Linnie Padgett Bazzle

Mrs. Linnie Ruth Bazzle, 74, entered into rest Tuesday morning at her home on Lowcountry Highway in Smoaks while under the care of Intrepid Hospice. She was the wife of the late Mr. Thomas Russell Bazzle who died in 1986.

Funeral services will be conducted 11 o’clock Friday morning, March 13, 2015, from Smoaks Baptist Church, 482 Lodge Highway, Smoaks. The Reverend Dan Stroman officiating. Interment will follow in the church cemetery.

Born February 9, 1941, a native and lifelong resident of Smoaks, South Carolina, she was a daughter of the late James Benjamin Padgett and the late Pansy Ertha Britt Padgett. For many years she was a seamstress having worked at Youngwear and she was a member of Smoaks Baptist Church. She will be fondly remembered for her love of others, never meeting a stranger. She loved to camp and always enjoyed bingo.

Surviving are: two daughters, Deborah Ruth Lawton and her Fiancée Eugene Miller of Walterboro and Tammy Bazzle Hiott and her husband Sammy of Smoaks; four grandchildren, Victoria French and her husband Raymond, Jennifer Simmons and her husband Chris, Miranda Lawton and Susie Hiott; and five great grandchildren, Kaylee French, Natalie French, Macon French, Noah Lawson, and Grayson; as well as a dedicated family friend, Jerry Hiott. She was preceded in death by a sister, Lottie “Pete” Padgett.

Flowers will be accepted, or for those that wish, the family has suggested that memorial contributions be directed inn her memory to the following: Intrepid Hospice, 2694 Lake Park Drive, 1st Floor, North Charleston, South Carolina 29406; or to, National Kidney Foundation, Inc., 30 East 33rd Street, New York, New York 10016.

Family and friends are invited to call this Thursday evening for visitation with the family from 6 o’clock until 8 o’clock at THE BRICE W. HERNDON AND SONS FUNERAL HOME, WALTERBORO CHAPEL, 1193 Bells Highway, Walterboro; 843.538.5408. Visit the registry online at: www.briceherndonfuneralhome.com.

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