4A Index-Journal, Greenwood, S.C. Thursday, May 6, 2021 Obituaries News GREENWOOD COUNTY Richard Carter, 806 Taggart Greenwood. Eunice M. Jackson, Troy. Demoril L.
Young, Greenwood. LAURENS COUNTY Troy Clemon Davis N. Ruth Walker Drive, Waterloo. OUTSIDE S.C. Joe Nelson Sprowl, Washington, DC.
VISITATIONS TODAY BURT, Pastor Bennie, 1-6, Robinson and Son Mortuary. DAVIS, Troy, 2-6, 295 N. Ruth Walker Drive, Waterloo. MONTJOY, Jerry, 10-11, Blyth Funeral Home. YOUNG, Demoril, 1-6, Parks Funeral Home.
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Troy Clemon Davis Jr. WATERLOO Troy Clemon Davis 84, resident of North Ruth Walker Drive, husband of Olive Cothran Davis, passed away Tuesday, May 4, 2021. Born January 26, 1937, in Greer, he was the son of the late Troy Clemon and Lula Madison Davis. Mr. Davis was a US Army Veteran and retired from Monsanto after 29 years of employment.
Mr. Davis was a member of Rosemont Baptist Church and was also a Mason and a member of Masonic Lodge 91 AFM. Surviving in addition to his wife of the home, are a daughter, Tammy (Greg) Ray of Bluffton, SC; three sons, Kent (Lynn) Davis, Don (Debbie) Davis, both of Salem, VA, and Mark (Debbie) Davis of Apex, NC; nine grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Graveside services will be held at 1 p.m. Friday at Greenwood Memorial Gardens, with Rev.
KJ Shorter and Chaplain Kevin Garrison officiating. The family will receive friends at his home at 295 North Ruth Walker Road in Waterloo from 2-6 p.m. Thursday afternoon. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Agape Hospice of South Carolina by visiting hpcfoundation.org. For online condolences, please visit www.blythfuneral- home.com.
Blyth Funeral Home Cremation Services is assisting the Davis family with arrangements. Richard Carter Richard Carter, 74, of 806 Taggart Avenue, widower of Velma Adams Carter, passed away on Sunday, May 2, 2021 at Wesley Commons Health and Rehab Center. He was born on June 18, 1946 to Corrine Robinson Andrews and was raised by his grandparents, Richard Carter and Mozell Lockhart Carter. He was a member of Marshal Chapel Baptist Church. He is preceded in death by a daughter, Richgina Carter, one brother, Bobby Lee Andrews, and one sister, Kara Andrews.
He leaves to cherish his memories, two daughters, Velva Carter, and Lorraine Carter, both of Greenwood, SC; one sister, Tracy (Roy) Freeman of Greenwood, SC; two brothers, Kenny Andrews of Spartanburg, SC, and Vernon Andrews of Greenwood, SC; one sister-in-law, Alfredia (Ozzie) Bryant; nieces, nephews, cousins, and friends to mourn his passing. Graveside services will be 11 a.m. on Saturday, May 8, 2021 at Old Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Epworth. Viewing will be from 1-6 p.m.
Friday, May 7, 2021 at Robinson and Son Mortuary, Inc. Please be mindful and practice social distancing and wear a mask. Online condolences may be sent to Arrangements are being handled by Robinson and Son Mortuary Inc. RICHARD CARTER Demoril L. Young Demoril L.
Young, 65, departed this life on May 3, 2021 in Greenwood, SC. Demoril was born October 24, 1955 to the late Henrietta Bussey Anderson and was raised by the late loving Agnes Mansel Williams. Demoril was preceded in death by his only child, Khanedra N. Handford; three brothers, Freddie Anderson, James Bussey and Emmanuel Mansel and one sister, Maggie Pearl Williams. He leaves to cherish his memories, one grandson, Quinton Burden, his fiancee, Shirley Smith of the home; two brothers, Joseph Young of Greenwood and Tommy (Loretta) Mansel of Charleston, SC; one sister, Dorothy Cooley of Fairburn, GA; two brothers-in-law, Paul Williams and Albert Robinson both of Atlanta, GA; one sister-in-law, Faye Young of Greenwood, SC, and a host of nieces, nephews, family and friends to mourn his passing.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Friday, May 7, 2021 at Parks Funeral Home. Public viewing will be held on Thursday, May 6, 2021 from 1-6 p.m. at the funeral home. The family is at the home, 203 Plowden Avenue.
