Update: Missing TC man found safe in Pageland
Tuesday Safe and sound, a man reported missing from the Tabor City Monday night was located more than 120 miles away Tuesday morning. Police in Pageland found Donald Wilbur Dean, 84, Tuesday morning, a spokesman said, his family picking him up and returning him to his Lester Watts Road home east of Tabor City. A…
Read MoreKendall Jamar Ray: Loris
1991 – 2018 Kendall Jamar Ray of Loris passed on Sunday, Jan. 7, at Grand Strand Regional Medical Center in Myrtle Beach. He was 26. He is survived by one son, Jeremiah Ray; two daughters, Janiya Ray and Kendall Ray, his mother, Melody Brisbon and father, Johnny Farrias; six sisters, Sakeela Hemingway, Ashley Hardy, Shynell…
Read MoreUpdate: Horry murder suspect in Columbus County custody
By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com Tuesday A Clarendon man facing a murder charge in Horry County surrendered at the Columbus County Sheriff’s Office Tuesday. Quotase Jenrette, 20, will be charged with murder in the Jan. 6 shooting of Kendall Jamar Ray. Friday Police are on the hunt for a Clarendon man who will be charged…
Read More‘Forensic development’ leads to arrest in 2011 Horry murder
By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com A “forensic development” in a seven-year-old Green Sea area murder has resulted a murder warrant for a Chadbourn man. Andre Wiley Davis, 44, of Graham Street in Chadbourn was arrested by the U.S. Marshal’s Task Force and jailed at the Columbus County Detention Center nearly a month ago, on Dec. 14,…
Read MoreTemperance Nicole Buffkin: Tabor City
1989 – 2018 Temperance Nikole “Nikki” Buffkin of Tabor City died Tuesday, Jan. 9, in her home. She was 28. Born Feb. 22, 1989 in Columbus County, she was the daughter of Billy Buffkin, Jr. (Michelle) of Tennessee and Robin Wynne Jernigan of Loris. In addition to her parents, she is survived by a son,…
Read MoreMillion dollar trucks
Federal Assistance to Firefighter grants totaling more than $1 million have provided for two new 3,000 gallon tanker trucks for the Tabor City Fire Department and a pumper for the Loris Fire Department, with the new Rosenbauer trucks arriving early in this new year. Replacing two substandard tankers, the new Tabor City trucks have been…
Read MoreJoseph A. “Bud” Maye, Jr.: Tabor City
1948 – 2018 Joseph A. “Bud” Maye, Jr. of Tabor City died Thursday, Jan. in UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill. He was 69. Born Aug. 11, 1948, in Sumter, he was a son of the late Joseph A. Maye, Sr. and the late Jean Mosier Maye Lane. He was a U.S. Army veteran of the…
Read MoreMary Laing: Tabor City
1922 – 2018 Mary Laing of Tabor City passed on Thursday Jan. 4, at the Liberty Health and Rehab Center in Whiteville. She was 95. Surviving are her four daughters, Nancy Purcha Barker, Mary Dale Purcha Smith, Hattie Mae Hiwatha Purcha Bessant, and Patsy Ann Purcha Crosland; four sons; Paul Purcha, Dennis Purcha, William Purcha,…
Read MoreHester Irene Ham: Loris
1944 – 2017 Hester Irene Ham of Loris passed away on Friday, Dec. 29, 2017 at McLeod Loris hospital. She was 73. Hester Ham, better known as Irene, is survived by one brother, James Willie Wallace of Green Sea; one daughter, Ilene Wallace of Green Sea; and one son, Bobby Wallace of Conway. Funeral services…
Read MoreWater line rupture forces Loris apartments evacuation
By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com Freezing weather is blamed for a “major interior water pipe break” at Loris Garden Apartments Sunday afternoon. All 39 occupants of the facility on Suggs Street have been relocated to shelter locations at Palmetto Way Community Center or with family members, Lt. Robert Rudelitch of the Loris Fire Department said. A…
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