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Ernestine E. McBee

August 7, 1943 — March 14, 2025

Mrs. Ernestine E. McBee, 81, of Greenville, wife of James L. McBee, Sr., for sixty-two years, transitioned on Friday, March 14, 2025, at Prisma Health Greenville Memorial Hospital. Born in Greenville, she was a daughter of the late Theodore and Earnestine Golman Diggs.

Surviving, in addition to her husband: three daughters, Teresa Smith and Beverly McKenzie both of Mauldin, SC and Danielle Crawford of Greenville, SC; two sons, James L. McBee, Jr., of Greenville, SC and D’Marcus McBee of Greenville, SC; one sister, Betty Jo Lasenberry of Greenville, SC; eight grandchildren; fourteen great-grandchildren; and a host of other relatives and friends.

Funeral Services: Wednesday, March 26, 2025, 11:00am at Watkins, Garrett and Woods Mortuary with interment in Lowndes Hill Baptist Church Cemetery.

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Wednesday, March 26, 2025

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