Parks Funeral Home is assisting the Young family. DEMORIL L. YOUNG Joe Nelson Sprowl WASHINGTON, DC Joe Nelson Sprowl, 88, of 118 Yuma Street, died on April 29, 2021 at the home of his daughter in North Carolina. He was born in Greenwood County to the late Dock Sprowl and Lillie Mae Smith Sprowl. He leaves to cherish his memories, four daughters, Stephanie Kearnek, Labonte Sprowl, Robin Sprowl and Princess King; four sisters, Esther Spearman, Louvenia (Raymond) Norman, Joyce (Robert) Adams, all of Greenwood and Annette Barnes of Ft.
Washington, MD; one sister-in-law, Vera Sprowl of Greenwood; two brothers, John Sprowl and Richard (Mae Helen) Sprowl, both of Greenwood and a host of grandchildren, nephews, nieces and other relatives and friends to mourn his passing. Announcement courtesy of Robinson and Son Mortuary. JOE NELSON SPROWL Eunice M. Jackson TROY Mrs. Eunice M.
Jackson, age 95, widow of John Earl Jackson, died May 5, 2021 at Abbeville Area Medical Center. The family is at the home, 146 Robert Leroy Road. Services will be announced by Pierce Funeral Home, LLC. Submit online condolences at indexjournal.com/obituaries student got the gun, and the friend who was with the student told police she know he was armed. The high school was on lockdown for a brief span after the shooting.
A state Department of Natural Resources officer was first on scene, along with a Greenwood County deputy, but Ware Shoals police also received help from the State Law Enforcement Di- vision investigating this case. Officers were scanning the grass outside a building beside the school with metal detectors, trying to find the shell casing from the gunshot. Louis was talking with reporters while officers scanned the grass when he received word the student had died at the hospital. a very small-knit community and everybody knows everybody here, so reeling right now because we care about each Superintendent Fay Sprouse said at an earlier press conference. been a lot of prayers today, and a lot of peo- ple supporting people, and the way it should The school was taken off lockdown before noon, and parents were allowed to pick students up, though classes continued at their normal schedule.
Sprouse said school counselors were available to help talk with students and staff as needed. She said she release any information about the student, and as of about 2:50 p.m. the Greenwood County Office had not released any information identifying him. MOURN From page 1A picnic tables to place under the State Sen. Billy Garrett, the delegation chairman, said they would not be able to vote on it until their next meeting in July.
will also be looking at if there are other sources of Gambrell said at the meeting. PARD grants require an match and the request for $50,000 means $40,000 would come from PARD and the town would have to supply $10,000. There is only one problem. have our PARD money Gambrell said. Gambrell said to avoid the town having to match funds, he requested the money to directly fund the park.
The earmarks are not guaranteed, however. Gambrell said it is in Senate version of the budget but the House will still need to vote on it before it becomes final. call it House Gambrell said. is their second bite at the apple on the Normally, the House will pass the state budget, send it to the Senate where it will be amended and sent back to the House. The House will vote to non-concur re- jecting the amendments to budget and conference committee comprised of equal representatives of the House and Senate will meet and work out a compromise.
Gambrell said this year because the House have as much money to deal with during its budget deliberations as the Senate did, the House will get another chance to work on the budget. He said the budget process will take a little longer this year. Contact staff writer James Hicks at or on Twitter jameshicks3. CPST From page 1A DAMIAN DOMINGUEZ INDEX-JOURNAL Officers from various agencies scan the patch of grass Wednesday morning beside Ware Shoals High School, where a student shot himself hours earlier. The Texas liftoff is targeted for July 20, the date of the Apollo 11 moon landing.
