Johnnie Stone

Biography

Mr. Johnnie Boyd Stone, 86, of 33 Loblolly Street, Walterboro, passed away peacefully at his home under the care of Amedysis Hospice Saturday evening, March 31, 2012. He was married for sixty-two years to the late Mrs. Eleanor Stanley Stone.

Funeral services will be conducted 11 o'clock Wednesday morning, April 4, 2012, from The Brice W. Herndon and Sons Funeral Chapel, Walterboro with The Reverend Jim Stophel and The Reverend Daniel Cooper officiating. Interment will follow in Live Oak Cemetery, Jefferies Blvd, Walterboro.

Mr. Stone was born May 20, 1925, in Islandton, and was a son of the late John Marion Stone and the late Nina Murdaugh Stone. He was a contractor by trade, having been the founder and retired owner of Stone Construction Company. Next to construction work, farming was his passion in life - diligently farming his land every year always sharing his crop and harvest with those he loved. He was a faithful member and the contractor having constructed the sanctuary and Sunday School areas of Northside Christian Church in Walterboro where he has severed as an Elder for many years. Years later, he also built the church's steeple at his home and placed on the Narthex of the church. Johnnie loved the Lord and his family with all his heart, always serving God in any way he knew and doing everything he could to provide for his family. He enjoyed fishing the local creeks of Colleton County.

Surviving are: two sons, John R. "Ricky" Stone and his wife Suzanne C. of Walterboro and Richard D. Stone and his wife Angie of Walterboro; three daughters, Sharon S. Thorson and her husband Earl of Walterboro, Betty S. Bridgeman of Walterboro, and Janice S. Klee and her husband Brian of Greer; and two sisters, Gladys Rivers of California and Nell Pratten of Florida. There are seventeen grandchildren and twenty-six great grandchildren that also survive. He was preceded in death by two daughters, Judy S. Jennings and Nina Jean Groves; a son, Johnnie Boyd Stone, Jr.; a grandson, Christopher George Lemacks; two brothers, and two sisters.

For those that so desire, memorial messages and thoughts of condolence as well as memories of Johnnie may be shared with the family by visiting www.briceherndonfuneralhome.com.

Family and friends are invited to call from 6:00 until 8:00 this Tuesday evening THE BRICE W. HERNDON AND SONS FUNERAL HOMES, WALTERBORO CHAPEL, 1193 Bells Highway, Walterboro, 843.538.5408.