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Lewis Wayne Cox: Tabor City

1945 – 2018      Lewis Wayne Cox of Tabor City died Thursday, June 7, in New Hanover Regional Medical Center, Wilmington. He was 72.      Born Sept. 24, 1945 in Horry County, he was the son of the late Lewis Jackson and Dalma Cox.      He was a Veteran of the United States Army.      He is survived by…

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Amanda M. Sanderson: Loris

1939 – 2018      Amanda Neil McDowell Sanderson of Loris passed away Thursday, June 7, at Grand Strand Regional Medical Center in Myrtle Beach. She was 79.      Mrs. Sanderson was born April 21, 1939 in Conway, daughter of the late Luther Oscar McDowell and the late Lizzie Orilla Hardee McDowell. She was a homemaker and of…

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Bogus C-notes passed in Loris

     At least two counterfeit $100 bills have been passed in Loris recently, the Loris Chamber of Commerce is reporting.      Anderson Brothers Bank received the bogus bills from local businesses, prompting a warning from the chamber to local businesses.      “Please be aware that they are in circulation again and to be on the lookout,” the chamber…

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CC men enter pleas deadly store robbery, Post Office hold-up

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      Three Columbus County men have entered guilty pleas federal robbery and weapons charges that tie them to the killing of a Loris store owner and a separate armed robbery of a U.S. Post Office in Clarendon.      Those pleas do not include murder, a crime two of the three men initially faced.…

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Samuel Willis Medlock: Loris

1934 – 2018      Samuel Willis Medlock of Loris passed away Saturday, June 2, in Lexington, South Carolina at the Agape Hospice House. He was 84.      Mr. Medlock was born May 9, 1934, in Barnesville, Georgia, son of the late John Kenneth Medlock and Ethel Medlock. Sam was the youngest of five, joined the Army, served in…

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Opal Pearl Soles Suggs: Loris

1923 – 2018      Opal Pearl Soles Suggs of Loris passed away on Saturday, June 2, at the Embrace Hospice House in Myrtle Beach. She was 94.      Mrs. Suggs was born on July 1, 1923 in Tabor City, daughter of the late, John Cornelius Soles and the late, Sudie Ellen Gore Soles. Mrs. Suggs retired as…

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Louise Blanton Richardson Doyle: Marion

1929 – 2018      Louise Blanton Richardson Doyle of Marion, passed away on Saturday, June 2,  at McLeod Regional Medical Center in Florence. She was 88.      Mrs. Doyle was born on Sept. 2, 1929 in Loris, daughter of the late, Samuel Overson Blanton and the late, Matha Lee Skipper Blanton. Mrs. Doyle worked with Anvil knitwear…

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Scottie Lee Forti: Conway

1978 – 2018      Scottie Lee Forti of Conway passed away on Tuesday, May 29, at his home following an illness. He was 39.      Mr. Forti was born on July 31, 1978 in Charlotte, adopted son of Pastor Paul Forti and the late Elizabeth Hobbs Forti. Mr. Forti worked as a granite fabricator, was a member…

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Janice Mae Williams: Tabor City

1952 – 2018      Janice Mae Williams of Loris passed away on Sunday, May 27 at McLeod Loris hospital. She was 66.      She is survived by two daughters, Wanda McDowell and Teresa Smith;  a son, Lester Riggins; two sisters, Pastor Annie Jordan and Mary Riggins; and a brother, Bishop L.C. Riggins.      Funeral services were held…

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Preacher, business leader J.P. Jones dies

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      Rev. James Pervis Jones, known by many simply as J.P. Jones, passed away Monday in Angel Care Hospice House in Whiteville following months of declining health. He was 93.      Born the first of ten children to a farm family near Fuquay-Varina on Oct. 20, 1924, Jones came to Columbus County in…

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