Irene Elsie EDWARDS^[1]

1927 - 2015  (87 years)

• Name	Irene Elsie EDWARDS  [2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
  Birth	5 Jul 1927
  Gender	Female
  HIST	of Sumter, South Carolina IRENE H. EARLES Posted Tuesday, April 7, 2015 6:00 am Irene Hodge Earles, 87, passed away on Sunday, April 5, 2015, at her home surrounded by her family. She was born on July 5, 1927, to Walter Edwards and Elsie Edwards Dunlap. She was a long-time member of New Calvary Baptist Church, where she taught Sunday School, served as the secretary of her Sunday School Class and on the Benevolence Committee. She retired from Sumter School District 2. Surviving include her children Francis (Frank) Earles, Delores Ardis and her husband, Tommy, Glenda Joye and her husband, Ronnie, Richard Earles and his wife, Lori, Alma Burgess and her husband, Scott, Renee' Brown and her husband, Louie, and Ida Lewis; 12 grandchildren; 29 great-grandchildren; and a sister, Velma Gier, and her husband, Russ. Irene was preceded in death by her parents, husbands, Herman Hodge and Francis Earles; brothers, Norman Edwards and Leslie Dunlap; and a grandson Brandon Earles. A funeral service will be held today at 3 p.m. in Bullock Funeral Home Chapel with Pastor Sammy Thompson, Pastor David Richardson and Wayne McElveen officiating. Burial will follow in the Sumter Cemetery. Pallbearers will be her sons, Frank and Richard Earles; and her grandsons, Lathan Earles, Wesley Ardis, Ron Joye and Louie Brown. The family will received friends on Monday at Bullock Funeral Home and will at other times at her home. The family wishes to thank her loving neighbors Shirley and Randall and acknowledge Debbie Frazier, Carolyn Thompson, Amber Linkous and Linda Windley of Tuomey Hospice for their support in her final days. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to New Calvary Baptist Church, 38 Center St., Sumter; American Cancer Society, 128 Stonemark Lane, Columbia, 29210; or Tuomey Hospice, 500 Pinewood Road, Suite 2, Sumter. You may sign the family's guest book at www.bullockfuneralhome.com The family has chosen Bullock Funeral Home of Sumter for the arrangements.  [5, 6]
  _UID	A208AA1E0DF1404E82BFD3AA5BB433817F9B
  Death	5 Apr 2015	at her home, (Sumter, Sumter County, South Carolina)
  Burial	7 Apr 2015	Sumter Cemetery, 700 W. Oakland Avenue, Sumter, Sumter County, South Carolina   [6]
  	Bullock Funeral Home Chapel, Sumter, South Carolina
  Person ID	I121397	Singleton and Related Families
  Last Modified	17 Aug 2023

  
  

  Father	Walter EDWARDS   d. Bef 5 Apr 2015
  Mother	Elsie Mable CLIFFORD   d. Bef 5 Apr 2015
  _UID	1972B58224174EE1B58AEFC79E1F7CD02AE8
  _UID	1972B58224174EE1B58AEFC79E1F7CD02AE8
  Family ID	F83654	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Herman Randolph HODGE,   b. 31 Jul 1922, Sumter, Sumter County, South Carolina d. 22 Mar 1967, Tuomey Hospital, Sumter, Sumter County, South Carolina (Age 44 years)
  Marriage	5 Jun 1959	Sumter County, South Carolina   [3]
  _UID	8BE3F40D264A4BBDAE32076E6A0A3CE8D4CB
  _UID	8BE3F40D264A4BBDAE32076E6A0A3CE8D4CB
  Children	1. Living   2. Frankie HODGE   3. Glenda HODGE   4. Alma Leah HODGE   5. Ida Annette HODGE,   b. 1965, Sumter County, South Carolina d. 15 Aug 2023, at her home, (Sumter, Sumter County, South Carolina) (Age 58 years)   6. Delores HODGE
  Family ID	F83648	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	17 Aug 2023

  
  

  Family 2	Francis John EARLES, Sr.   d. Bef 5 Apr 2015
  _UID	D38D0374AFFB4EA58831124C058005C7DC3B
  _UID	D38D0374AFFB4EA58831124C058005C7DC3B
  Children	1. Francis John “Frank” EARLES, Jr.   2. Delores EARLES   3. Richard EARLES
  Family ID	F201328	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	8 Apr 2015

  
  

• Sources

  [S31137] Ida Hodge Ice Lewis. [S3248] Mildred Renee Hodge Brown. [S916] page 1001. [S17808] . [S16758] Joseph Brandon Earles. [S22289] Irene H. Earles.