KATIE HAWKINS OF 204 GRACEMONT DRIVE, WIDOW OF JOHN KENNEY HAWKINS, PASSED AWAY IN HER 91ST YEAR AT SELF MEMORIAL HOSPITAL. SHE WAS BORN IN GREENWOOD COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA AND THE DAUGHTER OF THE LATE FRANK VANCE AND MARY TURNER DRENNAN; GRADUATE OF GREENWOOD HIGH SCHOOL, GREENWOOD BUISNESS COLLEGE, TOOK RELATED COURSES THROUGH CLEMSON UNIVERSITY AND WAS EMPLOYED WITH THE US DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE UNTIL HER RETIREMENT IN 1963. SHE WAS A MEMBER OF FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH, MEMBER OF AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY AND OLDEST GOLD STAR MOTHER.
SHE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HER SON, JOHN KENNY HAWKINS JR. WHO WAS KILLED DURING WORLD WAR II OF WHICH SHE RECEIVED THE DISTINGUISHED FLYING CROSS, THE PURPLE HEAR MEDAL AND AIR MEDAL ON BEHALF OF HER SON. KATIE WAS SURVIVED BY ONE DAUGHTER OF BARWELL; ONE SON OF KENNEBUNKPORT, MAINE; TEN GRANDCHILDREN AND SIXTEEN GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN.
KATIE'S SERVICES WERE HELD AT BLYTH FUNERAL HOME ON TUESDAY AT 3:30 P.M. WITH INTERMENT IN GREENWOOD MEMORIAL GARDENS.
SUBMITTED BY SHARON RUTH BARNETT MERHEB
SUNDAY APRIL 23, 2017
KATIE HAWKINS OF 204 GRACEMONT DRIVE, WIDOW OF JOHN KENNEY HAWKINS, PASSED AWAY IN HER 91ST YEAR AT SELF MEMORIAL HOSPITAL. SHE WAS BORN IN GREENWOOD COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA AND THE DAUGHTER OF THE LATE FRANK VANCE AND MARY TURNER DRENNAN; GRADUATE OF GREENWOOD HIGH SCHOOL, GREENWOOD BUISNESS COLLEGE, TOOK RELATED COURSES THROUGH CLEMSON UNIVERSITY AND WAS EMPLOYED WITH THE US DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE UNTIL HER RETIREMENT IN 1963. SHE WAS A MEMBER OF FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH, MEMBER OF AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY AND OLDEST GOLD STAR MOTHER.
SHE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HER SON, JOHN KENNY HAWKINS JR. WHO WAS KILLED DURING WORLD WAR II OF WHICH SHE RECEIVED THE DISTINGUISHED FLYING CROSS, THE PURPLE HEAR MEDAL AND AIR MEDAL ON BEHALF OF HER SON. KATIE WAS SURVIVED BY ONE DAUGHTER OF BARWELL; ONE SON OF KENNEBUNKPORT, MAINE; TEN GRANDCHILDREN AND SIXTEEN GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN.
KATIE'S SERVICES WERE HELD AT BLYTH FUNERAL HOME ON TUESDAY AT 3:30 P.M. WITH INTERMENT IN GREENWOOD MEMORIAL GARDENS.
SUBMITTED BY SHARON RUTH BARNETT MERHEB
SUNDAY APRIL 23, 2017
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