Essie Lee Meetze

Essie Lee Meetze

Essie Meetze Obituary

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Funeral services for Essie Lee Meetze, 82, will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday, May 13, 2007 in the Chapel of Thompson Funeral Home of West Columbia. Officiating will be Rev. Lloyd Buff, with interment to follow at Celestial Memorial Gardens. The family will receive friends from 6-8 p.m. Saturday evening at the Funeral Home. Pallbearers will be Charley Wilson, Robert Odom, Wilbur Odom, Bubba Meetze, Doug Wilson, Charles Meetze, Jr., Joshua Taylor, and Michael Taylor.

Essie Lee Meetze, loving widow of the Reverend Thurman W. Meetze, Sr., passed away on Thursday, May 10, 2007 at Lexington Medical Center. Born in West Columbia, South Carolina, she was the daughter of the late Jesse and Katie Lee Frost. A life long area resident, she was an active member of Old Country Holiness Church of God. She was a loving and caring person and will be dearly missed by her family and friends.

Surviving her are her daughters, Katie E. Wilson of West Columbia, Mary E. Barber and her husband Dean of Gaston, Olive L. Porter of West Columbia, and Peggy L. Wilson, and her husband Miles, of Eastover; sons, Jesse O. Meetze, and his wife Linda, of West Columbia, Albert W. Meetze, and his wife Brenda, of Lexington, Thurman W. Meetze, Jr., and his wife Betty, of Prosperity, Robert E. Meetze, and his wife Gail, of West Columbia, Skinner E. Meetze of Prosperity, Jerry E. Meetze, and his wife Linda, of Gaston, William J. Meetze, and his wife Deborah, of Columbia, and Charles E. Meetze, and his wife Sharon, of Saluda.

Mrs. Meetze was preceded in death by her daughter, Barbara Ann Fitch, three grandsons, three brothers and two sisters.

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Joyce Konzny

May 13, 2007

To: Mary and Robert Odom.... Please accept our sincere condolences for your loss.. Robert, we know how it is to lose a loved one like your what your feel for your grandmother.. With deepest sympathy, Bill and Joyce Konzny

Mike & Cheryl Cregger

May 11, 2007

We're sorry to hear of your loss....

The Staff of Thompson Funeral Home

May 11, 2007

Offering our deepest sympathies during this time.

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