Honea Path – Traci Lee Phillips Magaha, 44, of 416 Sherwood Avenue, wife of Rickey Magaha, died at Anmed Health Center, Friday, March 01, 2013.

Honea Path – William Ronnie Black, 67, husband of Sherion Jordan Black, of 535 Holiday Dam Rd, died Wednesday, February 27, 2013 at AnMed Health Center.

Ruby Poore

Ware Shoals- Ruby Dickey Poore, 97, widow of John Willie Poore, died Monday, February 25, 2013, at  Oconee Medical Center.

Honea Path – Mr. Merritt W. “Buzz” Perkins, 84, of 310 Samuel Road, widower of Beverly Elmore Reed Perkins died Thursday, February 21, 2013 at McCall Hospice House in Simpsonville.

Honea Path – Mrs. Hazel Elizabeth “Libbo” Kerr Smith, 81, of 10 Lee Street, widow of Claude A. “Cotton” Smith, died Thursday, February 21, 2013 at Rainey Hospice House.

June 2, 1921 – Feb. 18,2013

Honea Path – Louie Paul Hart, 91, of 203 Poplar St., went home to be with his Lord and Savior, on Monday, February 18, 2013 at Rainey Hospice House of Anderson. He was married to his late wife, Clara Vaughn Hart for 62 years.

Brenda Hinton

Donalds – Brenda Joyce Cowart Hinton, 55, wife of Joey Hinton, of 299 Williamson Hill Rd, died Friday, February 15, 2013 in Anderson.

Born in Anderson County she was a daughter of Edna Haynes Cowart and the late Grady Cowart. She was a member of Calvary Baptist Church.

Surviving in addition to her husband of Ware Shoals and her mother of the home are: a son, Grady Allan Crawford of Anderson, two brothers, Robert “Bobby” Cowart and wife Vickie of Ware Shoals and Larry Joe Cowart of N.C., three sisters, Frankie Johnson and husband JJ of Honea Path, Linda Cothran and husband Faron of Ware Shoals, and Sara Lynch and husband Cecil of Donalds, and a grandson, Mason Alawishus Crawford of Belton. She was predeceased by two sisters, Susan C. Rice and Sandra C. Craine.

Memorial services will be held at 3 P.M. Sunday, February 17, 2013 at Pruitt Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Justin Phillips officiating.

The family is at the home and will receive friends 2-3 P.M. Sunday at the funeral home prior to the service. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Brenda Hinton Fund, PO Box 266, Honea Path, SC 29654. Parker-White-Pruitt Funeral Home and Crematory in charge of arrangements. Online condolences may be made at www.ParkerWhitePruitt.com

Honea Path – Mrs. Barbara Jean Crowder Cromer, 76, of 115 Cromer Road, widow of William Grady Cromer, died Tuesday, February 12, 2013 at her home.

Hephzibah, GA – Doris “Dot” Elizabeth Davenport Griffin, 83, widow of Edward Wylie Griffin, of 2404 Quail Court West, died Friday, February 8, 2013 at Dwight D. Eisenhower Army Medical Center.

Ware Shoals – Luther Kenneth Thompson, Sr., 80, husband of Sara N. Coker Thompson, of 890 TV Tower Rd., died Thursday, February, 7, 2013, at Emerald Gardens Assisted Living in Greenwood.