Local Obituaries
for families in Charleston, James Island, Johns Island, Mount Pleasant, North Charleston, Hanahan, Goose Creek, Summerville, and beyond.
Mayme Platt Pitts
April 28, 2013
Mayme Platt Pitts, 97, wife of the late Joseph L. Pitts, Sr. passed away Sunday, April 28, 2013 at Hospice of Charleston. Mayme was born on November 15, 1915, in Meggett, SC., a daughter of Pinckney Elias and Mary Davis Platt. Mayme was a 1931 graduate of Memminger High School. She loved to bowl and was an avid bridge player....
Theodore Hostetter, Jr.
April 28, 2013
Theodore L. Hostetter passed away Sunday, April 28, 2013, at his home. Ted was the son of Theodore Leroy Hostetter and Virginia O'Brien Hostetter. He was born in Charleston, May 31, 1946. Ted graduated from Bishop England High School and the University of South Carolina, which he attended on a full scholarship. He was commissioned in the United States Navy...
Judy B. Leifeld
April 26, 2013
Charleston, SC - Ms. Judy B. Leifeld, age 65, passed away April 26, 2013, in Tampa, Florida. A native of Spruce Pine, NC, she was the daughter of the late Brown Edley and Zola Pitman Buchanan. Mrs. Leifeld was retired from the United States Post Office, where she served as a Data Entry Clerk. She was perhaps best-known by Charlestonians...
Margaret Karchner Lambert
April 25, 2013
Margaret Karchner Lambert, 80, of St. George, passed away Thursday, April 25, 2013. Margaret was born in Charleston on September 4, 1932, a daughter of the late George S. and Mary O'Connor Karchner. She attended Bishop England High School and was a homemaker. Mrs. Lambert is survived by her son, John Lambert and wife Tammy of Walterboro, SC; daughter, Frances...
Ronald Douglas Hall
April 24, 2013
Entered into eternal rest on April 24, 2013, Ronald Douglas Hall, husband of Eleanor Magee Hall, of Charleston, SC. Ron was born May 12, 1942, in Columbia, S.C., a son of the late Hazel P. Hall and Mildred R. Hall. He was also preceded in death by his sister, Jacquelyn H. Smith and his beloved dog, Oakley. He was the...
Brenda R. Kinard
April 24, 2013
Brenda Marie Rumph Kinard, 56, of Charleston, beautiful, beloved, wife and high school sweetheart of Paul J. Kinard entered the Kingdom of God on Wednesday, April 24, 2013. Brenda was born in Charleston on Monday, October 15, 1956, daughter of Nathalie Sanders Rumph and the late Harry Legare Rumph, Jr. Brenda graduated from Sacred Heart Catholic School, Bishop England High...
Gerald M. Carter
April 24, 2013
Captain Gerald Michael Carter, Jr., USN (Ret.), died on April 24, 2013. He was born in Charleston, SC on November 11, 1931 to the late Gerald M. Carter and Elizabeth B. Carter. Captain Carter attended Bishop England High School and was a graduate of Porter Military Academy, the US Naval Academy in 1954, Naval Post Graduate School, Naval War College...
Barbara Merrill Nickles
April 21, 2013
Barbara Merrill Nickles entered into eternal rest on April 21, 2013. She was born in Charleston on August 31, 1940, a daughter of Walter E. and Frances Von Cannon Merrill. Barbara graduated from Chicora High School. She went on to attend and graduate from Lander University and soon after married Dr. Roy Nickles. She lived in Hendersonville, NC, New Orleans,...
Mary Santos Blanchard
April 20, 2013
Mary Santos Blanchard, 85, widow of Claude Wright Blanchard , Jr. passed away Saturday morning April 20, 2013, at home. Mary was the daughter of the late Captain William A. and Catherine Conlon Santos of Charleston, S.C. Born in Charleston, she was a graduate of Bishop England High School, Sacred Heart Junior College and the Roper Hospital Radiologic Technician Program....
David C Diehl
April 17, 2013
Major David Charles Diehl, 34, of Summerville, SC passed away on Wednesday, April 17, 2013. He was born on March 23, 1979 in Rochester, NY. David grew up in Colorado and graduated from the United States Air Force Academy in 2001. He was a pilot in the United States Air Force stationed at Joint Base Charleston. He is survived by...
Joan Arbour Grant
April 16, 2013
Joan Arbour Grant was a woman who found truth in beauty. She believed in art as presence and practiced personal creativity as a design-for herself, her family, her friends and the weave of the three. Joan wrote about life as she lived it-and also wished it to be lived. As an accomplished author, Joan was a recipient of the prestigious...
Dera B. Bicaise
April 14, 2013
Dera Boyette Bicaise, 102, widow of Paul Brazie Bicaise, entered into eternal rest on Sunday, April 14, 2013. She was born October 3, 1910 in Cobbtown, Georgia, a daughter of Rosa Alice and Thomas Lawton Boyette. Dera was a homemaker who dearly loved her family. She enjoyed sewing, cooking, gardening and was an avid Atlanta Braves fan. She was a...
Adele Ruffner Fischer
April 10, 2013
Adele Ruffner Fischer went to be with her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, on April 10, 2013. Mrs. Fischer was born in Bisbee, AZ, on October 5, 1916. She was the child of Eugene Grissom Ruffner and Violet Dameron Ruffner. Mrs. Fischer's was very proud of her forbearers who were some of the first settlers of the Denver, Colorado area....
Julie Ann Carr Trouche
April 8, 2013
Julie Ann Carr Trouche, 84, widow of Paul Edwin Trouche, died peacefully on Monday, April 8, 2013, with her children at her bedside. She is survived by her four sons, John Paul Trouche (Janie), Perry Edwin Trouche (Alice), Michael Francis Trouche, and Thomas Gerard Trouche (Ariel), and her two daughters, Mary Helen Trouche Dantzler (Lynn) and Therese Trouche Smythe (George),...
Charles R. Cooper, Sr.
April 3, 2013
North Charleston, SC Mr. Charles Raymond Cooper Sr., 88, of North Charleston, passed away Wednesday, April 3, 2013. A native of Conway, SC, he was a son of the late Bryant and Ida N. Cooper. A veteran of the second World War, he served his country with honor as a Private First Class in the US Army. After WWII, he...
Patricia Morgan Milner
April 3, 2013
Patricia (Tricia) Morgan Milner passed away peacefully Tuesday morning, April 3, 2013. Born in Jackson, Tennessee to Walter (Sonny) and Patricia (Patty) Morgan, Tricia spent her childhood there before leaving to attend Villa Duchesne Prep school in St. Louis. After graduating from Villa Duchesne, Tricia continued her studies at her mother's alma mater, Randolph-Macon Women's College. She later graduated from...
Anthony Joseph Moscati
March 30, 2013
Entered into eternal rest on Saturday, March 30, 2013, Mr. Anthony Joseph Moscati, husband of Marguerite Pinto Moscati and resident of Charleston, SC. The relatives and friends of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony J. Moscati are invited to attend his Mass of Christian Burial at 10:00 AM, Wednesday, April 3, 2013, at St. Mary's Catholic Church, 89 Hasell St. The Rite...
