 hours of dual instruction.
According to the Aero Atlanta Flight Center, Sufferling had between 50 and 100 hours in the SR20 model aircraft. His last biennial flight review was Oct. 15, 2002.

Greenwood resident says he was ‘baptized in the war’

April 7, 2005

By MEGAN VARNER
Index-Journal staff writer

In the mid-1940s, Greenwood resident Jack Scott had the opportunity to visit Italy. As he traveled up the western half of the country, Scott stopped at various cities along the way, including Naples, Rome and Milan.
But Scott was no tourist, and he was not on any vacation.
He was an infantryman with the U.S. Army.
For more than one year, the Columbia native and his fellow troops made their way across the European country – on foot – as part of the 91st Infantry Division during World War II.
When Pearl Harbor was attacked in December 1941, Scott, by that time attending a high school in Columbia, knew his future was being reshaped by forces beyond his control.
“After Pearl Harbor, I knew it was useless to think about going to college at that time,” he said. “We didn’t know a whole lot, but we knew our time was coming.”
In 1943, as Scott was completing his senior year in high school, the war, though still in its infancy, began pulling more and more U.S. troops overseas. The World War II 60th Anniversary Committee reports that by the end of that year, the United States had dedicated more than 9 million military personnel to the war effort at home and abroad.
After watching some of his friends and classmates volunteer to enter service, rather than wait to be drafted, Scott began thinking of doing the same.
“Some of (the boys) went ahead and joined so that they could pick their branch of service. I had some friends that were a year or two older than me, and they had gone into the Air Force, and one friend went into the Naval Air Corps,” Scott said. “Being 18, you don’t know what you want to do. For some reason, I had a desire to be in the Air Force and be a pilot. I thought it was a glorious thing to do in those days.”
In June 1943, just after his high school graduation, Scott took the exam to enter the air corps.
But at only 5 feet 6 inches tall and 105 pounds, he said his physical condition kept him from passing the entrance exam.
“I wasn’t large enough,” he said, with a laugh.
Though the Air Force didn’t want Scott in June, by September the Army did, and just weeks after his attempt to enter service voluntarily, Scott received a draft notice informing him that he had been selected to serve his country.
He reported for induction at Ft. Jackson, where he was given the opportunity of joining either the Army or the Navy.
“I didn’t want the Navy. I couldn’t visualize being on a ship and having to swim if that ship sunk,” he said, laughing. “I decided I would rather be in the Army. I didn’t know anything about the Army.”
Scott said he was at the center for only a week before he and a large group of the men were loaded onto trains. At that point, their destination was unknown.
“We didn’t know where we were going, and we weren’t told anything. We were on that train about three days, and sometime late at night, we arrived. The only thing we could hear was a band playing, and we all looked out the windows,” he said. “I saw a blue flag with crossed rifles on it. I had no idea what it was, but someone said that it was the infantry insignia.”
Still not knowing where they were, the men departed the train.
“We were put into tents and told to go to sleep. At 5:30 a.m., we were woken and hustled out.
That’s when we were told we were at Camp Shelby in Mississippi, and we would be taking basic training for the infantry,” he said, adding that the troops had likely been kept in the dark about their destination for security purposes. “I’m sure it was because they didn’t want people to know what kind of movements were going on involving troops.”
After six weeks of basic training, Scott was assigned for training maneuvers in the Louisiana swamplands.
The assignment was supposed to last a month, but it was cut short - the men were needed overseas as replacements for troops already in combat. Scott next reported to Ft. Meade, Md., where he began to train for hand-to-hand combat.
“We still didn’t know where we would end up, and we had to know the skills of using the bayonet to fight,” he said.
Two weeks later, the men were moved to Hampton Roads, Va., which was one of the primary ports of debarkation during the war. Again, Scott said the train took an evasive route to reach their destination, and he said there seemed to be a cloud of secrecy surrounding the troops.
“Everything was very quiet and very hushed,” he said. “We were told we could make telephone calls, but we could not give our location, or say anything about (the Army). Our conversations were being monitored.”
