Area Obituaries

1946 – 2017      Verna Graham Miller of Loris passed away Tuesday, March 27, at Brunswick Care Center in Bolivia. She was 71.      Mrs. Miller was born May 23, 1946 in Conway, daughter of the late Cecil Chestnut Graham and the late Eula Virginia Hardee Graham. She retired as a Mortgage Banker with Bank of America…

1952 – 2018      Lavana Elston of Nichols passed away Monday, March 26, 2018 at her home in Nichols. She was 65.      Mrs. Elston was born April 21, 1952 in Loris, daughter of the late Richard Gordon Johnson and the late Jean Powell Johnson. She worked as a data entry operator with Watson Clinic and was…

1962 – 2018      Clifford Lee Morgan, Jr. of Loris passed away Monday, March 26, at McLeod Loris hospital. He was 56.      Mr. Morgan was born Jan. 6, 1962 in Madison, West Virginia, son of the late Clifford Lee Morgan, Sr. and the late Patsy Yeager Morgan.      Mr. Morgan worked as an appliance repairman and was…

1927 – 2018      Katie Spivey of Tabor City died Thursday, March 29, in Lower Cape Fear Hospice and LifeCenter, Whiteville.  She was 91.      Born Jan. 5, 1927 in Columbus County, she was the daughter of the late Nathan Pink McPherson and Sally Jane Garrell McPherson and the widow of J.W. Spivey.      She is survived by…

1962 – 2018      Louise McDowell Ague of Loris passed away on Sunday, March 25, at her daughter’s home in Conway. She was 55.      Mrs. Ague was born on April 17, 1962 in Loris, daughter of the late, James McDowell and the late Martha Rabon. Mrs. Ague was a homemaker and of the Baptist faith.      Survivors…

1956 – 2018      Patricia Cartrette Hernandez of Tabor City died Tuesday, March 27, in Grand Strand Regional Medical Center, Myrtle Beach. She was 61.      Born Oct. 26, 1956 in El Paso, Texas, she was the daughter of Clara Norris Cartrette and the late Rayford Cartrette.      In addition to her mother, she is survived by one…