Lizzie Moses Sargent

Mrs. Lizzie Moses Sargent FLORENCE - Funeral service for Mrs. Lizzie Moses Sargent will be conducted 11AM Friday, February 18, 2011 at Cumberland U.M. Church, 163 S. Coit St., Florence. Interment will follow at Sunset Memory Gardens directed by Smith Funeral Home of Florence, LLC. Mrs. Sargent, daughter of the late Nathan Dixon and Rosa Hines, died at the age of 96 on Saturday morning, February 12, 2011 at McLeod Hospice House. She was born in Columbia, SC on March 29, 1914. Mrs. Sargent was raised in Florence, SC by her Aunt and Uncle, Goldie and Freddie Martin. She attended Florence Public Schools. She was a member of Cumberland U.M. Church and was very active with the United Methodist Women, Interest Area 3 and was the 1997 Woman of the Year. In her early years, she used her love for cooking to serve faithfully on the Hospitality Committee. Mrs. Sargent was joined in holy matrimony to Mr. Earnest Sargent on November 11, 1933. To this union five children were born. In addition to her par-ents, she was preceded in death by her husband, her only son, Mr. George W. Sargent, a very special aunt and uncle and five siblings. She leaves to cherish and honor her memory four daughters, Mrs. Rose S. Middleton, Ms. Earnestine Sargent, Mrs. Mary S. Bostic and Mrs. Evelyn S. (Dr. Joseph E.) Heyward all of Florence, SC; one daughter-in-law, Mrs. Jeanette R. Sargent of Whitsett, NC; eleven grandchildren; seventeen great-grandchildren; four great-great grandchildren; one sister, Mrs. Dorothy Burno of Columbia, SC; several nieces, nephews and friends. The family is receiving friends at the residence, 706 N. Wilson St., Florence. In lieu of flowers, donations in her memory may be made to Cumberland U.M. Church Restoration Fund, 163 S. Coit St., Florence, SC 29501 or McLeod Hospice House, P.O. Box 100551, Florence, SC 29502.