Beatrice Hucks Whisonant

ROCK HILL - Mrs. Beatrice Hucks Whisonant, 94, passed away Monday, Aug. 24, 2009, at Wayne T. Patrick Hospice House.

Funeral services will be 11 a.m. Wednesday, Aug 26, 2009, at College Park Baptist Church, with the Rev. Jerry Broughton officiating. Interment will follow in Laurelwood Cemetery.

A native of Fort Mill, S.C., Mrs. Whisonant was a daughter of the late Joe Wade and Eva Preslar Hucks. She was a homemaker, a member of College Park Baptist Church and was the widow of James Arthur Whisonant.

Mrs. Whisonant is survived by her sisters, Sarah Osborne of Rock Hill, Peggy Davidson (Sam) of Charlotte, N.C., Jean Morton (Tally) of Lancaster, S.C., Nell Lee, Mary Lee Dickson, Betty Stegall and Shirley Smith, all of Fort Mill, SC; three brothers, Paul Hucks of Lancaster, Ray Hucks and Bill Hucks, both of Fort Mill; her granddaughter, Rebecca McFadden; three great-grandchildren, Jenna James (Will), Marshall McFadden, and John Phillip McFadden; two great-great-grandchildren, Will James and Cole James. She was preceded in death by her daughter, Arlene LeGrande and her husband, Jimmy; her grandson, Phillip Lee LeGrande; her sisters, Josephine Cater, Evelyn Bennett, and Ruby Wolfe; and her brother, Jim Hucks.

The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2009, at College Park Baptist Church, 1209 Eisenhower Road, Rock Hill.

Memorials may be made to Hospice & Community Care, P.O. Box 993, Rock Hill, SC 29731 or College Park Baptist Church, 1209 Eisenhower Road, Rock Hill, SC 29730.