Mollie Geneva <I>Lee</I> Whisenhunt

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Mollie Geneva Lee Whisenhunt

Birth
Orangeburg County, South Carolina, USA
Death
9 Jun 2010 (aged 82)
Orangeburg, Orangeburg County, South Carolina, USA
Burial
Orangeburg, Orangeburg County, South Carolina, USA Add to Map
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Obituary in THE TIMES AND DEMOCRAT, Orangeburg, SC, 11 Jun 2010: Orangeburg - Mollie Geneva Lee Whisenhunt, 82, of 1000 Methodist Oaks Drive, Orangeburg, formerly of Neeses Highway, passed away Wednesday afternoon, June 9, 2010, at The Oaks in Orangeburg. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, June 12, at St. George Baptist Church in Orangeburg, with the Rev. Wayne H. Reeves officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery in Orangeburg. The casket will be placed in the church one hour before the service. Pallbearers will be Dr. Jarrette Burckhalter IV, John Dantzler, Matthew Lee, Freddy Lee, William "Lane" Whisenhunt Jr. and Joe Dupree. Mollie Lee was the last surviving child of Stanmore Sawyer Lee and Maude Walton Lee. She was born Sept. 9, 1927, in Orangeburg County. She graduated from North Greenville Junior College in 1948 and Furman University in 1952. She attended New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary in 1958. She was youth director of First Baptist Church in Greer in 1952, educational director at Northside Baptist Church in Orangeburg from 1953 to 1958, and was secretary for Estate Life Insurance and Hygrade Meat Products from 1958 to 1963. She was a homemaker and partner in Dairy Equipment Co. She was an organist and church clerk at St. George Baptist Church for 40 years, a Sunday school teacher and was active in many other positions, including church media director. She was a member of Edisto Fork Grange and county director for Orangeburg Homemakers Extension Club and Council. She was the widow of Nortise Eugene Whisenhunt and was preceded in death by two babies, "Little" Gene Whisenhunt and Robbie Ann Whisenhunt; brothers Sawyer, George, Walter, Wilson, Johnny and Herbert; and sisters, Lucile and Nellie. Survivors include a daughter, Paula W. (Harry III) Shroat of Orangeburg; a son, Lee S. Whisenhunt, and friend Katie Byrd, of Orangeburg; grandsons, Harry L. "Buddy" Shroat IV and Kevin Whisenhunt of St. Matthews; great-grandchildren, Gavin Whisenhunt and Quinn Whisenhunt, both of St. Matthews; special niece, Joan Brooker Dupree of Orangeburg; sisters-in-law, Joyce Jones and Evelyn Whisenhunt, both of Orangeburg, Cartha E. Lee and Leslie Lee, both of Columbia, and Margaret Acree of Charleston; and many other nieces, nephews and family members. Friends may call at the residence of Harry "Mike" III and Paula Shroat, 905 Neeses Highway, Orangeburg, and the funeral home. Visitation will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, June 11, at Thompson Funeral Home Inc. in Orangeburg. Memorials may be made to Alzheimer's Association SC Chapter, 3223 Sunset Blvd., Suite 100, Columbia, SC, 29169.
Obituary in THE TIMES AND DEMOCRAT, Orangeburg, SC, 11 Jun 2010: Orangeburg - Mollie Geneva Lee Whisenhunt, 82, of 1000 Methodist Oaks Drive, Orangeburg, formerly of Neeses Highway, passed away Wednesday afternoon, June 9, 2010, at The Oaks in Orangeburg. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, June 12, at St. George Baptist Church in Orangeburg, with the Rev. Wayne H. Reeves officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery in Orangeburg. The casket will be placed in the church one hour before the service. Pallbearers will be Dr. Jarrette Burckhalter IV, John Dantzler, Matthew Lee, Freddy Lee, William "Lane" Whisenhunt Jr. and Joe Dupree. Mollie Lee was the last surviving child of Stanmore Sawyer Lee and Maude Walton Lee. She was born Sept. 9, 1927, in Orangeburg County. She graduated from North Greenville Junior College in 1948 and Furman University in 1952. She attended New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary in 1958. She was youth director of First Baptist Church in Greer in 1952, educational director at Northside Baptist Church in Orangeburg from 1953 to 1958, and was secretary for Estate Life Insurance and Hygrade Meat Products from 1958 to 1963. She was a homemaker and partner in Dairy Equipment Co. She was an organist and church clerk at St. George Baptist Church for 40 years, a Sunday school teacher and was active in many other positions, including church media director. She was a member of Edisto Fork Grange and county director for Orangeburg Homemakers Extension Club and Council. She was the widow of Nortise Eugene Whisenhunt and was preceded in death by two babies, "Little" Gene Whisenhunt and Robbie Ann Whisenhunt; brothers Sawyer, George, Walter, Wilson, Johnny and Herbert; and sisters, Lucile and Nellie. Survivors include a daughter, Paula W. (Harry III) Shroat of Orangeburg; a son, Lee S. Whisenhunt, and friend Katie Byrd, of Orangeburg; grandsons, Harry L. "Buddy" Shroat IV and Kevin Whisenhunt of St. Matthews; great-grandchildren, Gavin Whisenhunt and Quinn Whisenhunt, both of St. Matthews; special niece, Joan Brooker Dupree of Orangeburg; sisters-in-law, Joyce Jones and Evelyn Whisenhunt, both of Orangeburg, Cartha E. Lee and Leslie Lee, both of Columbia, and Margaret Acree of Charleston; and many other nieces, nephews and family members. Friends may call at the residence of Harry "Mike" III and Paula Shroat, 905 Neeses Highway, Orangeburg, and the funeral home. Visitation will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, June 11, at Thompson Funeral Home Inc. in Orangeburg. Memorials may be made to Alzheimer's Association SC Chapter, 3223 Sunset Blvd., Suite 100, Columbia, SC, 29169.


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