Sarah Elma Williamson Cartrette Housand: Tabor City

1925 – 2019

     Sarah Elma Williamson Cartrette Housand of Tabor City passed away on Sunday, July 14, at her home.  She was 94.

     Born July 11, 1925 in Loris she was the daughter of the late Reuben Marion Williamson and the late Cora Emma Suggs Williamson.  Mrs. Housand was a homemaker and a longtime member of Oak Dale Baptist Church.

     Survivors include her four sons, Rev. Dean Cartrette and wife, Pamela, Ronnie Housand and wife, Rita, Patrick Housand and wife, Bonita and Jeffery Housand all of Tabor City; her three daughters, Frances Smith of Orangeburg, Diane Cartrette of Surfside Beach, and Sarah Logan of North Myrtle Beach; two brothers, Lloyd Williamson and wife, Marion of Newport News, Virginia, and Douglas Williamson of Tabor City; her sister, Alice Fogle of Tampa, Florida, and many loving grand and great-grandchildren.

     In addition to her parents, Mrs. Housand was predeceased by her first husband, Harry Cartrette and her second husband, Eugene L. Housand, her five brothers, Nathan, Ottis, Lonnie, Jim, and Robert Williamson; two sisters, Catherine Long and Jesma Housand; six grandchildren, Lloyd Soles, Jr., Ricky Cartrette, Jerry Harrelson, Christopher Ray, Natalie Housand, and Hillary Housand, and two sons-in-law, Cameron Smith and Brian Logan.

     Funeral services were held at 11 a.m. Wednesday, July 17, at Hardwick Memorial Chapel with Pastor Jimmy Caines officiating. Committal services followed at Cartrette Cemetery in Tabor City.

     A guest register is available here.