greenvilleonline.com SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2001 THE GREENVILLE NEWS Upstate Deaths Wilbur H. Adams, Kelton Wilbur H. Adams, 81, of 201 Pea Ridge Highway, Jonesville, died Friday, Nov. 2, 2001. Survivors: Wife, Pearline Bailey Adams; daughters, Linda Kaye Montgomery of Rock Hill and Anita Grizzle Jonesville; sisters, Mabel Hollingsworth and Sibbie Tipton; a brother, J.T.
Adams; and four grandchildren. Predeceased: A daughter, Becky Goings; and a son, Wayne Hope Adams. S.R. Visitation: Holcombe 7 to 9 p.m. Funeral tonight Home.
at Service: 3 p.m. Sunday at Foster's Chapel United Methodist Church. Burial: Porter-Gallman Family Cemetery. Memorials: Porter-Gallman Cemetery Fund, Jane L. Inman, 2612 Mount Tabor Church Road, Jonesville, SC 29353.
Edwin S. Alexander, Greenville Edwin Stanley Alexander, 48, of 105 Sterling Bridge Road, died Nov. 1, 2001, at Greenville Memorial Medical Center. Born in Greenville, he was a son of Helen Webster Alexander and the late Leland S. Alexander.
He was of the Baptist faith. Surviving are his mother, Helen W. Alexander of Greenville; one sister, Bobbi A. Daves, of Greenville; and one brother, John Steven Alexander, of Gray Court. Memorials may be made to Greenville Memorial Medical Center Clinic, 701 Grove Road, Greenville, SC 29605.
Graveside service: 11 a.m. today at Woodlawn Memorial Park, Section W. The family is at the residence. Thomas McAfee Funeral Home, Downtown. Dorothy Anderson, Anderson Dorothy Irene Johnson Anderson, 91, widow of Roy Anderson, The Calhoun, died Wednesday, Oct.
31, 2001. Member: Trinity United Methodist Church. Survivors: Sons, Luverne Anderson, Eugene Anderson and Roger Anderson, all of California, and Dennis Anderson of Arizona; a daughter, Lois Hrbacek, of Anderson; 14 grandchildren; and 18 great-grandchildren. Memorial service: 3 p.m. today at Midway Presbyterian Church.
Omit flowers. Memorials: Hosof the Upstate, 1835 Rogers Road, Anderson, SC 29621. Family: 411 Liberty Court, Anderson. The McDougald Funeral Home. Bobby Joe Bragg, Fountain inn Bobby Joe Bragg, 45, of 129 Clyde died Friday, Nov.
2, 2001, at Greenville Memorial Hospital. Born Sept. 9, 1956, in Greenville, he was the anon of the late William Pinckey den Bragg. He was a membered Pine Grove Baptist Church. Surviving are daughter, Amy L.
Bragg, of Fountain Inn; and a brother, Wayne D. Bragg, of Fountain Inn. He was predeceased by one brother, William Bragg. Visitation: 7 to 8:30 p.m. tonight at Cannon Funeral Home, Fountain Inn.
Graveside service: 2 p.m. Sunday at Durbin Creek Baptist Church cemetery. The family is at the residence. Barbara Jean 'Bob' Brown, Anderson Barbara Jean Brady Brown, 63, widow Norman C. Brown, of 2200 Providence Church Road, died Thursday, Nov.
1, 2001. Survivors: Sons, Kim, Ross and' Robert Brown; daughters, Vickie Taylor, Nancy and Allyson Jordan; mother, Etta Harris Brady; a brother, Jack Brady; sisters, Beulah Suttles, Gail Bobo and Carolyn Jefferson; a half sister, Madge Hix; and nine grandchildren. Predeceased: A son, George Brown; and father, Robert Lee Brady. Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m. tonight at The McDougald Funeral Home.
Service: p.m. Sunday at the fuchapel. Burial: Glen Grove Church of God of Prophecy Cemetery. Robert L. Burgess, Taylors Robert Lee Burgess, 85, of 6 Embry widower of Lois Nichols Burgess, died Nov.
