Funeral services for Louise Croft Owens Fogle, 74, of Hilda, were held Wednesday, December 29, 2010. Mrs. Fogle passed away Monday, December 27, 2010. Born in Barnwell County, she was a daughter of the late Edward J. and Ellen Argo Croft.

Linda Laverne Hargis, 82, of Orangeburg, died Saturday evening, December 18, 2010, at her residence. A memorial service was held Tuesday, December 21, 2010. Mrs. Hargis was born in Indianapolis, a daughter of the late Ralph Waldo Emerson and Nellie Stewart Wilcox.

Funeral services for Ligon Ganel Hutto, Sr., 86, of Bamberg, were held Wednesday, December 29. 2010, in First Baptist Church of Bamberg. Mr. Hutto died December 26, 2010, at his home. He was born April 5, 1924, the son of the late Louis Ganel Hutto and the late Nancy Bizzell Hutto.

Funeral services for Della Marie Ross, 46, of Bamberg, were held Wednesday, December 22, 2010, at Union Baptist Church in Bamberg. Mrs. Ross died Thursday, December 16, 2010, at the Regional Medical Center in Orangeburg. She was born October 31, 1964, in Orangeburg County to Vernon Cleckley Sr. and the late Eula Mae McDonald Bryant. She graduated from Edisto High School in Cordova.

Memorial services for Sandy Porter-Singleton, 47, of Bamberg, were held Wednesday, December 22, 2010. She died Friday, December 17, 2010, at the Hospice Center, Mount Pleasant. The daughter of the late Isaac and Thelma E. McMillan Porter Sr., she was educated in the public schools of Bamberg County.

Funeral services for Frances Carroll Taylor, 61, of Bamberg, were held Tuesday, December 28, 2010. Mrs. Taylor died December 25, 2010, at UniHealth Post Acute Care of Bamberg. She was born December 23, 1949, in Bamberg, the daughter of the late Charles H. Carroll and the late Nell E. Rhoad Carroll. Mrs. Taylor was a member of Springtown Baptist Church in Bamberg and a retired secretary with Bamberg-Ehrhardt Middle School.

Funeral services for Archie O. Williams Jr., 65, of Denmark, were held Thursday, December 23, 2010, at Honey Ford Baptist Church, Denmark. Archie O. Williams was born on August 31, 1945, in East Orange, N.J. He was the son of the late Archie O. Williams Sr. and Hattie Lucille Ray Williams.