Mrs. Doris B. Shoptaw

Mrs. Doris B. Shoptaw, 88, widow of Louis Howard Shoptaw, died Monday, November 26, 2007, at her residence.

Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Friday, November 30, in the Graham Funeral Home Chapel, with Dr. Ted Sherrill officiating. Burial will be in the Pennyroyal Memorial Gardens.

Mrs. Shoptaw was born October 20, 1919, in Mitchell County, Georgia, a daughter of the late Louis Benjamin Blanchard and the late Ella Estille Faircloth Blanchard. She and her late husband were instrumental in the founding of Graham Funeral Home. She was a member of First Baptist Church, the Order of the Eastern Star and was a homemaker. She was a loving wife, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother.

Survivors include three sons, Ronny Shoptaw and his wife, Audrey, Howard Shoptaw and his wife Janice, all of Georgetown and S. W. Shoptaw and his wife, Sylvia of Vance; seven grandchildren, Russ Shoptaw, Ronda Douglas, Lee Long, Shawn Shoptaw, West Shoptaw, Shellie Barker and Stacy Shoptaw; several great-grandchildren and a number of nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by six sisters and three brothers.

The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, November 29, at the funeral home.

Memorials may be made to Tidelands Community Hospice, 2591 N. Fraser St., Georgetown, SC 29440.

Please sign a guest book and send private condolences to the family at www.grahamfuneralhome.org.

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