KATIE LEE JOSEY GENTRY Obituary

Published by Legacy Remembers on Feb. 13, 2010.

Katie Lee Josey Gentry FLORENCE - Katie Lee Josey Gentry, 86, widow of Edward Hinds Gentry, died Friday, February 12, 2010 at McLeod Hospice House in Florence. Born in Lee County, she was a daughter of the late Robert Lee Josey and the late Janie Prescott Josey. Mrs. Gentry was a member of Bethany Baptist Church. She was retired from Campbell Soup Company. Survivors include a daughter, Betty Gentry Boykin (Hal) of Florence; two grandsons, Hal Joseph "Jody" Boykin, Jr. and Charles Jeffrey "Jeff" Boykin; a granddaughter, Julia "Julie" M. Boykin; two great-granddaughters, Katie Lee Boykin and Ashley Elizabeth Boykin; two sisters-in-law, Anne Gentry Segars and Vida Gentry Beall; and a number of nieces, nephews, and great-nieces and great-nephews. Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday in the Elmore - Cannon-Stephens Funeral Home chapel with the Rev. Mark Payne and the Rev. Gene Stokes officiating. Burial will be in the Bethany Baptist Church Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 4 to 6 p.m. Saturday at Elmore-Cannon-Stephens Funeral Home. Memorials may be made to McLeod Hospice House, 1203 East Cheves Street Florence, SC 29506; Bethany Baptist Church, 1128 Manville - Wisacky Road, Bishopville, SC 29010; or to the Alzheimer's Association, 4124 Clemson Boulevard, Suite L, Clemson, SC 29621. Elmore-Cannon-Stephens Funeral Home and Crematorium of Sumter is in charge of the arrangements.