Lucile (Williams) Chavis

Funeral Services for Lucile Williams Chavis, 91, of Williston, SC will be held 2 p.m. Wednesday, November 22, 2023 at the Folk Funeral Home Chapel, Williston with the Reverend George Still officiating. Burial will follow in the Springfield Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 1 p.m. until the time of the service at the funeral home on Wednesday and all other times at the home of Julia Mae and Wesley Fail, 705 Saturday Road, Blackville, SC. Mrs. Chavis passed away at MUSC Orangeburg on Sunday, November 19, 2023.

Honored to serve as pallbearers will be Conner Fail, Jay Fail, Lavern Fail, Rex Fail, Toney Fail, Bailey Furtick, Matias Morales and Christopher Myers.

Born in Barnwell County, SC she was a daughter of the late Clarence Williams and Maybelle Chavis Williams and was married to the late James Richard Chavis. Mrs. Chavis worked in the Sanding Department for Talley Corbitt for 20 years then later went to work for Ducane for the next 10 years before she retired. She was a faithful Member of Pine Hill Free Will Baptist Church of the Pentecostal Faith and a member of the Adult Sunday School Class.  She will be remembered as the “sweet one” by her family and friends.

Survivors include a dear niece Julia Mae (Wesley) Fail of Blackville, and numerous other nieces and nephews that she dearly loved; a sister-in-law Pansey Williams Chavis of Springfield; numerous great nieces and nephews that loved her.

In addition to her parents and late husband, James Richard Chavis, she was preceded in death by her son, James Richard “PeeWee” Chavis, Jr.; her sisters, Mozelle Tuttle, Pearl Brooks and Delores Gleaton; brothers, Fletch, Obie, Govan, Russell, Morris “Buck”, Cecil and Paul Williams.

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