Maklone S. Gibson

LEXINGTON - Funeral services for Maklone Swygert Gibson, 97, will be held at 2:00 p.m., Wednesday, May 31, at St. Stephen’s Lutheran Church with internment at Mt. Tabor Lutheran Church Cemetery. The family will receive friends Tuesday, May 30, 2017 from 5:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. at Caughman-Harman Funeral Home, Lexington Chapel. Pallbearers will be grandsons, Kyle Snelgrove, Jonathan Whitehead, Mason and Parker McInnis, Daniel Bannister and Ethan Whitehead. Honorary Pallbearers will be members of the Lexington Chapter #176, Order of the Eastern Star.Memorials may be made to St. Stephen’s Lutheran Church, 119 N. Church Street, Lexington, SC 29072, American Legion Post 7, PO Box 421, Lexington, SC 29071, or to the OES Lexington Chapter #176, 126 E. Butler Street, Lexington, SC 29072. Mrs. Gibson was born on June 9, 1919, in West Columbia, SC, and passed away Saturday, May 27, 2017. She was the daughter of the late Cromwell W. and Maryanne Summers Swygert. She was predeceased by ten brothers and sisters. She was a graduate of Brookland Cayce High School and later attended cosmetology school in New York City and was a licensed cosmetologist for many years, retiring in her early eighties. She was a member of Mt. Tabor Lutheran Church before moving her membership to St. Stephen’s Lutheran Church. She was a member of the Tea & Topics Club, Lexington Chapter #176, Order of the Eastern Star and the American Legion Auxiliary Post 7. She loved to fish and watch Braves baseball. She attended every event that she could that her grandchildren and great-grandchildren participated in and rarely missed an episode of “Wheel of Fortune.” Mrs. Gibson was married for 62 years to the late Murray S. Gibson, Jr., and resided in Lexington for 70 years. Her daughter, Linda Anne Caughman, passed away in 1998.She is survived by daughters, Sheila (Johnny) Whitehead, and Ginger Snelgrove (Dan Turpin), and son-in-law Roscoe Caughman. She was blessed with seven grandchildren, Suzanne (Brad) Cordell, Jennifer (Courtney) McInnis, Kyle (Heather) Snelgrove, Jonathan Whitehead, Kimberly (Brandon Berley) Bannister, Amanda Crumpton, Laura Whitehead, and 13 great-grandchildren, Ali (Stephen) Cline, Ashleigh and Ansley Cordell, Parker and Mason McInnis, Kylie Snelgrove, Hanna and Daniel Bannister, Ethan, Emma-Grace and ElizaKate Whitehead, Graceanne and Conner Crumpton, and a Godson, Brent Caughman. She was affectionately known as “Nanny” or “Little Nanny.” Her faithful pets and constant companions, Sam and Marley, will miss her dearly. She was “Aunt Maklone” to many nieces, nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews that she cared for deeply.Truly a lady, she will be greatly missed by all who knew and loved her. The message she would leave for us all would be,

“I gave you my Love,

but you can only guess

how much you gave me in Happiness.”