OBITUARY
The Greenville News (SC) - Friday, October 10, 2003, Page 4B
GREENVILLE, SC - Miriam "Piggy" Westmoreland Anderson Putnam, 78, wife of Samuel R. Putnam Jr. for 57 years, and resident of Rolling Green Village in Greenville, died October 7, 2003, at Saint Francis Hospital.
She was born in Woodruff, the daughter of William Woodruff and Rebecca Westmoreland Anderson. She attended Limestone College and graduated from Furman University in 1946 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry. At Furman, she was elected president of Chi Beta Phi, an honoraryt science fraternity, and was selected as outstanding member to receive the Distinguished Award Key. She continued her graduate studies in education at Furman University.
Mrs. Putnam was employed in the agricultural and textile laboratories at Clemson University, Table Rock Laboratories, Greenville County School, Clemson University Extension Services and J. B. White Department Store. She was appointed by Governor James Edwards to serve on the Board of Directors of Grady Hipp Nursing Center and was a member and president of The American Association of University Women.
She was a lifelong Southern Baptist, was an active member of Roper Mountain Baptist Church, and was a former member of Northgate Baptist Church, serving as Sunday School director and teacher, as Training Union leader, as director and member of the Women's Missionary Union, and was a member of the Church Council.
Besides her husband, she is survived by four children and their spouses, Lynn P. and Billy Jack Gregg, of Hurricane, West Virginia, Ann P. and Gordon Allen, of Ringgold, Georgia, Judy P. and Clark Foster, of Stockbridge, Georgia, and Bill and Laura Putnam, of Easley; fourteen grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; and a cousin, Mary Elizabeth Woolbright, of Spartanburg.
Funeral services will be held Saturday, October 11, 2003, at 2 p.m. at Northgate Baptist Church in Greenville, with the Rev. Dr. Robert Whaley, the Rev. Ron Lewis and the Rev. Clyde Wright officiating. Burial will follow at Woodlawn Memorial Park.
The family will receive friends at the home.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Roper Mountain Baptist Church, 300 Roper Mountain Road, Greenville, SC 29615; or to Northgate Baptist Church, 633 Summit Drive, Greenville, SC 29609, in memory of Miriam Putnam.
The family wishes to thank the doctors and staffs of Saint Francis Hospital and the Cancer Center of the Carolinas for the excellent care their wife and mother received during her extended illness.
The Mackey Mortuary on Century Drive is in charge of arrangements.
The Greenville News (SC) - Friday, October 10, 2003, Page 4B
GREENVILLE, SC - Miriam "Piggy" Westmoreland Anderson Putnam, 78, wife of Samuel R. Putnam Jr. for 57 years, and resident of Rolling Green Village in Greenville, died October 7, 2003, at Saint Francis Hospital.
She was born in Woodruff, the daughter of William Woodruff and Rebecca Westmoreland Anderson. She attended Limestone College and graduated from Furman University in 1946 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry. At Furman, she was elected president of Chi Beta Phi, an honoraryt science fraternity, and was selected as outstanding member to receive the Distinguished Award Key. She continued her graduate studies in education at Furman University.
Mrs. Putnam was employed in the agricultural and textile laboratories at Clemson University, Table Rock Laboratories, Greenville County School, Clemson University Extension Services and J. B. White Department Store. She was appointed by Governor James Edwards to serve on the Board of Directors of Grady Hipp Nursing Center and was a member and president of The American Association of University Women.
She was a lifelong Southern Baptist, was an active member of Roper Mountain Baptist Church, and was a former member of Northgate Baptist Church, serving as Sunday School director and teacher, as Training Union leader, as director and member of the Women's Missionary Union, and was a member of the Church Council.
Besides her husband, she is survived by four children and their spouses, Lynn P. and Billy Jack Gregg, of Hurricane, West Virginia, Ann P. and Gordon Allen, of Ringgold, Georgia, Judy P. and Clark Foster, of Stockbridge, Georgia, and Bill and Laura Putnam, of Easley; fourteen grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; and a cousin, Mary Elizabeth Woolbright, of Spartanburg.
Funeral services will be held Saturday, October 11, 2003, at 2 p.m. at Northgate Baptist Church in Greenville, with the Rev. Dr. Robert Whaley, the Rev. Ron Lewis and the Rev. Clyde Wright officiating. Burial will follow at Woodlawn Memorial Park.
The family will receive friends at the home.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Roper Mountain Baptist Church, 300 Roper Mountain Road, Greenville, SC 29615; or to Northgate Baptist Church, 633 Summit Drive, Greenville, SC 29609, in memory of Miriam Putnam.
The family wishes to thank the doctors and staffs of Saint Francis Hospital and the Cancer Center of the Carolinas for the excellent care their wife and mother received during her extended illness.
The Mackey Mortuary on Century Drive is in charge of arrangements.
