TITLE:  George Knowles 

SOURCE:  The Beaufort Gazette

SUBMITTED BY: The Beaufort Gazette

FORMATTED BY:  Kim Grissom, Oct 2002

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George Knowles 
Published Thu, Oct 17, 2002
WARSAW ISLAND -- George Knowles, 89, of Warsaw Island, died Oct. 15, 
2002, in Bay View Nursing Center. The family will receive friends 
from 2 to 7 p.m. today at Chisholm Galloway Home for Funerals. Services
will be at 2 p.m. Friday at Bethesda Temple of St. Joseph Baptist, St.
Helena Island, with burial on Warsaw Island. Mr. Knowles was born 
June 27, 1913, in Burton, a son of Mary Simmons Knowles and Isaac 
Knowles. He was educated in Beaufort County public schools and was a 
self-employed commercial fisherman. He served for a number of years 
on the Trustee Board of the St. Joseph Baptist Church. Mr. Knowles 
was a resident of Bay View Nursing Center, where he was crowned King 
in February 2002. He was preceded in death by a son, David Lee Polite;
two sisters, Josephine Middleton and Elizabeth Gadson; and a brother, 
James Simmons. Survivors include his wife, Pecola Frazier Singleton 
Knowles of Warsaw Island; two daughters, Essie Mae Holmes of St. 
Helena Island and Brenda Smalls of Sullivan's Island; three sons, 
Ellis Singleton, Hazie Singleton and Stephen Smalls of St. Helena 
Island; 28 grandchildren and 44 great-grandchildren.
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