1, 2001, at St. Francis Hospital. A native of Lavonia, son of the late Will and Evie James Burgess, he was a retired employee of J.P. Stevens and was a member of Brushy Creek Baptist Church. Surviving are one daughter, Shirley Moore, of Mauldin; one son, Steve Burgess, of Greenville; two grandchildren, Lisa Ferguson and Paula Roddy; and two greatgrandchildren, Jonathan Burton and Kenny Roddy.
Graveside services will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 4, 2001, at Greenville Memorial Gardens, conducted by the Rev. Don Elder. The families are at their respective homes.
The Wood Mortu- ary. Ruby H. Cheek, Columbia Ruby Holliday Cheek, 83, of 2134 Morninglo Lane, wife of the late William Claude Cheek, died Friday, 2, 2001, at Richland Memorial Hospital. Born in Pickens County, a daughter of the late Crayton and Mary Bolding Holliday, Mrs. Cheek was a homemaker and a member of Mountain View Baptist Church in Six Mile.
Surviving are a son, Ronald E. Cheek, of Easley and Sarasota, a daughter, Claudia Ann Thompson, of Charleston; a brother, Fred Holliday, of Greenville; a sister, Beatrice H. Kennemur, of Chesapeake, and two nephews, John Pennington of Johnson City, and Charles Pennington of Miami, Fla. In addition to GREENVILLE: Alexander, Edwin S. GREENVILLE: Dabrowski, Francis X.
GREENVILLE: Ferguson, Allen B. GREENVILLE: Hill, Jack GREENVILLE: Richardson, Anna B. MAdams ANDERSON: Anderson, Dorothy ANDERSON: Brown, Barbara Jean ANDERSON: Davis, Arthur ANDERSON: James McDougald Funeral Home ATLANTA: Diamantstein, Adolph BELTON: McClain, Margaret Kay BUFFALO: McAbee, Teresa B. Burgess CLEMSON: Tameris, Henry George COLUMBIA: Cheek, Ruby H. EASLEY: Graham, Pat EASLEY: Wylie, Isabel FOUNTAIN INN: Bragg, Bobby Joe GAFFNEY: Parris, Belma Coyle her husband and parents Mrs.
Cheek was predeceased by a sister, Margaret Holliday Lloyd. Graveside services will be at 2 p.m. Monday at Westview Cemetery, Easley, with the Rev. Archie Sharpe officiating. The body is at Robinson Funeral Home, where the family will receive friends from 4 to 6 p.m.
Sunday. The family is at the home of her son, Ronald Cheek, 617 E. Main Easley. Joseph Charles Collins, West Columbia Graveside services for Joseph "Joe" Charles Collins, 66, will be in Peachland, N.C., p.m. held at New Home Church Baptist: Sunday, Nov.
4, 2001. Memorials may be made to New Home Baptist Church, Route 1, Box 269, Peachland, NC 28133." Mr. Collins died Thursday, Nov. 1, 2001, at Dorn Veterans Hospital in Columbia. Born in Union County, N.C., Mr.
Collins was the son of the late Hoyle Wilson and Bertha Mitchum Collins. He attended public schools in Greenville and graduated from Greenville High School in 1953. He attended the Universiof South Carolina and was a member of Pi Kappa Alpha FraterMr. Collins was active in the Columbia real estate market for many with er Realty and Joe Collins Realty. He retired in 1994 from the U.S.
Naval Reserve with 40 years of service. He was a member of Columbia Classic Chevy Club. Mr. Collins is survived by his brother, Kenneth W. Collins of Columbia and his wife Mary; nephew, K.
Wilson Collins, of Columbia; and niece, Sarah E. Collins, of Atlanta, Ga. Francis X. Dabrowski, Greenville Francis Xavier Dabrowski, 49, of 19 Edisto died Thursday, Nov. 1, 2001.