That evening, the men were loaded into the hull of a liberty ship. Scott said the ship was so crowded with troops that many – including himself – had to remain below deck for a majority of the journey. He said the men, still unsure of their assignment location, spent most of their time on the trip trying to guess whether the next land they saw would be the frozen terrain of the Europe Theatre, or the sandy beaches of the Pacific islands.
“The next morning, when we went on the deck for exercise, we looked out and there were ships for as far as we could see on all sides,” he said. “After a couple of days at sea, they told us we were going to the European Theatre.”
The ships sailed through the Strait of Gibraltar to land on the northern African coast in early 1944. There, Scott said he began additional combat training, and he qualified to be an expert rifleman, sniper and scout within the infantry division.
Scott soon moved to southern Italy, where he said he was assigned to a unit in the 91st Infantry Division, which was part of the Texas National Guard.
“My division went into Italy on the left side of the boot. I was in (Lt. Gen.) Mark Clark’s 5th Army. Patton’s Army was on the right side,” he said. “That was where I got my first introduction to combat.”
Though the men did not face hand-to-hand combat with German troops as they worked their way inland, Scott said they came under heavy artillery, mortar and rifle fire almost immediately.
“It didn’t take long on that first day before you were baptized in the war,” he said, laughing.
Scott said the men began pushing northward on the Italian peninsula, often skirting the sides of the larger cities – such as Naples – where fighting was taking place. Their focus, he said, was on the smaller villages, where the Germans held heavy concentrations of troops.
“In (the town of) Cassino, there was a Catholic monastery on top of a mountain, and it was supposed to be an open area. We were not allowed to throw any artillery shells into that area,” he said. “It turned out that it had probably one of the heaviest concentration of (German) troops in that area. They were on top of the mountain looking down at us, and we were just like sitting ducks. There was some fierce combat in that area.”
Scott said hundreds of troops from his division were killed or wounded during that particular battle.
“It’s hard to deal with it when you see one of your friends get shot, but you don’t pay much attention,” he said. “You block it out, and you keep going.”
As the troops made their way past Rome and into the northern Apennine mountain range, Scott said the weather conditions became cold, snowy and nearly intolerable.
“It was extremely cold – you couldn’t stay warm or dry. Most infantrymen try to carry a couple pairs of socks. You carried them in your shirt, next to your body, to keep them dry. That was one of the most important things,” he said. “I always carried mine under my arm, and I changed them twice a day. They weren’t clean socks, but they were dry socks.”
While in the mountains, Scott got his first assignment as a sniper. He was stationed in an old church, where he waited – alone – for any sign of German troop activity.
“It was the most frightening part of duty. I had to go up into the tower of the church, and there was nobody with me. Usually, when you did sniper duty, you were there for a day or two. If you slept, you had to cat nap,” he said. “When you (fired), you exposed your location. After I had been in there half a day, I saw German troops on patrol, and I fired on them to try to disperse them. I didn’t get any direct fire from them, but I later got fire from artillery pieces. They tried to hit the church I was in, but fortunately they never did get a direct hit.”
In the fall of 1944, as the Germans were making their last strong efforts of the war in Europe, Scott and his fellow troops were making their way across Italy, eventually entering the Po Valley.
“Sometimes we would move 25 miles a day, but when we moved those 25 miles, we didn’t go on trucks,” he said. “We walked.”
By late 1945, the soldiers had finally reached the northern Italian border, and their objective had been completed. Scott and the men were sent home.
Scott said the troops had been ordered to take a 45-day furlough before reassembling at a camp in Alabama to await their next assignment. But before they could reach the camp, the war, which had already ended in Europe, came to a close in Japan.
Scott spent the rest of his time in service training infantrymen at Ft. Benning in Georgia. He was discharged from service on Feb. 26, 1946.
After attending Clemson University on the GI Bill of Rights, Scott moved to Greenwood in 1954, where he began a career with Greenwood Mills.
“There were some good times, and there were some awfully bad times,” Scott said of his experience in World War II. “But the war helped me grow up knowing the values of what my country meant to me. It made me become an adult a lot quicker than I would have otherwise.”

