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■ J THti CLIOTON CHRONICLE CUtitofi, S. C^, Thursday, Aurs^t 17,1&»7 • ^ . "*1-" \ * ' * : \ For The Citizens of ***■#*##¥¥*¥*; *r\ and Joanna Areas... 5 * * PINELAWN MEMORY GARDENS I ... dream of America's foremost landscape artist come true! ST ... And In This Garden Spot... build a resting place of surpassing peace and beauty for all time to came & JOHft B, PRINC mcmlxv GARDEN OF EVERLASTING LIFE Clinton — Joanna — Laurens Dwight A. Holder, Presi dent of Fmelawn Memory Gardens, is a widely recog nized leader in the cemetery Industry. H e has a back ground of diversified busi ness interests and has spent the preceding fifteen years in the cemetery business. Mr. Holder was educated at Presbyterian College in Clinton, the University of South Carolina and Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. He is Secretary-Treasurer and co-founder of the South ern Cemetery Consultants of Pickens, South Carolina, and he is also President of ten Memorial Parks and Secreta ry-Treasurer of six Memorial Parks in the States of South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee and Vir ginia. Other than the cemetery business, Mr. Holder is an original organizer of the i- . ‘ DWIGHT A. HOLDER President South Carolina State Parks and Tourist Commission Pickens Bank, and serves as Vice-President; he is also an original Director of the Bel ton Bank, Belton, S. C.; serves as Secretary-Treasur er of teh Blue Ridge Devel opment Corporation, Pickens, S. C.; Vice-President of the Pickens Building and Loan Association, and a member of the Board of Directors. * He also serves on the Board of Electric Co-op; Chairman of the Board of Carolina In vestors, Pickens, S. C.; prin cipal owner of General Insur ance Agency, Pickens, S. C.; Vice-President of Duncan Mo tor Lines; Charter member and past president of the South Carolina Cemetery As sociation. Mr. Holder is a member of the Divan Hejaz Shrine Tem ple of Greenville, S. C.; and from IMS until 1950 held pub lic office as a member of the South Carolina House of Rep resentatives from Pickens County. Recently appointed Chair man of State Parks Commis sion by Gov. McNair. He will also succeed Mr. Robert Ha mer as potentate of the Shrine in 1988. On July 20, after months of study, the work of John *v ' B. Prine, I^andscap^ Architect of San Francisco, “Gar dens of Gardens” began. The dream of this man, Ameri ca’s most distinguished landscape architect, is to become a reality in Clinton, South Carolina. Each of the gardens will symbolize memoried mo ments in the life and teachings of Jesus. The Gardens to be developed include The Garden of St. Luke, Garden of St. John, Garden of The Cross, Garden of Remem brance, Garden of The Resurrection, Garden of the Ser mon on The Mount, Garden of Gethsemane, and The Garden of Devotion. ‘SERMON ON THE MOUNT’ “CHRISTUS” ‘LORD’S LAST SUPPER” “GARDEN OF DEVOTION” Southern Cemetery Consultants, who developed and operates Green ville Memorial Gardens, Columbia- Crescent Hill Memorial Gardens, Charlotte Memorial Gardens, and 34 other memorial parks in major cities in the South, and now are de- evloping a new modern type ceme tery for the people of the Clinton and Joanna area. THOMAS E. CHASTAIN Manager Mr. Thomas Cha'stain has been in the cemetery business for the past ten years and has had a wide background of ex perience in the operating of a Memorial Park. He is a native of Cleveland, Tennesee. Mr. Chastain is very en thusiastic about the visions which he has for the future at Pinelawn Memorial Garden. He, along tfith the owners, are hooking forward with pride to making this one of the finest Memorial Parks in the South. J That’s the way the owners described to the landscape architects what they wanted for the new Memorial Gar den in Laurens County. This Memorial Garden is owned by a group of leading citizens of Laurens County and the Southern Cemetery Consultants of Pickens, South Caro lina. h In a setting of great natural beauty the architect has designed for this area what could become the most beau tiful Memorial Garden in the entire Southland. This will be a place where dozen of private gardens form a single design in the whole landscape. Magnificent sculptured features will mark the center of each garden. Each garden will symbolize some me morial moment in the life and teachings of Jesus. In the hearty of the Garden will rise a historic statue of Jesus, in calm contemplation of all the private gardens. Each of these great sculptured groups will be lighted till late at night and the whole setting by day or night will be an appropriate place to linger, meditate, contemplate and seek comfort from the world of cares, a place of magic serenity and beauty. To mark your loved ones’ graves you may select an appropriate bronze lawn-level name plafpie which will forever stand in beautiful tribute to enduring love and devotion. It wjll speak in quiet dignity of ageless ties of love and devotion. We cordially invite everyone within the scope of this paper to visit Memory Gardens during its development stage. It is located very conveniently to Clinton and Jo anna on Highway 76. It has been said the one great decision of love is the decision of the head of each home to plan with his wife the family’s final resting place. It is not a decision to be made in a moment of tragic loss; nor one to be made that denies the living the quiet, thoughtful choice of a place of immortal beauty and tranquility to viait again and again to be re-inspired by the living memory of loved ones who have passed on. * * ft ft ft ft ft 4c $ t * * 4c * * * * * 4c 4c 4c 4c 4t 4c 4C 4c 4C 4c 4c 4* 4C. 4c 4C 4c 4c 4c 4C 4c 4c 4c 4c ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft Jl- ft ft ft ft ft li ft 4< x4c * 4« 4< 4c 4c 4c 4c 4c 4c * 4C 4* 4c 4c 4c 4c s ft ft Centrally Located to Serve The Citizens of Clinton and Joanna Areas. Located on Highway No. 76 3 Half-Way Between Clinton and Joanna. Aik 3MAfcAa4rAirgA.fr ^•^•Arafrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfr^^V'^^^^frfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrafrfrfrfrfr . ' • ■ ■ .-a- i ft ft ft ft /