Howard Blackwell

View Remembrance Video McBee, S.C. Funeral services for Howard Lucas Blackwell, age 79, will be held Wednesday at 2:00 at the Union United Methodist Church. Rev. Steven Todd & Rev. Charlie Short will officiate. Burial will be in the Union Methodist Church Cemetery directed by Norton Funeral Home. Visitation will be Tuesday 5-7 at the funeral home. Mr. Blackwell was born in McBee a son of the late Lucas Hardy Blackwell and Ithane Mozingo Blackwell Guest. He was a member of Union United Methodist Church, retired from the Chesterfield County Sheriffs Department after 18 years of service. He served in the US Army for9 years. He was an avid Golfer and Gamecock Fan. He was a loving husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather. Surviving are his wife, Glenda Sprouse Blackwell, McBee; two daughters, Johnnie (Bobby) Stafford, Chesterfield and Michell (Corey) LaCross, Lexington; two sons, Stephen (Melissa) Brooks, Lynchburg, VA and Christopher (Kim) Blackwell, Patrick; one sister, Margie Gardner, West Columbia; seven grandchildren, Carson Brooks, Megan LaCross, Brandon LaCross, Lucas Blackwell, Hannah Blackwell, Skylar Brooks and Jason Stafford; two great grandchildren, Jase Stafford and Jenna Stafford. He was preceded in death by a sister, Mildred Tyner. Memorials may be made to the Union United Methodist Church, 4374 Union Church Road, McBee, S.C. 29101, or American Heart Association, 181 East Evans Street, Florence, S.C. 29506 or the American Cancer Association, 128 Stone Mark Lane, Columbia, S.C. 29210. Norton Funeral Home is honored to service the Blackwell Family.