Born in Philadelphia, he was husband of Lisa Masters Dabrowski, and a son of the late Leon Stanley and Florence Dworakowski Dabrowski. Mr. Dabrowski was inventory control manager at GBS Lumber and of the Catholic faith. In addition to his wife he is survived by a son, Leon Christian Dabrowski, of the home; a sister, Arlene Gehring, of Philadelphia, and a brother, Michael Dabrowski, of Warrington, Pa. Service: 2.
p.m. Monday at Thomas McAfee Funeral Home, Downtown, with burial at Hillcrest Memorial Gardens, Greer. Visitation: 4 to 5:30 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home. lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to American Heart Association, 301 University Ridge, Greenville, SC 29601.
The family is at the residence. Arthur Davis, Anderson Arthur Albren Davis, 86, of 108 Twin Oaks Drive, died Friday, Nov. 2, 2001, at Anderson Area Medical Center. He was born in Greenville, the son of the late George Holland and Euder Hawkins Davis. He was a retired executive with J.P.
Stevens a former member of the Kiwanis Club, a member of Carolina Golf Course Superintendents Association and a life member of Dunean Masonic Lodge No. 359 of the Ancient Free Masons of Greenville. He was a member of First Baptist Church and the Baraca Sunday School Class. Surviving are his wife, Helen Lynn Davis, of the home; two daughters, Sandra Davis Ivey of Houston, Texas, and Debbie Davis Boggs of Anderson; one son, Ronnie Davis, of Atlanta, six grandchildren, Danielle Ivey Houston, Texas, Christian Davis of Myrtle Beach, Amy Boggs, Ashley Boggs and Tiffany Boggs of Anderson, and Andrew Davis Atlanta, Ga. Graveside services will be at 3 p.m.
Sunday at Oaklawn Memorial Gardens, conducted by Dr. James R. Thomason. is at Sullivan-King Mortuary, Northeast Chapel, 3205 North Highway 81, where the family will receive friends from 6 to 7:30 p.m. tonight.
The family is at the residence. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made First Baptist Church, 307 S. Manning Anderson, SC 29624. Sullivan-King Mortuary, Northeast Chapel, is in charge of arrangements. Adolph Diamantstein, Atlanta, Ga.
Graveside services will held at 10 a.m. Monday, Nov. 5, 2001, at Westview Cemetery for Mr. Adolph Diamantstein. age 81, of Atlanta.
Rabbi Philip Kranz will officiate. Mr. Diamantstein died Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2001. Originally from Heidelberg, Germany, and later Italy, Adolfo, a Holocaust survivor, DEATHS IN THE REGION GREENWOOD: Clayton Hugh Blyth Funeral Home GREER: Owens, Lillie Mae HONEA PATH: Motes, Carrie KELTON: Adams, Wilbur H.
MAULDIN: Hinman, William MAULDIN: Johns, Sarah R. Lenardt Summers NEWBERRY: Martin, Lillian H. PELZER: Gray Infant Reginald Jerome PELZER: King, Marie H. PENDLETON: McClure, Dr. Harlan E.
PIEDMONT: Ora Dillard Memorial Custom Funerals SPARTANBURG: Dickerson, Ruby Fowler TAYLORS: Burgess, Robert L. WEST COLUMBIA: Collins, Joseph Charles Details incomplete settled with his young wife in Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1949. There he entered the toy manufacturing industry as a sales representative. Later this line of work would bring him to the South, where he and his two brothers would start their own toy manufacturing business. During his "retirement years," Adolfo remained active as both a sales associate for a men's clothier and a passenger assistance agent at the Atlanta airport.
Mr. Diamantstein was preceded in death by his wife, Pia stein, and a son, John Diamantstein. Survivors include his sons and daughters-in-law, Oliver and Wanda Diamantstein of Atlanta, Dan and Karen Diamantstein of Marietta, grandson, Michael Diamantstein of Marietta, and a John Polazzo, Duluth, Ga. sister and brother Fay and Those wishing to may make memorial contributions to the American Cancer Society, 3545 Cruse Road, Suite 102, Lawrenceville, GA 30244; or Weinstein Hospice, 3150 Howell Mill Road, Atlanta, GA 30327. H.M.
Patterson Son, Arlington Chapel Observing Jewish Rituals and Traditions. Ruby Fowler Dickerson, Spartanburg Ruby Fowler Dickerson, 79, of Magnolia Manor, died Friday, Nov. 2, 2001, at Mary Black Hospital. She was a retired coordinator of volunteer services at Mary Black Memorial Hospital and a member of Bethel United Methodist Church. Surviving are two sons, Edward W.
