WALLACE - A funeral service to thank God for the life of Willie Lonnie McQuage, 79, will be held at 4 p.m. Friday, February 22, 2002 at Oak Grove United Methodist Church, with burial following in the church cemetery. The family will receive friends from 7-9 this evening, February 21, 2002 at Norton Funeral Home of Cheraw, 417 Third St., Cheraw. Messages of comfort and condolence may be posted on the online guest book at www.charlotte.com in the obituary section. Mr. McQuage died February 20, 2002 in McLeod Regional Medical Center in Florence. Born in Marlboro County, September 5, 1922, he was a son of the late John S. McQuage and Beadie Carpenter McQuage. He was a member of Hickory Grove Baptist Church, Wallace, had retired from Crown Cork and Seal and loved to fish. During World War II, he served in the United States Army. Surviving are his wife, Ida Mae Clark McQuage of the home; sons, Johnny H. McQuage and his wife, Mary, of Cheraw, Billy Joe McQuage and his wife, Patricia, William L. McQuage, Jerru C. McQuage, all of Wallace; daughters, Eva Mae Hewitt and her husband, Ray, and Linda Sue Starling and her husband, Steve, both of Cheraw; four grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; sister, Mary M. McQuage of Wallace.