Mary Easley

Mary Cordes Lucas Easley of Pawleys Island, S.C. died on May 31, 2012 at The Lakes at Litchfield.

Mrs. Easley was born in Georgetown on November 24, 1930, the daughter of Thomas Cordes Lucas and Alice Vaughan Lucas of Georgetown, and widow of Joseph Hyde Easley Jr. 

She was a graduate of Winyah High School and Winthrop College and  a communicant of Prince George, Winyah, Episcopal Church, its St. Anne’s Guild and Altar Guild, Georgetown Garden Club, South Carolina State Garden Club, Huguenot Society, Society of Colonial Dames, Daughters of the American Revolution, Historic Rice Fields Association, the Preservation Committee of St. James Santee Episcopal Church, and was a Tidelands Hospice volunteer.

Surviving are a son, Joseph Hyde Easley III of Summerville; two daughters, Mary Easley Holland of Virginia Beach, Va. and Harriet Easley Walker of Townsend, Ga.; a sister, Catherine Lucas Bull of Georgetown; seven grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.

Memorial services will be on Monday, June 4, 2012 at 11 a.m. in Prince George, Winyah Episcopal Church. 

Officiating will be the Rev. Paul C. Fuener and the Right Reverend C. Fitzsimons Allison.

Interment will follow in the churchyard.

A reception will be held in the Parish Hall immediately following the committal Service.

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In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorials to Prince George, Winyah, Episcopal Church Preservation Trust, P.O. Box 674, Georgetown, SC 29442 or Tidelands Community Hospice, Inc., 2591 North Fraser St., Georgetown, SC   29440.

The Georgetown Chapel of Mayer Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Gloria Simmons

Gloria White Simmons, 53, of the  Sampit Community, Georgetown, SC, died Tuesday, May 29, 2012 at Georgetown Memorial Hospital, Georgetown, S.C.

Funeral services for Mrs. Simmons will be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, June 2, 2012 at New Hope UME Church, with burial following in the church cemetery.

Mrs. Simmons was born on August 31, 1958 in Georgetown, a daughter of John Lee Knowlin, Ervin Heard and Mrs. Lila White Heard. She completed her education in the public schools of Brooklyn, N.Y. and graduated from Clara Barton High School.

For a number of years she was employed as a driver and assistant supervisor for the Georgetown County Department of Public Services, Environmental Services Division.

She was a member of New Hope UME Church.

Survivors include her husband, James Simmons of Georgetown; three sons, Gerald White of Natchez, Miss., Germal White and James White of Georgetown; three daughters, Jamila White, Javette White and Janee Whitie, all of Georgetown; her  parents, Ervin Heard and Lila Heard of Georgetown; her siblings, Eugene White, Annie White, Ervin Heard, Evette Heard, Jonathan Knowlin, Julia Bullock and Earl Grant, all of Georgetown, S.C., Vernia Knowlin of Fayetteville, N.C., and Richard Knowlin and Terry Knowlin of Brooklyn, N.Y.