Dickerson Jr. of Spartanburg and Donald R. Dickerson of Gaffney; and a brother, John W. Fowler, of Chapin. Graveside service: 2 p.m.
Sunday at Greenlawn Memorial Gardens. Visitation will follow the service at the graveside. Memorials: Spartanburg Humane Society, 150 Dexter Road, Spartanburg, SC 29303. Stribling Funeral Home, Duncan. Allen B.
Ferguson, Greenville Ferguson Allen B. Ferguson of Rolling Green Village, died Friday, Nov. 2, 2001. He was the widower of Nancy S. Ferguson.
Mr. Ferguson was born July 14, 1908, in Madison, Ohio. He was a graduate of Fenn College in Cleveland, Ohio. He retired from Cleveland Worm and Gear Division of Eaton, and moved to Seneca in 1973. He was very active at Seneca Baptist Church and was President of their "Golden Agers." In 1987 he and Nancy moved to Rolling Green Village, where they spent many happy years.
He was an avid gardener fisherman, and loved help people. He was a member of Pelham Road Baptist Church and was their "Greeter" for many years. He is survived by his son, Dr. John Ferguson and his wife Ruth; and a grandson, Christopher, of Northfield, Minn. He is also survived by his daughter, Carol Phillips and her husband Bill; grandson, Brian and his wife Ginger; and grandson, Bradley, all of Simpsonville; and granddaughter, Britta Phillips Kingsmore and her husband Ty, of Austin, Texas.
Memorial services will held at Rolling Green Village Center at 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 4. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Greenville Library Greenville, SC 29601. Bookmobile, 300 1.
College I Pat Graham, Easley Garnell "Pat" Graham, 79, of 107 Pilgrim Drive, died Thursday, Nov. 1, 2001, at Greenville Memorial Hospital. Born in Oconee County, a son of the late Earl Lee Nellie Jane Elliott Graham, Mr. Graham retired from the Judson Plant of Milliken Corporation and was a member of Calvary Hill Baptist Church. He was a U.S.
Army veteran of World War II. Surviving are his wife, Violet Moore Graham, of the home two daughters, Jayne Graham Amacher of Liberty and Martha Evelyn Dill of Atlanta; a brother, Earl Lee Graham of Walhalla: five sisters, Nobie Lee Bibb of Westminster, Gladys Reid of Walhalla, Kitty McGuffin of Greenville, Frances Ross of Greer, and Willette Quinn of Greenville; and two grandchildren, Kelly Christine Sanders of Columbia and Rhiannon Dill of Atlanta. In addition to his parents, Mr. Graham was predeceased by three sisters; a brother; and his wife, Ernestine Graham. TODAY'S SERVICE McCoy, Donald E.
Dago, 3 p.m. at Dillard Memorial Custom Funerals. OBITUARY GUIDELINES To read past obituaries on the Internet, go to greenvilleonline.com The Greenville News publishes free obituaries up to 20 lines written in traditional newspage style. Longer obituaries up to 30 lines, or those with non-traditional news content such as testimonials, cost $75 daily and $100 Sunday. Lines exceeding 30 cost $4 per line.
Obituaries outside the Upstate cost $75 for 20 lines and $4 for each additional line. Pictures cost and funeral announcements in Today's Services are $25. Veteran. Graveside services will be at 3:30 p.m. today Oconee Memorial Park in Seneca, with the Rev.
Kenneth Fugate officiating. The body is at the Robinson Funeral Home, where the family will receive friends from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. today, prior to the service. Memorials may be made to the American Diabetes Association, 2724 Wade Hampton Greenville, SC 29615. The family is at the home of a daughter, Jayne Amacher, 405 Amsterdam Road, Liberty.
