MARION - Mrs. Troy Carroll Atkinson, Sr., 76, died Sunday in a local hospital after a long illness.
She was born in Marion County, a daughter of the late Julius and Annie Glisson Rowell. In 1954 she and her husband received the South Carolina Master Farmer Award and in 1957 she won the S.C. Homemaker Award and membership in the National Homemakers Guild.
Surviving are her husband; four daughters, Mrs. Edward M. Hall of Silver Spring, Md., Mrs John Donovan of Cinnaminson, N.J., Mrs. Elgie Nissen of Marion, and Mrs. Leyton McCurdy of Charleston; two sons, David J. Atkinson, Sr. and T. Carroll Atkinson, Jr. of Marion; a sister, Mrs. Betty Shelley of Marion; three half sisters, Mrs. Arthur M. Shelamer and Miss Mary Rowell of Ft. Myers, Fla. and Mrs. Bonnie Rowell Corey of Athens, Tenn.
Services will be at 3:30 p.m. today in Reedy Creek Baptist Church with burial in Rose Hill Cemetery.
Published in The State, February 1973
MARION - Mrs. Troy Carroll Atkinson, Sr., 76, died Sunday in a local hospital after a long illness.
She was born in Marion County, a daughter of the late Julius and Annie Glisson Rowell. In 1954 she and her husband received the South Carolina Master Farmer Award and in 1957 she won the S.C. Homemaker Award and membership in the National Homemakers Guild.
Surviving are her husband; four daughters, Mrs. Edward M. Hall of Silver Spring, Md., Mrs John Donovan of Cinnaminson, N.J., Mrs. Elgie Nissen of Marion, and Mrs. Leyton McCurdy of Charleston; two sons, David J. Atkinson, Sr. and T. Carroll Atkinson, Jr. of Marion; a sister, Mrs. Betty Shelley of Marion; three half sisters, Mrs. Arthur M. Shelamer and Miss Mary Rowell of Ft. Myers, Fla. and Mrs. Bonnie Rowell Corey of Athens, Tenn.
Services will be at 3:30 p.m. today in Reedy Creek Baptist Church with burial in Rose Hill Cemetery.
Published in The State, February 1973
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