TITLE:  Gerald Hope Grant

SOURCE: The New and Reporter, June 27, 2001

SUBMITTED: The News and Reporter

FORMATTED: Kim Grissom, June 2001

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Mr. Gerald Hope Grant, 73
CHESTER – The funeral for Mr. Gerald Hope Grant of 1986 New Hope 
Church Road was conducted at 5 p.m. Tuesday, June 26, 2001, at Calvary 
Baptist Church. The Rev. David Sealy, the Rev. Bob Craven and the Rev.
Chris Snelgrove officiated and burial followed in Chester Memorial 
Gardens. Mr. Grant, 73, died Sunday, June 24, 2001, at Providence 
Hospital in Columbia. Born in Lockhart on Oct. 20, 1927, he was a son 
of the late James Ainsley Grant and the late Ethel Mae Gilliam Grant. 
He attended Chester County schools and was a retired signal foreman 
with Seaboard Coastline Railroad. He was also a World War II veteran 
of the U.S. Army and Merchant Marines. Survivors include three sons, 
Jackie L. Grant, Mark R. Grant and Timothy H. Grant, all of Chester; 
two sisters, Elizabeth Grant Simpson of Atlanta, Ga. and Barbara Grant 
Gearhart of Greenville; four grandchildren, Julie Grant, Shannon Grant,
James Grant and Martha Rose Grant. He was preceded in death by his wife
, Nell Leggett Grant, and a son, Gerald H. Grant Jr. Memorials may be 
made to the National Necrotizing Fasciitis Foundation, 2731 Porter SW, 
Grand Rapids, MI, 49509 or to Calvary Baptist Church, 610 Calvary 
Church Road, Chester, S.C. 29706 or to West Chester Baptist Church, 
1898 Pinckney Road, Chester, S.C. 29706. Barron Funeral Home was in 
charge of arrangements. 

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