Ehrhardt - Mrs. Willie Irene Rentz Bishop died Thursday in a Bamberg County hospital. The funeral will be 3 p.m. Saturday in Mount Pleasant Lutheran Church near Ehrhardt. Burial will be in the church cemetery, directed by Cooner Funeral Home. Mrs. Bishop was born in Bamberg County, Nov. 6, 1887, a daughter of the late Mrs. Alice Kinard Rentz and George Washington Rentz. She was a member of Mount Pleasant Lutheran Church. Surviving are: her husband, Benjamin Berry Bishop of Ehrhardt; three sons, Hugo Bishop and Freeman Bishop, both of Ehrhardt, and Bob Ray Bishop of Orangeburg; two stepsons, Lonnie Bishop of Ehrhardt, and Norman Bishop of Walterboro; a stepdaughter, Mrs. Arrie Chassereau of Ehrhardt; three sisters, Mrs. Kate Koontz of Lexington, N.C., Mrs. J. M. Clayton and Mrs. Lottie Zeigler, both of Ehrhardt; nine grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. © The News and Courier, Charleston, SC, 19 Dec 1970
Ehrhardt - Mrs. Willie Irene Rentz Bishop died Thursday in a Bamberg County hospital. The funeral will be 3 p.m. Saturday in Mount Pleasant Lutheran Church near Ehrhardt. Burial will be in the church cemetery, directed by Cooner Funeral Home. Mrs. Bishop was born in Bamberg County, Nov. 6, 1887, a daughter of the late Mrs. Alice Kinard Rentz and George Washington Rentz. She was a member of Mount Pleasant Lutheran Church. Surviving are: her husband, Benjamin Berry Bishop of Ehrhardt; three sons, Hugo Bishop and Freeman Bishop, both of Ehrhardt, and Bob Ray Bishop of Orangeburg; two stepsons, Lonnie Bishop of Ehrhardt, and Norman Bishop of Walterboro; a stepdaughter, Mrs. Arrie Chassereau of Ehrhardt; three sisters, Mrs. Kate Koontz of Lexington, N.C., Mrs. J. M. Clayton and Mrs. Lottie Zeigler, both of Ehrhardt; nine grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. © The News and Courier, Charleston, SC, 19 Dec 1970
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