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NOVEMBER 26, 2004 THE TIMES AND DEMOCRAT www.TheTandD.com 7 OBITUARIES Reba Pandora Mrs. Evelyn Jody Brian Ivory Lou Lawson Funeral services for Reba Pandora Bowen, 46, of Bamberg, will be held at 1 p.m. Friday, Nov. 26, 2004, at Church of God of Prophecy in Bamberg with the Rev. Tommy Pierson officiating.

Burial will be in South End Cemetery. Pallbearers will be Lonnie Padgett, Joey Bell, Michael Glover, Blake Glover, Blake Nix and Jeffrey Still. The casket will be placed in the church at noon. Ms. Bowen died Wednesday, Nov.

24. She was born in Bamberg, a daughter of James Sweatman and Lillie Croft Sweatman. She was predeceased by a stepfather, Arnie Proveaux. Survivors include her husband, C.J. Zongolowicz, of the home; a daughter, Katina Bowen, of Cottageville; two sons, Terry Bowen of Bamberg and James Bowen, of Valdosta, her parents, of Bamberg; a sister, Teresa Glover, of Bamberg; three brothers, Mickey Croft, Robert Sweatman, and Jerry W.

Proveaux, all of Bamberg; a stepsister, Pamela Ann Morris, of Barnwell; two stepbrothers, Danny Mishoe, of Barnwell, and Jerry Keith Proveaux, of Bamberg; four grandchildren, Kristin and Deanna Spateholts, Lauren Allen, and Kia Bowen. Friends may call at the home, 444 Elm Street, Bamberg and at other times at Culler-McAlhany Funeral Home in North. Bowen Jarrott D. Brandenburg Jr. Jarrott Drummond Brandenburg 62, of 102 Richland St.

Matthews, died Friday, Nov. 19, 2004, at his residence. Graveside services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 27, in St.

Paul United Methodist Church Cemetery, St. Matthews. Mr. Brandenburg was born in Orangeburg County, a son of the late Jarrott Drummond and Willie Burwell Brandenburg. He was an organist and music teacher.

Mr. Brandenburg was a graduate of the University of South Carolina with a BA in Music and received his M.F.A. degree from the University of Georgia. He was a former resident of Charleston where he served as a church organist and taught piano. He was a member of Holy Trinity Catholic Church.

Survivors include his daughter, Mary Tarbele Brandenburg, of Charleston; a son, Jarrott Drummond Brandenburg III, of Charleston; and a brother, William Burwell Brandenburg, of St. Matthews. Dukes-Harley Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Rose 'Bell' Johnson Rose "Bell" Johnson, 69, of Bronx, N.Y., formerly of Denmark, died Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2004, in Bronx, N.Y.

Funeral services will be announced by Carroll Mortuary Denmark Chapel. The following property transfers are on file in the Bamberg County Courthouse. Sept. 16-18 Shannon Banks to South Carolina Department of Transporta- tion, TMS 087-01-16-011, $1,000 and other valuable consideration. Richard B.

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25, 2004, in a Columbia hospital. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 27, in Brice W. Herndon and Sons Funeral Homes, Ehrhardt-Bamberg Chapel.

Burial will be in Ehrhardt Cemetery. Mrs. Clayton was born Oct. 30, 1928 in Iredale County, N.C. the daughter of the late Bob Glen Joyner and Pansy Reba Smith Joyner.

She was the widow of Gerald Clayton and was a homemaker. She was a member of Mt. Pleasant Lutheran Church and Ehrhardt Memorial Lutheran Church and attended House of Praise Church in Bamberg. She was an avid gardener with hundreds of flowers and loved to crochet. She was a devoted Christian and loved going to church.