Infant Reginald Jerome Gray Jr. Pelzer Infant Reginald Jerome Gray son of Reginald Jerome Gray Sr. and Shaivonia Davenport Gray, of 10 Katora Lane, a died Thursday, Nov. 1, 2001, at Greenville Memorial Hospital. Survivors: Maternal grandmother, Roxie Davenport, of Pelzer; paternal grandparents, L.
and Bessie B. Gray, of Simpsonville; and paternal great-grandfather, Jimmy Davenport, of Pelzer. Graveside service: Noon today at Cedar Grove Baptist Church Cemetery, Simpsonville. Beasley Funeral Home, Fountain Inn. Jack Hill, Greenville Jack Robert Hill, 73, of 815 Edwards Road, died Thursday, Nov.
1, 2001, at St. Francis Hospital. A native of Pittsburgh, he was the son of the late John and Alice K. Johnston Hill. He owned the Jack Hill Co.
in Greenville. An Air Force veteran, he was a first lieutenant in the Korean War. He was a graduate of Carnegie Tech in Pittsburgh, class of 1950, with a degree in engineering. Survivors: Son and daughter-inlaw, Scott and Mary Ann Hill, of Clemson; daughter, Deborah Ann Queen, of Penn Valley, six grandchildren; and very special friend, Anne Marie Hurston. The memorial service will be held at a later date.
In lieu of flowers, the family would like memorials to be made to Louis P. Batson Jr. Cancer Fund, St. Francis Foundation, 1 St. Francis Drive, Greenville, SC 29601.
Duckett-Robinson Funeral Home, Central-Clemson Commons, 108 Cross Creek Road, Central, SC 29630, William Martin Hinman, Mauldin William Martin Hinman, 73, of 104 Brookbend Road, died Nov. 2, 2001, at his home. Born Dec. 25, 1927, in Pittsfield, he was the son of the late William H. and Dorothy Babbock Hinman.
He served in the U.S. Army during World War II and was a retiree of General Electric Co. Mr. Hinman was also a professional musician, playing in dance bands throughout Western Massachusetts and New York State for 20 years. Surviving are his wife of 52 years, Julia G.
Hinman, of Mauldin; one daughter and son-in-law, Bonnie and Phil Moore of Greenville; two grandsons, Eric Anderson of Greenville and Bret Anderson of Clemson; a stepgranddaughter and her husband, Melanie and Joseph Kirk, of Greenville; four great-stepgrandchildren; and a sister, Beverly H. Harrington, of Pittsfield, Mass. Also, Dennis Anderson of Piedmont, reared in the home. The family will receive friends Sunday at 2 p.m. at The Mackey memorial following at 2:30 Mortuary, Century, Drive, with the p.m.
The Rev. Stephen F. Clyborne will officiate. Donations may be made to Greenville Humane Society, 328 Furman Hall Road, Greenville, SC 29609; or the charity of one's choice. The family is at the home.
Sarah Ruth L. Summers-Johns, Mauldin Sarah Ruth Lenhardt SummersJohns, of 850 E. Butler died Thursday, Nov. "1, 2001, at NHC Healthcare of Mauldin. She was a retired LPN nurse.
Survivors: A son, James Sum-mers of Mauldin; a sister, Louise King, of Philadelphia; and two granddaughters. Graveside service: 2 p.m. today at Resthaven Memorial Gardens. The family is at 108 Meadowood Drive. Watkins Garrett Woods Mortuary.
Marie H. King, Pelzer Marie Harvey King, 90, of McKelvey Road, died Friday, Nov. 2, 2001, at her home. Born in Greenville, she was a retired employee of Reigel Textile Co. a and a member of Cedar Falls Baptist Church.
Survivors: A daughter, Ruth Landers, of Fork Shoals; a sister, Nannie Meeks, of Fork Shoals; a grandchild; and a great-grandchild. Visitation: 2 to 3 p.m, Sunday at Cannon Funeral Home, Jones Chapel, Simpsonville, with the service at 3 p.m. Burial: Cannon Memorial Park. The family is at the residence. Lillian H.
Martin, Newberry Lillian H. Martin, 86, widow of Henry Martin, died Thursday, Nov. 1, 2001. Born in Newberry, she was a daughter of the late Jessie and Elizabeth Smith Holsonback. Retired: Woodside Mills.
