Sara Gayle Soles Livingston: Loris
1947 – 2017 Sara Gayle Soles Livingston of Loris passed away Monday, Dec. 18, at Embrace Hospice House in Myrtle Beach. She was 70. Born on Feb. 28, 1947 in Tabor City, she was the daughter of the late Acie Randall Soles and the late Lucille Norris Soles. Mrs. Livingston was a loving caregiver for…
Read MoreRobin Duke Grainger: Mullins
1970 – 2017 Robin Duke Grainger of Mullins passed away Sunday, Dec. 17 at Carolinas Hospital System in Florence. She was 47. Mrs. Grainger was born on April 30, 1970, a daughter of the late A. Glen Duke and the late Linda Jordan Duke. Mrs. Grainger was a homemaker, of the Baptist faith and loved…
Read MoreDrug money probe involves auto purchases
By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com Details on a long-running federal investigation that resulted in the arrest of an eighth suspect Tuesday are outlined in a federal indictment that alleges money laundering stretching from February 2014 through November of this year and a more recent series of drug sales. A principal owner of a chain of auto…
Read MoreCriminal investigation launched after TC men pulled from Horry pond
By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com A criminal investigation is underway after what initially appeared to be an auto crash that sent a car sinking to the bottom of a rural pond claimed the lives of two Tabor City men during the weekend. Horry County Police Department detectives have taken the lead in the investigation into the…
Read MoreEarnestine Stanley Williams
1941 – 2017 Earnestine Stanley Williams, formally of Nakina, passed Saturday, Dec. 16, in the Novant Health Matthews Medical Center, Matthews. She was 76. Visitation was planned from 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 19 in Westside Funeral Home, Tabor City, and following the service. Funeral services were planned for 11 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 20,…
Read MorePhillip James Taylor: Tabor City
1990 – 2017 Phillip James Taylor of Tabor City passed on Saturday, Dec. 16. He was 26. He is survived by his mother, Joyce Taylor; one sister, Miranda Taylor; and one son, Christopher Joseph. A graveside service was planned for 2 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 19 in Bristol Creek Cemetery in the Dothan Community, Tabor City.…
Read MoreEdgar Eduardo Domenico-Torres: Tabor City
1994 – 2017 Edgar Eduardo Domenico-Torres of Tabor City passed away Saturday, Dec. 16. He was 23. He is survived by his wife, Erica Mederos; his father, Pablo Cesar Domenico-Acosta; his mother, Graciela Torres-Diaz; his brother, Julio Cesar Domenico-Torres; and two sisters, Yazmin Domenico-Torres and Azucena Domenico-Torres all of Tabor City. Funeral services were planned…
Read MoreAbsent for trial, Nichols man caught, gets 25 years on drug, gun charges
By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com On the run since being tried in absentia in early November, James Lamont Arthur of Nichols is in custody and set to spend the next 25 years in prison for gun and drug crimes. U.S. Marshals Task Force members took Arthur, 35, into custody, booking him into the J. Reuben Long…
Read MoreHubert Gordon “Doc” Dameron: Tabor City
1923–2017 Hubert Gordan“ Doc.” Dameron of Tabor City passed away on Friday, Dec. 15 in McLeod Loris hospital. He was 94. Doc was born in Star on Jan. 27, 1923 to Dr. Ernest Lee and Mary McGimsey Dameron. After graduating from Star High School, he attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School…
Read MoreH.G. ‘Doc’ Dameron, area’s oldest active merchant, dies at 94
By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com Hubert G. “Doc” Dameron, Tabor City’s oldest active merchant, died Friday at McLeod Loris hospital. He was 94. Active in Tabor City’s business and civic community for seven decades, Dameron never stepped away from the Dameron Drug, the business he founded in 1946. A graduate of the University of North Carolina…
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