She was predeceased by a son, Dale Glenn Joyner; and a brother, Glenn Joyner. Survivors include her children, Jerry Clayton, of Austin, Texas, James Clayton, of Keansburg, N.J., Ben Clayton, of Ehrhardt, Marty Clayton, of Bamberg, and Pansy Clayton, of Ehrhardt; six grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; and two nephews, David Joyner and Dean Joyner, both of Advance, N.C. Family and friends may call from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at Brice W. Herndon and Sons Funeral Home, Ehrhardt-Bamberg Chapel, 2515 Lowcountry Highway, Ehrhardt.

803-267-1971. Irene Cokley Hamilton Clayton Irene Cokley Hamilton, 64, of New York, N.Y. died Thursday, Nov. 18, 2004. Memorial services will be held at 4 p.m.

Saturday, Nov. 27, at Carson Funeral Home, St. Matthews. Mrs. Hamilton was born Nov.

10, 1940, in Calhoun County, a daughter of the late John Cokley and Marion B. Cokley. She was educated in the Orangeburg County public schools and continued her education at City University in New York, She joined Ebenezer AME Church at an early age. She was employed by the New York City Board of Education for more than 30 years. Survivors include sons, William (Vanessa) Hamilton, of New York and Clarence (Natashia) Hamilton, of Florence; three sisters, Daisy (James) Covington, of Orangeburg, Barbara (Wesley) Robinson, of St.

Matthews, and Helen (John) Gethers, of New York; three brothers; Rev. John (Mary) Cokley, Slyvester (Doris) Cokley, and Bernard (Wanda) Cokley, of St. Matthews; nine grandchildren; and many nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends. Friends may call at Carson Funeral Home and at the residence of her sister, James (Daisy) Covington, 5894 North Road, Orangeburg. On the Web Obituaries can be read online at www.TheTandD.com.

Hoffman Jody Brian Hoffman, 31, of North, died Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2004. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 27, at First Baptist Church of North with the Rev.

Larry Shull officiating. Burial will be in Salem Baptist Church Cemetery. The casket will be placed in the church at 1 p.m. Mr. Hoffman was born in Columbia, a son of Joyce Tindal Hoffman Addison and the late Paul Hoffman.

He was employed by Voridian in Sandy Run. He was a member of Salem Baptist Church and Ducks Unlimited. Survivors include his wife, Pauletta Miller Hoffman, of the home; a son, Paul Hoffman, of the home; a stepdaughter, Makayla Hoover, of Pelion; a stepson, Scott Miller, of the home; his mother, Joyce Addison, and stepfather, William Addison, of North; a sister, Joy Smith, of Pelion; a brother, Tim Hoffman, of Lexington; a stepsister, Aimee Kibodeaux, of North; and two stepbrothers, Bill Addison and 1 Wendell Addison, both of North. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at Culler-McAlhany Funeral Home in North and other times at the home of Mr.

and Mrs. William Addison, 484 Salem Branch Road, North. Nathaniel Holmes Nathaniel Holmes, 75, of 259 Plum Ally Road, Denmark, died Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2004 Providence Hospital, Columbia. Funeral services will be announced by Carroll Mortuary Denmark Chapel.

Friends may call at the residence. Mrs. Georgiana P. Johnson Funeral services for Mrs. Georgiana P.

Johnson, 67, of 422 Lombardi Court, Orangeburg will be held at 11 a.m. urday, Nov. 27, 2004, at Fellowship Deliverance Church, Orangeburg with Bishop Copelyn Riley officiating. Burial will be in Cameron Cemetery, Cameron. The casket will be placed in the church one hour prior to the service.

Mrs. Johnson died Monday, Nov. 22, at her residence after an extended illness. She was born July 26, 1937, in Brooklyn, N.Y., a daughter of the late Johnny Preston and Annie L. Johnson Preston.

She taught school for many years at Shabazz Public School in Brooklyn, N.Y. She later became a minister. She was a faithful member of Fellowship Deliverance Church of Orangeburg until her failed. A viewing will be held from 4 to 7 p.m. Friday at Jenkins Funeral Home of Orangeburg.

