Category Archives: Obituaries

Mekita Shadale Mills

07 July 2018, 2018, Obituaries

Mekita Shadale Mills, 36, of 100 Redwood Circle, Apt. 16, passed away Thursday, June 28, in Spartanburg Regional Hospice Home.
She was born in Greenville County and was a daughter of Peggy Leach Mills and William E. Mills.

Mekita was a member of Concord Baptist Church, a Graduate of Gaffney High School (Class of 2000), and an employee of Nestle.

She was preceded in death by her grandparents, Fletcher and Louise Leach and James and Lula Mae Mills.

She leaves to cherish loving memories: a son, William A. Wood, of the home a daughter, Ari D. Mills of the home; mother, Peggy Mills (Frederick) of Gaffney; father, William E. Mills (Faurtina); brother, Daniel R. Mills of of Fort Lauderdale, FL; two sisters, Jacqueline T. Watkins (Robert) of Gaffney and Franchesta Massey of Greenville; nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles, other relatives and friends.

Funeral Services will be Friday, 1:00 p.m. in Concord Baptist Church with Dr. Michael A. Bridges officiating. Interment will follow in the church cemetery. She will be in state in the church Friday at 12:00 noon.

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Mrs. Mary Alice Johnson Landrum

06 June 2018, 2018, Obituaries

Mrs. Mary Alice Johnson Landrum, 78, of 7666 Desmond Ave., North Charleston, SC, passed away on Wednesday, June 20, 2018.

She was born on March 22, 1940 in Cowpens, South Carolina as the eighth child of Fraygious and Garrie Mayes Johnson. She was the widow of Ostell Daniel Landrum, Mary received her formal education in Cowpens, Pacolet, and Charleston, SC. She was a member of The Air Force Joint Base Chapel Church in Charleston.

Mary was preceded in death by her parents, husband, four siblings, and a son, Victor.

Surviving are; two sons, Calvin A Landrum of Charleston, SC and Craig A. Landrum of Killeen, TX; two grandsons, Jymere A. and Craig A., both of Texas; two sisters, Ms. Frances Corbett of Pleasantville, NJ, and Ms. Barbara McNair of Atlantic City, NJ; one brother, James O. Johnson of Upper Marlboro, MD; a host of nieces, nephews, in-laws, other relatives and friends.

Funeral Services will be Thursday, 12:00 noon, in The Gilmore Mortuary Chapel with Rev. Timothy L. Hunter officiating. Interment will follow in Oakland Cemetery.

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Miles Camp, Jr.

06 June 2018, 2018, Obituaries

Miles Camp, Jr., 97, of 1238 Ellis Ferry Road, Gaffney, SC, peacefully entered eternal rest on Wednesday, June 20, 2018, in Peak Resources Assisted Living in Cherryville, NC.

He was born on October 7, 1921 and was a son of the late Miles Camp, Sr. and the late Madie Morgan Camp.

He was a member of Mikes Creek Baptist Church and a retiree of Duke Power Company, Salisbury, NC.

He was preceded in death by two sons, Milas Rayford Camp and Lewis Camp. Mr. Camp is survived by his wife, Gelina Jackson Camp of Gaffney; eight daughters, Shirley Rodgers (Bobby Dean) of Gaffney, Ernestine Mayes (J.C.) of Rochester, NY, Frances Mayes (Walter) and Louise Ellis (the late Willie Dean) of Cleveland, OH, Dorothy Dixon (Mark) of NC, Netta Foster (Vincent) of Gaffney, Olishia Gaffney of Duncan, SC and Sandy Dillard of Gaffney; sisters, Geraldine Morris and Eloise Leach (Bobby) of Gaffney, Isabell Tohen of High Point, NC, Tecola Wood of Baltimore, MD, and Ophelia Ettison of Orlando, FL; brothers, Leonard Camp of Cleveland, OH and James Camp of Chicago, IL; daughters-in-law, Lucy Camp of Gaffney and Mary Camp of Cleveland, OH; 27 grandchildren; a host of great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren; nieces and nephews.

Funeral Services will be Tuesday, 1:00 p.m., in The Gilmore Mortuary Chapel with Rev. Bobby Rodgers, Jr. officiating. The family is at the home of Shirley Rodgers, 111 Jasmine Drive.

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