TITLE:  Ann Shelton Pierce

SOURCE:  The Post and Courier

SUBMITTED BY:  The Post and Courier

FORMATTED BY:  Kim Grissom, Jun 2003

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PIERCE, Ann
WALTERBORO - Mrs. Ann Shelton Pierce, 62, of 209 Gervais St., died 
Friday at a Walterboro hospital. Funeral services will be held at 3 
p.m., Sunday, at First Baptist Church of Walterboro with Dr. W. Steven
Brown and Rev. Posey Belcher officiating. Interment will follow in 
Greenlawn Memorial Gardens, directed by the BRICE W. HERNDON AND SONS 
FUNERAL HOME.Mrs. Pierce was born in Shelby, N.C., a daughter of the 
late S.B. Shelton and Eva Payne Shelton. She was the treasurer of 
Colleton County, and worked for the county for more than 20 years, 
serving as Deputy Treasurer prior to being elected to her current 
office. She was a member of First Baptist Church of Walterboro, where 
she was a member and treasurer of the Willing Worker Sunday School 
Class. She was a member and past Worthy Matron of the Walterboro 
Chapter #147, Order of the Eastern Star, and was a member of the 
Milcah Temple #77, Daughters of the Nile. She was a member and 
treasurer of the South Carolina Elected Officials Association, a 
member of the South Carolina Association of Accessing Officials, a 
member of the Colleton County Taxpayers Association, member of South 
Carolina State Employees Association, and a Commissioner with 
Lowcountry Regional Airport.Surviving are, her husband, George H. 
Pierce; her sons, C. Rodger Pierce, Sr., and his wife, Valerie of 
Greenville, and Michael Pierce and his wife Cynthia of Walterboro; 
her grandchildren, Leigh Cook and her husband Scott, Charles R. Pierce,
Jr., Beth Sightler and her husband, Mac, Micki Pierce, B. Kyle Pierce, 
Jennifer Owen, Harmony Godfrey and Chasity Godfrey; great-grandchildren,
Jesse Cook, Gracie Pierce, and Katelyn Sightler; a brother, C. Edward 
Shelton of Goose Creek; two sisters, Mildred S. Whitmire and Helen S. 
Barnett, both of Marietta, S.C. She was predeceased by a daughter, 
Michelle Ann Pierce, a brother, Donald Ray Shelton, and a sister, 
Linda Jean Medlin.Memorials may be made in her memory to the American 
Heart Association, P.O. Box 6604, Columbia, S.C. 29260. (Published Oct
7, 2001)
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