Elizabeth
Elizabeth Shelton Smith-Cox
d. January 8, 2014
Elizabeth Smith-Cox
Clemson, SC
Elizabeth Smith-Cox, 89, of 213 Riggs Drive, Clemson, died Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2014 at the Rainey Hospice House at Hospice of the Upstate in Anderson.
Born in Washington, NC, she was the daughter of the late Warren and Sallie Harrell Shelton. A Distinguished Alumna of Meredith College, where she received an undergraduate degree in art, she earned a master's degree from Clemson University and taught art in Columbia and at Clemson's Daniel High School for more than three decades. She was a long-time member of the First Baptist Church of Clemson where she was a Life Deacon and had a passion for mission work, serving with the Pickens County chapter of Habitat for Humanity and going on church mission trips to Honduras until she was well into her 80's. Among many other national and state honors she has received, she was named S.C. Teacher of the Year in 1976 and winner of the Governor's Elizabeth O'Neal Verner Award for the Arts in 2003. A teaching studio in the Pickens County Museum is named in her honor.
She was pre-deceased by two husbands, J. Ed Smith and H. Morris Cox, both of Clemson. Survivors include two daughters, Shelley Smith Hobson and husband, Ed of Wilmington, NC, and Dale Henslee-Smith and husband, Michial, of Irmo, and a son, Jed Smith, of San Leo Bastia, Italy. Three grandchildren are Charles Hobson of San Diego, CA; Jack Hobson of Raleigh, NC; and Claudia Dove of Irmo; Great-grandchildren are Caylin Porter and Rylan Dove; Step-sons, John Morris Cox of Greenwood and Thomas Headley Cox of Chapel Hill, NC; step-daugther, Deborah Cox Vallance and husband, Sam; and step-grandchildren, Alison Cox Jones, Patrick Cox and Olivia Cox Long. She is also survived by many adopted international students whom she included in family celebrations and holidays throughout her married life.
Memorial services will be Tuesday, at 2 p.m. at Clemson First Baptist Church. The Revs. Rusty Brock, Roger Lovette and Tony
McDade will officiate.
The family will receive friends at a reception following the
service.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be given to Clemson First Baptist Church, the Pickens County Chapter of Habitat for Humanity or the Clemson Little Theater.
Condolences may be expressed online at www.robinsonfuneralhomes.com or at Duckett-Robinson Funeral Home, Central, SC.
Clemson, SC
Elizabeth Smith-Cox, 89, of 213 Riggs Drive, Clemson, died Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2014 at the Rainey Hospice House at Hospice of the Upstate in Anderson.
Born in Washington, NC, she was the daughter of the late Warren and Sallie Harrell Shelton. A Distinguished Alumna of Meredith College, where she received an undergraduate degree in art, she earned a master's degree from Clemson University and taught art in Columbia and at Clemson's Daniel High School for more than three decades. She was a long-time member of the First Baptist Church of Clemson where she was a Life Deacon and had a passion for mission work, serving with the Pickens County chapter of Habitat for Humanity and going on church mission trips to Honduras until she was well into her 80's. Among many other national and state honors she has received, she was named S.C. Teacher of the Year in 1976 and winner of the Governor's Elizabeth O'Neal Verner Award for the Arts in 2003. A teaching studio in the Pickens County Museum is named in her honor.
She was pre-deceased by two husbands, J. Ed Smith and H. Morris Cox, both of Clemson. Survivors include two daughters, Shelley Smith Hobson and husband, Ed of Wilmington, NC, and Dale Henslee-Smith and husband, Michial, of Irmo, and a son, Jed Smith, of San Leo Bastia, Italy. Three grandchildren are Charles Hobson of San Diego, CA; Jack Hobson of Raleigh, NC; and Claudia Dove of Irmo; Great-grandchildren are Caylin Porter and Rylan Dove; Step-sons, John Morris Cox of Greenwood and Thomas Headley Cox of Chapel Hill, NC; step-daugther, Deborah Cox Vallance and husband, Sam; and step-grandchildren, Alison Cox Jones, Patrick Cox and Olivia Cox Long. She is also survived by many adopted international students whom she included in family celebrations and holidays throughout her married life.
Memorial services will be Tuesday, at 2 p.m. at Clemson First Baptist Church. The Revs. Rusty Brock, Roger Lovette and Tony
McDade will officiate.
The family will receive friends at a reception following the
service.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be given to Clemson First Baptist Church, the Pickens County Chapter of Habitat for Humanity or the Clemson Little Theater.
Condolences may be expressed online at www.robinsonfuneralhomes.com or at Duckett-Robinson Funeral Home, Central, SC.
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