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  Obituary, The State paper, Monday, April 3, 2000
  
  Curtis Shealy
  
  Chapin - Services for Curtis M. Shealy, 87, will be held at 4 p.m.
  Tuesday, April 4, 2000, at Mt. Horeb Lutheran Church, with burial in the
  church cemetery with Masonic Rites.  The family will receive friends 6-8
  tonight at Caughman-Harman Funeral Homes, Chapin Chapel.  Memorials may
  be made to St. Horeb Lutheran Church Building Fund.
  
  Mr. Shealy died Saturday, April 1, 2000.  Born in Lexington Co., he was
  the son of the late Wesley Killian and Agnes Wessinger Shealy.  He was a
  member of Mt. Horeb Lutheran Church.  Mr. Shealy served as Mayor of
  Chapin for 19 years (1956-75), during which time the Chapin Volunteer
  Fire Department was organized and the Chapin Water System was
  established.  He served a four-year term on the Lexington County Council
  beginning in 1975.  He was a trustee of Lexington County Hospital
  1967-75, and a member of the Irmo-Chapin Recreation Commission 1969-74
  and 1980-84.  He is a past member of the Lexington County Planning
  Commission and executive committee, and of Central Midlands Regional
  Planning Council; past president of the Lexington County Municipal
  Association and the Chapin Ruritan Club; charter member of the Chapin
  Volunteer Fire Department; Past Master of Little Mountian Masonic Lodge
  281; past church council member of St. Thomas Lutheran Church.  He was
  employed by the South Carolina Electric and Gas Company for 37 years and
  retired in 1977.  He served in recent years as Chapin's water
  superintendent.
  
  Surviving are his wife, Sara Derrick Shealy of Chapin; sons and
  daughters-in-law, Melton "Herb" and Dianne Shealy of Columbia, John R.
  and Karen Shealy of chapin; grandchildren, Courtney Shealy, Kara Shealy,
  Paige Shealy, Trent Shealy; sister, T.E. "Mary" Pickell of Columbia.

Details of Curtis Melton's family with Sara Derrick