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Note: Earline was called Sister by all of her family all of her life. When she was born, Clara's friend Dell Geddings told Clara to name her Inez Virginia, so Clara gave that name to the doctor. Later, her brother Oris said he wanted her to name the
baby Claire Earline, so Clara changed it. (Claire Goodman and Earline McElveen were two of Oris's girlfriends.) About 13 years later, Clara found that Earline had gotten two birth certificates; one in each name. When it was corrected; the state
eliminated the one with Inez Virginia and removed Claire from the second one; so the only name now on her birth record is Earline.
Obituary: Sumter Daily Item 02/06/2008
EARLINE O. MORRIS
Earline Owens Morris, 75, wife of Joseph Ralph Morris, died Monday, Feb. 4, 2008, at Palmetto Health Richland in Columbia.
Born in Sumter, she was a daughter of the late James Tillman Owens and the late Clara Rowe Owens. Mrs. Morris was a member of Grace Freewill Baptist Church.
Survivors besides her husband of 57 years include two daughters, Rose Morris of the home and Pat Lyles and her husband, James; two grandsons, Jim Lyles and his wife, Susie, and Joey Lyles and his wife, Laura; and two great-grandchildren,
Courtney Lyles and Madison Lyles, all of Sumter.
She was preceded in death by seven brothers, Cliff Owens, Walter Owens, J.T. Owens, Ervin Owens, Steve Owens, Oris Owens and Carlie Owens.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at Grace Freewill Baptist Church with the Rev. Clyde Chan and the Rev. William Knotts officiating. Burial will be in the Pine Grove United Methodist Church cemetery in Turbeville.
Pallbearers will be grandsons, Jim Lyles and Joey Lyles, Steve Morris, Brian Queen, David Springs and Carroll Cole.
The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. today at Elmore-Cannon-Stephens Funeral Home.
Memorials may be made to Grace Freewill Baptist Church, 1540 Bradham Blvd., Sumter, SC 29153.
Elmore-Cannon-Stephens Funeral Home and Crematorium of Sumter is in charge of the arrangements.
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