Richard Virgin Galactic aims to kick off tourist flights next year, just as soon as he straps into his space-skimming, plane- launched rocketship for a test run from the New Mexico base. And Elon SpaceX will launch a billionaire and his sweepstakes winners in September. That will be followed by a flight by three businessmen to the International Space Station in January. always enjoyed this incredible thing called space, but we always want more people to be able to experience it as NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough said from the space station Wednesday. I think this is a great step in the right all rooted in 15-minute flight on May 5, 1961.
Shepard was actually the second person in space the Soviet Union launched cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin three weeks earlier, to everlasting dismay. The 37-year-old Mercury astronaut and Navy test pilot cut a slick sci-fi figure in his silver spacesuit as he stood in the predawn darkness at Cape Canaveral, looking up at his Redstone rocket. Impatient with all the delays, including another hold in the countdown just minutes before launch, he famously growled into his mic: you fix your little problem and light this His capsule, Freedom 7, soared to an altitude of 116 miles before parachuting into the Atlantic. Twenty days later, President John F. Kennedy committed to landing a man on the moon and returning him safely by end, a promise made good in July 1969 by Apollo Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin.
Shepard, who died in 1998, went on to command Apollo 14 in 1971, becoming the fifth moonwalker and lone lunar golfer. Since Gagarin and pioneering flights, 579 people have rocketed into space or reached its fringes, according to NASA. Nearly two-thirds are American and just over Soviet or Russian. About are male and most are white, although crews have been more diverse in recent decades. A Black community college educator from Tempe, Arizona, sees her spot on upcoming private flight as a symbol.
Sian Proctor uses the acronym J.E.D.I. for just, equitable, diverse and inclusive NASA always on board with space tourism, but is today. goal is one day that a space human spaceflight chief, Kathy Lueders said following splashdown of a SpaceX capsule with four astronauts. very excited to see it starting to take Twenty years ago, NASA clashed with Russian space officials over the flight of the first space tourist. California businessman Dennis Tito paid $20 million to visit the space station, launching atop a Russian rocket.
Virginia-based Space Adventures arranged weeklong trip, which ended May 6, 2001, as well as seven more tourist flights that followed. opening up his checkbook, he kicked off an industry 20 yrs Space Adventures co-founder Eric Anderson tweeted last week. is opening up more than it ever has, and for already a line. A Russian actress and movie director are supposed to launch from Kazakhstan in the fall. be followed in December by Space two newest clients, also launching on a Russian Soyuz rocket.
SpaceX will be next up in January with the three businessmen; the flight from Kennedy Space Center was arranged by Axiom Space, a Houston company run by former NASA employees. And as early as 2023, SpaceX is supposed to take a Japanese entrepreneur and his guests around the moon and back. While no fan of human spaceflight he prefers robotic explorers Duke University emeritus history professor Alex Roland acknowledges the emergence of spaceflight companies might be most significant change in the last 60 Yet he wonders whether there will be much interest once the novelty wears off and the inevitable fatalities occur. Then the high price of admission. The U.S., Canadian and Israeli entrepreneurs flying SpaceX early next year are paying $55 million each for their 1 mission.
Virgin tickets cost considerably less for minutes versus days of weightlessness. Initially $250,000, the price is expected to go up once company starts accepting reservations again. Blue Origin declined Wednesday to give a ticket price for future sales and would not comment on who else besides the auction winner will be on board the capsule in July. A couple more crew flights, each lasting minutes, would follow by end. As for private flight on a fully automated Dragon capsule, tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman say what paying.
He considers his three-day flight a and is taking no shortcuts in training; he took his crewmates hiking up Mount Rainier last weekend to toughen them up. something does go wrong, it will set back every other ambition to go and become a commercial Isaacman said recently. John Logsdon, professor emeritus at George Washington University, where he founded the Space Policy Institute, has mixed feelings about this shift from space exploration to adventure tourism. takes the romance and excitement out of going to Logsdon said in an email this week. Instead of the dawn of a new era like so many have proclaimed, like the end of the era when space flight was special.
I guess that is SPACE From page 1A ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE Reporters and officials at the Mission Control Center in Korolev, Russia, outside Moscow, watch U.S. space tourist, Californian businessman Dennis Tito speaking from inside the International Space Station. Russian cosmonauts Yuri Baturin, left on the screen, and Talgat Musabayev, right, listen..
