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4A Index-Journal, Greenwood, S.C. Saturday, May 20, 2023 Obituaries News C2-194708 C2-183127 May 22nd, 2023 5PM C2-203609 The four seniors, Mary Elliott Hodges, Anna Holt, Jaela Marshall and Karoline Trapnell, graduated Friday. Holt, Marshall and Trapnell have attended the school since ninth grade. Hodges attended the school for 13 years, since kindergarten. best part of coming here say is the relationship you have with the teachers and the Marshall said.

like they actually care for you and a family and allowed to talk about the Bible and your beliefs and stuff and nobody judges you here and just nice to hear point of view and learn more about the Lord and about The four said they will miss sports and seeing their classmates every day. here 13 years, I can say like I definitely have friends for Hodges said. get so close so fast with everyone and all here for the same reason, to get an education with the Lord involved so we can all grow separately and together in our relationship through school and through Trapnell said she going to miss the smallness of the school. grew up in public school all throughout my life up until high school and it was a big shift coming here where so she said. love everyone here, but you kind of have to love everyone here, you Holt said being in college, the four will get a chance to start over.

Now that older and growing into adults, they will be around more people their age, she said. Holt is headed to Belmont Abbey College in North Carolina to become a nurse. Marshall is headed to Piedmont Technical College for radiology. Trapnell will go to North Greenville University to study psychology and ministry. Hodges will study diagnostic medical sonography at Greenville Technical College.

think Marshall said. going to miss having the bonds that I have with people in high school, but I think going to miss high Contact staff writer Lindsey Hodges at 864-943-5644 or on Twitter GRADUATE From page 1A OUTSIDE SOUTH CAROLINA Geneva Pope Speach, Charlotte, NC. VISITATIONS TODAY POSTON, Mary, Blyth Funeral Home. SPEACH, Geneva, 1-6, Percival Tompkins Funeral Home. SERVICES SUNDAY BRAID, Jacqueline, 3, St.

Mark United Methodist Church. POSTON, Mary, 2, North Side Baptist Church. SPEACH, Geneva, 1:30, Springfield Baptist Church. OBITUARY GUIDELINES Obituary submissions are submitted online at memoriams.com through an approved funeral home. Obituary and Death announcement submissions may not contain digital links to external websites or any reference thereof.

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Please contact the obituary desk at 864-223-1811 or for questions. Geneva Pope Speach CHARLOTTE, NC Pope Speach, 80, of 4725 Springtrace Drive, Charlotte, NC, wife of Joe Speach Sr. for 65 years, entered into eternal rest on May 17, 2023 at Atrium Health University City in Charlotte, NC. She was born in Providence, RI, April 23, 1943, a daughter of the late John L. Abney and Irene Spearman Abney.

At an early age, she was moved to Greenwood, SC, and was reared in the home of Clara Pope Reed. She was retired from Nantex and was a homemaker. She was a member of Springfield Baptist Church, where served formerly served on the Usher Board. She was preceded in death by two daughters, Stephanie Speach and Cathy Pope and a son, Willie Henry Speach. Surviving is her husband of 65 years of the home, five sons, Michael (Linda) Speach of Charlotte, NC, James Garrett (Lisa) Speach, of Simpsonville, SC, Reginald Speach Austell, GA Joe Speach Jr.

of Charlotte, NC, Antonio (Tiffanie) Speach of Rock Hill, SC; a brother, Oliver (Teresa) Pope of Greenwood; a sister, Vivian Abney of Woonsocket, RI; 25 plus grandchildren, two reared in the home, Speach and Etoia Pope and a host of great-grand-grandchildren other relatives and friends. Services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, May 21, 2023 at Springfield Baptist Church, with Rev. Dr. Robert Knox officiating.

Burial will follow in the church cemetery. Mrs. Speach will be placed in the church at 12:30 p.m. Public viewing will be from 1-6 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home.

The family will be at the home of a brother, Oliver Pope, 131 Yucca Court, Greenwood, SC 29469. Percival Tompkins Funeral Home is honored to serve the Speach family. GENEVA POPE SPEACH Associated Press CLEVELAND Pro Football Hall of Famer Jim Brown, the unstoppable running back who retired at the peak of his brilliant career to become an actor as well as a prominent civil rights advocate during the 1960s, has died. He was 87. A spokeswoman for family said he passed away peacefully in his Los Angeles home on Thursday night with his wife, Monique, by his side.

the world, he was an activist, actor, and football Monique Brown wrote in an Instagram post. our family, he was a loving husband, father, and grandfather. Our hearts are One of the greatest players in football history and one of the first superstars, Brown was chosen the Most Valuable Player in 1965 and shattered the record books in a short career spanning 1957-65. Brown led the Cleveland Browns to their last NFL title in 1964 before retiring in his prime after the season to become an actor. He appeared in more than 30 films, including Given and Dirty An unstoppable runner with power, speed and endurance, arrival sparked the burgeoning popularity on television.

Jim Brown, activist, all-time NFL great, dies ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE Jim Brown is introduced before the inaugural Pro Football Hall of Fame Fan Fest in 2014, at the International Exposition Center. By ROBERT JORDAN ABBEVILLE The City of Abbeville Planning Commission rejected a proposed tiny home development. Officials voted 7-0 against zoning code changes that would have paved the way for creation of a development by Incredible Tiny Homes of Newport, Tennessee. Company owner Randy Jones made a presentation at the Thursday meeting in front of a nearly overflow crowd. The meeting was held as the proposed development did not meet the guidelines, said Mike Clary, the deputy administrative officer.