OBITUARY
The Greenville News (SC) - Friday, October 10, 2003, Page 4B
GREENVILLE, SC - Miriam "Piggy" Westmoreland Anderson Putnam, 78, wife of Samuel R. Putnam Jr. for 57 years, and resident of Rolling Green Village in Greenville, died October 7, 2003, at Saint Francis Hospital.
She was born in Woodruff, the daughter of William Woodruff and Rebecca Westmoreland Anderson. She attended Limestone College and graduated from Furman University in 1946 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry. At Furman, she was elected president of Chi Beta Phi, an honoraryt science fraternity, and was selected as outstanding member to receive the Distinguished Award Key. She continued her graduate studies in education at Furman University.
Mrs. Putnam was employed in the agricultural and textile laboratories at Clemson University, Table Rock Laboratories, Greenville County School, Clemson University Extension Services and J. B. White Department Store. She was appointed by Governor James Edwards to serve on the Board of Directors of Grady Hipp Nursing Center and was a member and president of The American Association of University Women.
She was a lifelong Southern Baptist, was an active member of Roper Mountain Baptist Church, and was a former member of Northgate Baptist Church, serving as Sunday School director and teacher, as Training Union leader, as director and member of the Women's Missionary Union, and was a member of the Church Council.
Besides her husband, she is survived by four children and their spouses, Lynn P. and Billy Jack Gregg, of Hurricane, West Virginia, Ann P. and Gordon Allen, of Ringgold, Georgia, Judy P. and Clark Foster, of Stockbridge, Georgia, and Bill and Laura Putnam, of Easley; fourteen grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; and a cousin, Mary Elizabeth Woolbright, of Spartanburg.
Funeral services will be held Saturday, October 11, 2003, at 2 p.m. at Northgate Baptist Church in Greenville, with the Rev. Dr. Robert Whaley, the Rev. Ron Lewis and the Rev. Clyde Wright officiating. Burial will follow at Woodlawn Memorial Park.
The family will receive friends at the home.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Roper Mountain Baptist Church, 300 Roper Mountain Road, Greenville, SC 29615; or to Northgate Baptist Church, 633 Summit Drive, Greenville, SC 29609, in memory of Miriam Putnam.
The family wishes to thank the doctors and staffs of Saint Francis Hospital and the Cancer Center of the Carolinas for the excellent care their wife and mother received during her extended illness.
The Mackey Mortuary on Century Drive is in charge of arrangements.
The Greenville News (SC) - Friday, October 10, 2003, Page 4B
GREENVILLE, SC - Miriam "Piggy" Westmoreland Anderson Putnam, 78, wife of Samuel R. Putnam Jr. for 57 years, and resident of Rolling Green Village in Greenville, died October 7, 2003, at Saint Francis Hospital.
She was born in Woodruff, the daughter of William Woodruff and Rebecca Westmoreland Anderson. She attended Limestone College and graduated from Furman University in 1946 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry. At Furman, she was elected president of Chi Beta Phi, an honoraryt science fraternity, and was selected as outstanding member to receive the Distinguished Award Key. She continued her graduate studies in education at Furman University.
Mrs. Putnam was employed in the agricultural and textile laboratories at Clemson University, Table Rock Laboratories, Greenville County School, Clemson University Extension Services and J. B. White Department Store. She was appointed by Governor James Edwards to serve on the Board of Directors of Grady Hipp Nursing Center and was a member and president of The American Association of University Women.
She was a lifelong Southern Baptist, was an active member of Roper Mountain Baptist Church, and was a former member of Northgate Baptist Church, serving as Sunday School director and teacher, as Training Union leader, as director and member of the Women's Missionary Union, and was a member of the Church Council.
Besides her husband, she is survived by four children and their spouses, Lynn P. and Billy Jack Gregg, of Hurricane, West Virginia, Ann P. and Gordon Allen, of Ringgold, Georgia, Judy P. and Clark Foster, of Stockbridge, Georgia, and Bill and Laura Putnam, of Easley; fourteen grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; and a cousin, Mary Elizabeth Woolbright, of Spartanburg.
Funeral services will be held Saturday, October 11, 2003, at 2 p.m. at Northgate Baptist Church in Greenville, with the Rev. Dr. Robert Whaley, the Rev. Ron Lewis and the Rev. Clyde Wright officiating. Burial will follow at Woodlawn Memorial Park.
The family will receive friends at the home.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Roper Mountain Baptist Church, 300 Roper Mountain Road, Greenville, SC 29615; or to Northgate Baptist Church, 633 Summit Drive, Greenville, SC 29609, in memory of Miriam Putnam.
The family wishes to thank the doctors and staffs of Saint Francis Hospital and the Cancer Center of the Carolinas for the excellent care their wife and mother received during her extended illness.
The Mackey Mortuary on Century Drive is in charge of arrangements.
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