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PVT Joseph Grady Alford

Birth: 16 Apr 1894
Death: 26 Jan 1976 (aged 81)
Burial: Carolina Presbyterian Church Cemetery

Carolina, Dillon County, South Carolina, USA Add to Map
Memorial ID: 73517611 View Source

Obituary:

MORNING NEWS
Florence, Florence Co., SC
Wednesday, 28 January 1976

LITTLE ROCK [Dillon Co.]—Joseph Grady Alford, 81, died in a Bennettsville hospital Monday after a long illness.

Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday at 3 p.m. in the Whitner Funeral Home in Bennettsville. Burial will be in Carolina Church Cemetery.

Mr. Alford was born in Marion, son of the late D.J. and Catherine Easterling Alford. He was a retired farmer and attended the Marion and Dillon County schools. He was an army veteran of World War I, and a member of the Carolina Presbyterian Church where he was an elder emeritus.

Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Ruth McLaurin Alford of Little Rock; a son, James Duncan Alford of Little Rock; a daughter, Mrs. P.K. Van Ripper of Jacksonville, N.C.; three sisters, Mrs. Mabelle A. Alford of Dillon, Mrs. Jessie Cottingham of Clio, and Mrs. Elizabeth Hasty of Fayetteville, N.C.; also two grandchildren.

Memorials may be made to the Presbyterian Home.

Obituary:

MORNING NEWS
Florence, Florence Co., SC
Wednesday, 28 January 1976

LITTLE ROCK [Dillon Co.]—Joseph Grady Alford, 81, died in a Bennettsville hospital Monday after a long illness.

Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday at 3 p.m. in the Whitner Funeral Home in Bennettsville. Burial will be in Carolina Church Cemetery.

Mr. Alford was born in Marion, son of the late D.J. and Catherine Easterling Alford. He was a retired farmer and attended the Marion and Dillon County schools. He was an army veteran of World War I, and a member of the Carolina Presbyterian Church where he was an elder emeritus.

Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Ruth McLaurin Alford of Little Rock; a son, James Duncan Alford of Little Rock; a daughter, Mrs. P.K. Van Ripper of Jacksonville, N.C.; three sisters, Mrs. Mabelle A. Alford of Dillon, Mrs. Jessie Cottingham of Clio, and Mrs. Elizabeth Hasty of Fayetteville, N.C.; also two grandchildren.

Memorials may be made to the Presbyterian Home.

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PVT. U.S. Army WWI

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1905–1993

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Created by: Pamela Thompson
Added: Jul 17, 2011
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Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/73517611/joseph_grady-alford: accessed ), memorial page for PVT Joseph Grady Alford (16 Apr 1894–26 Jan 1976), Find a Grave Memorial ID 73517611, citing Carolina Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Carolina, Dillon County, South Carolina, USA; Maintained by Pamela Thompson (contributor 47195155).

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