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Gladys M.
Jamison
TRAVELERS
REST _ Sarah Gladys McCauley
Jamison, 91, formerly of West
Drive, died April 15, 1996.
Born in Greenville
County, she was a daughter of
the late John and Mamie
Service McCauley.
She was a homemaker
and a member of Reedy River
Baptist Church.
Her husband was the
late Jerome Oswald Jamison.
Surviving are a daughter,
Violet J. Clayton of
Greenville; a son, Thomas
Alexander "Tommy" Jamison of
Greer; two brothers, Paul S.
McCauley of Greenville and R.F.
McCauley of Easley; five
grandchildren, Lonnie D.
Clayton, Lannie G. Clayton,
Jana C. Smith, Tena J. Andrews
and J. Todd Jamison; and eight
great-grandchildren. She was
predeceased by a son, Jerome
Jamison.
Services: 2 p.m.
Thursday at Reedy River
Baptist Church with the Revs.
Timothy Lee, Seth P. Hester
and Gerald C. Martin
officiating. Burial will be in
the church cemetery.
Visitation: 6 to 8
p.m. Wednesday at The Mackey
Mortuary, Century Drive.
(The Greenville
News)
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Jerome
Jamison
TRAVELERS
REST -- Jerome Jamison, 61, of
405 State Park Road, husband
of Kathleen Burns Jamison,
died Friday at his home.
He was born in
Greenville County, August 30,
1924, a son of Gladys McCauley
Jamison and the late Jerome O.
Jamison. He was a retired
factory representative for
Hamilton Associates of
Lexington, S.C.. He was a
member of Reedy River Baptist
Church, where he was former
Chairman of the Board of
Deacons, former Sunday School
Superintendent, and a former
Church Treasurer and former
Director of the R.A.'s of
Reedy River Baptist Church and
was on several building
committees of the Church.
Surviving in addition
to his wife are one son, J.
Todd Jamison of Travelers
Rest; one daughter, Mrs. Tina
Marie Smith of Travelers Rest;
one brother, Tommy Jamison of
Travelers Rest; one sister,
Mrs. Marvin (Violet) Clayton
of Greenville; and two
grandchildren, John and Jerry
Underwood of Greenville.
Funeral services will
be conducted Sunday at 3 p.m.
from Reedy River Baptist
Church, with the Rev. Gerald
Martin and the Rev. S.P.
Hester officiating. Burial
will follow in the church
cemetery.
The body is at the
Howze Mortuary and will be
placed in the church at 2 p.m.
Sunday.
Active pallbearers to
meet at the church Sunday at
1:45 are as follows: Lonnie
and Lannie Clayton, Greg
Manual, Scott Burns, David
Burns and William McManus.
Honorary Escort to
meet at the church Sunday at
2:45 are the Willing Workers
Sunday School Class of Reedy
River Baptist Church, also Dr.
James E. Barnett, James C.
Hawkins, J.D. Parks, Morris
Greene, Jim Pitts, Bruce
Freeman, Buck Fleming, E.J.
Puckett, Fred Ellenburg, Jim
Wallace, Joe Batson, James C.
Williams, Elmer Finley and Roy
Moore.
The family is at the
home, 405 State Park Road,
Travelers Rest.
Memorials may be made
to the Reedy River Baptist
Church, the Greenville Hospice
Program, c/o Greenville
Memorial Hospital, or the
Greenville County Cancer
Society.
The Howze Mortuary,
Funeral Directors, Travelers
Rest.
(The Greenville
News, Jan. 26, 1986)
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Jerome
Oswald Jamison
Funeral
services for Jerome Oswald
Jamison, 57, farmer and brick
mason of the Hellams Crossing
community, will be conducted
at the Reedy River Baptist
Church Friday afternoon at 3
o'clock by the pastor, the
Rev. S.P. Hester, assisted by
the Rev. John Turner of
Central. Interment will be in
the adjoining cemetery. He was
fatally injured Wednesday in a
wreck at Berea.
Mr. Jamison, a
lifelong resident of
Greenville County, was a son
of the late A.A. and Elizabeth
(Burke) Jamison.
He is survived by
his wife, Mrs. Sarah Gladys
McCauley Jamison, two sons,
Jerome Jamison and Thomas
Alexander Jamison of Travelers
Rest; one daughter, Mrs. S.M.
Clayton Jr., of Travelers Rest
and two sisters, Mrs. D.P.
Garrick of Easley and Mrs.
P.D. Burdine of Greenville.
