Area Obituaries

1971 – 2022      Stephan Joseph Dill of Tabor City died Saturday, Sept. 10, in his home. He was 51.      Born March 8, 1971 in Arlington, Virginia, he was the son of the late Frank Burke and Robin Darlene Brown. He was a member of Gapway Baptist Church.      He is survived by his wife, Kandi Dill…

1957 – 2022      Wanda Jean Worley Phipps of Green Sea died Thursday, Sept. 8, in the UNC Neurology Hospital, Chapel Hill. She was 64.      Born in Horry County, she was the daughter of the late Benjamin Ashley Worley and Betty Estelle Lovette Worley.      She is survived by her husband, Roger Phipps of Tabor City; and…

1944 – 2022      Grover Phillips of Green Sea died Thursday, Sept. 8, in his home. He was 78.      Born June 2, 1944 in Horry County, he was the son of the late McKinley Phillips and Easter Snow Pridgen Phillips.      He is survived by his wife, Priscilla Fowler Phillips of the home; one son, Bryant Phillips…

2003 – 2022      Jonah Eli Prince of Loris passed away Saturday, September 3. He was 19.      Jonah was born June 2, 2003 in Conway, a son of Neil and Tiffiny Prince. He was a 2021 graduate of Loris High School.      Surviving in addition to his parents of Loris are his girlfriend, Kelly Chestnut of Longs;…

1930 – 2022      Willa Rae Sloane Cox of Ocean Isle Beach passed away on Aug. 24 at the age of 92.      She was preceded by her father Joseph F. Boyd, mother Lula Mae Hardee, first husband George A. Sloane Jr., and second husband Connor F. Cox, and her two brothers Paul Hardee and Gene Hardee.…

1944 – 2022      Deanna Lynn Clayton of North Myrtle Beach passed away on Aug. 23. She was 77.      She was born Sept. 26, 1944 in Long Island, New York to the late Paul Lancey and Muriel Collins. She was a 1962 Graduate of Belleville Township High School, Belleville, Illinois. She had made North Myrtle Beach…

1958 – 2022      Russell Lee “Rusty” Avins of Sumter died Wednesday, Aug. 24, at his home. He was 63.      Born Dec. 10, 1958, in Sumter, he was a son of the late James Nunnery Avins and the late Mary Elizabeth “Peggy” Williams Nealy.      He was a U.S. Air Force veteran. He was a member of…

1957 – 2022      Robert “Bob” Worley of Chadbourn died on Friday, Aug. 19. He was 64.      Bob was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on Sept. 16, 1957, to Cleon and Lola Ruth Worley (Powell).      After the family moved to Chadbourn, Bob was diagnosed with glomerulonephritis, a kidney disease, at 19. Being from a proud family of…

1937 – 2022      Lucille Little Gore of Loris entered eternal rest on Wednesday, Aug. 17, from McLeod Loris hospital. She was 84.      She was born Dec. 3, 1937 to the late Glenn Little and the late Dallie Gearld Little.      Lucille was preceded in death by her husband, Rev. James Alton Gore, Jr.; two sons, Mack…

1928 – 2022      John P. Graham of Loris died Friday, Aug. 19, in Grand Strand Regional Medical Center, Myrtle Beach. He was 93.      Born Sept. 20, 1928, he was the son of the late Franklin Brooks Graham and Annie Lewis Graham and widower of Henrietta Collins Graham.      He is survived by one daughter, Mary Fowler…