Capsugel driving economic upswing

Company: $2 million investment to create more jobs

March 12, 2006

By VIC MacDONALD
Index-Journal regional editor

Aging baby boomers and the battle of the bulge are fueling Greenwood’s economy. The leading manufacturer and supplier of two-piece capsules for the pharmaceutical and dietary supplements markets is on the grow at its Emerald Road campus.
A division of Pfizer Inc., Capsugel has its Americas headquarters right here, producing a main-stay of the capsule business, the traditional two-piece hard gelatin capsules. But now, the company’s colleagues have embarked on a new market and, with it, a $2 million expansion of the Greenwood plant.
Technology developed in France led the local Capsugel plant into research and manufacturing of Licaps, a form of liquid-filled hard gelatin capsule that allows consumers to see a “bubble” at one end of the capsule. That is visible assurance that there is liquid inside the capsule.
“Three years ago the technology moved to the U.S. with a $2 million pilot project,” said Ron Millender, vice president and general manager of the Americas Region. “The sales have taken off, 25 percent each year and continuing to grow.”
To keep pace, Capsugel in Greenwood instituted a $1 million expansion last year and plans to invest another $1 million this year, establishing another production line for Licaps. Company officials think that’s good economic news for a county that has 8.4 percent unemployment, 19th among the state’s 46 counties.
“It’s a good investment in Greenwood,” Millender said. “We hired six new colleagues last year and will hire 10 in 2006. We’re proud of the way it’s growing and the kind of commitment we have made in Greenwood.”
Licaps’ primary application to date has been in the dietary supplement market, since getting a new drug to market in the pharmaceutical industry is a longer process.
Still, Licaps represents a $5 million market for the company, and Millender envisions it as “a growing business.”
“It’s a nice occasion to say something positive about this happening in Greenwood,” he said.
Capsugel works closely with the Partnership Alliance to be a good corporate citizen, said Don Ryerson, Manager, Global Communications and Public Relations. The Partnership Alliance is the Greenwood city/county, public/private economic development agency.
“The better industry does in a city,” Ryerson said, “the better we are.”
Economic health makes a community look attractive to prospective employees, he said. Capsugel recruits many of its production line colleagues from Greenwood and the Lakelands, but specialty positions such as scientists in the new Formulation Center at SC Bio are recruited worldwide.
“With the skill sets we bring in, these recruits want to see a thriving community,” Millender said. “Most of the time, once you get them in here, they stay.”
“We’re part of Pfizer, which makes our recruiting easier,” Ryerson said. “Our commitment and expansion is to keep as much of our business as possible in Greenwood, to tap the expertise in making capsules.”
Working with officials in the county’s school districts, Capsugel identifies skill sets for its potential colleagues and encourages instruction aimed at those skills. The company sponsors a middle school initiative that promotes science.
Licaps are produced in a variety of sizes and colors and can be printed with company logos and dosage information. Capsule manufacturing equipment and parts are designed and made — and Licaps are made, inspected and boxed for shipment — in the Manufacturing Technology Center on the Emerald Road campus.
“We’re trying to keep technology up with growth,” said Gabe McCutcheon, production manager, Licaps. “We’ve dedicated quite a lot of capital money to this project. It’s moving really, really quickly.”
The two-piece Licaps are available in hard gelatin and vegetarian capsule options. The capsules are sealed using Capsugel’s patented LEMS sealing technology for a non-banded seal.
Two production lines work five days a week to keep up with the steadily increasing demand for the new product. Capacity is in place for a third production line, and a fourth is envisioned later this year.
“We’re pushed pretty hard right now with all these products on the board,” McCutcheon said. “They’re selling well right now, with a 25 percent product demand increase. We have to do whatever we can to make the customer happy.”
In addition to making Licaps, the Manufacturing Technology Center is Capsugel’s machine shop, precisely making all machines and parts used on assembly lines throughout the world. “It’s not what you think of as a machine shop,” McCutcheon said. “You go from these machines, then into a clean area.”
From assembly lines and a machine shop to a state-of-the-art research laboratory, Capsugel also has invested in Greenwood with its new Formulation Center in place at SC Bio, a bio-technology business incubator at The Genetic Center.
“In the dietary supplements industry, companies do not have large R&D (research and development) budgets,” said Croft Hollingsworth, Manager New Product Development - Liquids, Americas Liquids Group. “We can offer formulation knowledge in raw materials, dosage forms and shelf life. We have the equipment at the Formulation Center to test those kinds of things. We can act as their R&D group.”
Many Capsugel customers are marketing groups, and they do not know the manufacturing end of the business. They bring in product ideas that they want Capsugel to develop, Hollingsworth said.
“Our external customers we’re on the phone with daily, speaking one-on-one with their presidents, scientists and manufacturing directors,” Hollingsworth said. At SC Bio, the Capsugel facility has two labs with ancillary rooms for equipment, conference rooms and an auditorium for large-scale meetings, and Hollingsworth calls it “a great working atmosphere.”
“It’s away from the distraction of the manufacturing area,” he said, “so we can concentrate on what we do in the labs.” As production of Capsugel products increases, Hollingsworth envisions additional staff at the Formulation Center to meet customers’ expectations.
The same business forecast could be unfolding for Capsugel’s overall operations. With millions of dollars invested so far, Licaps that contain formulas to keep the baby boomers healthy and vibrant — not to mention fighting the middle age spread — could be Greenwood’s ticket to economic health, as well.
“If current trends continue,” a company fact sheet says, “Licaps will become a driving force in Capsugel’s growth in Greenwood for the next five years.”