Pippin pitches gem for GHS

Junior limits Vikings to 3 hits in Eagles victory

April 7, 2005

By BRIAN HOWARD
Assistant sports editor

Casey Pippin allowed just three hits as the Greenwood High School baseball team snapped a three-game skid to crosstown rival Emerald, posting a 4-2 victory Wednesday night at Emerald High School.
Pippin pitched a complete game, striking out two and walking a pair in getting his second win of the season.
The junior was perfect through three innings, before giving up a walk to Wade Scott in the fourth. He lost the no-hit bid an inning later on a single by Blake Miller.
“Casey Pippin has given us some very good outings this year,” Greenwood coach Stanley Moss said. “He’s done an excellent job. He’s the same kid that pitched against Hillcrest (a win for Greenwood) and he’s going out there giving us a chance.”
Greenwood avenged an early season loss to the Vikings. Emerald won the opener between the two schools, 3-2, in eight innings.
The Eagles (9-7) had seven hits and took a 1-0 lead into the bottom of the fifth, but the Vikings (12-4) rallied to take a 2-1 lead.
Miller’s single to right, which broke up the no-hitter, scored Cruse Tollison, who was hit by a pitch to lead off the inning. He scored on a double-steal to put Emerald ahead.
Greenwood answered in the top of the sixth, scoring two runs and taking a 3-2 lead.
With one down, Brent Wham singled to right. He took second and third on stolen bases.
One batter later, Austin Addison hit a two-out single to right, scoring Wham. Addison scored the eventual winning run after Matt Titus singled to center.
Leading 3-2 in the top of the seventh inning, Greenwood added a run on a hit.
Michael White reached on a one-out walk, took second on a stolen base and scored on a Michael Stuart single to center.
Corey Barnes (2-1) took the loss, striking out two and walking three.
“We’ve lost three in a row now and that doesn’t happen a lot around here,” Vikings coach Chad Evans said. “We’ve got to get things back on track. We played OK tonight. We didn’t get the big hits when we needed them and they (Greenwood) played great defense.”
Greenwood plays host to Region I-AAAA opponent T.L. Hanna Friday, while the Vikings also are in region action at home against Mid-Carolina.

Eagles get sweep

GHS defeats EHS for second time this season

April 7, 2005

By CHRIS TRAINOR
Special to The Index-Journal

The Greenwood High School soccer team bested crosstown rival Emerald High School 3-1 on Tuesday night at Emerald. It was the Eagles’ second victory over the Vikings this season.
“It’s good to get a win over your crosstown rivals,” Greenwood coach Jamie McClendon said. “It’s a rivalry, but it’s a friendly rivalry. These kids on both teams came up playing Toros together and club games together. It’s always very competitive when we meet each other.”
The first half was indeed competitive, with the Eagles carrying a 1-0 advantage into halftime. Greenwood dictated the tempo for most of the opening half, keeping the ball at the Vikings’ end of the field for much of the half.
“They (Emerald) were using a defensive-style gameplan, so we tried to create some opportunities based on that,” McClendon said.
Emerald was able to keep the Eagles at bay until the 9:30 mark, when Greenwood striker Adam Standley ripped a shot past Emerald keeper Josh Dean for the only goal of the half.
“Adam is so fast. He can create match-up problems for a lot of teams,” stated McClendon.
It took the Eagles only four minutes and 49 seconds to light up the scoreboard in the second half.
Greenwood’s Tyler Davis, positioning himself on the left side of the goal, rocketed a pass to a streaking Chandler Pitts, who scored the second goal of the match on a header. The goal put the Eagles up 2-0 at the 35:11 mark.
Emerald, refusing to go quietly, drew blood for the first time at the 29:30 mark. The Vikings Chris Robinson dribbled into heavy traffic and was able to find just enough room to bang home a shot past Greenwood’s diving keeper Ben Shirley. The score narrowed Greenwood’s lead to 2-1.
The Vikings could get no closer, however, as Greenwood put the game away at the six minute mark. It was at that point that Greenwood freshman striker Jacovie Anderson found the back of the net with a low arcing bullet that slipped just past Dean putting Greenwood up 3-1.
“Jacovie gives us a real spark, sort of like a sixth man in basketball,” said McClendon, adding, “he comes in and does exactly what we need him to do.”
Josh Dean recorded 15 saves on the night for the Vikings. The sophomore keeper collected nine of the stops in the first half.
Greenwood (11-1) will face off with Laurens on Friday night in a Region I-AAAA showdown.
“Even though Laurens at the bottom of our region, we need to come out and treat it like it was a big game like the Emerald game,” said McClendon. “We need to take care of business.”

