Recent Obituaries

Aug 25, 2002

Funeral services for Mr. Ralph O. Pekkala will be private The family will receive friends Wednesday, August 28, 2002 from 6?8 PM at the funeral home. Mr. Pekkala, 85, of Aiken, SC, husband of Mrs. Dorothy Frazer Pekkala, died Sunday, evening, August 25, 2002 at Aiken Regional Medical Centers.

Born in Maynard, MA, a son of the...

Aug 22, 2002

Funeral services for Mr. Julian Billy Woodward will be held Sunday, August 25, 2002 at 2 PM at Mt. Beulah Baptist Church, Windsor, SC, with Pastor Toby Rowell and Pastor Bert Baynham officiating. Interment will follow in the church cemetery. Pallbearers will be Lewis Woodward, Ricky Woodward, Jerry Bryant, Johnny Woodward, Frank Carr, and Bennie Woodward, Jr. The family...

Aug 22, 2002

Mrs. Louise Douglas Hobbs, 79, of Windsor died Thursday, August 22, 2002 at Aiken Regional Medical Centers. Funeral Services will be held 4pm Sunday, August 25, 2002 at George Funeral Homes, Historic Downtown Chapel with Pastor Bruce Fox officiating. Burial will be held Tuesday August 27, 2002 at Middle Tennessee State Cemetery. The family will receive friends Saturday form...

Aug 20, 2002

Robert ? Bob? F. Meekins, 66, of Aiken, husband of Ellen Meekins, died Tuesday, August 20, at Aiken Regional Medical Centers. A memorial mass will be held 7pm, Thursday, August 22 at George Funeral Homes, Southside Chapel, 3175 Whiskey Rd., Aiken, SC with Father Gade Show Reddy as celebrant. The family will receive friends following the memorial service. Mr....

Aug 19, 2002

Mr. William E. Pless, 74 of New Ellenton, husband of Christine Pless, died Monday, August 19, at his residence. A memorial service will be held Saturday, August 24 at South Aiken Kingdom Hall of Jehovah?s Witness, with Brother Ken Lyon officiating. The family will receive friends following the memorial service or at the family residence. Mr. Pless was born...

Aug 18, 2002

Funeral Services for Annette Sue Watzlavik, will be held 8pm,Wednesday, August 21, 2002 at George Funeral Homes, Historic Downtown Chapel with Pastor Bob Laube officiating. The family will receive friends before the service from 6-8pm at the Funeral Home. Burial will be in Leo Cemetery, Leo Indiana. Mrs. Annette Sue Watzlavik, 50, of Aiken, wife of Victor Watzlavik, died...

Aug 16, 2002

Funeral services for Nellie Lybrand Hallman will be held Monday August 19th at 4:00pm at George Funeral Homes Historic Downtown Chapel, 211 Park Ave. SW Aiken with Rev. John Wertz officiating. Interment will follow at Aiken Memorial Gardens. Visitation will at the funeral home from 2pm until the time of the service.

Memorial donations should be directed...

Aug 15, 2002

Aiken---Milledge ?Junior? Day, Jr., 55, of Fayes Garden Lane, died Thursday, August 15, at University Hospital. Funeral services will be held 3PM, Sunday, August 18, 2002 at George Funeral Homes, Historic Downtown Chapel, 211 Park Ave. SW, with the Revs. W.H. Bryant and Derrick Strickland officiating. Pallbearers will be Gene Baughman, James Stone, Sam Swearingen, Norman Baughman, Jimmy Roughton,...

Aug 12, 2002

A memorial service for Mrs. Sara Mae Kehl will be held Wednesday August 14, 2002 at 11:00am at George Funeral Homes, Historic Downtown Chapel, 211 Park Ave., SW, Aiken, with Rev. John Huff officiating. Interment will be private. The family will receive friends following the service at the residence of James and Bonnie Snavely. Mrs.Kehl, 81, of Aiken, SC,...

Aug 10, 2002

Mr. Ernest ?Smokey? Edenfield, 93, husband of the late Rena Edenfield, died Saturday, August 10, 2002. Funeral services will be held Wednesday, August 14, 2002 at 2 PM at Foreman Memorial Baptist Church, with Rev. Rick Rogers officiating. Interment will follow in Southlawn Cemetery, Aiken, SC. The family will receive friends Tuesday, August 13, 2002 from 7-9 PM at...