Mothers Against Meth director puts addiction in ‘plain English’

March 12, 2006

By JOANIE BAKER
Index-Journal staff writer

NINTETY SIX — They were pregnant.
Yet the women who came into the doctor’s office were not smiling their pearly whites or basking in a healthy glow as the doctor measured their expanding belly lines.
Some didn’t have teeth.
Some didn’t have hair.
Most had scars and were skinnier than the average American woman.
But examining the methamphetamine-addicted mothers and often finding that their babies were either dead or extremely unhealthy wasn’t what motivated Mary Holley to start Mothers Against Meth.
It was when the OB-GYN’s brother committed suicide in 2000, after two years of struggling with the addiction, that Holley gave up her medical practice and began traveling to prisons and churches “putting into plain English” the dangers of the drug.
But, unlike some of the other speakers who come into the community to tell the warning signs and effects of the simply made product, Holley had something else to say to the crowd of nurses, ministers and residents on Saturday at St. Paul United Methodist Church.
Between the slides of brains scorched with holes from the months and years of meth use, and the pictures of babies with the oozing yellow chemical burns from living in neglected homes, Holley interrupted the scientific facts for a message of her own.
A “non-politically correct opinion of the speaker,” the slide said.
Holley told the listeners she thinks about 50 percent of meth users are good kids, good people and even professionals with degrees who just got mixed up in the wrong crowd.
The other 50 percent are “tough kids” who begin a dependency cycle when they are young and looking for guidance outside their alcohol- and drug-filled homes.
“The idolatry. The thing these people are choosing to obey is what is chosen to be God,” said Holley, who told the crowd many textile and chicken companies give meth to their employees under the counter to increase productivity and alertness. “They will sacrifice everything they have — their family, their home, they’re friends — on the alter of meth. They will sacrifice everything they are on the alter of meth.
“We’ve been teaching evolution in the schools so long that many don’t believe in God. They think, ‘Why should I suppress these impulses for the sake of a book that is 2000 years old?’”
But Holley said it takes more than just good counseling to help a meth addict overcome the urge to relapse to the synthetic pleasures. She said all counselors can do for pain is listen, sympathize, validate and medicate the pain. But only Jesus, she said, can absorb the pain and heal the soul.
“Many of these people are mad, mad at God,” she said. “They say ‘was he not paying attention when this happened to me?’ But he was hanging on a tree paying for it. You don’t have to be controlled by anger anymore. You must tell him the truth. You can’t shock him. He died for you, too.”
Holley recommended using “tough love” and prayer to help deal with loved ones’ addictions. She said that meth addicts who are treated in a 12-month Christian counseling program are less likely relapse.
“It’s sad that people don’t realize the danger but aren’t here to hear about it,” Christian Counseling Center Counselor Sue Nickerson said. “But we’re here and we’ll get the word out.”
Holley said she has found delivering the message about meth and the Lord much more satisfying than her career in medicine that she stopped practicing a year ago. She said the rewards are everywhere she goes.
“I’ll walk into Wal-Mart and some big burly guy with tattoos will wrap his arms around my neck and say ‘doctor, you saved my life,’” she said of one of the prisoners she counseled. “He got his life back together. That will keep you going.”

