TITLE:  Kelly Sawyer Sr

SOURCE:  The Post and Courier, July 20, 2001

SUBMITTED BY:  The Post and Courier

FORMATTED BY:  Kim Grissom, July 2001

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  SAWYER, SR., Kelly
Mr. Kelly Bob Sawyer, Sr., 71, husband of Esther Richardson Sawyer, 
died Wednesday, July 18, 2001, at his residence after an illness. 
Funeral services will be held at 4:30 p.m., Friday, July 20, at 
Mullins-Marion Freewill Baptist Church, with Rev. William C. Jacobs 
officiating. Burial, with full military honors, will follow in Reedy 
Creek Cemetery, directed by SMITH-COLLINS FUNERAL HOME. Mr. Sawyer was 
born September 9, 1929, in Marion County, a son of the late Lonnie and 
Nina Turner Sawyer. Mr. Sawyer was the founder and owner of Sawyer 
Construction Company. Mr. Sawyer retired from the U.S. Army as a Staff 
Sergeant after 22 years of service, having served in the Korean War 
and the Viet Nam War. He was a member of the Disabled American 
Veterans. Mr. Sawyer attended the Mullins-Marion Freewill Baptist 
Church. Surviving, Mr. Sawyer in addition to his wife of the home are, 
his children, Nina Teresa White of Mt. Pleasant, Darlene Sawyer 
Heckman and her husband Perry of Marion, Kelly Bob Sawyer, Jr., and 
his wife Peggy of Marion, Connie Sawyer Johnson and her husband 
Kenneth of Mullins, Dondi C. Sawyer and his wife Rachael of Long 
Beach, Miss., Kimberly Sawyer Jacobs and her husband Tony of Demorest,
 Ga., Shannon White Jacobs and her husband Timothy of Marion and 
Shelley White Martin and her husband Buddy of Marion; 21 grandchildren 
and seven great grandchildren; two brothers, Freddie Sawyer of 
Columbia and Larry Sawyer of Arizona; and seven sisters, Bertha Mae 
Harrelson of Sumter, Mary Bell Garris of Lake View, Minnie Walker of 
Florence, Doris Jean Coleman of Nichols, Bobbie Britt of Mullins, 
Joanne Black of Charlotte, N.C., and Faye Hamilton of Columbia. Mr. 
Sawyer was predeceased by two sons, Jeffrey Sawyer and Tom Sawyer. 
Memorials may be made to the Mullins-Marion Freewill Baptist Church 
Christian School, 214 Drew Road, Mullins, S.C. 29574. (The Post and 
Courier July 20, 2001)
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