BAMBERG - Mrs. Ruth Folk Padgett, 91, of 4611 Colston Road, Bamberg, died Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2004, in The Regional Medical Center of Orangeburg.Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 30, in Brice W. Herndon and Sons Funeral Homes, Ehrhardt-Bamberg Chapel. Burial will be in Pleasant Hill United Methodist Church Cemetery.Mrs. Padgett was born July 14, 1913, in Colleton County, a daughter of the late Lee Folk and Autrey Lillian Sandifer Folk. She was the widow of Leroy Padgett. She was a member of Colston Branch Baptist Church where she was a member of the Young at Hearts Sunday School class and the WMU. She was a former employee of Sunbeam. She will always be remembered for her love of taking care of her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by a grandson, Ralph Curry Jr.Survivors include children, Norma Ruth Antley Hawkins and her husband, Paul, of Charleston, Lataine Hughes and her husband, Charles Sr., of Bamberg, and Mamie Lee Curry, of Charleston; grandchildren, Charles Edward Hughes Jr. and his wife, Jan, of Bamberg, Brenda H. Nipper and her husband, Larry, of Bamberg, Steven Antley and his wife, Bonnie, of Charleston, and Elizabeth Lee Duckworth and her husband, Jim, of Charleston; great-grandchildren, Elizabeth Lee Nipper Bunch and her husband, Marshall, of Bamberg, Jessica Renee Nipper, of Spartanburg, Larry Gordon Nipper, of Bamberg, Christopher Edward Hughes, of Bamberg, and Jillian Rebecka Hughes, of Bamberg; her great-great grandson, John Marshall Bunch II; and a sister, Grace Creech, of Chaplin.

Family and friends may call from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at Brice W. Herndon and Sons Funeral Home, Ehrhardt-Bamberg Chapel, 2515 Lowcountry Highway, Ehrhardt.At other times the family will be at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Larry Nipper, 7785 Broxton Bridge Road, Bamberg.



SOURCE: "The Times & Democrat" newspaper, Orangeburg, South Carolina, 29 Dec 2004.