Gloria M. Mobley

Gloria Deane Murray Mobley, 45, wife of Freddie J. Mobley, departed this earthly life on Friday Morning, Dec. 29, 2006, at her home after a brief illness.

Born in Clarendon County on Aug. 1, 1961, she was a daughter of the late Ernest Murray Sr. and Fannie Murray.

She received her formal education in the public schools of Clarendon County and was a 1979 graduate of Manning High School. She attended Midlands Technical College and was employed at the Department of Corrections in Columbia.

At an early age, she accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as her personal savior and became a member of Light Hill Baptist Church. After moving to Sumter, she joined Jehovah Missionary Baptist Church.

Survivors include a devoted and loving husband, Freddie J. Mobley; a loving son, Antoine M. Wright, and stepson, Tyshaun Mobley; her loving mother, Fannie Murray of Foreston; four brothers, Robert (Emma) Murray, Charles (Alice) Murray and Ernest (Frances) Murray, all of Foreston, and Howard Murray of Sumter; six sisters, Dorothy Graham of Kingstree, Delores Murray of Foreston, Lula (Mark) Jones of Greeleyville, Joanne Murray and Diane (Leon) Rogers, both of Manning, Ernestine (Eugene) Middleton of Washington, D.C.; three uncles, John (Earnestine) Hilton of Bridgeton, N.J., Leo (Mary Jane) Murray of Foreston and Pruitt Murray of Manning; eight aunts, Illa Murray, Annie L. Keels, Louise Mathis, all of Foreston, Emma Jane Russell of Bridgeton, N.J., Connie (Rigby) Conyers of New Haven, Conn., Florie Hilton of Manning, Lucille Brooks and Elizabeth Johnson, both of Sumter; two brothers-in-law, Pastor Thomas (Jackie) Myers of Florence and Wayne (Cecile) Mobley of Sumter; four sisters-in-law, Delores (Jerome) Dantzler Robinson of New York, Barbara Shaw, Blondie Cabbagestalk and Gloria Anderson, all of Sumter; two very close friends, Patricia Conyers and Phyllis Mace of Paxville; and a host of nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her father, Ernest Murray Sr.; and one sister, Rena Mae Murray.

Funeral services were held on Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2007, from Jehovah Missionary Baptist Church in Sumter, with the Rev. Dr. Marion H. Newton, senior pastor, eulogist.

Pallbearers were family and friends. Floral bearers were family and friends.

Burial was in Junk Yard Cemetery, Manning.

Williams Funeral Home Inc. was in charge of the arrangements.