Category Archives: Obituaries – A->D

Clinton Courier-News, September 23, 1992: Wilma Laura Jones Cox, 75, who owned and operated Cox Funeral Home in Lake City for more than 50 years, died Sept. 18 after a Continue Reading →

Robert Disney shot to death at night club.  Robert Louis Disney, 33, who has relatives in Clinton, was shot to death Saturday night in Spartanburg, S. C. when he stopped Continue Reading →

Obituary of Gordon O’Neal Champion, 1978: Resident of Claxton 30 years dies.  Gordon O’Neal Champion, 64, of Shipe Rd., Claxton, died at 9 p.m. Sunday at Sylvia’s Package Store in Continue Reading →

Obituary of Eva Smiddy Brown, 1976: Ex-employee of school dies at 70.  A former cafeteria worker at Briceville Elementary School, Mrs. Eva Smiddy Brown, 70, Briceville, died Thursday of heart failure at Continue Reading →

Obituary of Charlie Columbus Brown, 1978: C. C. Brown, ex-miner, deputy, dies.  Charlie Columbus Brown, 80, of Briceville Rd., Briceville, died at 2:15 a.m. Monday at Lake City Hospital of a Continue Reading →

Obituary of Arnold Esco Armstrong, 1984: Cancer claims former miner.  A former miner, Arnold Esco Armstrong, 67, of Lake City Rt. 2 died Feb. 3 at 2 p.m.  The Beech Continue Reading →

One Man Killed Another Wounded Resisting Arrest.  Steve Chamblee Slain, His Brother Shot By Coal Creek Deputy.  Although he claimed that he shot in self defense Deputy Sheriff Joe Shelton Continue Reading →

Obituary of Elizabeth Hardwick Childs, 1972: Lake City woman, Mrs. Childs, dies.  Mrs. Elizabeth Hardwick Childs, 83, of the Lake City Convalescent and Nursing Home, died at midnight Sunday in Continue Reading →