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The State (Columbia, SC)
October 9, 2002
Mildred Rader
LEXINGTON - Services for Annie Mildred "Mickey" Rader, 78, will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday, October 10, 2002 at Red Bank Baptist Church with burial to follow in the church cemetery. The family will receive friends from 6-8 tonight, October 9, 2002 at Caughman-Harman Funeral Homes, Lexington Chapel. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Pancreatic Cancer Society or to Red Bank Baptist Church.
Mrs. Rader died Monday, October 7, 2002. Born May 8, 1924 in Advent, W.Va, she was a daughter of Joseph Calvin and Martha Vinila Kersey. Mickey worked professionally as a nurse's aide, respiratory therapist assistant and purchasing agent at medical centers in Kanawha County, W.Va., before moving to Lexington in 1979. She also worked for Judge John Land Johnson, Probate County Court in Lexington. She and her husband, Matt, were members of Red Bank Baptist Church and the Senior Citizens Chorale. We will miss the "sweetest woman who ever lived" in all her roles to all of us who knew her. She touched our lives, encouraged us, challenged us, loved us and, at the very end, served as an inspiration for all of our lives. We love you, sweetheart, the page has been turned and you are at home with your family and friends.
Surviving are her adoring husband of 60 years, Millard "Matt" Rader; daughters, Connie (Larry) Clark of Carson City, Nev., Carole Carter of Columbia; sons and wives, Rick and Jeanette Rader of Troutville, Va., Roger and Linda Rader of Birmingham, Ala., all of whom gloried in her presence; grandchildren, Mary Anne (Mark) Hammack of Irmo, Devon (Mark) Smith of London, England, Kersey (Bill) Panamaroff of Carson City, Nev., Jennifer Rader of Raleigh, N.C., and Richard Rader II of Troutville, Va., Rick and Sue Carter of Lexington, Roger A. Carter of Lexington, Heather McAnally of Nashville, Tenn., Laura Thompson and Sarah Weaver of Birmingham, Ala.; great-grandchildren, Mark, Amanda, Michael, Melissa and Matthew Hammack of Irmo, Rachel Carter of Sumter, Chris and Roger Carter of Columbia, Sarah, Megan, Ellen and John Carter of Lexington, Nicholas, Isaac and Olivia Smith of London, England; siblings, Elmer Kersey and wife, Lillian, of Charleston, W.Va., Jean and husband, Leo Huffman, of Tucson, Ariz., Velda and husband, Paul Walker, of Charleston, W.Va.; many beloved and cherished nephews, nieces and cousins. Mrs. Rader was predeceased by sisters, Rachel Fisher, Violet Horn and Gertrude Thompson.
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West Virginia Pioneers
1924 - 2002 (78 years)
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