Dr. Francis Grayson Shaw

CAMDEN - A graveside service for Dr. Francis Grayson Shaw, 94, will be held Thursday, June 26, 2008, at 10:00 a.m. in Quaker Cemetery. Rev. Bob Fekete will officiate. The family will receive friends Wednesday, June 25, 2008, from 5:00 - 6:30 p.m. at Kornegay Funeral Home, Camden Chapel. Memorials may be made to the Seventh Day Adventist Church, 612 Boykin Road, Camden, SC 29020.

Dr. Shaw died Sunday, June 22, 2008. Born September 17, 1913, in Highpoint, N.C., he was the youngest of 5 children of the late Claude Coble and Mattie Emma Killen Shaw. He was valedictorian of his high school class in 1931. Dr. Shaw graduated from USC pre-med in 1934 and the Medical University of the State of S.C. (now known as MUSC) with his M.D. degree in 1938. He interned at Emory University’s Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Ga., in 1938-1939 and returned to Camden, S.C., in late 1939 to begin the practice of general medicine. Dr. Shaw was an active member of Kershaw County Memorial Hospital and served ten years on the Kershaw County Memorial Hospital Board of Trustees. He was instrumental in establishing and was a devoted member of the Seventh Day Adventist Church of Camden. Dr. Shaw was a U.S. Army Medical Corps World War II veteran, having served in the European Theatre and reaching the rank of major.

Surviving are his children, F. Grayson Shaw, II and wife, Susan Cutter Shaw and Linda Shaw Lupold and husband, H.M. Lupold, Sr.; 4 grandchildren, Mrs. Amy Lupold Westbury and husband, Michael, Mr. Grayson Coble Shaw, Elizabeth Shaw Montgomery and husband, Michael, and Sally Shaw Baker and husband, Bill; 5 great-grandchildren, Madison and Grace Montgomery, Emily, Charlotte and Harrison Baker. Dr. Shaw was predeceased by his wife, Lillian Ann Hegler Shaw; grandson, H.M. Lupold, Jr., and all siblings.

Kornegay Funeral Home, Camden Chapel, is in charge of arrangements.

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