TITLE:  J. B. McGuirt

SOURCE:  The Post and Courier

SUBMITTED BY:  The Post and Courier

FORMATTED BY:  Kim Grissom, Jun 2003

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MCGUIRT, J.B.
Well known business and community leader J. B. McGuirt died Wednesday,
October 24, 2001. He had been actively engaged in the farming, 
construction, real estate and insurance business in Kershaw County and 
Camden for almost 70 years. He was born in the Van Wyke Community of 
Lancaster County on February 10, 1914, the son of William Price McGuirt
and Flonnie Walters McGuirt. He was educated in the public schools of 
Lancaster and Kershaw Counties. He moved to Camden, S.C. at the age of
16 where he met and later married Annie Blake Kelly on October 21, 
1934. They had three children: James Blake McGuirt, Charles William 
McGuirt, and Elizabeth Ann McGuirt Ellis. Annie Blake died February 2, 
1982, and on March 3, 1984 he married Jean Twitty Marshall, widow of G.
F. Marshall, Jr. Jean has two daughters, Cecilia Johnson of Easley and 
Martha Wyrick of Camden. Mr. McGuirt was a past President of the 
Kershaw County Chamber of Commerce. He also served on the advisory 
board of the First National Bank of South Carolina at Camden and on 
the advisory board of the Kershaw County Memorial Hospital Board, part 
of that time as Chairman. Other activities included the Kiwanis Club, 
the Golden K Club, and President of the Quaker Cemetery Association. 
He was a member of Lyttleton Street United Methodist Church, where he 
had served on the Board of Stewards and as a Sunday School Teacher.
He was a Past President of the Camden Shrine Club and a Past Master of 
Kershaw, Lodge 29. In addition to many other state offices, he was 
installed as Grand Master of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of A.F.M. 
of South Carolina in 1979, and served two consecutive terms.
In 1981 his family was chosen as the S.C. Family of the year.
In addition to the family members mentioned above, he is survived by 
two sisters, Peggy Clyburn and Olive Lee of Camden, seven 
grandchildren, five step grandchildren, eleven great-grandchildren, 
and one step great-grandchild. He was predeceased by a brother Lawson 
and a sister, Willene Mayer Rigdon. Funeral services will be held at 
Lyttleton Street United Methodist Church at 3 o'clock, on Saturday, 
October 27, 2001, with burial at Quaker Cemetery. The family will 
receive friends at the Kershaw Lodge #29 Temple located on Highway 97, 
Friday, October 26, from 6 until 7:30 p.m. Memorials may be made to 
Kershaw Lodge 29 Building Fund, c/o Sam Walden, P.O. Box 674, Camden, 
S.C., 29020. Kornegay Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.
(Published Oct 26, 2001)
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