Bit was an outstanding athlete in many sports & one of the best football player running backs produced in Sumter prior to the 1970s and also described as a phenomenal punter. He was a member of Sumter High School class of 1927...https://www.edmundshigh.com/alumni.html?x=info&c=27 & seen in photos in the sports area of the 1927 yearbook...p80 & p87...but without a senior class photo (they won the 1927 state of S. C. high school baseball championship and he is named on the lower state winning on page 4 of The Item 14 May 1927 issue). He was especially excellent in baseball and was with the St.Louis Cardinals B League team. He was with the Sumter Fire Dept. for 37 years & subsequently long-time city fire department chief from 1948 until retiring in 1971. In 2003, he was elected to the S. C. Firefighters Association Hall of Fame. They had one child, Betty W. Hendrix (Sammy) residing in Lexington, S. C. At the time he died, the family lived on Tucson Drive in Sumter.
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Obituary:
It is on page 2 of The Sumter Daily Item issue of Saturday, April 5, 1986 (I did not attempt to transcribe it).
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Obituary:
It is on page 2 of The Sumter Daily Item issue of Saturday, April 5, 1986 (I did not attempt to transcribe it).
Bit was an outstanding athlete in many sports & one of the best football player running backs produced in Sumter prior to the 1970s and also described as a phenomenal punter. He was a member of Sumter High School class of 1927...https://www.edmundshigh.com/alumni.html?x=info&c=27 & seen in photos in the sports area of the 1927 yearbook...p80 & p87...but without a senior class photo (they won the 1927 state of S. C. high school baseball championship and he is named on the lower state winning on page 4 of The Item 14 May 1927 issue). He was especially excellent in baseball and was with the St.Louis Cardinals B League team. He was with the Sumter Fire Dept. for 37 years & subsequently long-time city fire department chief from 1948 until retiring in 1971. In 2003, he was elected to the S. C. Firefighters Association Hall of Fame. They had one child, Betty W. Hendrix (Sammy) residing in Lexington, S. C. At the time he died, the family lived on Tucson Drive in Sumter.
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Obituary:
It is on page 2 of The Sumter Daily Item issue of Saturday, April 5, 1986 (I did not attempt to transcribe it).
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Obituary:
It is on page 2 of The Sumter Daily Item issue of Saturday, April 5, 1986 (I did not attempt to transcribe it).
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