Pallbearers will be
Bobby Joe McCauley, Anthony
Rose, D.P. Garrick Jr., Jack
Burdine, P.H. Jamison and
Carroll Bayne Baughman. They
will meet at the Mackey
Mortuary at 2:30 o'clock.
The members of the
Men's Bible Class of the Reedy
River Baptist Church, with
M.L. Jarrard. J.C. Jarrard,
Luther Bates, Jesse Timmons,
R.B. Phillips, H.B. Davis,
B.F. McDaniel, Charles
Sammons, Clarence Timmons and
Harold Duncan will compose the
escort of honor and will meet
at the church at 2:45 p.m.
The body will remain
at the Mackey Mortuary until
the hour of service.
(Compiled from
two Greenville News articles,
Dec. 28-29, 1950)
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Clara F.
Jarrard
CLEVELAND _
Clara Marie Fox Jarrard, 78,
of 32 Church Drive died of
natural causes Feb. 18, 1988
at Greenville Memorial
Hospital.
She was a retired
postal clerk at Cleveland Post
Office and was co-owner and
operator of M.L. Jarrard
Supermarket.
She was a member of
Cleveland First Baptist
Church.
Surviving are her
husband, Melvin L. Jarrard of
the home; a son, Paul D.
“P.D.” Jarrard of Marietta;
and two daughters, Betty J.
Simmons of Cleveland and Doris
J. Stepp of Hendersonville,
N.C.
Services: 2 p.m.
Sunday at Cleveland First
Baptist Church with burial in
Reedy River Baptist Church
Cemetery, Travelers Rest.
Visitation: 6 to 8
p.m. Saturday at the Howze
Mortuary, Travelers Rest.
The family is at the
residence.
Memorials may be
made to Cleveland First
Baptist Church Building Fund,
P.O. Box 305, Cleveland, S.C.
29635.
(The Greenville News,
Saturday, February 20, 1988)
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Melvin Lee
Jarrard
Melvin Lee
Jarrard, who was postmaster in
Cleveland for 35 years and
served on the boards for
several local organizations,
died Feb. 8, 1997, at
Greenville Memorial Medical
Center after several months of
illness. He was 85.
Born in Marietta, he
was a son of the late Paul D.
and Suddie Baughman Jarrard.
Jarrard, of 32 Church Drive,
attended grade school in both
Pickens and Greenville
counties and was a graduate of
North Greenville Academy in
Tigerville.
He came to Cleveland in
1931, where he owned and
operated a general store and
the M.L. Jarrard Supermarket
until 1968. He was a member of
Associated Grocers Inc. of
South Carolina from 1956 to
1968, and was a member of the
board of directors for many
years.
Jarrard was postmaster
in Cleveland from 1937 to 1972
and had been a member of the
National Association of
Postmasters since 1941.
He was weatherman for
the Cleveland area from the
mid-1930s until the
Greenville/Spartanburg Jetport
was built in the 1950s.
A hog and cattle farmer
since 1931, he was a member of
the Farm Service Agency for
many years.
He was instrumental in
building the Batson-Stroud
Memorial Hospital in Marietta,
where he served on the board
of directors from 1950 until
1968 and was the board's first
chairman.
He served on the
Greenville County Library
Board from 1952 to 1958 and
was its treasurer.
He was a member of the
state commission of forestry
and of the Greenville County
board.
Jarrard was a lifetime
member and past master of
Ebenezer Masonic Lodge 101
AFM. He was a charter member
and past president of the
Slater-Marietta Lions Club and
received the Citizen of the
Year Award in 1955.
He owned M.L. Jarrard
Real Estate and helped acquire
city water for Cleveland and
the surrounding area.
He was a member of
Cleveland First Baptist
Church, formerly Middle River,
since 1937. At the time of his
death, he had taught the M.L.
Jarrard Sunday School Class
for more than 55 years.
Jarrard published a book
about his life, "The
Mountaineer of Cleveland,
South Carolina," in 1996.
Surviving are his second
wife, Christine Nix Jarrard of
the home; two daughters and a
son-in-law, Doris Jarrard
Stepp of Cleveland and James
E. and Betty Jarrard Simmons
of Cleveland; a
daughter-in-law, Peggy Waddell
Jarrard of Marietta; five
grandchildren, Lonita Simmons
Stegall and Michael Lee
Simmons, both of Cleveland,
Roger C. Simmons of Travelers
Rest, Diane Jarrard Rogers of
Greenville and Rene Jarrard
McAbee of Marietta; six
great-grandchildren, Angel and
Josh Stegall, Katelyn Simmons,
Jesse and Christopher Rogers
and Monica McAbee; four
stepchildren, Herstine Nix
Posey of Greenville, Mike Nix
and Gene Nix, both of
Travelers Rest, and Dickey Nix
of Marietta; nine
stepgrandchildren; 13
great-stepgrandchildren; a
sister, Mrs. Joe A. (Lavonia)
Phillips of Marietta; a
brother, Henry Jarrard of
Marietta; sisters-in-law, Mrs.