Opinion

Gobbledygook in athletics? Sometimes it looks like it

April 7, 2005

Write your own editorial.
Is University of South Carolina basketball coach Dave Odom speaking in the athletic world’s version of gobbledygook? If you didn’t know better, you might think so.
Odom, of course, has been linked in the media with the vacant basketball coach’s job at the University of Virginia, where he spent a number of years as an assistant. Odom and various other officials in the South Carolina and Virginia athletic departments, have denied the reports, which, as every sports fan knows all too well, is standard procedure. Some of what’s said and not said, though, appears to leave the situation open-ended.

TAKE, FOR EXAMPLE, A couple of quotes from Odom. Saying he had no discussions with Virginia about taking over the program there, Odom said, “There was absolutely no discussion about my potential interest in the head coaching position at the University of Virginia.”
Read that again, slowly. Note the reference to “my potential interest.” Potential interest? Does that mean there is a potential interest?
That was on Tuesday. A day later, Odom was asked by one of his USC players if he planned to leave Columbia for Charlottesville.

HIS ANSWER? AS OF RIGHT now, no.
Right now? If not right now, does that mean at some point he will plan to leave? When? All in all, it looks as though Odom is indeed applying a little gobbledygook. Usually, gobbledygook is language used by government that is difficult to understand. Synonyms are gibberish, doubletalk or mumbo jumbo. Experience, however, shows it’s not always confined to government.
Odom hasn’t said he was going. He also hasn’t said he was not involved.
Athletic gobbledygook?
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Obituaries

John Boxx

John Douglas Boxx, 77, of 434 Dogwood Circle, husband of Rita Moslyn Boxx, died Wednesday, April 6, 2005 at Self Regional Medical Center.
Visitation is 6-8 tonight at Blyth Funeral Home.
The family is at the home.
Services will be announced by Blyth Funeral Home.

Ruth Bradford

ABBEVILLE, SC – Ruth Furen Bradford, 84, of 210 Millwood Dr. Abbeville died Wednesday, April 6, 2005 in Self Regional Medical Center.
She was born in Ft. Myers, FL. to the late Frederick and Cola McCutcheon Furen. Mrs. Bradford was married to the late Rev. Howard W. Bradford; she was a retired school teacher and spent most of her time caring for her grandchildren.
Surviving Mrs. Bradford is her daughter, Cecily Morris, her four grandchildren, Ryan B., Juliana L., Andrew R., and Danielle F. Morris all of Abbeville.
A Memorial Service will be held at 5:00PM Friday, April 8, 2005 in the Main Street United Methodist Church. The family will receive friends afterwards at the residence 210 Millwood Dr., Abbeville.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be sent to the Abbeville Opera House Backstage Dressing Room Renovation Project, PO Box 247, Abbeville, SC 29620.
Online condolences may be sent to the Bradford family by visiting www.harrisfuneral.com.
HARRISFUNERALHOME, of Abbeville is assisting the Bradford family.
PAID OBITUARY

