Memorial services for Ethel Geneva “Jeannie” Medley, will be Saturday, September 26, with visitation at 2pm and services at 3pm at Cooper Funeral Home, 209 Black Branch Rd, Dillon, SC.
A resident of McMinnville, Tennessee, Jennie passed away Sunday, Sep. 6, 2015. She was originally from Florence and was 76 years old, a mother, a sister, and a friend to many who loved her. Jeannie was the name she went by and all who knew her loved her singing voice, with country and “church” music being her favorites to sing.
A widow of Neal Medley, and the former wife of Johnny Bost and Darrell Hieb, Jeannie was proceeded in death by her mother, Willie Geneva Calder Gandy; her brothers, James “Bubba” Jones and Edmon Jones; sisters, Gertrude Strickland, Margaret Grady, Carrie Welch, and Velma Grady; brother-in-laws, Stanley Jones, Leonard Strickland, Albert Strickland, Jim Tolar, Carroll Grady, Charles Welch, Chuck Chichester, and Randall Grady.
She is survived by daughters Kimberley (Jeff) Jacobs of Melbourne, Florida, Karen (Dewanye) Hammed of Greensboro, North Carolina, Karol (Joe) Scott of Sparta, Tennessee and sons, Kenneth Hieb of Woodbury, Tennessee, and Randy Martin of South Carolina; grandsons Jasen Jacobs, Jared Jacobs; granddaughters Kristen Hammed, Megan Hammed, Haley Hammed, Nikki Scott, and Brittany Scott; as well as five great grand children.
Jeannie is also survived by sisters Frances Foxworth, Willa Jean Montrose, Edna Jones, Elizabeth Strickland, Katie Tolar, and Navassa Chichester all of South Carolina; two sister-in-laws, Mert Jones of Tennessee and Shirley Jones of South Carolina; brothers Aaron Gandy and Billy Jones of South Carolina and Bobby Jones from Florida.
