OBITUARY

Name:   Robert Thomas Garrison

From:  The Citizen Times, Asheville, North Carolina
Date:  Saturday, July 11, 1992

Garrison was born in Buncombe County, N.C. to Katherine Irene Edwards of Charlotte and the late Robert Cornelius Garrison.  He was a member of Derita Lodge No. 715 A.F.M. [sic] in Charlotte, a U.S. Army veteran of the Korean War and a manufacturing manager for Vulcraft Division of Nucor Corp. in Florence.

In addition to his mother, he is survived by his wife, Ruth Tucker Garrison of Timmonsville; five daughters, Helen Hinton of Chilhowie, Va., Rose Flounders of McBee, Bernice Jordan of Raleigh, Jenny Foit of New Smyrna, Fla., and Julie Angelea of Lakeland, Fla.; two brothers, James Garrison of Murfreesboro and Paul Garrison of Lansing, Mich; two sisters, Clara Barron of Concord and Rosalee Richardson of Winston-Salem; and seven grandchildren.

Services will be at 4 p.m. Monday at South Florence Baptist Church.  The Rev. Tony Facenda will officiate. Burial will be at 5 p.m. Tuesday in Mallard Creek Presbyterian Church in Charlotte under the direction of Stoudenmire-Downing Funeral Home, Florence.  The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home and from 4:15 to 5:00 Tuesday in the chapel of Mallard Creek Presbyterian Church in Charlotte.  At other times, the family will be at the residence.

Memorials may be made to Hospice of the Pee Dee, BTC, 181 E. Evans St., Florence.