MARION - Mrs. Daisy Coleman Avant, widow of Henry Bennett Avant, died about 10:30 p.m. Monday in a local hospital after a long illness.
She was the daughter of the late Jesse L. and Laura Godbold Coleman of Marion.
Funeral services will be conducted at 4 p.m. Wednesday at Reedy Creek Baptist Church by the Rev. Oscar Holland, assisted by the Rev. Paul O. Batson, Jr. and Dr. B. F. Allen. Burial will be in the adjoining cemetery.
Survivors include five daughters, Mrs. Hal Craven, Mrs. R. E. Smith Jr., and Mrs. Benton Atkinson of Marion, Mrs. J. Williams of Lumberton, N.C. and Mrs. M. G. Evans of Charleston; three sons, H. B. Avant Jr. of John's Island, J. Whilden Avant of Barberton, Ohio and Dr. Earl S. Avant of Macon, Ga.; a sister, Mrs. Wilbur S. White of Marion; 26 grandchildren; and 2 great grandchildren
Published in the News and Courier, July 1960
MARION - Mrs. Daisy Coleman Avant, widow of Henry Bennett Avant, died about 10:30 p.m. Monday in a local hospital after a long illness.
She was the daughter of the late Jesse L. and Laura Godbold Coleman of Marion.
Funeral services will be conducted at 4 p.m. Wednesday at Reedy Creek Baptist Church by the Rev. Oscar Holland, assisted by the Rev. Paul O. Batson, Jr. and Dr. B. F. Allen. Burial will be in the adjoining cemetery.
Survivors include five daughters, Mrs. Hal Craven, Mrs. R. E. Smith Jr., and Mrs. Benton Atkinson of Marion, Mrs. J. Williams of Lumberton, N.C. and Mrs. M. G. Evans of Charleston; three sons, H. B. Avant Jr. of John's Island, J. Whilden Avant of Barberton, Ohio and Dr. Earl S. Avant of Macon, Ga.; a sister, Mrs. Wilbur S. White of Marion; 26 grandchildren; and 2 great grandchildren
Published in the News and Courier, July 1960
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Family Members
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Jessie L. Avant
1905–1906
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Margaret Grace Avant Craven
1907–1994
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Evelyn Evangeline Avant Smith
1909–2000
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Gladys Avant Williams
1911–2001
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Talmage M. Avant
1912–1913
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Henry Bennett Avant Jr
1915–1994
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Flora Daisy Avant Atkinson Brown Marlowe
1917–2007
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James Bristow Avant
1918–1919
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Johnson Whilden Avant
1921–1962
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Irma Avant Evans
1922–2010
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Earl Stanley Avant
1925–2000
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Infant Daughter Avant
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