South Carolina Yearbook - September 2020

2020 South Carolina Nurses Association
TIME OF REMEMBRANCE
THOSE TO BE HONORED AT THE 2021 STATE CONVENTION
Lynn Gossett Eppley, 58, of 194 Yacht Drive, Laurens, SC and wife of James Cameron Eppley, Sr.
passed away April 13, 2020, at her home. Born in Greenville, she was a daughter of Carolyn Talley
Williamson and husband Dwight of Columbia and the late Nicholas Earle Gossett. A graduate
of Clemson University with a BSN, Lynn was a RN with Hillcrest Hospital. She was a member of
Chestnut Ridge Baptist Church and loved spending time with her grandkids, taking care of her
patients, and quilting and sewing. Surviving in addition to her husband and mother, are children,
William “Rusty” Jordan, Jr. (Ashley) of Columbia, Brett Jordan of Columbia, and James “Jason”
Eppley, Jr. of Kings Bay, GA; grandchildren, Kylie Jordan, William “Trey” Jordan, III, and Madison
Eppley; and a sister, Lari Murray of Columbia. A private funeral service will be held Friday, April 17,
2020, at The Kennedy Mortuary Chapel conducted by Rev. Alex D. Henderson.
Joanne McBride Rawson, of Davidson, NC, died surrounded by the love of family and friends, on
July 29th, 2020. She was born December 26, 1935 in Vidette, GA. She was the daughter of the late
Thomas Gardiner McBride and Letitia Sheppard McBride. She was Joanne to her friends, Jo to her
brothers and sisters (she was the youngest of 9), and JoJo to her beloved and devoted grandsons.
A graveside service for the family will be held in the Memorial Garden at Eastminster Presbyterian
Church in Columbia, SC, where she was a devoted member for many years. The service will be
officiated by the Rev. Dr. Bradley D. Smith, Senior Pastor. Shives Funeral Home, Trenholm Road
Chapel is assisting the family. After graduation from Graniteville High School in Graniteville, SC, she
attended the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta, GA completing her training as a Registered
Nurse. During a time in which there were few professional opportunities for women she committed
herself to furthering her education and put herself through Vanderbilt University graduating with
a B.S. in Nursing and a minor in English. Well-founded rumor is that she never made a single “B”.
It was at Vanderbilt on the porch at Rand Hall that she met the love of her life, William Sherard
“Bill” Rawson. The two wed at Reid Memorial Presbyterian Church in Augusta, GA in September
of 1964. She was an instructor in Clinical Nursing at the Williams Brice College of Nursing at the
University of South Carolina; during her time teaching at USC she earned a Masters in Public Health,
one of the first graduates of the Arnold School of Public Health. After leaving USC she enjoyed a
successful career in Home Health and in the Insurance field, retiring when work got in the way of
her life calling she didn’t want to miss a minute of time with family, embracing with passion her role
as grandmother. She served as a Ruling Elder at Eastminster Presbyterian Church in Columbia, SC.
There was seldom a Sunday that she was absent from Sunday school and church. But the greatest
joy of her life was being a grandmother. One of the happiest days of her life was when she greeted
her second grandson and learned that his given name, McBride, was her maiden name. If you knew
Joanne, you knew of her grandsons and she was more than happy to recount for you everything
that they were doing. She hosted many summer sessions of “Camp JoJo” known to others as
McKillop Basketball Camp at Davidson, but to her grandsons and their friends as Camp JoJo. She
was blessed to enjoy more than a decade living her best years at The Pines in Davidson, where she
honed her bridge skills, took great joy in selecting movies to show on Saturdays and was thought
of by many as the mayor of this special community. She was predeceased by 14 days by her loving
husband of 55 years, William Sherard Rawson, by her brothers, T.G., Maynard, and Henry, and by
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