Thaxter Marie Wilmot

PROSPERITY - Entered into rest on Thursday, January 29, 2009, Mrs. Thaxter Marie Wilmot, Prosperity, SC. She was preceded in death by her husband, Edward M. Wilmot, Sr., daughters, Anna Holland and Marion Overstreet, two sons, Richard Reed Wilmot and Edward M. Wilmot, Jr., and two grandsons, Michael Wilmot and Wendell Hall.

Surviving are her children, Violet Marie Wilmot, Prosperity, SC, and William S. Wilmot, St. Petersburg, FL; a sister-in-law, Katherine Wilmot, Tallahassee, FL, sixteen grandchildren, thirty great-grandchildren and sixteen great-great-grandchildren.

Mrs. Wilmot was born in Ashland, KY, to the late Sam and Rosa Lee Owsley. Granny resided and raised her family in St. Petersburg, FL, during her early years and then moved to Columbia, SC, with her husband. She and her husband then moved to Warrenville, SC, where she lived until her husband’s death, then lived with her daughter, the late Marion Overstreet and her husband John until Marion’s death. Granny then lived in Prosperity, SC, with her daughter Vi Wilmot.

Granny Wilmot brought joy to everyone - she never met a stranger. She loved to fish and eat. She always had a garden and loved her chickens. She was a member of Midland Valley First Church of the Nazarene. She had five generations to love and enjoy her. Her last walk was the one she loved most and that was with God. Her last words were that she wanted to go home and join her daughter, Marion.

Funeral services will be on Sunday at 2 p.m. in the Hatcher Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Brent Van Horn, John Faircloth, Ralph Hill and Wesley Green officiating. Interment will follow in Langley Cemetery.

Pallbearers will be Tim Overstreet, Larry Gregerson, Troy Overstreet, Sam Holland, James Wilmot and Chris Leopard.

Friends may call at the residence of John Overstreet, 172 Chaffee Street, Langley, or Saturday evening from 6 until 8 at Hatcher Funeral Home and Cremation Service, U.S. Hwy. No. 1, Langley, SC.