Susie (Davis) Hughes

Susie Davis Hughes of Orangeburg passed away on Tuesday, March 2, 2021.

A funeral service will be held at 3:00 P.M. on Saturday, March 6, 2021 at Rivelon Baptist Church, 395 Rivelon Road, Orangeburg.  Rev. Larry Williams and Rev. Kevin Ard will be officiating.  Burial will follow at Crestlawn Memorial Gardens, 4830 Columbia Road, Orangeburg.  We will be following the CDC guidelines for COVID-19.  Masks will be required.

The family will receive friends from 6:00-8:00 P.M. on Friday, March 5, 2021 at Thompson Funeral Home Chapel, 1012 Whitman Street, Orangeburg.

Mrs. Susie was born on January 4, 1935 in Cope, S.C.  She was the daughter of the late Edward Asbury Davis and the late Bessie Wiles Davis.  She and her late husband, Mac Hughes whom she married in 1952, owned and operated a local convenience store for many years.  She was retired from Kirkland’s Cleaner’s.  She was a faithful member of Rivelon Baptist Church where she enjoyed working with her church family and singing in the church choir.  Mrs. Susie was a wonderful cook and she loved spending time with her family.  She enjoyed traveling.  One of her favorite things to do was visit her daughter and son-in-law in Texas.  She was a wonderful wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, great-great-grandmother, aunt and friend.  She just wanted to see others smile.  She will be missed by all that knew and loved her.  She was predeceased by her husband, Mac Hughes; son, Mac Hughes, Jr.; brothers, James Davis, Pete Davis, Ed Davis; sisters, Alva Young and Terry Williams.

Survivors include her daughter, Cornelia Gayle Zelenuck (August); five grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; two great-great grandchildren; sisters, Nelda Green, Virginia Shaw; a long-time special friend of thirty-eight years, David McCollum and a number of nieces and nephews.