Friends may call at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Denise Jones, 436 Lombardi Court, Orangeburg and at the funeral home. FOR THE RECORD olina Department of Transportation, TMS 086-04-02-015, $900 and other valuable consideration. Gary G. Mullinax and Beverly Renee Mullinax to Marilyn Elaine Jones, TMS 0096-03-12-006, $90,500.

James B. Guess IV to William G. McDavid, TMS 0037-00-00- 045, $27,000. Ossama A. Rahman to Kenneth J.

Ahlin and Jennifer S. Ahlin, TMS 0086-07-02-002, $16,300. Forfeited Land Commission to Johnny Grimes TMS 0087- 07-05-002, $850. Forfeited Land Commission DEADLINES IN MEMORIAMS BIRTHDAY ADS Publication Date Deadline MONDAY 10AM TUESDAY NOON WEDNESDAY NOON THURSDAY NOON FRIDAY NOON SATURDAY NOON SUNDAY NOON The Times and Democrat Funeral services for Ivory Lou Lawson, 55, of 359 6th Olar, will be held at noon, Saturday, Nov. 27, 2004, at McCune Branch Baptist Church, Lodge.

Burial will be in the church cemetery. Mrs. Lawson died Monday, Nov. 22, in Trident Hospital, Charleston. She was born March 22, 1949, in Bamberg County, a daughter of the late Earl and Elease Copeland Willis.

She attended the public schools of Bamberg County. At an early age she joined McCune Branch Baptist Church. Survivors include her husband, Albertus Lawson of Summerton; one daughter, Jane Willis, of Norway; one son, Albertus Lawson of the home; a brother, Felder Willis, of Olar; and a granddaughter, Shantelle Lawson, of Bamberg. The family will be greeting friends in the fellowship hall of the church after the burial and at the residence. Carroll Mortuary Denmark Chapel will be in charge of the arrangements.

David Michael Lee Memorial services for David Michael Lee, 45, of Orangeburg will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, Nov. 26, 2004, at First Baptist Church of Orangeburg. Mr. Lee died Tuesday, Nov.

23, at Palmetto Health Baptist Hospital in Columbia following a tragic accident. The family will friends at the church following the service. Memorials may be made to the Sanctuary Pipe Organ Fund, First Baptist Church, PO Box 637, Orangeburg, SC 29116. Mr. Lee established this Pipe Organ Fund.

Dukes-Harley Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Mrs. Dorothy V. Pipkin Ms. Dorothy Virginia Pipkin, 62, formerly of Eutawville, died Tuesday, Nov.

23, 2004. Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at Avinger Funeral Home, Holly Hill. Joe Shivers Sr. Funeral services for Joe Shivers 66, of 1267 Adden Orangeburg will be held at 3 p.m.

Saturday, Nov. 27, 2004, at Mt. Carmel Baptist Church in Cameron with the Rev. W. N.

Waring officiating. Burial will be in Kemmerlin Cemetery in Cameron. The casket will be placed in the church one hour prior to the service. Mr. Shivers died Monday, Nov.

22, at The Regional Medical Center in Orangeburg after a brief illness. He was born May 30, 1938, in Orangeburg County, a son of Willie Muller and Willie Mae Shivers Jamison. Viewing will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Friday. Friends may call at the residence of Mrs.

Maude Shivers, 115 Muller and at Jenkins Funeral Home of Orangeburg. 06-12-024, $700. Bervay Lee Beard Carter to Jimmie Lee Carter, TMS 038-06- 17-002, $1 love and affection. Jessie Glover to William K. Jackson, TMS 0035-00-00-078, $6,500.

Eartha L. Jenkins aka Eartha Lee Johnson to Eartha L. Jenkins and Jerome Jenkins, TMS 0024- 00-00-072, $5 love and affection. Forfeited Land Commission to Yvonne Tay Sanders, TMS 0038-03-07-020, $1,000. Frederick D.

Summers and Jacqueline W. Summers to William M. McCormick, TMS 0128-00-00-036, $20,000. The family of the late Sharon Denise (Shack) Flood would like to express their gratitude for the many acts of love support shown during their time of bereavement. We thank you for sharing our grief.

