PENDLETON -Annie Claire Stephens Tribble, wife of Glenn Tribble, died Thursday, April 18, 2013 at the Rainey Hospice House.
Born in Anderson S.C. September 18, 1932, she was the second daughter of the late Samuel Arthur and Ruth Tollison Stephens. She was preceeded in death by her son, Stan, in 1958. Mrs. Tribble was a graduate of Anderson College and Clemson University. She was longtime women’s basketball coach at both Anderson College and Clemson University. She was inducted into the Clemson University Athletic Hall of Fame, the Anderson College Athletic Hall of Fame and the S.C. Athletic Hall of Fame. In 2011 she was honored as an Atlantic Coast Conference Women’s Basketball Legend and in 2012 Anderson University honored her with a reception at the Abney Center and the unveiling of a new basketball floor, named the Annie Tribble Court. She was a member of Pendleton First Baptist Church where she served as chairman of the Keenagers Group (of Seniors). She also volunteered in the Bereavement Office of Hospice of the Upstate.
Survivors include her husband, Glenn Tribble; two sons, John Arthur Tribble (Donna) and Andrew Glenn Tribble (Jessica), eleven grandchildren, and six great grandchildren; her sisters Patsy Stephens McCall of Monroeville, Alabama, Sandra Stephens Tatum of Anderson, and Mary Bess Stephens Johnson (Chris)of Ridgeway, S.C.
A memorial service will be held at 2:30 p.m. Monday, April 22, 2013 at Pendleton First Baptist Church conducted by Dr. Courtney Krueger and Rev. Jennifer McClung Rygg. The family will receive friends from 12 noon until 2 p.m. Monday at the church.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Annie Claire Stephens Tribble Women’s Basketball Scholarship, 316 Boulevard, Anderson, S.C. 29621; Hospice of the Upstate, 1835 Rogers Road, Anderson, S.C. 29621; or Pendleton First Baptist Church, P.O. Box 187, Pendleton, SC 29670. For those who wish to provide food for the family, please bring light refreshments to the church social hall by 10:45 a.m. Monday.
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