Thelma Grantham Parnell Ward - August 25, 2012

Bishopville, S.C. Funeral services for Thelma Grantham Parnell Ward, age 93, who passed away August 25, will be held Monday at 11:00 at the Liberty Hill Baptist Church. Rev. James E. Beck, Jr. will officiate. Burial will be in the Liberty Hill Cemetery directed by Norton Funeral Home, Bishopville Chapel. Visitation will be Sunday 4-6 pm at the Funeral Home. Mrs. Ward was born in Hartsville a daughter of the late Nick & Sudie Outlaw Grantham. She was a member of the Liberty Hill Baptist Church. She spent most of her life sitting and taking care of the elderly. She was a loving and giving wife, mother, mother in law, grandmother, great and great great grandmother. Surviving  are one daughter, Ethel (Bobby) Skinner, Bishopville; two sons, Richard R. (Mary) Parnell, Jr., Bishopville and Edward C. Parnell, Sumter; one brother, Shadrack Grantham, Hartsville; two step daughters, Alice Roberts, Mt. Pleasant and Doris (Harold) Woody, Mt. Pleasant; 5 grandchildren; 17 great grandchildren; 7 great great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husbands, Richard R. Parnell, Sr. and E.E. Ward, Jr.; two grandchildren; daughter in law, Elizabeth Smith Parnell. Memorials may be made to the Alzheimers Association, 4124 Clemson Blvd., Suite L, Anderson, S.C. 29621 or Liberty Hill Baptist Church, 3224 Liberty Hill Road, Hartsville, S.C. 29550. www.nortonfh.net