Virginia Abernathy Price Dobson

Mrs. Virginia Abernathy Price Dobson of Brunson, died Monday afternoon in the Pruitt Health Care Facility in Estill.

Mrs. Dobson was born November 19, 1921 in Madisonville, Tennessee, a daughter of the late Floyd Abernathy and Esther Evans Abernathy Keefe.  She worked as a seamstress in the sewing room in St. George, and retired from the School Board of Florida.  She had also worked locally at 'Lisbeth's Dress Shop in Varnville, and with her husband at Dobson's Store on Luray Highway visiting with their many customers.  She loved sewing, cooking, doing yard work, walking and attending the many senior group meetings in Church and in Hampton.  She was a member of the Hampton United Methodist Church and the Seed and Weed Garden Club.

Surviving are:  Her husband:  Ellis Dobson of Brunson;  Daughter:  Martha Ann Platts (Holbrook) of Hampton;  Son:  Tommy Price (Ann) of Hanahan;  Five step-sons:  Jimmy Dobson of Columbia, Kenny Dobson, Jerry Dobson, Randy Dobson and Dudley Dobson of Barnwell.  There are five grandchildren:  Charles Gatch, Mandy Rister, Susan Gilliam, Janet Stone and David Platts.  There are eight great grandchildren and three great, great granddaughters.

Mrs.Dobson was predeceased by her first husband Thomas A. Price, her daughter and son-in-law, Harriet and Tommy Gatch, her grandson Raymond Gatch and great granddaughter Virginia Gilliam.

Funeral services will be 2 P.M. Thursday in the Hampton United Methodist Church with burial in Greenlawn Cemetery in Walterboro, directed by Peeples-Rhoden Funeral Home in Hampton.

Visitation will be Thursday beginning at 1 P.M. at the church prior to services.  The family suggests that those who wish may send memorials to the Hampton United Methodist Church, P.O. Box 45 Hampton, SC 29924 or the Varnville Christian Church, P.O. Box 53 Varnville, SC 29944.