The State (Columbia): Friday, July 20, 2001 Kelly Sawyer Sr. MARION (--) Services for Kelly Bob Sawyer Sr., 71, will be held at 4:30 p.m. today, July 20, 2001, at Mullins-Marion Freewill Baptist Church with Rev. William C. Jacobs officiating. Burial, with full military honors, will follow in Reedy Creek Cemetery directed by Smith-Collins Funeral Home. Memorials may be made to the Mullins-Marion Freewill Baptist Church Christian School, 214 Drew Road, Mullins, SC 29574. Mr. Sawyer, husband of Esther Richardson Sawyer, died Wednesday, July 18, 2001, at his residence after an illness. Born September 9, 1929, in Marion Co., he was a son of the late Lonnie and Nina Turner Sawyer. Mr. Sawyer was the founder and owner of Sawyer Construction Company. He retired from the U.S. Army as a Staff Sergeant after 22 years of service, having served in the Korean War and the Vietnam War. He was a member of Disabled American Veterans. He attended Mullins-Marion Freewill Baptist Church. Surviving are his wife of the home; children, Nina Teresa White of Mt. Pleasant, Darlene Sawyer Heckman and her husband Perry of Marion, Kelly Bob Sawyer Jr. and his wife Peggy of Marion, Connie Sawyer Johnson and her husband Kenneth of Mullins, Dondi C. Sawyer and his wife Rachael of Long Beach, Miss., Kimberley Sawyer Jacobs and her husband Tony of Demorest, Ga., Shannon White Jacobs and her husband Timothy of Marion, Shelley White Martin and her husband Buddy of Marion; 21 grandchildren; seven great grandchildren; brothers, Freddie Sawyer of Columbia, Larry Sawyer of Arizona; sisters, Bertha Mae Harrelson of Sumter, Mary Bell Garris of Lake View, Minnie Walker of Florence, Doris Jean Coleman of Nichols, Bobbie Britt of Mullins, Joanne Black of Charlotte, Faye Hamilton of Columbia. Mr. Sawyer was predeceased by sons Jeffrey Sawyer, Tom Sawyer.