Beaufort County Obituaries

South Carolina

Leith Paul Trask III: CITADEL STUDENT FROM BEAUFORT DIES IN WRECK

A Beaufort man on Thanksgiving furlough from The Citadel died early Tuesday morning in a single-vehicle wreck on U.S. 21, according to the South Carolina Highway Patrol.

Leith Paul Trask III, a sophomore at the Charleston-based military college, was headed northbound near Hunting Island about 1:40 a.m. when the 1999 Isuzu Trooper he was driving veered off the left side of the road, struck a tree, and caught fire, said Lance Cpl. Paul Brouthers of the Highway Patrol.

Trask apparently failed "to maneuver around a curve that went to the right," he said. The young man died on impact.

Trask was wearing a seatbelt and alcohol use is not suspected. No other vehicles were involved in the wreck, investigating troopers said.

Trask was not far from Fripp Island, where his parents, Merry and Leith Paul Trask Jr., live, according to a release posted on the military college's Web site.

He was a business major and played football his freshman year.

There will be a graveside service at 1 p.m. today at Evergreen Memorial Cemetery across from Beaufort National Cemetery on Boundary Street.

Copeland Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. College officials said the school will hold a memorial service that will be scheduled later. (Bluffton Today (SC) - November 23, 2005)

Flora Graham Trask
Flora Graham Trask, widow of John M. Trask, died on Sunday evening, June 19, 2005, at her home in Beaufort, SC, at the age of 92. For many years, she and her family spent their summers at Wrightsville Beach where they built a cottage in 1937.

She was born Flora Murphy Graham on September 23, 1912, in Wallace, Duplin County, NC, one of nine children of Dr. Benjamin Robinson Graham and Edith Bolles Graham.

In 1915, the family moved to Wilmington, NC, where she attended grammar school and high school before attending St. Mary's College in Raleigh, NC. In 1934, she married John M. Trask and, as a young bride, came to Beaufort where her husband had joined his family's vegetable farming business established in 1908 by his father, George W. Trask of Wilmington, NC.

In 1939, she and her husband bought a home on Bay Street in Beaufort, where she raised her family and enjoyed the many years of her life.

Mrs. Trask was well known among her family and friends for her keen business instincts, her quiet and dignified demeanor, her sense of humor, and her progressive views of life. She served as a strong partner to her husband in his farming, business and civic activities.

She was an early member of the Sea Island Garden Club, a member of the Beaufort Female Benevolent Society, a member of St. Helena's Episcopal Church, and was one of the organizers of the First St. Helena's Church Home and Plantation Tours.

She is survived by her four sons: John M. Trask Jr. of Beaufort, George G. Trask of Beaufort, Charles H. Trask of Virginia Beach, VA, and Frederick G. Trask of Beaufort; a sister, Mary Graham Shigley of Tacoma, Washington; twelve grandchildren; and sixteen great-grandchildren.

Graveside services will be held at St. Helena's Episcopal Cemetery on Tuesday, June 21. (Star-News, Wilmington, NC - June 21, 2005)

Jane Trumpore
BEAUFORT - Services for Jane Shepard Trumpore, 68, of 3522 Morgan River Drive North, will be held at 10 a.m. Monday at St. Helena's Episcopal Church with interment in the church cemetery. The family will receive friends 5-7 p.m. Sunday at the residence. Memorials may be made to St. Helena's Episcopal Church, PO Box 1043, Beaufort, SC 29901. Copeland Funeral Home is in charge.

Mrs. Trumpore died Wednesday, March 22, 2000 at the Medical University of South Carolina. Born Aug. 3, 1931 in Wilmington, Del., she was a daughter of the late Alexander Isaac Shepard and Myrtle Ellingsworth Shepard. Mrs. Trumpore graduated from Delaware School of Nursing. She was a member of St. Helena's Episcopal Church and the Republican Women's Club.

Surviving are her husband, Arthur Trumpore Jr.; son, John A. Trumpore of Jackson, Miss.; daughters, Missy Trumpore of Beaufort, Carol T. Sullivan of Dallas; sister, Carolyn Hall of Chester Springs, Pa.; two grandchildren. (State, The (Columbia, SC) - March 24, 2000)
 

James John Treanor 1944 - 2007

James John Treanor, 63, died Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2007, at his home in Bluffton.  He was born in Seattle, Wash., on July 12, 1944, the son of Kathleen Teresa McGee Treanor and the late James John Treanor.

He was an accountant for the Electricians Union Local 3, an Air Force veteran, and a member of the Sun City Veterans Association. He was Catholic.

He is survived by his mother, Kathleen McGee Treanor of New York City; his wife, Carol Treanor of Bluffton; a brother, Michael Treanor of Long Island, N.Y.; and three sisters, Kathleen Clark and Patricia Stanley both of Long Island, N.Y., and Marilyn Rosen of New Jersey.

Graveside services will be held at 11 a.m., Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2007, in the Beaufort National Cemetery. The family will receive friends between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. Monday, Nov. 12, 2007 at Sauls Funeral Home, 90 Simmonsville Road in Bluffton, with a Wake service at 4:30 p.m. Sauls Funeral Home is assisting the family with arrangements.

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