Area’s best hoopsters honored

Saluda’s Deloach, EHS’ Nicholson named Lakelands’ top players

March 12, 2006

By CHRIS TRAINOR
Index-Journal sports writer

Being named Lakelands Area Player of the Year means different things to the two high school basketball players receiving the awards.
For boys player of the year Trevor Deloach, a junior from Saluda High School, the honor is a culmination of a goal he set for himself before the year began.
Meanwhile, for Emerald senior Elizabeth Nicholson, being named girls player of the year in the Lakelands is just business as usual.
This marks the second consecutive year Nicholson has received the honor.
Deloach had a huge year for the Tigers.
The lanky shooting guard averaged 24.4 points and 9.1 rebounds per game. He also collected 3.6 steals and 3.4 assists per contest. He was named All-Region III-AA and was the region’s player of the year. He was also named to the AA All-State team.
“I’m really happy to be named Lakelands Player of the Year,” said Deloach, who was on the All-Lakelands team his freshman and sophomore years.
“I set a goal before the year to win it. I had been All-Lakelands before. I was lucky enough to take it to the next level this year.”
Nicholson turned in another stellar season for the Lady Vikings, guiding Emerald to the third round of the state playoffs.
The center averaged a double-double with 16.8 points and 13 rebounds per game.
She was honored as Region III-AA player of the year and named to the girls’ AA All-State team.
“I’m surprised, honestly,” Nicholson said when informed she had once again been named the top girls player in the Lakelands.
“I’m glad, because I did feel pressure to get it again.”
Nicholson said she felt as if she played this season with a bull’s eye on her back. She was oftentimes subject to double and triple teams from opposing defenses.
As Deloach prepares for his senior season, he has a major decision ahead of him: choosing which college team to suit up for.
Deloach said he has been receiving heavy interest from Florida State, College of Charleston and Winthrop, to go along with moderate interest from South Carolina. Deloach already has a number of offers from Division II schools.
“I’m keeping my options open,” Deloach said. “The main thing for me right now is to keep getting better and help Saluda get to state next year.”
Nicholson said she is also interested in playing in college, perhaps as a walk-on. However, she said she is not yet sure which school she will attend.
Deloach is not the only Saluda player on the All-Lakelands team.
Teammate Markese Holloway joins Deloach, being chosen on the first team. Holloway averaged 20.9 points and 8.9 rebounds for the Tigers, which helped him in being selected to the North-South All-Star game.
Also on the boys first team is McCormick center Jake Letman. The senior averaged 17.2 points and 9 rebounds per game.
Ninety Six’s Nick Lagroone was also named first team All-Lakelands. The senior swingman averaged 22.6 points and 6.1 rebounds per game while being named All-Region III-AA.
Dixie’s Yavario Smith helped the Hornets to their best season in over a decade. Smith provided 18.7 points and 7.8 rebounds to go along with three assists and 2.7 steals per game.
Greenwood’s Andre Day rounds out the boys’ first team. The Eagles’ point guard averaged 13.2 points, 4.1 assists and 2.5 rebounds per night.
Day’s female countpart, Ashly Chandler, headlines the girls’ first team. Chandler, the Eagles’ senior all-purpose guard, was solid all the way around with 12.7 points, 6.2 rebounds, 3.5 steals and 3.2 assists per game.
Ninety Six’s Amanda Chrisley averaged 16.7 points, 4 rebounds and 3.8 steals per contest.
In an astounding statistic, 40 of Chrisley’s 67 field goals were 3-pointers.
Dixie’s Melinda Canfield averaged a double-double for the season, scoring 18 points and hauling down 10 rebounds per game. She also managed to collect four points and 3 assists per contest.
Lakia Bailey wreaked havoc on Region I-AA teams with 18 points and 13 rebounds per game, and was also adept at kicking the ball out to Abbeville’s solid perimeter shooter when she faced double teams.
Completing the girls first team is McCormick’s Dainese Roberts. The senior guard guided the Lady Chiefs to back-to-back region titles and averaged 17.2 points, 3.2 steals and three rebounds per game.
The six boys players named to the All-Lakelands second team are: Abbeville’s Ty Suit and Jamal Mattison, Emerald’s Peferio Strong, Dixie’s Ajmal Davis, Greenwood’s A.J. Lomax and Calhoun Falls guard D.J. Roundtree.
The girls All-Lakelands second team is composed of Greenwood freshman Syteria Robinson, McCormick’s Whitney Smalls, Emerald’s Brittany Connor, Calhoun Falls’ Lauren Henderson, Ware Shoals point guard Lauren Butler and Greenwood Christian center/forward Caroline Clarke.
The boys honorable mentions are: Greenwood’s A.J. Lomax, Armanti Edwards and Sam Montgomery; Emerald’s Dan Wideman, Matt Herring, Demarco Anderson and Will Taylor; Abbeville’s Marcus Ray, Derrick Norman and Michael Butler; Ninety Six’s Ken Mathis and Daniel Longmire; Saluda’s William Culbreath; McCormick’s William Peterson, Brandon Cisco, Cody Mursier and Darius Bussey; Calhoun Falls’ Theo Tillman and Monterrio Tatum; Dixie’s Diomi Gordon; Ware Shoals’ Lance Richardson and Cameron Dorn; and Greenwood Christian’s Joseph Bailey, Isaac Stumbo and Tyler Leinbach.
The girls honorable mentions are: Greenwood’s Vijya Corbett and Jacena Thompson; Abbeville’s Emerald’s Brittne Patterson; Quintella Morton and Tecoya London; Saluda’s Tokia Yeldell; McCormick’s LaTeidrya Mims and Shaleka Smith; Calhoun Falls’ Brittany Obot and Lacey Brown; Dixie’s Jasmine Smith and Stephanie Lowe; Ware Shoals’ Nydra Edwards; and Greenwood Christian’s Charity Koschel.

