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Bertha <I>Cox</I> Chandler

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Bertha Cox Chandler

Birth
Pamplico, Florence County, South Carolina, USA
Death
17 Dec 2011 (aged 93)
Huntersville, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, USA
Burial
Georgetown County, South Carolina, USA Add to Map
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Bertha Cox Chandler
Charlotte
Bertha Cox Chandler, died December 17, 2011 in her 94th year at the Levine Dickson Hospice House, Huntersville, NC. She died peacefully with her daughter, Bruce Chandler, and nieces, Janine Zurcher and Janice Woodruff by her side.
Mrs. Chandler was the widow of Benjamin (Jack) McCrea Chandler, and daughter of the late Robert Harllee Cox, Sr. and May Ruth Hyman Cox. She was born on June 30, 1918 in Pamplico, Florence County, SC. In addition to her husband, Bertha was predeceased by her three brothers, Robert Harllee Cox, Jr., Willie Lee Cox, Marion Gene Cox; two sisters, Edna Mae Cox Bryan, Mildred Cox Richardson, and her infant son, Johnson McCrea Chandler.
Bertha was a well regarded genealogist and a member of The Daughters of the American Colonist and The Colonial Dames, where she served many offices, including Chaplain from 1985-2001. She was awarded the Registrar Emeritus honor in 2007. Mrs. Chandler was a member of Union United Methodist Church where she served as Sunday School teacher, Methodist Youth Fellowship leader, Historian and a member and officer in the Womens Missionary Society.
She and her husband were farmers by trade and lovers of the land and woods. They spent their life restoring the land and the house on China Grove Plantation in Georgetown County. Mrs. Chandler maintained an active and healthy life until she contracted shingles almost four years ago and had since suffered extreme pain daily. Her last mission was to implore every person to get a shingles vaccination at the earliest age possible.

Published in The Sun News on December 19, 2011
Bertha Cox Chandler
Charlotte
Bertha Cox Chandler, died December 17, 2011 in her 94th year at the Levine Dickson Hospice House, Huntersville, NC. She died peacefully with her daughter, Bruce Chandler, and nieces, Janine Zurcher and Janice Woodruff by her side.
Mrs. Chandler was the widow of Benjamin (Jack) McCrea Chandler, and daughter of the late Robert Harllee Cox, Sr. and May Ruth Hyman Cox. She was born on June 30, 1918 in Pamplico, Florence County, SC. In addition to her husband, Bertha was predeceased by her three brothers, Robert Harllee Cox, Jr., Willie Lee Cox, Marion Gene Cox; two sisters, Edna Mae Cox Bryan, Mildred Cox Richardson, and her infant son, Johnson McCrea Chandler.
Bertha was a well regarded genealogist and a member of The Daughters of the American Colonist and The Colonial Dames, where she served many offices, including Chaplain from 1985-2001. She was awarded the Registrar Emeritus honor in 2007. Mrs. Chandler was a member of Union United Methodist Church where she served as Sunday School teacher, Methodist Youth Fellowship leader, Historian and a member and officer in the Womens Missionary Society.
She and her husband were farmers by trade and lovers of the land and woods. They spent their life restoring the land and the house on China Grove Plantation in Georgetown County. Mrs. Chandler maintained an active and healthy life until she contracted shingles almost four years ago and had since suffered extreme pain daily. Her last mission was to implore every person to get a shingles vaccination at the earliest age possible.

Published in The Sun News on December 19, 2011


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