L.L. (Ruth) Jarrard of
Greenville and Mrs. J.C.
(Leverle) Jarrard of Marietta;
and a number of friends whom
he considered to be a part of
his family. He was predeceased
by his first wife, Clara Fox
Jarrard; a son, Paul D.
Jarrard II; a sister, Pauline
J. Whitmire; and two brothers,
John C. Jarrard and Logan L.
Jarrard.
Memorials may be made
to Cleveland First Baptist
Church, Building Fund, P.O.
Box 305, Cleveland, S.C.
29635.
Services: 3 p.m.
Tuesday at Cleveland First
Baptist Church conducted by
the Revs. E. Guy Longshore,
Joe D. Seay and Jessey A.
Stewart.
Burial will be in Reedy
River Baptist Church Cemetery.
Pallbearers will be his
nephews and stepgrandsons, Dr.
Carter Jarrard, Rickey
Jarrard, Bill Jarrard, Wayne
Whitmire, Kenny Nix, Mark Nix,
Barry Posey and Ricky Posey.
Honorary pallbearers
will be the current and former
deacons of Cleveland First
Baptist Church and the members
of the M.L. Jarrard Sunday
School Class.
Visitation: 7 to 8:30
p.m. Monday at The Howze
Mortuary, Travelers Rest, and
2 to 3 p.m. Tuesday at the
church.
(The Greenville
News)
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Florence L.B.
Jones
GREER,
Feb. 14 --Funeral services for
Mrs. Florence Landreth Brown
Jones, 55, widow of the late
Lawrence Jones and resident of
Route 3, Greer, will be held
Thursday at 11 a.m. at
Fairview Baptist Church,
conducted by the Rev. John N.
Wren and the Rev. O.O. Bishop.
Burial will be in Reedy River
Baptist Church cemetery.
The following nephews
will meet at the church
Thursday at 10:45 a.m. to be
pallbearers: Coleman Masters,
Ben L., Raymond and Roy
Landreth, Fred and James Wynn.
The following will also
meet at the church Thursday at
the same hour and compose the
honorary escort: Dr. W.H.
Lyday, Tom Batson, D.B. Hunt,
Robert and J.B. Green, Perry
Brown, T.O., Guy and Hubert
Ballenger, Herman Bruce, Coke
Campbell, Will and Edward
Vaughn, John Owens, Walter
Hudson, Earnest Bruce, Lee
Wood, J. Roy Friddle, Dr. W.M.
Snoddy, Dr. Lewis M. Davis,
W.W. Whitfield, George Dill,
Dr. M.L. Lanford, B.A. Bennett
and Earnest Burns.
Surviving are one
step-daughter, three
step-sons, four brothers and
two sisters.
The body is at the
home of her brother, Samuel M. Landreth, 55 N. 8th Street,
Woodside Mill, Greenville and
at 10 a.m. Thursday will be
placed in the church.
(The Greenville
News)
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Georgia
Jones
Georgia
Thackston Jones, 75, of Route
2, Green Hill Drive,
Simpsonville, widow of Twyman
D. Jones, died Thursday.
A native of Greenville
County, she owned and operated
Georgia Jones' Millinery Shop
for more than 30 years. She
was a charter member of
Downtown Baptist Church and
member of Eskew Sunday School
Class. She was a member of
Board of Directors of
Greenville Womans Club.
Surviving are a son,
T. Douglas Jones of
Simpsonville; sisters, Helen
Hunt, Juanita Watkins, Maude
Mauldin and Louise Neves, all
of Greenville; Rachel Gurnell
of Washington, D.C., and
Christine Carpenter of Los
Angeles, Calif.; brothers ,
Frank and Ford Thackston of
Greenville; three
grandchildren and one
grandchild (sic).
Services will be at 4
p.m. Saturday at Downtown
Baptist Church; burial at
Reedy River Baptist Church
cemetery.
The body will be
placed in the church at 3 p.m.
Memorials may be made
to Downtown Baptist Church.
(The Greenville
News)
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Harlen E.