Opinion

Government in sunshine: the public’s right to know

March 12, 2006

Government in the sunshine. This week we celebrate the public’s right to know how its business is conducted. In other words, it’s about shining the spotlight on the public’s business and the Freedom of Information Act.
Most government officials, in Greenwood and the rest of South Carolina, are conscientious, hard-working women and men who have the public interest at heart. They strive to make all of government responsive to the needs of those who look to them to keep public business public.
Do some officials always do things openly, for all to see and hear? Or, are they prone to go behind closed doors to make decisions and leave their constituents wondering not only what they are doing, but how they are doing it?

THERE ALWAYS IS AN unknown quantity in just about facet of government. That’s what brought the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) into being. And make no mistake about the FOIA. It does not belong to the media. It is, first and foremost, there for the public.
Still, it is an important tool for the press when it’s needed to be the public’s surrogate in keeping up with government. That’s critical, for the public cannot attend all government meetings and has to depend on the press.
Everyone of us should know what Thomas Jefferson had to say about the press in America, but considering how some of us know more about the Simpsons on TV than some of our leaders, that cannot be assumed. So consider what Jefferson had to say about the press.

THERE HAS BEEN NO greater voice nor any more pertinent words in the history of the United States to speak to the importance of open government.
Thomas Jefferson: “The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should nor hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.”
Our whole system, of course, depends on the principles of open government that help keep every other aspect of our lives free.
The Constitution, no doubt, covers everything we need to keep up with government. The FOIA helps facilitate information flow to the public, though, and all citizens should take advantage of their FOIA rights anytime they see a need.
This is Sunshine Sunday, and this begins Sunshine Week. If it accomplishes nothing more than to help people realize the FOIA is for their benefit the effort is worth it.

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Obituaries

Tony Lawrence Able

GRIFFIN, GA. — Tony Lawrence Able, 52, died Friday, March 10, 2006.
Born in Saluda, S.C., he was a son of the late Robert Benjamin Able Sr. and Christine (Tina) Boazman Able. He was employed with Atlanta Gas Light and attended First Baptist Church of Grffin.
Survivors include his wife, Libby Able; three sons, Chris Piland of Griffin, Chad Looney of Monroe, La. and Jason Gordy of Fla.; mother of Greenwood; a brother, Robert (Bob) B. Able Jr. of Greenwood; and seven grandchildren.
Services are 5 p.m today at Oak Hill Cemetery, conducted by Dr. Craig Sherouse.
Visitation is 2-4:30 p.m. today at Conner-Westbury Funeral Home.
Conner-Westbury Funeral Home, Griffin, Ga., is in charge.
Online condolences may be sent to the family at www.conner-westburyfuneralhome.com

