Jane Hancock Dawkins

FLORENCE -- Services for Mrs. Jane Hancock Dawkins, 75, will be at 11:00am, Friday, January 10, 2003, in First Baptist Church, with Dr. Jimmie Harley officiating. Interment will follow in Florence National Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 6-8pm, this evening at Cain-Poston Funeral Home, and at other times at the home of the sister, Eudora Reynolds, 1320 Old Ebenezer Rd.

Mrs. Dawkins died Tuesday in a local hospital. Born May 9, 1927, in Pageland, SC, she was the daughter of the late Thomas Elbert and Wilma Funderburk Hancock. She was the wife of the late Ollie Manning Dawkins, Jr.

A graduate of Pageland High School and McLeod Infirmary School of Nursing in 1947, Mrs. Dawkins was a Private Duty nurse for many years. She also served on the nursing staff at Bruce Hospital and retired in 1989 from Dr. John Thomason's office. She was a member of First Baptist Church for over 55 years, where she was a choir member and worked in the church nursery.

She is survived by one daughter, Marilyn Patrick (Clyde) of Columbia; two sons, Derrell Dawkins (Ruby) of Effingham, and Tripp Dawkins (Jasmine) of Florence; one brother, Robert Hancock of Pageland; and four sisters, Eudora Reynolds of Florence, Fran Moore of Siler City, NC, Martha Lamb of St. Hedwig, TX, and Susan Moory of Columbia. Also surviving are 3 grandchildren, Amy Dawkins of Florence, Dylan Dawkins and Kolby Dawkins. She was predeceased by two brothers, Thomas Hancock and Harry Hancock.

The family suggests memorials to Pee Dee Alzheimer's Association, Mid-State S.C. Chapter, Alzheimer's Association, P.O. Box 7044, Columbia, SC 29202 or American Diabetes Association, 2711 Middleburg Dr., Suite 205, Columbia, SC 29204.

Funeral services are being handled by Cain-Poston Funeral Home.