Survivors: A sister, Elizabeth Bullard, of Jacksonville, brothers, Eugene Holsonback of Chester and Edward Holsonback of Daphne, a grandson; and a great grandson. Predeceased: A son, Willie Robert Martin. Visitation: 1:30 to 3 p.m. Sunday at McSwain-Evans Funeral Home, with the service at 3 p.m. Burial: Newberry Memorial Gardens.
Memorials: Lewis Memorial United Methodist Church, 1105 First Newberry, SC. Teresa Brock Burgess McAbee, Buffalo Teresa Brock Burgess McAbee, 46, of Woodburn Apartments, Spartanburg, formerly of Buffalo, died Thursday, Nov. 1, 2001. Survivors: Daughters, Julie Burgess Fowler Burgess West, both of Buffalo; father and stepmother, John A. and Ollie Mae Brock, of Buffalo; a sister, Terry Elaine Brock Filer, of North Carblina; brothers, Travis Brock of North Carolina and the Rev.
James Brock Massachusetts; and three grandchildren. Predeceased: Mother, Terry Brock. Service: 4 p.m. Sunday at PutBaptist Burial: Church cemetery. The body is at the home of her father, 248 Putman Road, Buffalo.
S.R. Holcombe Funeral Home. Margaret Kay McClain, Belton Margaret Kay McClain, 74, of 501 Forest Lane, Belton, died Thursday, Nov. 1, 2001, at Anderson Area Medical Center, She was born in the Barkers Creek community and was a daughter of the late Robert H. and Lois Gambrell Kay.
She was a member of First Church of Belton and a homemaker. Surviving are her husband, James S. McClain two sons, James S. McClain Jr. and Robert McClain, both of Belton; one daughter, Kay McClain, of Belton; one sister, Mrs.
Les Wune" Griffin, of Belton; and two grandchildren, Brandon Robert McClain and Brittany Denise McClain, both of Honea Path. Graveside services will be conducted at 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 4, 2001, at Garden of Memories Belton, with the Rev. Dale Lynch and Dr.
Booker Bagby officiating. Memorials may be made to The Building Fund of First Baptist Church of Belton, P.O. Box 366, Belton, SC 29627. The family is at the home. Cox Funeral Home, Belton.
Dr. Harlan E. McClure, Pendleton Dr. Harlan Ewart McClure; 85, died Nov. 1, 2001, at Clemson Downs Health Center.
He was born Oct. 19, 1916, in ga, and was the son of the late Alexander Ewart McClure and Jeanette Huffman McClure. 'He was a native of Washington, D.C., and had lived in Clemson and Pendleton since 1955. Dr. McClure was a member of Clemson Rotary Club, Chairman Pendleton Planning and Zoning Commission, and served on the S.C.
Arts Commission, Winthrop College Board of Visitors and the Governor's Interagency Council on Arts and Humanities. He also served as a consultant to the City of Charlotte Community Development Department, the Charleston Museum Committee, the City of Greenville and the Town of Beaufort. He was Dean Emeritus of the College of Architecture at Clemson University. Harlan McClure earned the Bachelor of Architecture degree from George Washington University in 1937, and then spent a year of graduate study at the Royal Swedish Academy in Stockholm before receiving the Master of Architec11 ture degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1941. He was awarded the honorary Doctor of Humanities degree by Clemson.
University in 1987. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II, primarily as an operations officer on aircraft carriers, rising from Ensign to Lieutenant Commander. He studied Military Government at Princeton, Oriental. Languages at Harvard and was construction manager for several Air Operational Training Centers while serving in the Navy.
He then embarked upon a long and distinguished career of service as an architectural educator and practicing architect. Dr. McClure began his teaching career at the University of Minnesota in 1945, and was named a full Professor in 1952. In that year he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship for teaching and was a Visiting Professor at the Architectural Association School in London, England. In 1955 he was named Head of the Department of Architecture at Clemson University, which became the School of Architecture within three years.
