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Alonzo Grainger: Tabor City

1935 – 2019

     Alonzo Grainger of Tabor City died Saturday, April 6, in Lower Cape Fear Hospice and LifeCareCenter in Whiteville. He was 83.

     Born Sept. 22, 1935 in Horry County, he was the son of the late Stog Grainger and Claudie Mae Williams Grainger and the widower of Barbara Ann Mills Grainger.

     He is survived by two daughters, Sandra Grainger Smith and husband Ray of Tabor City and Amy Denise Grainger of Tabor City; a son, Kenneth Alonzo Grainger of Tabor City; and four grandchildren, Jonathan Willard, Anna Smith, Cameron Ridgeway, and Kara Ridgeway.

     In addition to his parents and wife, he was preceded in death by two brothers, Hoyt Grainger and Linwood Grainger; and one sister, Dorothy Grainger Stroud.

     Funeral services were planned for 11 a.m. Monday, April 8, in the Inman Ward Funeral Home Chapel, burial following in Spivey Cemetery.

     Visitation was planned for the hour preceding the service in the chapel.

     A guest register is available here.