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Williamsburg Funeral Home
Williamsburg Funeral Home
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02/12/1934 – 10/04/2025
Salters, SC
Salters, SC
Funeral Services
Funeral services will be held at 2 PM Tuesday, October 7, 2025, at Williamsburg Funeral Home with burial in Kingstree Memorial Gardens.
Visitation
Miss Pete’s family will greet friends and family beginning at 1 PM just prior to the service at Williamsburg Funeral Home.
Memorials
Memorials may be made to Kingstree First Assembly of God, 872 Sumter Highway, Kingstree, SC 29556 or Union Presbyterian Church, c/o Diane Boyd, 114 E Brooks Street, Kingstree, SC 29556.
Ina Myrtle Knight Blake, 91, wife of the late Frank Thomas Blake, died Saturday, October 4, 2025, at McLeod Regional Medical Center in Florence after a brief illness.
Ina, lovingly known as “Miss Pete” by all who knew her, was born February 12, 1934, in Florence County, SC, a daughter of the late Ralph D. Knight and Louise Jordan Knight. She was a graduate of Kingstree High School, and worked some years at Warsaw Manufacturing, but her real calling came when she opened a day care for the neighborhood children. The “neighborhood” grew as families found out what a blessing it was to have your children stay with “Miss Pete”! Her loving ways with the children were appreciated by the parents and children alike. When the children grew up, they came back to visit Miss Pete and some of the luckiest ones brought their children back to stay with Miss Pete. She operated the day care for over 30 years. When she wasn’t taking care of children, Miss Pete loved working in her yard growing flowering shrubs and bedding plants. She had lovely ferns hanging on her porch creating a gathering place. Miss Pete enjoyed reading, shopping, cooking a delicious cream cheese pound cake, and especially spending time with her beloved family. She was a member of Salters Assembly of God Church until it closed and then attended Kingstree First Assembly of God along with Union Presbyterian Church whose minister Marty Hodge was her close neighbor.
Surviving Mrs. Blake are: two daughters, Melinda (Marion) McCrea of Salters and Diane Umphlett of Kingstree; three granddaughters, Amy Thomas, Angela (Curt) Mahoney, and Chelsea (Matthew) Clites; four great granddaughters, Acelyn Griffin, Avie Manigault, Anna Manigault, Farrah Blake, and Cora Mahoney; three great grandsons, Zed and Gabe Clites and Xander Blake; five great-great grandchildren; a sister, Anita Haynes of Anderson, SC; and numerous nieces and nephews. In addition to her parents and her husband Frank, Miss Pete was preceded in death by her son, Rev. Stephen Michael Blake, a grandson, Joshua Stephen Blake, and seven siblings, Gertrude Thompson, Geneva Smith, Katherine Powell, Sam M. Knight, Donald K. Knight, Mattie Sue Kennedy, and Glenn R. Knight.
Funeral services will be held at 2 PM Tuesday, October 7, 2025, at Williamsburg Funeral Home with burial in Kingstree Memorial Gardens. Miss Pete’s family will greet friends and family beginning at 1 PM just prior to the service at Williamsburg Funeral Home.
Memorials may be made to Kingstree First Assembly of God, 872 Sumter Highway, Kingstree, SC 29556 or Union Presbyterian Church, c/o Diane Boyd, 114 E Brooks Street, Kingstree, SC 29556.
Online condolences can be posted for the family at www.williamsburgfuneralhome.com
Ina, lovingly known as “Miss Pete” by all who knew her, was born February 12, 1934, in Florence County, SC, a daughter of the late Ralph D. Knight and Louise Jordan Knight. She was a graduate of Kingstree High School, and worked some years at Warsaw Manufacturing, but her real calling came when she opened a day care for the neighborhood children. The “neighborhood” grew as families found out what a blessing it was to have your children stay with “Miss Pete”! Her loving ways with the children were appreciated by the parents and children alike. When the children grew up, they came back to visit Miss Pete and some of the luckiest ones brought their children back to stay with Miss Pete. She operated the day care for over 30 years. When she wasn’t taking care of children, Miss Pete loved working in her yard growing flowering shrubs and bedding plants. She had lovely ferns hanging on her porch creating a gathering place. Miss Pete enjoyed reading, shopping, cooking a delicious cream cheese pound cake, and especially spending time with her beloved family. She was a member of Salters Assembly of God Church until it closed and then attended Kingstree First Assembly of God along with Union Presbyterian Church whose minister Marty Hodge was her close neighbor.
Surviving Mrs. Blake are: two daughters, Melinda (Marion) McCrea of Salters and Diane Umphlett of Kingstree; three granddaughters, Amy Thomas, Angela (Curt) Mahoney, and Chelsea (Matthew) Clites; four great granddaughters, Acelyn Griffin, Avie Manigault, Anna Manigault, Farrah Blake, and Cora Mahoney; three great grandsons, Zed and Gabe Clites and Xander Blake; five great-great grandchildren; a sister, Anita Haynes of Anderson, SC; and numerous nieces and nephews. In addition to her parents and her husband Frank, Miss Pete was preceded in death by her son, Rev. Stephen Michael Blake, a grandson, Joshua Stephen Blake, and seven siblings, Gertrude Thompson, Geneva Smith, Katherine Powell, Sam M. Knight, Donald K. Knight, Mattie Sue Kennedy, and Glenn R. Knight.
Funeral services will be held at 2 PM Tuesday, October 7, 2025, at Williamsburg Funeral Home with burial in Kingstree Memorial Gardens. Miss Pete’s family will greet friends and family beginning at 1 PM just prior to the service at Williamsburg Funeral Home.
Memorials may be made to Kingstree First Assembly of God, 872 Sumter Highway, Kingstree, SC 29556 or Union Presbyterian Church, c/o Diane Boyd, 114 E Brooks Street, Kingstree, SC 29556.
Online condolences can be posted for the family at www.williamsburgfuneralhome.com
Miss Ina rode with me, occasionally, to Bible Study at Union Presbyterian. During our ride, we often spoke of old times and how things had changed. She was proud of her family and loved her community. She also was a wonderful companion for Miss C Lib and Miss Sarah. We were so thankful to have such a loving and caring lady in our community.
Ms. Pete was wonderful and loving caretaker of many children including my daughter. She will be missed!
R.I.P. Granny Pete ❤️ You were one of a kind. So loving and sweet. You will be greatly missed 😔
Treasure your memories, Pete was a sister, a Mother , Grandmother and a friend to all those that passed her way. Truly loved her family, and those who surrounded her. A gift we all should strive to be like her. Above all she loved the Lord.
My sympathy to all the family.
Pete was a good friend to the Boatwright’s Thinking of you all and sympathy. Carole Boatwright Huffman
We visited back and forth on the farms before I went off to Bible College. We went to youth group together, etc. I called her Pete. We were friends with the family. She was also a brother’s sister~in~law. It was good to see her when I visited family through the years