Gene Cockrell

NINETY SIX — Johnnie Eugene “Gene” Cockrell, age 60, resident of 114 Summer Place, widower of Linda Meredeth Cockrell died March 10, 2006 at his residence.
Born in Greenwood on September 30, 1945, he was the son of the late Lee and Marie Kitchens Cockrell. He was a graduate of Greenwood High School and attended Piedmont Tech. He was a member of the National Guard and the Greenwood Chamber of Commerce. A retired employee of Monsanto, he formerly owned and operated Video World for 14 years and also worked at Self Regional Medical Center as a Security Guard for several years. He was a member of Siloam Baptist Church and attended Rice Memorial Baptist Church.
Survivors include one daughter, Melissa “Missy” and husband Christopher Tripp of Greenwood; granddaughter, Madison Tripp; grandson, Andrew Tripp, both of Greenwood; brothers, David Leroy Cockrell, Robert Carroll Cockrell and Charles Thomas Cockrell, all of Greenwood; step-son, Rodney Lesh of Clover; step-daughters, Debra L. Parnell of Greenwood and Shea Lesh of South Carolina; and 2 step grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his first wife Sandra Elaine Shirley Cockrell.
Funeral services will be Monday at 4:00 PM from the Chapel of Blyth Funeral Home with Reverend Alvin Hodges officiating. Interment will follow in Greenwood Memorial Gardens.
Pallbearers will be Dale Hill, Chris McMillan, Tim Jones, Steve Willner, Craig Clark and Richard Jones.
The family is at the home, 114 Summer Place, at Lake Greenwood and will receive friends from 6-8 PM Sunday at the funeral home.
Those desiring may be made to the Greenwood Humane Society, PO Box 242, Greenwood, SC 29648 or the American Heart Association, PO Box 6604, Columbia, SC, 29260-6604 in memory of Mr. Cockrell.
For additional information and online condolences please visit www.blythfuneralhome.com.
Blyth Funeral Home & Cremation Services is serving the Cockrell family.
PAID OBITUARY

Ruby Culbertson

LAURENS — Ruby Pitts Culbertson, 96, of 3474 Neely Ferry Rd., widow of Robert Lee Culbertson died Friday, March 10, 2006 at Martha Franks Infirmary.
Born in Laurens county she was a daughter of the late James D. and Maggie Tollison Pitts. She was a homemaker and a member of Union Baptist Church where she was a member of the Mother’s Sunday School Class and a former Choir member.
Surviving are one son, James R. Culbertson of Mauldin, three daughters, Marie Pitts of Laurens, Evelina O’Dell of Ware Shoals, and Hazel Leonard of Maudlin, a Niece raised in the home, Sybil Crowson of Greenville, one brother, J.D. Pitts of Laurens, eight grandchildren, ten great-grandchildren, and eight great-great-grandchildren. She was pre-deceased by two grandchildren, Kenneth Pitts and Jennifer Crowson.
Funeral Services will be held at 4 PM Sunday at Union Baptist Church with Rev. Chris Garrison and Rev. Larry Pitts officiating. Burial will follow in Greenwood Memorial Gardens.
Active pallbearers will be Samuel Culbertson, Joseph Culbertson, Matthew Culbertson, Scott Pilgrim, Curtis Pitts, Jerry Pitts, Donnie Pitts, and Stanley Henderson.
The body will be placed in the church at 3 PM Sunday. The family will be at their respective homes. Parker-White Funeral Home, Ware Shoals, in charge of arrangements.
PAID OBITUARY

W. Horace Fleming

ABBEVILLE, S.C. — W. Horace Fleming, age 79, of 103 Woodview Lane and formerly of Clinton, died Friday, March 10th in the Abbeville Memorial Hospital.
He was born in Elberton, GA and was the son of the late Bud and Lil Fleming.
Surviving are five sons and daughters-in-law, Walter and Jeanette Fleming of Abbeville, James and Betty Fleming of Hodges, William Horace Fleming Jr. of Georgia, J.D. and Kim Wyatt of Cross Hill and Tony and Joy Wyatt of Mounteville; three sisters and sons-in-law, Marie Bradford of Abbeville, Johnnie Lou and Stanley Haggerty of Elberton, GA and Wanda and Henry Pitts of Mountville; 25 grandchildren and 37 great-grandchildren.
He was predeceased by his wife, Helen W. Fleming; a daughter, Bonnie S. Owings, a son, Larry R. Wyatt, three brothers, Clarence, Rayford and Alton Fleming and a sister, Vera Balchin.
Graveside services will be conducted Monday at 2:00 p.m. at Pinelawn Memory Gardens in Clinton.
The family will receive friends Monday from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. at the funeral home.
Condolences may be expressed at www.grayfuneralhome.com
GRAY FUNERAL HOME of Clinton.
PAID OBITUARY

