OBITUARIES

SADIE COKER
Graveside services for Sadie Gandy Coker, 85, will be held at 4 p.m. today, Oct. 3, 2008, at Antioch Baptist Church Cemetery. The Rev. Bob Hill will officiate, and Brown-Pennington-Atkins Funeral Home is serving the family. Memorials may be made to the Morton Presbyterian Church, 1068 Morton Circle, Hartsville, SC 29550 or Darlington County Humane Society, Box 1655, Hartsville, SC 29551.
Mrs. Coker, widow of Daniel Campbell Coker, died Tuesday, Sept. 30.  Born in Darlington County, she was a daughter of the late Isaiah and Charlotte Adams Gandy. She attended Morton Presbyterian Church and loved her God, her children and grandchildren, and gardening. She was an active prayer warrior. 
Surviving are her daughters and son-in-law, Sue and Joe Byrd of Florence, Martha “Mot” Coker of Hartsville, Mona O’Neal of Hartsville; sister, Clara Gandy Coleman of Darlington; grandchildren (spouse), Andrea (Craig) Hays, Alex (Brandi) O’Neal, Daniel Byrd; great-grandchildren, Taylor Hoover, Riley O’Neal.
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ERNESTINE
‘TINE’ JEFFORDS
Funeral services for Ernestine “Tine” Jeffords will be held at 3 p.m. today, Oct. 3, 2008, at Harold L. & Dorothy J. Young Memorial Chapel. Burial will take place in Greenlawn Cemetery, directed by Young & Young Funeral Home of Hartsville.
Mrs. Jeffords, 66, died Monday, Sept. 29, at Carolinas Hospital System after an illness. She was born in Darlington County, a daughter of the late Columbus and Nellie Jackson. She received her education in the public schools in the area and was a member of Hartsville Pentecostal Holiness Church.
Surviving are one daughter, Cheryl Jefferson Woods; six sisters, Janie Jackson, Ester Jackson, Marie Jackson, Betty Johnson, Dorothy Mae Jackson and Ethel Lee Jackson; four brothers, Mac Jackson, William Joe Jackson, James Jackson and Nathaniel Jackson; one sister-in-law, Elease Sciopo; a special granddaughter, Lisa (Lily) Jefferson; a special nephew, Charles Jackson; five grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; a host of nieces, nephews and other close relatives and friends.

ROBERTA
GAINEY PLAYER
McBEE - Mrs. Roberta Gainey Player, 53, died Thursday, Sept. 25, 2008. Funeral services were held at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 28, at Patrick Baptist Church. Interment followed in the Cedar Creek Baptist Church Cemetery in Hartsville. The family will receive friends at the home of Monroe and Marie Player, 927 Cat Pond Road, Patrick.
Mrs. Player was born Dec. 31, 1954, in Hartsville, a daughter of the late Isaac and Sara Lelia Campbell Gainey. She was a homemaker. Roberta was married to the late Hollis Player and was also preceded in death by a grandson, Dalton Gainey, three brothers, James Charles, Furman Lee, and John Edward Gainey, and by a sister Alice Register. 
Survivors include her son, Monroe (Marie) Player of Patrick; daughter, Denise (Dwayne) Johnson of McBee; six grandchildren, Nickolas Hunt, Dakota and Gabriel Player, Liana, Makaila and Neil Johnson; two brothers, Isaac Gainey Jr. and Ernest Gainey of Patrick; four sisters, Ann Dixon, Margaret Tyner, and Maybelle Freeman, all of Patrick, and Faye Broom of Hartsville.
Miller-Rivers-Caulder Funeral Home of Chesterfield served the Player family.

JESSIE PHILLIPS
Funeral services for Jessie Phillips will be held at 1 p.m. today, Oct. 3, 2008, at Antioch Baptist Church. Burial will be in the church cemetery directed by Young & Young Funeral Home of Hartsville.
Mr. Phillips, 88, died Sunday, Sept. 28, at Columbia VA Hospital after an illness. He was born in Darlington County, a son of the late Amos and Annie Mitchell Phillips. He received his education in the public schools in the area and was a U.S. Army Veteran. He was also a retired employee of Bayfield Construction Co. and a member of Antioch Baptist Church.
Surviving are two daughters, Deborah Andrews of Houston, Texas, and Gracie Cambridge of Hartsville; two sons, Anthony Phillips of High Point, N.C., and Joseph Phillips of Philadelphia, Pa.; three sisters, Annie Jackson and Catherine Bryant, both of Hartsville, and Anna Lee Frazier of Jamaica, N.Y.; one brother, Ernest Phillips of New York, N.Y.; two daughters-in-law; one son-in-law; 13 grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; a host of nieces, nephews and other close relatives and friends.