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From: "Carley Wiggins" <>
Subject: [SCMARLBO-L] obit-McLaurin-James
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 15:55:57 -0400


Jean James

Bennettsville -- Jean McLaurin James, 86, died August 14, 2003, in a nursing
home in Bennettsville.



Mrs. James was born in 1917 in Mullins, the daughter of Tulley and Colin
McLaurin and sister of Colin and Kenneth, all now deceased.



Mrs. James graduated from Winthrop in 1938 where she was president of her
junior and senior classes. She was married in 1940 to Thomas Fraser James
Jr. of Spartanburg. During the next 30 years they lived in Summerville,
Washington, D.C., St. Charles, La., Virginia Beach and Lutz, Fla., before
his death in 1970. She then moved to Bennettsville and became librarian at
the Marlboro County Library.



She was the widow of Thomas Fraser James Jr. and is survived by her
daughter, Margaret Martenet of Newport, Ky., and her brother, Harrison
McLaurin of Irmo.



There will be a private family graveside service Wednesday at the Grove Park
cemetery in Darlington where her husband is buried.



Lee Funeral Home & Crematory of Little River/North Myrtle Beach is in charge
of arrangements
submitted by Helen Lane Wiggins


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