Singleton and Related Genealogy Pages
A history of many families.
1926 - 2015 (89 years)| Name | Lula Kate “Lu” CHATHAM [3, 4, 5] | |
| Birth | 4 Nov 1926 | Sumter, Sumter County, South Carolina  |
| Gender | Female | |
| HIST | of Sumter, South Carolina LULA DAVENPORT Posted Wednesday, November 11, 2015 6:00 am Lula Kate Chatham Davenport, wife of Raymond C. Davenport, died at age 89, on Monday, Nov. 9, 2015. Born in Sumter, she was a daughter of the late Georgia Eagerton Chatham and Phares Elwood Chatham Sr. Surviving are her husband; two daughters, Susan Elizabeth Davenport and Louise Davenport Fudger (Jack); one son, Raymond Forbes Davenport II (Mary Ellen), all of Sumter; an honorary son, Edward Cribb (Linda) of North Carolina; five grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; and one sister, Jennie Ruth Geddings of Sumter. She was preceded in death by two sisters, Louise Catoe and Elizabeth Atkinson; and two brothers, Phares Chatham Jr. and Oscar Chatham. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. on Sunday at St. James Lutheran Church with the Rev. Keith Getz officiating. Burial will follow in Evergreen Memorial Park cemetery. Grandsons and nephews will serve as pallbearers. The family will receive friends from 3 to 5 p.m. on Saturday at Elmore Hill McCreight Funeral Home. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to St. James Lutheran School or St. James Altar Guild, 1137 Alice Drive, Sumter, SC 29150. Online condolences may be sent to www.sumterfunerals.com. Elmore Hill McCreight Funeral Home & Crematory, 221 Broad St., Sumter, is in charge of the arrangements, (803) 775-9386. Raymond met his wife of 68 years, Lula Kate Chatham, who was a cadet nurse in training at Tuomey Hospital School of Nursing. She graduated from Tuomey in 1945 and later received her bachelor of science in nursing degree from the University of South Carolina. She retired from nursing from the Sumter County Health Department (DHEC). [1, 3, 5] | |
| _UID | CBE2B6877E144296AAFDC4421EDFB9DB92DA | |
| Death | 9 Nov 2015 [2] | |
| Burial | 15 Nov 2015 | Evergreen Memorial Park Cemetery, Sumter, Sumter County, South Carolina [5] |
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| Person ID | I105234 | Singleton and Related Families |
| Last Modified | 13 May 2022 | |
| Father | Phares Elwood CHATHAM, Sr., b. 17 Jun 1895 d. 16 Mar 1977 (Age 81 years) | |
| Mother | Georgia Pearl EAGERTON, b. 2 Dec 1897, Sumter County, South Carolina d. 27 Feb 1995, Tuomey Regional Medical Center, Sumter, Sumter County, South Carolina (Age 97 years) | |
| _UID | B560C80D124E4F5FB941E15C8D2F30324D1C | |
| _UID | B560C80D124E4F5FB941E15C8D2F30324D1C | |
| Family ID | F72832 | Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family | Raymond Charles “Ray” DAVENPORT, b. 5 May 1926, Rockville Centre, New York d. 16 Jan 2016, Palmetto Health Tuomey, Sumter, Sumter County, South Carolina (Age 89 years) | |||||||
| Marriage | 1947 [1] | |||||||
| _UID | 66DD1BC314964B2DB5C71075F04A0CCA54DB | |||||||
| _UID | 66DD1BC314964B2DB5C71075F04A0CCA54DB | |||||||
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| Family ID | F170607 | Group Sheet | Family Chart | ||||||
| Last Modified | 13 May 2022 | |||||||
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