TITLE:  Lemuel Edgar Wiggins

SOURCE:  The Post and Courier, June 22, 2001

SUBMITTED:  The Post and Courier

FORMATTED:  Kim Grissom, June 2001

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Lemuel Edgar Wiggins, Jr., of Ashevile, N.C., age 93, died Wednesday, 
June 20, 2001, at Givens Estates in Asheville, N.C. He was born in 
Bamberg, S.C., and was the son of the late Reverend Lemuel Edgar, Sr., 
and Leila Estelle Black Wiggins. He was a former resident of 
Summerville, S.C. He was a retired district engineer with the South 
Carolina Highway Department. He attended Clemson University and was a 
member of Bethany United Methodist Church in Summerville, S.C. He was 
preceded in death by his wife, Alice Holler Wiggins, who died in 1996 
and a sister, Harriet Wiggins. He was a U.S. Navy veteran of World War
II. He is survived by a daughter, Mary Harriet Carter of Marion, S.C.; 
two sons, Lemuel E. Wiggins, III, of Duluth, Ga., and Reverend Ellwood
(Woody) Wiggins of North Charleston, S.C.; a brother, Dr. Casper 
Wiggins of Greenwood, S.C.; two sisters, Elizabeth McDonald of Hickory,
N.C., and Lydia McLaughlin of Honeoye Falls, N.Y.; nine grandchildren 
and seven great grandchildren. Memorial services will be held at 2 p.m.
Saturday, June 23, at Givens Estates with Chaplain J. Oscar Dowdle and 
Reverend Ellwood Wiggins officiating. Interment and graveside services 
will be held at 4:30 p.m., Saturday, June 23, at Green Hill Cemetery in
Waynesville, N.C. The family requests in lieu of flowers that memorials
be given to Bethany United Methodist Church, Summerville, S.C. 29483, 
or Givens Estates, 2360 Sweeten Creek Road, Asheville, N.C. 28803. 
WELLS FUNERAL HOME of Waynesville is in charge of arrangements. For 
those who desire, an on-line memorial register is available at 
"Obituaries" at www.wellsfuneralhome.com.   (THe Post and Courier 
June 22, 2001)
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