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1923 - 2023 (99 years)| Name | Georgia Elizabeth JEFFORDS [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7] | |
| Birth | 18 Dec 1923 | Florence, Florence County, South Carolina  |
| Gender | Female | |
| HIST | GEORGIA ELIZABETH JEFFORDS ELMORE Posted Tuesday, December 5, 2023 6:00 am Georgia Elizabeth Jeffords Elmore, 99, widow of Robert Carroll Elmore, passed away peacefully on Friday, Dec. 1, 2023, at Covenant Place Nursing Center. She and Carroll were married 25 days short of 60 years when he died on June 26, 2011. He was the love of her life. Born on Dec. 18, 1923, in Florence, she was a daughter of the late Samuel King Jeffords Sr. and Josie Mae Smith Jeffords and was a stepdaughter of Mary Juanita Sumner Jeffords. Mrs. Elmore was a member of First Baptist Church of Sumter, after having been a member of Elliott Baptist Church while living in Elliott. She graduated from Elliott High School. She had worked for Southern Bell Telephone as a telephone operator, until she was pregnant with her daughter. She then went to work for her mother-in-law, Johnsie Smith Elmore, who created and owned Jo-El Sandwich Co. Georgia later bought the Jo-El Sandwich Co. and ran the company for 19 years, until she retired and sold it to Perfection Bakery. Georgia loved to garden and bake and decorate cakes for family birthday celebrations. She is survived by her daughter, Josie Mae Elmore of Sumter; a sister, Mary Jeffords Hoyt of Sumter; a brother, Arthur Sumner Jeffords (Jean) of Knoxville, Tennessee; a sister-in-law, Jean Elmore Smith of Charleston; brother-in-law, Len Caughman of Bishopville; sister-in-law, Francis Smith Norris (Edward) of Greeleyville; numerous nieces, nephews, grandnieces and grandnephews as well as great-grandnieces and great-grandnephews. She was preceded in death by her parents; stepmother; brothers and sisters-in-law, Samuel King Jeffords Jr. (Margaret) and William Quincy Jeffords Sr. (Hazel); brothers-in-law, George Edward Smith and Major Richard Alan Hoyt; sister-in-law, Virigina Elmore Caughman; and brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law, Roland Goff Elmore Jr. (Carolyn), Stephen Goff Elmore (Delores) and Vivian Smith Davis (Olin). The family would like to thank the staff of Covenant Place Nursing Center for their kind care of Georgia for almost two years and the Tuomey Hospice staff for the last four months. Graveside services will be held at 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday in the Sumter Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 1 to 2 p.m. on Wednesday at Elmore Hill McCreight Funeral Home. Memorials may be made to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105 or Connie Maxwell Children's Home, 810 Maxwell Ave., Greenwood, SC 29626, where her mother, Josie and uncle, Ira Smith, were raised. Online condolences may be made at www.sumterfunerals.com. Elmore Hill McCreight Funeral Home & Crematory, 221 Broad St., Sumter, is in charge of the arrangements, (803) 775-9386. [7] | |
| _UID | 64B703246C8849569C4F477CA06085121A9A | |
| Death | 1 Dec 2023 | Covenant Place Nursing Center, Sumter County, South Carolina |
| Burial | 6 Dec 2023 | Sumter Cemetery, 700 W. Oakland Avenue, Sumter, Sumter County, South Carolina [7] |
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| Person ID | I78597 | Singleton and Related Families |
| Last Modified | 8 Dec 2023 | |
| Father | Samuel King JEFFORDS, Sr. d. Bef 1 Jun 2005 | |
| Mother | Josie Mae SMITH d. Bef 1 Jun 2005 | |
| _UID | EC994FC9748845B498CD5165D8F6687E6156 | |
| _UID | EC994FC9748845B498CD5165D8F6687E6156 | |
| Family ID | F103931 | Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family | Robert Carroll “Carroll” ELMORE, b. 28 Apr 1923, St. Charles, Lee County, South Carolina d. 26 Jun 2011, Tuomey Regional Medical Center, Sumter, Sumter County, South Carolina (Age 88 years) | |||
| Marriage | 21 Jul 1951 | Florence, Florence County, South Carolina [7, 8] |
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| _UID | 4D4D295756B743509BD3D2E228836ECEC315 | |||
| _UID | 4D4D295756B743509BD3D2E228836ECEC315 | |||
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| Family ID | F49282 | Group Sheet | Family Chart | ||
| Last Modified | 8 Dec 2023 | |||
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