The Flood family and special children LaShay, Terrell, Sherell Friends gather at Lynch's Barn for pickin' and some stuffin' By BO PETERSEN The (Charleston) Post and Courier door, guitars are twanging. Inside, the table under Georgia Lynch's turkey gets piled with covered dishes. The people slap each other's backs, smile and hug as they set the dishes down hams, stuffing, casseroles, beans, macaroni and broccoli salads, marinated carrots, cornbread, sweet potatoes, rice, rolls, five pumpkin pies, six cakes and a huge cinnamon roll. This is Thanksgiving at Lynch's Barn, a homespun medley of "kin and kin of kin." "I didn't know a soul when I started coming," says Helen Powers of West Ashley. She couldn't help but come back.

"It just feels like family." The converted garage in the upper Dorchester County countryside has become a "pickin' parlor," one of those spots where musicians who know each other by name or reputation take turns playing traditional music, jamming together while others listen. It's one of a handful of estabJished Lowcountry parlors, remnants of an age-old rural pastime kept going by older musicians who get together casually to play. Some of them set out kitties, the collection plates. At some, a beer might be hoisted. Georgia and Bobby Lynch, though, have made it something more.

The story behind the barn is the story of their life. "We came in with it; we want to go out with it," Bobby Lynch says. More than 100 people turn out for the Lynch pickin' just before the holiday. They dress in Stetsons or pioneer gingham and bonnets. More than a few children chase in among the adults to snitch an extra cookie or two.

The old garage has been rebuilt as an intimate music hall with a stage and dance floor. It holds a collection of knickknacks and keepsakes, like the miniature music stage on the wall with the tiny figures of the Lynches and other old regulars. It was built by Bobby and people who showed up out of the blue to help, much like a barn raising. Bobby hung the walls with scavenged old guitars. A full-sized John Wayne figure hangs from the door.

A banner reading "Love One Another" hangs on the back wall. Dropping leaves and nuts rattle down the tin roof like rain. In a plastic-tarped dining tent next door, a wood stove radiates. Each of the checker-cloth tables is garnished with a gourd and an oil lamp. The rules are no alcohol, no cussin' and no kitty.

People bring covered dishes. "We don't want a kitty. Money is not what we want. We want the people to be part of people. As long as it's like that, you've got a get-together thing.

If everybody would come throw a dollar in a kitty, the atmosphere would be gone," Bobby says. The music tends toward traditional country with standards like, "Under the Boardwalk." Gospel gets a listen. A little bluegrass is tolerated, barely. The songs have to pass the audience's muster, to be appreciated by people like 82-year-old Fannie Risher of Round in her bonnet and flowered dress, singing softly along to "Honky Tonk Angel." "We want people to play the ST. GEORGE Outside the music they were raised with, what they're satisfied with, what they tap their feet to because they can feel the roll to it," Bobby says.

THE SYRUP KETTLE There's a poignancy to this place. Bobby Lynch is 72 years old, Georgia is a little younger. Neither is in the best of health. They talk about an ache that doesn't go away, two children who died. In a lot of ways, the pickin' is all about that ache.

Georgia is the decorator. She spends the month between gatherings puttering about the barns, getting the details right down to laying out blankets on the benches. She is sweetly self-effacing, talking about how she caught Bobby's eye back then, but would not now. Bobby has the look-you-in-theeye intent of a man who knows himself and knows the world. He grew up on the East Side in Charleston under the old incinerator.

His mother worked in the cigar factory. It was the sort of family and time when his uncle fashioned a steel guitar from a band saw and wire. "Nobody had any money," Bobby said. "It wasn't like today. You never had anything to do.

If you could get hold of something and make a little racket, that was a treat." Bobby and Georgia Lynch married in 1951. Shortly after the birth of his first son, Lynch was in Korea with the Marines. He saw an old, stringless guitar hanging on his 1g Quonset hut wall. He pulled it 22 down, went to the shop and cut steel wire for strings. He began playing with a group of three fellow soldiers who were musicians.

