Eloise Sweatman Obituary

SWEATMAN, Eloise Eloise Parker Coker Sweatman, 74, of Bonneau, SC, died Thursday morning in a North Charleston hospital. The funeral will be 12:00 noon, Saturday, Oct. 7, 2006, in the Bonneau Pentecostal Holiness Church. Interment will follow in the Bonneau Baptist Cemetery. Friends may call at the church from 10:00 AM until the hour of service on SATURDAY. Flowers will be accepted or memorials may be made to the Bonneau Pentecostal Holiness Church, PO Box 519, Bonneau, SC 29431. Mrs. Sweatman was born August 24, 1932, in Coward, SC a daughter of George Parnell Parker and Annie Miles Coker. She was a member of the Bonneau Pentecostal Holiness Church where she was an Evangelist and a former Sunday school teacher. She was a charter member and the former treasurer for the Oakley Road Church of God. Mrs. Coker was the former owner of Coker's Country Crafts, she was a lead singer for the southern gospel group the King Crusaders, and she was a gospel recording artist. She was the author of the book Baring My Soul . She was a seamstress and also a former columnist for the Berkeley Herald. Mrs. Sweatman was the widow of Alfred R. Coker, Sr., and Bob Sweatman. She was preceded in death by a son, Jerry Wayne Coker, and a daughter, Anne Pickering. Surviving are, two daughters, Allie C. Rich of Moncks Corner and Tammy L. Wicker of Charleston; a son, Rick Coker and his wife, Gail, of Bethera; two brothers, Parnell Parker of Sumter and Irvin Pete Parker of James Island; eight grandchildren, Vicki Powers, Kristi Mitchum, Tim Coker, DeAnna Rich, Daniel Rich, Harold Geddings, Mac Cooper, and Meredith Sykes; and three great grandchildren. Online condolences may be sent to the family via www.dial-murrayfuneralhome.com. Visit our guestbook at www.charleston.net/deaths.