Juanita S. Knight

January 9, 1927- January 10, 2010
 
Anderson SC – Juanita Smith Knight, age 83, wife of the late Larry Lee Knight, passed away on Sunday, January 10, 2010, at the AnMed Health Medical Center.
 
Born January 9, 1927, in Flintville, TN, she was a daughter of the late Oliver David Smith and Myrtle Wicks Smith.  She graduated from Flintville High School in 1945, after which she moved to the Pendleton area, where she met and married her husband Larry, a Clemson University student. They enjoyed 60 years of marriage.  She was a homemaker, and a member of Orrville Baptist Church, where she was a member of the Ester Sunday School Class, for 60 years.  She was a volunteer with the Pink Ladies, at the AnMed Health Medical Center, she also volunteered with the Head Start preschool program, and was a member of the Anderson Ostomy Club.  She was an avid gardener, where she loved her vegetable garden and her many flowers, and was an avid Clemson football fan.
 
Survivors include her daughters; Marsha K. Moorhead and her husband Robert M., of Westminster, Myra K. Hart and her husband Randy, of Anderson, grandchildren, Leah Drake, of Anderson, Libby Galloway and her husband Paul, of Charleston, Ben Moorhead and his wife Ashley, of Seneca, and Abby Crooks and her husband Jonas, of Westminster, great-grandchildren; Bradley, Kyler and Meggie Jane Moorhead, Jeb and Caleb Crooks, and Noah and Samuel Galloway.  And a special friend, her caregiver of three years, Daisy Walker of Anderson.  She is also survived by many nieces and nephews in the Flintville TN area.
 
She was preceded in death; by her parents; five brothers and two sisters.
 
The Funeral Service will be held at 2:00 pm on Tuesday, January 12, 2010, in the Chapel of The McDougald Funeral Home conducted by Dr. Wendell Bannister.  Interment will follow in New Silver Brook Cemetery.
 
The family is at the home of Myra Hart, 204 Wetland Way, Anderson, and will receive friends at The McDougald Funeral Home on Monday, January 11, 2010, from 6:00 pm until 8:00 pm. Flowers will be accepted or memorials made to Orrville Baptist Church, 2620 South Main Street, Anderson SC, 29621.
 
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The McDougald Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.