Mary Julia Antley Blount, of Aiken, died peacefully on the afternoon of February 4, 2010.
Mrs. Blount was born December 1, 1914, near Canadys in rural Colleton County, a daughter of Joseph Cuthbert Antley and Ethel Eugenia Pickering Antley.
During the Great Depression she moved to Charleston and worked for a while in the American Cigar Company factory on East Bay Street there. She fondly remembered the names of the various streets on which she lived; the simple phrase "Rutledge Avenue" always brought joy to her.
Married in 1936, she moved to North Charleston during World War II, raised her two sons, and lived for fifty years in the same house. For a period of seventeen years after the retirement of her husband, she and Jim ran Blount's Open Air Market in Eutawville, SC. In 1999 they relocated to Aiken to be close to their son.
With great courage and dedication Mrs. Blount tended her son, Charles Edward Blount, at home during the last year of his life (1993) as he battled cancer. She showed similar devotion to her husband in the last two years of his life at the Mattie C. Hall nursing facility. She drove her own car there until the age of ninety. She was a dedicated reader, especially of the Bible, until her eyes failed her in the last few years of her life. Outwardly an undemonstrative person, she always showed great inner strength.
A devout Christian her entire life, she was a member of Cooper River Baptist Church of North Charleston for half a century.
She was the widow of Andrew James "Jim" Blount, who died in 2005, and is survived by a son and daughter-in-law, Donald and Elizabeth Blount of Aiken, by a grandson Joseph Blount of Atlanta, a granddaughter Enid Blount Press and her husband Gary Press, a great-granddaughter, all of New Rochelle, NY; sister, Dorothy Antley Neale, of Charleston, and many nieces and nephews.
Mrs. Blount was preceded in death by her four brothers: William Henry (Bill) Antley, Mike Randolph Antley, Hampton (Hamp) Lee Antley, and Joseph Benjamin (Ben) Antley.
Interment was in Carolina Park.
Mrs. Blount was born December 1, 1914, near Canadys in rural Colleton County, a daughter of Joseph Cuthbert Antley and Ethel Eugenia Pickering Antley.
During the Great Depression she moved to Charleston and worked for a while in the American Cigar Company factory on East Bay Street there. She fondly remembered the names of the various streets on which she lived; the simple phrase "Rutledge Avenue" always brought joy to her.
Married in 1936, she moved to North Charleston during World War II, raised her two sons, and lived for fifty years in the same house. For a period of seventeen years after the retirement of her husband, she and Jim ran Blount's Open Air Market in Eutawville, SC. In 1999 they relocated to Aiken to be close to their son.
With great courage and dedication Mrs. Blount tended her son, Charles Edward Blount, at home during the last year of his life (1993) as he battled cancer. She showed similar devotion to her husband in the last two years of his life at the Mattie C. Hall nursing facility. She drove her own car there until the age of ninety. She was a dedicated reader, especially of the Bible, until her eyes failed her in the last few years of her life. Outwardly an undemonstrative person, she always showed great inner strength.
A devout Christian her entire life, she was a member of Cooper River Baptist Church of North Charleston for half a century.
She was the widow of Andrew James "Jim" Blount, who died in 2005, and is survived by a son and daughter-in-law, Donald and Elizabeth Blount of Aiken, by a grandson Joseph Blount of Atlanta, a granddaughter Enid Blount Press and her husband Gary Press, a great-granddaughter, all of New Rochelle, NY; sister, Dorothy Antley Neale, of Charleston, and many nieces and nephews.
Mrs. Blount was preceded in death by her four brothers: William Henry (Bill) Antley, Mike Randolph Antley, Hampton (Hamp) Lee Antley, and Joseph Benjamin (Ben) Antley.
Interment was in Carolina Park.
Mary Julia Antley Blount, of Aiken, died peacefully on the afternoon of February 4, 2010.
Mrs. Blount was born December 1, 1914, near Canadys in rural Colleton County, a daughter of Joseph Cuthbert Antley and Ethel Eugenia Pickering Antley.
During the Great Depression she moved to Charleston and worked for a while in the American Cigar Company factory on East Bay Street there. She fondly remembered the names of the various streets on which she lived; the simple phrase "Rutledge Avenue" always brought joy to her.
Married in 1936, she moved to North Charleston during World War II, raised her two sons, and lived for fifty years in the same house. For a period of seventeen years after the retirement of her husband, she and Jim ran Blount's Open Air Market in Eutawville, SC. In 1999 they relocated to Aiken to be close to their son.
With great courage and dedication Mrs. Blount tended her son, Charles Edward Blount, at home during the last year of his life (1993) as he battled cancer. She showed similar devotion to her husband in the last two years of his life at the Mattie C. Hall nursing facility. She drove her own car there until the age of ninety. She was a dedicated reader, especially of the Bible, until her eyes failed her in the last few years of her life. Outwardly an undemonstrative person, she always showed great inner strength.
A devout Christian her entire life, she was a member of Cooper River Baptist Church of North Charleston for half a century.
She was the widow of Andrew James "Jim" Blount, who died in 2005, and is survived by a son and daughter-in-law, Donald and Elizabeth Blount of Aiken, by a grandson Joseph Blount of Atlanta, a granddaughter Enid Blount Press and her husband Gary Press, a great-granddaughter, all of New Rochelle, NY; sister, Dorothy Antley Neale, of Charleston, and many nieces and nephews.
Mrs. Blount was preceded in death by her four brothers: William Henry (Bill) Antley, Mike Randolph Antley, Hampton (Hamp) Lee Antley, and Joseph Benjamin (Ben) Antley.
Interment was in Carolina Park.
Mrs. Blount was born December 1, 1914, near Canadys in rural Colleton County, a daughter of Joseph Cuthbert Antley and Ethel Eugenia Pickering Antley.
During the Great Depression she moved to Charleston and worked for a while in the American Cigar Company factory on East Bay Street there. She fondly remembered the names of the various streets on which she lived; the simple phrase "Rutledge Avenue" always brought joy to her.
Married in 1936, she moved to North Charleston during World War II, raised her two sons, and lived for fifty years in the same house. For a period of seventeen years after the retirement of her husband, she and Jim ran Blount's Open Air Market in Eutawville, SC. In 1999 they relocated to Aiken to be close to their son.
With great courage and dedication Mrs. Blount tended her son, Charles Edward Blount, at home during the last year of his life (1993) as he battled cancer. She showed similar devotion to her husband in the last two years of his life at the Mattie C. Hall nursing facility. She drove her own car there until the age of ninety. She was a dedicated reader, especially of the Bible, until her eyes failed her in the last few years of her life. Outwardly an undemonstrative person, she always showed great inner strength.
A devout Christian her entire life, she was a member of Cooper River Baptist Church of North Charleston for half a century.
She was the widow of Andrew James "Jim" Blount, who died in 2005, and is survived by a son and daughter-in-law, Donald and Elizabeth Blount of Aiken, by a grandson Joseph Blount of Atlanta, a granddaughter Enid Blount Press and her husband Gary Press, a great-granddaughter, all of New Rochelle, NY; sister, Dorothy Antley Neale, of Charleston, and many nieces and nephews.
Mrs. Blount was preceded in death by her four brothers: William Henry (Bill) Antley, Mike Randolph Antley, Hampton (Hamp) Lee Antley, and Joseph Benjamin (Ben) Antley.
Interment was in Carolina Park.
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