Artincie M. Jacobs

McCORMICK — Services for Artincie M. Jacobs are 1 p.m. Monday at Percival-Tompkins Funeral Home, conducted by the Rev. Clyde Cannon.
Burial is in the Old Mount Zion Baptist Church Cemetery.
Pallbearers and flower bearers are friends of the family.
The family is at the home of a niece, Mary Gary, 501 Baptist Ave., Greenwood.
Percival-Tompkins Funeral Home, Greenwood, is in charge.
Online condolences may be sent to the family at www.pertompfh1@earthlink.net

Doris Lott

NINETY SIX — Doris Cooper Lott, 79, of 11 Roxanna Drive, widow of William J. “Bill” Lott, died Friday, March 10, 2006 at her home.
Born in Greenwood, she was a daughter of the late Samuel and Edna Witt Cooper. She was a graduate of Ninety Six High School and Lander College. She retired from NCNB Bank (now Bank of America) and was a member of Greenwood Shores Baptist Church.
Survivors include a daughter, Lynn L. Young, with whom she made her home; a son, Josh Lott of Lenoir, N.C. and five grandchildren.
Graveside services are 4:30 p.m. today at Greenwood Shores Baptist Church Cemetery, conducted by the Revs. Lee Going and Chuck Sprouse.
Honorary escorts are the Men of Greenwood Baptist Shores Baptist Church, along with Bill Walker, Ken Bisek, Ben Milner, Gene Spears, Tommy Hendricks, Ray Berry, Carroll Addy, Temple Lamar, Dan Whitmire and George Galphin.
The body is at Blyth Funeral Home.
Visitation is immediately following the service at Greenwood Shores Baptist Church Cemetery.
The family is at the home.
Blyth Funeral Home & Cremation Services is in charge.
Online condolences may be sent to the family at www.blythfuneralhome.com

Sheila Lane Postell

WASHINGTON — Sheila Lane Postell, 45, of 833 Twentieth St., N.E., died Thursday, March 9, 2006 at Howard University Hospital.
The family is at the home of 120 Adams Drive, Abbeville.
Services will be announced by Abbeville & White Mortuary, Inc., Abbeville.

Clyde Wade

Clyde Hollandsworth Wade, 87, of 1110 Marshall Road, widow of Denver C. Wade, died Friday, March 10, 2006 at Wesley Commons.
Born in Willis, Va., she was a daughter of the late John Clayton and Amanda Hollandsworth Snider. She was retired from Greenwood Mills Plant No. 5 and a member of Harris United Methodist Church where she was a member of the Daisy Harris Sunday School Class.
Survivors include a daughter, Bonnie W. Henderson of Abbeville; two sons, Bobby “Bob” L. Wade and Jim “Jimmy” A. Wade, both of Greenwood; a sister, Versie Phillips of Hillsville, Va.; four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Services are 11 a.m. Monday at Harley Funeral Home, conducted by the Rev. Robbie Burton. Burial is in Greenwood Memorial Gardens.
Pallbearers are Wade Bowie, Jimmy Owen, Chris Wade, Mike Maffett, John Scott Jr., J.S. Mitchell, Noel Mitchell and Vernon Burke.
Honorary escorts are Dr. George Cone, Dr. Carlos Manalich and Dr. Allen Turner.
Visitation is 10-11 Monday at Harley Funeral Home.
The family is at their respective homes.
Memorials may be made to Muscular Dystrophy Assoc., 25 Woods Lake Road, Suite 704, Greenville, S.C. 29607.
Harley Funeral Home & Crematory is in charge.
Online condolences may be sent to the family at www.harleyfuneralhome.com

Sally Wilkinson

PATTERSON, N.J. — Sally Butler Wilkinson, 66, died Friday, March 3, 2006 at St. Joseph’s Regional Hospital.
Born in Ware Shoals, S.C., she was a daughter of the late Thomas Butler Sr. and Lillian Robinson Butler. She was a graduate of Emma Maddox High School and retired as Securities Manager from Chase Manhattan Bank. She was a former member of Good Hope Baptist Church and later joined St. Lukes Episcopal Church in Patterson, N.J.
Survivors include her husband, James Wilkinson, Patterson, N.J.; a daughter, Shannon Wilkinson, N.Y.C.; a brother, Edward Robinson, Bayside, N.Y.; and a granddaughter.
Services are 2 p.m. Monday at Good Hope Baptist Church, conducted by the Rev. Stanley Haltiwanger.
The body will be placed in the church at 1. Burial is in the church cemetery.
Visitation is 7-8 p.m. tonight at Robinson-Walker Funeral Service, Ware Shoals.
The family is at 34 Joe Oulla Road, Ware Shoals.
Robinson-Walker Funeral Services is in charge.