Aug 3, 2002

Aiken, SC-Funeral services for Mrs. Margaret Ould Mills will be private. The family will receive friends Thursday, August 8, 2002 from 7-9 PM at the funeral home. Mrs. Mills, 84, of Aiken, SC, wife of the late Hubert J. Mills, died Saturday, morning, August 3, 2002 at Aiken Regional Medical Centers.

Born in Brooklyn, NY, she had...

Jul 30, 2002

Mr. Francis Joseph Ley, 78, of Melbourne, FL, died Tuesday, July 30, 2002, at Aiken Regional Medical Centers, Aiken, SC. Funeral services will be held Friday, August 2, 2002 in Florida. Mr. Ley is survived by his wife Betty Ley, Melbourne, FL; sons, Phillip Ley, Wilmington, NC, and Kent Ley, Sarasota, FL; daughters, Beth Allen, Boca Raton, FL and...

Jul 26, 2002

Horace C. Kelly, 87, husband of the late Evelyn B. Kelly, died Friday, July 26, 2002 at his residence. A memorial service will be held later. Mr. Kelly had been living in Aiken for 20 years after moving from Tampa, FL. He was a graduate from Florida Southern College, Lakeland, FL, retired from Ferman Motor Car Company, Tampa, FL...

Jul 24, 2002

Funeral services for Mrs. Esther Richardson Hay will be held Friday, July 26, 2002 at 4 PM at Town Creek Baptist Church, Aiken, SC, with Revs. David Pohto, Brancie Stephens, and Jim Warren officiating. Interment will follow in the church cemetery. Pallbearers for the service will be Stanley Nield Hay, III, Ron Ellis, W. Alan Hay, III, Larry Smith,...

Jul 23, 2002

?Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord. Yea saith the spirit, that they may rest from their labors; and their works do follow them.? Revelation 14:13

Paul L. Zimmermann, 77, of Aiken, SC died at home of cancer on July 23, 2002. He was born at Burr Oak, WI on January 15, 1925. He spent...

Jul 21, 2002

A Mass of Christian Burial for Fouad S. Mubarak was celebrated by Rev. Msgr. Leigh

Lehocky Wednesday, July 24, 2002 at 11am at St. Peter?s Catholic Church, Columbia. Interment followed at Greenlawn Memorial Park, Serenity Gardens. George Funeral Homes Historic Downtown Chapel, Aiken, was charge of arrangements.

Mr. Mubarak, 84, of Columbia, died Sunday July...

Jul 21, 2002

Funeral services for Mrs. Barbara Ann Bridges will be held Wednesday, July 24, 2002 at 10 AM from the graveside in Aiken Memorial Gardens, Aiken, SC, with Pastor Glenn Davis officiating. No visitation will be held at the funeral home. Mrs. Bridges, 65, of Florence, SC, a former resident of Aiken, SC, died Sunday, morning, July 21, 2002.

Jul 16, 2002

May Gladys Raney, 92 , wife of the late Orvil Douglass Raney, died Tuesday, July 16 at her residence on York Street. Funeral services will be private. Mrs. Raney was born in Sharon, PA to William and Christine Cartwright, was a member of Vienna Presbyterian Church, Vienna, OH, a volunteer at the Duvall Home in FL and an avid...

Jul 15, 2002

Funeral services for Mrs. Edith Lott Bodie will be held Thursday, July 18, 2002 at 3 PM at Bethcar Baptist Church, Wagener, SC, with Revs. Chris Addy and Olin Sizemore officiating. Interment will follow in the church cemetery, with rites accorded by the Order of the Eastern Star. Mrs. Bodie will be placed in the church at 2 PM...

Jul 14, 2002

Funeral Services for Mr. Lawrence Owsley Grimes, Sr., will be held 11am, Tuesday, July 16 at Aiken Church of Christ with the Mark Hudson officiating. Burial will be at Southlawn Cemetery, Aiken, SC. Visitation will be held Monday evening from 7-9pm at George Funeral Homes, Southside Chapel, 3175 Whiskey Road. Mr. Lawrence Grimes, 82, husband of Kathryn Grimes for...