The purpose of the meeting was to see if the commission would recommend a rules change to the city council. Other developments have been geared toward single women 55 and older, Jones said. Often, they are retirees who seek to downsize. A retired woman could live in a tiny home on a monthly income of $1,200. The plan is to use three tracts around the Carolina Circle area for the development which would feature tiny homes with a minimum size of 200 square feet, he said.

Given the rising costs of traditional housing, tiny houses offer an affordable alternative to people, according to Incredible Tiny application to the commission. There would be one-lane access at Carolina Circle and at Center Drive for the 44-acre, 200-house development, Jones said. Power, water, electric lines would be underground to leave as much as vegetation as possible. will not be a checkerboard; it will have Jones said. It was to be a gated community and have an on-site manager, he said.

Incredible Tiny Homes would own the property and residents would own the homes. Residents would pay $200 rent per month for the land and pay taxes on their house. want to be open to everyone. Come in here, look what doing. That will calm everybody Jones said.

that know tiny homes, know me, I understand. If it works out, great. If not, we go Buildings are registered as RVs, but they would be considered as a home, Jones said. The homes will have full kitchens, bedrooms and air conditioning. They are not campers.

a new thing, Jones said in an interview before the meeting. People fear that with a $30,000 house, owners will be low-income families that throw trash all over the place, put a refrigerator on the porch and jack up a car in yard. Jones said rules will be in place and if a homeowner does not abide by them, that person will be evicted. Rules will be locked in regardless of whoever owns the development. concerns ranged from whether zoning changes would let other businesses such as KOA move into the city, and the possibility of people putting up 20-year-old campers, what depreciation of tiny homes could be, how property values in nearby areas would be affected, whether the development would increase tax revenues and how the area would deal with an influx of people.

The plan is to build a legacy, Jones said. Homes will have to be maintained, painted, skirted and underpinned. It will not be a drug-infested community in 30 years. He said he is uncertain how anybody can deal with depreciation beyond noting that some residents of tiny homes his company made have sold them for a profit. Depreciation was on one mind who wanted to know what a development would do to her property values as she lives near the site.

Another woman was concerned about the number of people the project would bring to the area. People walk on her property now. there is a stranger in my backyard, not going to be Discussion also centered on sizes of tiny homes, RVs, the use of foundations and modular houses. It prompted one attendee to say the lack of specifics is absurd to him. Patrick Mulcahy, a commission member, wondered if a development is the best use of the land such that this is a situation where, 50 years later, we can say proud to have made that Mayor Trey Edwards noted that Abbeville County and South Carolina rules state that a person live in an RV permanently.

After the meeting, Edwards said he is pleased with the ruling. think they made a wise decision. If you want a tiny home, buy one and put it on your he said. you put 300 houses on 39 acres, what is that going to In other news, the commission approved a plan to rename a section of East Greenwood Street from Grey Rock Estate to South Main Street to Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.

Contact staff writer Robert Jordan at 864-943-5650. Abbeville cials reject proposal to change zoning for tiny homes ROBERT JORDAN INDEX-JOURNAL People filled the Abbeville City Council chamber during meeting of the city planning commission as it collected input on a proposed tiny house development. MONDAY GREENWOOD SCHOOL DISTRICT 51 TIME: 4 p.m. LOCATION: Ware Shoals Community Library AGENDA: Executive session (Discussion of employment, appointment, compensation, promotion, demotion, discipline, or release of an employee, a student, or a person regulated by a public body.) Action items. Action as necessary or appropriate on matters discussed in executive session.

ABBEVILLE COUNTY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING WHEN: 6:30 p.m. WHERE: 903 West Greenwood Abbeville AGENDA: Executive session contractual and legal discussions pertaining to Abbeville Area Medical Center. Action on executive session items. TUESDAY GREENWOOD CITY COUNCIL LEGISLATIVE SPECIAL CALLED MEETING WHEN: Noon WHERE: 520 Monument Greenwood, Room 207 AGENDA: Consider authorizing the submission of required forms of PEBA for firefighters coverage in the police officers retirement system. ABBEVILLE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARD OF TRUSTEES TIME: 5 p.m.

LOCATION: District board room AGENDA: 5 p.m. budget workshop. 5:30 p.m. executive session (closed session in the Board Room to discuss Personnel Recommendations-Resignations, Retirements, Hires and contract). Regular session at 6 p.m.

Approval of agenda. Public input. Consent action item: approval of minutes for April 25, 2023 regular board meeting. Gold Star Highlights. Discussion information items: report, construction update, CIP update, maintenance update, financial update, student services report update, curriculum update-school improvement, comments.

Discussion action items: district and school renewal plan, 20232024 budget first reading, personnel. Request for information. WEDNESDAY GREENWOOD METROPOLITAN DISTRICT COMMISSION WHEN: 3 p.m. WHERE: 110 Metro Drive, Greenwood AGENDA: Receive open bids for Hasting Unit (small) RDP at Wilson Creek wastewater treatment plant. Presentation by GMC on construction manager at risk.

Business: A. Consideration to purchase for variable frequency drives at Wilson Creek WWTP. Financial reports. Executive session to discuss the following: Personnel matter. THURSDAY GREENWOOD COMMISSIONERS OF PUBLIC WORKS WHEN: 10 a.m.

WHERE: 121 West Court Greenwood AGENDA: Bid opening Maxwell Avenue, South Mathis Street water line replacement. Financial reports. Business: A. Consideration of network equipment. B.

Presentation of FY2022 audit. C. Consideration of South Carolina Infrastructure Improvement Program Grant Award. D. Consideration of federal funds procurement policy.

E. Consideration of IT Audit Consultants. F. Consideration of cancellation of June 22, 2023 meeting. Executive session to discuss contractual and personnel matters.

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