TITLE:  Clara Hazel Amaker Moyer

SOURCE:  The Post and Courier, August 3, 2001

SUBMITTED BY:  The Post and Courier

FORMATTED BY:  Kim Grissom, August 2001

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MOYER, Clara
Services for Clara Hazel Amaker Moyer, 86, of Saluda and Columbia, 
will be held at 3:00 PM Saturday, August 4, 2001 at RAMEY FUNERAL HOME 
CHAPEL in Saluda, S.C. Officiating will be the Rev. Bill Stone with 
burial following in Greenlawn Memorial Mausoleum in Columbia at 
approximately 5:00 PM. The family will receive friends from 2:00 to 
3:00 PM before the service at Ramey Funeral Home. Pallbearers will be 
grandsons, Rhett Moyer, Hal Moyer, Mike Moyer, Curtis Hensley, Bill 
Hensley, and Curt Hensley Jr. Honorary pallbearers will be grandsons 
Mason Hensley and Drew Moyer, and granddaughter Laura Moyer. Memorials 
may be made to the Saluda County Nursing Center, P.O. Box 398, Saluda,
South Carolina 29138. The family will gather at the home of Hal Moyer 
at 613 Bonham Road, Saluda. Mrs. Moyer died at the SCNC on Wednesday, 
August 1, 2001. Born in Saluda County, September 5, 1914, she was the 
daughter of the late John B. (Bunk) and Clara Hazel Amaker. She was a 
devoted wife and mother, enjoying her children and grandchildren. 
During her life she was a former member of the Saluda Garden Club, 
president of the Rutledge Book Club in Lake City, SC, and a member of 
the Pilot International Club of Columbia. She was a member of North 
Trenholm Road Baptist Church in Columbia. Mrs. Moyer was an exceptional
florist, and worked at Shandon Greenhouses in Columbia before moving 
to Saluda to open her own business, the Saluda Flower Shop in 1947. In 
1964, she served as House Director at Georgia Southern University in 
Statesboro, Georgia. Due to her continued support of her daughters 
career, Mrs. Moyer was honored as an honorary member of the South 
Carolina Association of Nurse Anesthetists in 1986. Surviving are 
daughter, Betty J. Moyer, Columbia; and son and daughter-in-law, 
Russell Everett and Ethelyn Jones Moyer, Gilbert; sister, Onelia 
Amaker Cooper, Columbia; and brother and sister-in-law, J. B. and 
Nancy Amaker, Charleston. Granddaughters and grandson-in-law, Vicky 
and Curtis Hensley, Greenwood; grandsons and granddaughters-in-law, 
Rhett and Sandy Moyer, Gilbert; Hal Moyer and Diane Miller, Saluda; 
and Mike and Dana Moyer, Gilbert. Great-grandsons and spouses, Bill 
and Louisa Hensley, Rhode Island and Spain; Curt and Tonya Hensley, 
Greenwood; Mason Hensley, Greenwood; Drew Moyer, Gilbert. 
Great-granddaughter and mother, Laura Moyer and Tricia Moyer, 
Gilbert. Great-great-grandchildren, Guillermo Hensley and Alba Maria 
Hensley, Spain; and Tripp Hensley, Greenwood. She was pre-deceased by 
husband Russell E. Moyer Sr.; and sister, Sybil A. Ward. (The Post and 
Courier August 3, 2001)
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