06/14/1923 – 04/26/2018
Kingstree
Funeral Services
Graveside funeral services will be 2 PM Saturday, April 28, 2018, in Tisdale Cemetery, 615 Cemetery Road, Kingstree, SC 29556. .
Visitation
Her family will greet friends in the cemetery following the service.
Memorials
Memorials may be made to Connie Maxwell Children’s Home, PO Box 1178, Greenwood, SC 29648-1178, Williamsburg Presbyterian Church, 411 N. Academy Street, Kingstree, SC 29556, or Tidelands Community Hospice, 2591 N. Fraser Street, Georgetown, SC 29440.
Grace Brown Tisdale, 94, widow of Melvin Tisdale, died Thursday, April 26, 2018, in the Kingstree Nursing Facility after a long illness.
Mrs. Tisdale was born June 14, 1923, in Greenville County, a daughter of the late William Irvin and Lula Shelton Brown. She and her twin sister, Hazel B. Epps, were raised at Connie Maxwell Children’s Home. Mrs. Tisdale received a BA Degree from Lander College and moved to Kingstree where she married her husband of 55 years. During her 35 year teaching career Mrs. Tisdale taught Home Economics, Physical Education, and Science as well as coaching basketball and sponsoring several clubs. She enjoyed playing golf, softball, basketball, walking, and sewing. Mrs. Tisdale was a faithful member of Williamsburg Presbyterian Church, the VFW Ladies Auxiliary, and the Ladies Sewing Club.
Surviving Mrs. Tisdale are: her twin sister, Hazel B. Epps, of Kingstree; sister-in-law, Kay Brown, of Greenville; and several nieces and nephews and grand nieces and nephews. In addition to her parents and her husband Melvin, she was preceded in death by brothers, Ralph, Ed, Lenard, and Harold Brown as well as sisters, Ruth Story and Willie Mae Phillips.
Graveside funeral services will be 2 PM Saturday, April 28, 2018, in Tisdale Cemetery, 615 Cemetery Road, Kingstree, SC 29556. Her family will greet friends in the cemetery following the service.
Memorials may be made to Connie Maxwell Children’s Home, PO Box 1178, Greenwood, SC 29648-1178, Williamsburg Presbyterian Church, 411 N. Academy Street, Kingstree, SC 29556, or Tidelands Community Hospice, 2591 N. Fraser Street, Georgetown, SC 29440.
The family would like to thank the nurses and staff at the Kingstree Nursing Facility and the hospice nurses, especially her special caregiver Cathleen Graham, for the excellent care that Mrs. Tisdale received while she was a resident there.
Online condolences may be sent to the family on the obituaries page at www.WilliamsburgFuneralHome.com.
Williamsburg Funeral Home
Tisdale Cemetery, 615 Cemetery Road, Kingstree, SC 29556
Graveside funeral services will be 2 PM Saturday, April 28, 2018, in Tisdale Cemetery, 615 Cemetery Road, Kingstree, SC 29556.
Such fun times at school and passing in the grocery store. Thinking about all of you.
I love that lady. She was my Home Ec teacher in 1974-1975 at Kingstree Senior High School. My senior year. I will always remember her. I am so sorry to hear of her passing. Prayers for Mrs. Hazel and her family.
Loved Mrs. Grace. She taught me how to sew in home ec and I use that skill to this day. Enjoy being with our Lord and Savior Mrs. Grace. I know he is telling you well done!
Mrs. Tisdale was a favorite teacher of mine. Really taught a lot of cooking and sewing.May she rest in peace!
She was one of my favorite teachers in high school. Always just the sweetest , I kearned so much from her.
We are thinking of all of you with much love.
Len B. and Claire Hudson Gaskins
My sympathy to Mrs Tisdale’s family. My deceased husband, Thomas A. Tisdale (Alan) was very fond of Grace. He grew up in Kingstree and is buried in Tisdale Family Cemetery.
She was a great lady. I will miss all the good jokes she told at the Connie Maxwell reunions.
So sorry to hear this news. She was a very special person. Mary S Davy