Jones
Funeral
services for Harlen Eugene
Jones of Rt. 7, Greenville,
will be conducted at 4:30 p.m.
today at Reedy River Baptist
Church by Rev. S.P. Hester.
Burial will be in the church
cemetery.
Pallbearers, meeting
at the church at 4:20 p.m.
will be Roy Hudson Jr.,
Norwood Hester, Bruce Hudson,
Raymond Hudson, Alvin Jones
and Haskell Jones.
Honorary escort will
be the Men's Bible Class of
the church.
Mr. Jones had been in
failing health for four years.
He was stricken at his home on
Parker Road and died suddenly
at 7 a.m. Monday.
He was born May 26,
1890, a son of the late James
and Jane Bishop Jones of Cedar
Mountain, N.C. The greater
part of his life was spent in
Greenville County; he was a
plumber for many years.
Mr. Jones was a
veteran of World War I.
He was a member of
Blue Ridge Baptist Church at
Cedar Mountain.
Surviving are his
wife, Mrs. Lucille Hudson
Jones; one daughter, Mrs.
Marion Jones Swanger of the
home; one son, Eugene Jones of
Hodge, La.; one sister, Mrs.
Rosa Robinson of Cedar
Mountain, N.C.; two brothers,
Emerson and Seldon Jones of
Cedar Mountain, and three
grandchildren.
The body is at the
funeral home but will be
placed in the church at 3:30
p.m.
(The Greenville
News)
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Lucile
Hudson Jones
Lucile Hudson
Jones (wife of the late Harlen
E. Jones), 82, of Route 7,
Parker Road, died Friday.
She was a member of
Reedy River Baptist Church,
where she was a member of the
Adult Christian Fellowship.
Surviving are a
daughter, Mrs. Vernon W.
(Marion) Owens of Greenville;
a son, Eugene H. Jones of
Pineville, La.; and two
brothers, Roy O. Hudson of
Greer and Homer C. Hudson of
Salem, Va.
Services: 2 p.m.
Monday at Reedy River Baptist
Church with burial in the
church cemetery.
Visitation: 4 to 6
p.m. Sunday at the Thomas
McAfee Funeral Home.
(The Greenville
News, Sunday, May 27, 1984)
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Ruby C.
Jones
Ruby
Christine Jones,
seven-month-old daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. H.E. Jones, died
at the residence near the
Buncombe road, five miles from
the city, at noon Friday. Mrs.
Jones was Lucile Hudson before
her marriage.
In addition to the
parents, the child is survived
by one brother, Eugene Jones,
and by her grandparents, Mr.
and Mrs. P.E. Hudson.
Funeral services will
be held this afternoon at 4
o'clock from the graveside in
Reedy River church cemetery,
conducted by the Rev. W.A.
Loudermilk.
Pending the hour of
the service the body is at the
residence.
(The Greenville
News, July 24, 1938)
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Twyman D.
Jones
Funeral
services for Twyman D. Jones,
58, of Pelham Road, well known
lumberman of Simpsonville,
will be conducted Thursday at
3 p.m. at The Mackey Mortuary
by Dr. Dotson M. Nelson Jr.,
and the Rev. F. Howard
Wheeler. Burial will follow in
the Reedy River Baptist Church
Cemetery.
The following are
asked to meet at the mortuary
at 2:45 p.m. to serve as
pallbearers: Horace White,
Jeff D. Richardson Jr.,
Rollins Richardson and Ellis
McDougall, all of
Simpsonville; Milton Hunt of
Travelers Rest and James E.
Thackston of Greenville.
Mr. Jones was fatally
injured in the collision of
his automobile and a school
bus Wednesday morning. He was
rushed to General Hospital,
but was pronounced dead on
arrival at 8:58 a.m.
Mr. Jones was born
and reared in Simpsonville, a
son of the late D.L. and
Corrie (White) Jones. He had
engaged in the lumber business
for many years. He had spent
all of his life in
Simpsonville and Greenville.
He was a member of
the First Baptist Church of
Greenville and was a World War
I veteran.
Surviving are his
wife, Mrs. Georgia Thackston
Jones; one son, Twyman Douglas
Jones Jr., of Simpsonville;
three sisters, Mrs. Bess
Gibson, Mrs. Mabel Martin and
Mrs. Cannie Montgomery of
Greenville; one brother, Frank
Jones of Greenville; and two
grandchildren.
The body is at the
mortuary. The family is at the
home of Mr. Jones Jr. at
Simpsonville.
(The Greenville
News)
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