Joanne D. Nelson

ATLANTA, Ga. – Joanne Dingle Nelson, 43, died Saturday, Feb. 2, 2008, at South Fulton Medical Center, East Point, Ga.

Born Dec. 7, 1964, in Manning, she was the biological daughter of the late Emanuel Dingle and Lula Mae Ragin Dingle and she was reared by Ludie Richardson and Sarah Jane Ragin Richardson. She received her formal education in the public schools of Clarendon County and graduated from Scott’s Branch High School in 1983. She accepted Christ as her Savior and joined Historic Liberty Hill AME Church. She was employed with the Wachovia Bank and Kroger Food Stores in Atlanta.

She is survived by two sons, Ervin Nelson IV and Trevon Nelson of the home; four brothers, Abie Dingle of Columbia, James (Lilliese) Dingle and Londell Charles, both of Summerton, and Anthony Richardson of Knoxville, Tenn.; nine sisters, Dorothy Gardner of Baltimore, Md., Lillie (Thornell) Brunson, Ada Pearson, Helen Dingle, Juanita (Jerome) Oliver and Joyce Dingle, all of Manning, Mary Alice Hart and Diane (Leroy) Lawson, both of Summerton, and Haney Mae Richardson of Winston-Salem, N.C.; five aunts; three uncles; and one grandaunt.

She was preceded in death by two sisters, Queen E. Caraway and Daisy Richardson.

Funeral services were held on Friday, Feb. 8, 2008, at Historic Liberty Hill AME Church in Summerton, with the Rev. Dr. Melvin Capers, pastor, officiating, assisting the Rev. Rosa M. Fulton, Elder James Brunson and the Rev. Martha Richburg.

Burial followed in the churchyard cemetery.

Samuels Funeral Home LLC of Manning was in charge of the arrangements.