TITLE:  Laura Matthews Ashley

SOURCE: The New and Reporter, May 27, 2001

SUBMITTED: The News and Reporter

FORMATTED: Kim Grissom, May 2001

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Mrs. Laura Matthews Ashley, 78

CHESTER – The funeral for Mrs. Laura Matthews Ashley of 986 Peden Bridge Road will be conducted 
at 4 p.m. Sunday at Trinity Presbyterian Church with the Rev. Chip Sneed officiating. Burial 
will follow in the Bethlehem United Methodist Church cemetery. Mrs. Ashley, 78, died Thursday, 
May 24, 2001, at Piedmont Medical Center in Rock Hill. Born in York County on June 26, 1922, 
she was the daughter of William B. and Ada McKeown Matthews. She graduated from Chester High 
School and was retired from Grace Bleachery. Mrs. Ashley was a member of Trinity Presbyterian 
Church. She was preceded in death by a son, Henry Stokes Ashley III. She is survived by 
three sisters, Janie Chapman of Rock Hill and Annie Grant and Eliza Watts, both of Chester; one 
brother, Patrick Matthews of Union; and two grandchildren. The family will receive friends from 
7 to 9 p.m. Saturday evening at Barron Funeral Home. Memorials may be made to Trinity 
Presbyterian Church, 651 Great Falls Highway, Chester, SC 29706.



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