Doris Burroughs

WARE SHOALS — Doris Tumblin Burroughs of 1503 Nation Road, widow of Wilburn Stanley Burroughs, died Wednesday, April 6, 2005 at Self Regional Medical Center. She was born in Laurens County, a daughter of the late Allen and Elvira Suttles Tumblin. She was a member of Walnut Grove Baptist Church.
Surviving are two sons, Robin Burroughs of the home, Stan Burroughs and wife, Lilya, Amelia Island, Fla.; two daughters, LaDell Burroughs Allen and husband, Tom of Palm Beach, Fla., Donna Burroughs Porter and husband, Myers of Augusta, Georgia;
Grandchildren, Annette Batson and husband, Keith, Ware Shoals, Barker Plake and wife, Yvette, Hodges, Tammie Browne and husband, Dave, Darin and wife, Vickie and Robbie Burroughs, all of New York, Annah Wall and husband, Mike and Carmen Maguire and husband, William, all of Augusta, Georgia, and Christie Burroughs Clark and husband, David of Greer and Jason Burroughs of Hodges. She was predeceased by grandsons Andy Porter and Shane Burroughs.
Great grandchildren, Trey, Katie and Cory Plake, Nicholas, Natalie, Lydia and Cameron Batson, Amanda, Zack, Garrett, Tanner, Jessica and Shawn Burroughs, Ethann Brown, Madeline, Chloe, Drew Wall and Andrew Burroughs.
Funeral services will be 3 PM Friday at Walnut Grove Baptist Church with Rev. Jay Collins and Rev. Scott Dublin officiating. Burial will follow in Greenwood Memorial Gardens. Grandchildren will serve as active pallbearers. The members of the M.E. Riley Sunday School Class will sit as the honorary escort.
The family will be at the home and will receive friends at Parker-White Funeral Home, Thursday, 7-9 PM. The body will be placed in the church Friday at 2 PM.
PAID OBITUARY

Lee Charles

WILMINGTON, DE – Thomas Lee Charles, 78, resident of 3 Drummond Drive, widower of Blanche Gentry Charles, died April 4, 2005 at Christiana Hospital in Newark, DE.
Born in Newberry County, SC, June 28, 1926, he was a son of the late Hobson L. and Pearl Swindler Charles. He was a graduate of Greenwood High School and was a US Marine Veteran of WW II. After the war, Mr. Charles entered Clemson College where he graduated in 1951. He retired from E. I. DuPont de Nemours in Wilmington, DE after 31 years service. After retirement, Mr. and Mrs. Charles returned to Greenwood in 1984 making Greenwood home until their return to Delaware in 1996.
Mr. Charles was a member of Red Clay Creek Presbyterian Church in Wilmington and was a member of the Greenwood Lions Club and the Greenwood Masonic Lodge #91 A.F.M.
Surviving are a daughter, Sandra C. and husband, Joseph Sarjeant with whom he made his home in Wilmington; a son, Kenneth Lee and wife, Karen Charles of Wilmington, DE; three granddaughters, Elizabeth and Meg Salter, Heather and husband, Matthew Kirk; two great-grandchildren, MacKenzie Kirk and Joshua Lee Kirk.
Graveside services will be conducted at 11 AM Friday in Greenwood Memorial Gardens with Rev. George Wilson officiating.
The body is at Blyth Funeral Home where the family will receive friends from 6 to 8 Thursday evening.
Memorials may be made to the National Parkinson Foundation, Inc., 1501NW 9th Ave. Bob Hope Road, Miami, FL 33136-1494 or to Red Clay Creek Presbyterian Church Building Fund, 500 McKennan’s Church Road, Wilmington, DE 19808.
For additional information please visit www.blythfuneralhome.com
BLYTH FUNERAL HOME IS ASSISTING THE CHARLES FAMILY.
PAID OBITUARY