He founded the Clemson Architectural Foundation, which is considered by many to be the most successful support foundation in the country for the building professions, bringing to the campus distinguished architects, artists and thinkers from across the United States and abroad. He became the Dean when the Department was advanced to College status in 1958. In 1972 he established the Charles E. Daniel Center for Building Research and Urban Studies in Genoa, Italy, and thus allowed more than 800 Clemson students and many alumni to benefit from study abroad at the center. He was co-author of "South Carolina Architecture 1670-1970" and editor of Clemson University College of Architecture Semester Review from 1968 to 1983.
From 1981 to 1983 he served as Chairman of Clemson University Council of Deans and became Dean Emeritus of the College of Architecture in 1987. Dean McClure's service to education did not stop with Clemson University. He served as Editor of the Journal of Architectural Education, authored "Beginning Architectural Design" and lectured at schools throughout, the United States and in Scotland, England, Italy, France, and Germany. He served as national Secretary and then President of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture and as Secretary and President of the National Architectural Accrediting Board. As a member of the Accrediting Board he served on' 37 accrediting teams, chairing seven, visiting and assessing univerities across the United States.
He also served as President of Tau Sigma Delta National Honor Fraternity for Architecture and the Allied Arts and belonged to nine national honor and scholarship societies. He was an educational consultant to the Ford Foundation, Roger Williams College and the Wisconsin Commission on Higher Education. In 1986 he was awarded the national ACSA Distinguished Professor Award, and was awarded the prestigious national Topaz Medallion for Excellence in Architec-tural Education in 1994, given jointly by the American Institute of Architects and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture. McClure practiced as an architect throughout his academic career, serving as design architect for numerous private residences in Minnesota and South Carolina, including St. John's Lutheran Church, Cherryville, N.C., and Lee Hall at Clemson.
He served as design consultant to several firms in South Carolina and was credited with design work that helped win 12 state and regional design awards. As a consultant to in Columbia, he assisted in the design of five award-winning designs, including the U.S. Post Office, State Office Building, Forest Lake Country Club, a Habitation Center for Retarded Children and a dormitory at Columbia College. He was advanced to Fellow of the American Institute of Architects for education and design in 1962. He served as a member of the South Carolina Board of Architectural Examiners from 1955 to 1986, and was elected Vice Chairman and Chairman.
In May 2001, he was awarded the state's highest honor for an individual architect, the South Carolina Chapter of the American Institute of Architects "25-Year Award." In the years after becoming Dean Emeritus at Clemson, Harlan McClure concentrated on a special love of art that had spanned his entire career, demonstrating again to his family and friends a special understanding of architecture and landscape. He produced hundreds of watercolor paintings, pencil sketches and pen-and-ink draw- ings, many of which were exhibited, included in publications or loved ones as a special Christmas card. In 1983 he was awarded South Carolina's highest honor from the Governor, the Order of the Palmetto, for distinguished services to the state, and in 1984 he was presented the Verner Award by the S.C. Fine Arts Commission for his contributions to the arts in education in South Carolina. Surviving are his wife, Susan Watson McClure, of Pendleton; son, Christopher McClure and wife Joyce Davis, of Raleigh, N.C.; son, Wesley McClure and wife Susan, of Raleigh, N.C.; daughter, Beth McClure and husband Rick Sigmon, of Columbia; stepdaughter, Melanie Lail and husband Don, of Charlotte, N.C.; brothers, John McClure of Silver Spring, and Kenneth McClure of Charlottesville, four grandchildren; a and three stepgrandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his first wife, Virginia Varney McClure. Funeral services will be held at a.m. Monday, Nov. 5, at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Clemson. Burial will follow at St.
Paul's Episcopal Churchyard, Pendleton. The family will receive immediately following a 7 p.m. prayer vigil at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church Sunday, Nov. 4. Memorials may be made to Clemson University Architectural Foundation; or Holy Trinity Episcopal Church Building Fund.
Serving as pallbearers are Gayl Witherspoon, John Acorn, Peter Lee, Jim Barker, Frank Lucas, Jim Thomas, Kirk Craig and Harvey Gantt. Serving as Honorary Pallbeareos, are Earl Gaulden, Ben Morris Cox, Joe Young and Jim Neal. Duckett-Robinson Funeral Home, Central-Clemson Commons. Continued on Page 5B.