5t Discharged in California, he and a few friends bought a car to drive home and blew the motor in Bak- 19 ersfield. Waiting for repairs, he bought a Gibson guitar. He wasn't home long before he was playing gigs with 'The King Cotton Playboys." He picked in impromptu jams with country music legends like Wilma Lee and Stony is Cooper of the Clinch Mountain Clan and Ernest Tubbs. The kids kept coming, five of them. He worked shifts in the Giant Portland cement plant, hurried home, hurried off to practice or a a gig, got home at 2 or 3 in the morning, got up to work at 7 a.m.

and did it all again. One day during an argument with Georgia about how late he got home, he smashed his guitar into splinters. She took him out to buy a Jaguar Fender guitar on the promise he'd get home earlier. But it was getting old. Too many hours, too much time on the road, musical tastes changing around a band that liked to play the old country.

He gave it up and took up car racing on the weekends, picking only casually with friends. Two of their five children died sons one in a car wreck, the other when a corn bin blew up on the farm. Bobby's voice gets hoarse when he talks about it. Georgia just gets quiet. After Bobby retired, his musician friends began dropping by more often, bringing covered dishes.

One night, so many came that they quit counting at 70, and Georgia had to move the kitchen table out into the yard. The Lynches made a decision. The jams moved to the old garage next door. The couple raised the rafters, friends cemented the straw floor, and Lynch's Barn was born. "We came in with it; we want to go out with it," Bobby says again.

to Johnny, Grimes TMS 0101- 00-00-011, $2,500. Forfeited Land Commission to James Spellman, TMS 0038- 06-17-011, $702. Forfeited Land Commission to James Spellman, TMS 0043- 00-00-021, $906. Forfeited Land Commission to James Spellman, TMS 0086- 04-15-014, $336. Forfeited Land Commission to James Spellman, TMS 0038- 06-11-001, $2551.

Forfeited Land Commission to James Spellman, TMS 0038- 12-05-026, $3,652. Forfeited Land Commission to Nathaniel Walker, TMS 0072- In Loving Memory of Thomas L. "Pop" Bowman May 14, 1925 November 26, 2000 Remembering you with love. Wife Laura, children Tamara and Thomas, granddaughters Tamara and Catherine, son-in-law John, brother, sister and other family members SOUTH CAROLINA Wire Reports Man shot to death trying to stop theft of truck COLUMBIA A 74-year-old man trying to stop someone from stealing his truck has been shot 1 to death. James Hammond was approached by the gunman Wednesday afternoon while driving on U.S.

Highway 321 in northern Richland County, sheriff's Sgt. Chris Cowan said. After the two argued, Hammond was shot once in the chest and the suspect drove off in his truck, authorities said. Deputies are searching for two suspects, Cowan said. Governor won't hold gang summit COLUMBIA Gov.

Mark Sanford has decided not to hold a statewide summit on gangs after a Columbia community leader asked for the meeting. Gang violence is a problem in some local areas, but it may not be a statewide problem, Sanford spokesman Will Folks said. The state's role is to complement local efforts in addressing gang and youth violence and support efforts by the State Law Enforcement Division, Folks said. Policeman charged with molesting girl CHARLESTON A Charleston police officer has been charged with committing a lewd act on a 10-yearold girl during an off-duty shopping trip to North Charleston, authorities said. Investigators say Officer Daniel Hiers, 31, fondled the fifth -grader within the past two months in the parking lot of a discount store.

North Charleston police were called to the Dorchester Children's Center on Nov. 5 after the girl told staff members Hiers had fondled her and forced her to touch him, according to an arrest report. Hiers is a resource officer at West Ashley High School, but the alleged incident is not connected to his work there, said Spencer Pryor, a North Charleston police spokesman. Hiers was acquainted with the girl and her family, police said..