Margaret Miller

NINETY SIX – Margaret Elizabeth Miller, 80, resident of 129 Ebert Drive, died April 5, 2005 at Self Regional Medical Center.
Born in Mt. Vernon, NY, July 12, 1924, she was a daughter of the late Valentine J. and Marie Doell Miller. She was a graduate of A. B. Davis High School, Mt. Vernon, NY and retired from Nestle’s Chocolate in White Plains, NY. Ms. Miller had made her home in Ninety Six since 1990.
She was a member of First Reformed Church in Mt. Vernon, NY.
Surviving are four nephews, Arthur “Butch” Ebert of Ninety Six, Peter Ebert of Iva, Douglas Ebert of Walhalla and Brentwood Fardette of Pompano Beach,FL; two nieces, Letitia Furcolowe of Scottsdale, AZ and Claire Vara of Venus, FL; a number of great-nieces and nephews.
Graveside services will be conducted at 1PM Monday at Beechwoods Cemetery in New Rochelle, NY. The family is at the home of her nephew and his wife, Arthur “Butch” and Fran Ebert, 132 Ebert Drive and will receive friends at their home from 7 to 9 Thursday evening.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to First Damascus Baptist Church, 635 Phoenix Road, Greenwood, SC 29646.
For additional information please visit www.blythfuneralhome.com
BLYTH FUNERAL HOME IS ASSISTING THE MILLER FAMILY.
PAID OBITUARY

The Rev. James G. Sims

NEWBERRY — The Rev. James G. Sims, husband of Luncindy Sims, died Monday, April 4, 2005 at Newberry County Memorial Hospital.
Born in Newberry County, he was a son of the late Johnny and Luvenia Caldwell Sims. He attended Newberry public schools and Benedict College in Columbia. A member of New Enoree Baptist Church, he was pastor of Enoree Zion Church in Ninety Six for 35 years and pastor of Young Mount Zion in Chappells for 34 years. He served as moderator of the Samaritan Baptist Association for 20 years.
Survivors include his wife; three daughters, Dorothy Clark and Lou Coleman, both of Newberry and Mrs. Harold (Barbara) Jeter of Union; three sons, the Rev. Robert A. Taylor of Kinards, Donald Mathis and James Taylor of Newberry; a sister, Francis Farrow of Woonsocket, R.I.; and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Services are 2 p.m. today at New Enoree Baptist Church, Highway 176.
Hunter Funeral Home, Whitmire, is in charge.

Ada Norman Wright

McCORMICK, S.C. — Mrs. Ada Norman Wright, 90, wife of the late Mr. Willie Mosley Wright, entered into rest on Tuesday, April 5, 2005 at McCormick Health Care Center.
Mrs. Wright was the daughter of the late Carlton and Della Ware Norman and was retired from Milliken. She was a member of Republican United Methodist Church, Adult Sunday School Class and the Ladies Club.
Survivors include one daughter, Annette W. Blanchett and husband, Clyde of Abbeville, S.C.; two sons, Wallace Wright and wife, Grace of McCormick, Gene Wright of Moorsville, N.C.; four sisters, Margaret Parks and Joyce Bentley, both of Lincolnton, Ga., Jackie Butler of McCormick and Kathryn Wheatley of Washington, Ga.; daughter-in-law, Patsy Dillashaw of McCormick; ten grandchildren; seventeen great grandchildren.
Mrs. Wright was preceded in death by two sons, Carl Wright and Hubert Wright; daughter-in-law, Vivian McFerrin Wright.
Funeral services will be held at 4:00 p.m. Friday, April 8, 2005 at Republican United Methodist Church with the Rev. Wade Everett officiating. Interment will be in Overbrook Cemetery.
Pallbearers will be grandsons and nephews.
Memorial contributions may be made to Republican United Methodist Church in care of Betty Swann, P.O. Box 689, McCormick, S.C. 29835 or to the Shriner’s Hospital for Children, 950 W. Faris Road, Greenville, S.C. 29605.
The family will receive friends on Thursday from 7:00 p.m. until 8:30 p.m. at Republican United Methodist Church Social Hall.
Rees Funeral Home, 195 Peachtree St., Lincolnton, Ga. (706) 359-3222 is in charge of arrangements.
PAID OBITUARY