Sarah Hawkins

Funeral services for Sarah Wicker Hawkins, 69, will be held at 3:00 p.m. Sunday, November 23, 2008 at Brown-Pennington-Atkins Funeral Home Chapel. The Rev. Scott Petry will officiate. The family will receive friends Saturday, November 22, 2008 from 4 until 6 p.m. at the home of Paul B. Alford, III, 536 West College Avenue, Hartsville, SC. Memorials may be made to the Alzheimer's Disease Association, Box 7044, Columbia SC 29202, or National Multiple Sclerosis Society, 2711 Middleburg Dr., Suite 105, Columbia, SC 29204. Mrs. Hawkins, widow of Coke Lee Hawkins, died Thursday, November 20, 2008. Born in Darlington, SC, she was a daughter of the late Sherwood Brice and Lona Dawkins Wicker. She was a member of Wesley Chapel United Methodist Church of Lydia, SC. Sarah was a 1957 graduate of Hartsville High School, where she gave the commencement address. She attended Coker College, where she majored in music. She worked briefly for Sonoco Products Company, before becoming a full-time mother. She was a charter member of West Hartsville Baptist Church where she was active for many years as an organist and pianist. She married Coke Lee Hawkins on Thanksgiving Day, 1977. Surviving are her sons and daughters-in-law, Joseph Leslie and Hilda Jacobs, Jr. of McBee, SC, Mark Ellington and Theresa Jacobs of Society Hill, SC, Eric Matthew and Amber Jacobs of Florence, SC; daughter and son-in-law, Rebecca J. and Paul Alford of Hartsville, SC; sister, Mrs. Clyde K. (Ruth) Gardner of Hartsville, SC; grandchildren and spouse, Sarah Blaire Rogers of Hartsville, SC, Troy Alexander Rogers of Washington, DC, Leslie Patrick Rogers of Hartsville, SC, Cameron Brigman of Florence, SC, Hilari and Gene Price of Florence, SC, Zachary Matthew Jacobs of Florence, SC, Anna Morgan Jacobs of Florence, SC, Samantha Jacobs of Society Hill, SC, Holly Katherine Alford of Florence, SC, Olivia Brittain Alford of Florence, SC; great grandchild, Aidyn Carter Price of Florence, SC; nieces and nephews and spouse, Andrew C. and Diana Gardner of Hartsville, SC, Rachel and Jim Hodges of Columbia, SC, Frances and Van Richardson Gardner of Lancaster, SC.

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Sarah Hawkins

March 5, 1939 - November 20, 2008