Lamira Henley Sullivan

Highlands, NC - Lamira Henley Sullivan, 102, died on November 18, 2011 at her home in Greenville, SC. She was born in Birmingham, AL on November 27, 1908 to John C. Henley, Jr. and Lamira Parker Henley. She attended schools in Birmingham and Washington, DC and was graduated from Goucher College in Baltimore, MD in 1930.

Lamira first visited Highlands in 1924 with her parents who purchased property and a home that year on Kettle Rock Mountain. Until recently, she spent every summer in Highlands where she met her husband, Claude T. Sullivan of Anderson, SC. His family had a summer home on Fifth Street. In Highlands, she was active in the First Presbyterian Church of Highlands where she played the piano for summer church services until the church acquired an organ. She was also an active member of the Laurel Garden Club, the Highlands Country Club and the Highlands Tennis Club.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Claude T. Sullivan, by two sisters, Edmonia Haslam and Annie Linn Armor and a brother, John C. Henley, III. Survivors include her daughter, Lamira S. Fondren of Greenville, SC and her son, Claude T. Sullivan, Jr. of Atlanta; her much loved and enjoyed grandchildren, Henley Coulter of Dallas, TX, Frances Fondren of Atlanta, Townsend Sullivan of Atlanta and Allen Sullivan of Atlanta; and great grandchildren, Lamira Coulter and Eve Coulter of Dallas, TX.

Graveside services were held on November 20, 2011 at Highlands Memorial Park. Memorial contributions may be made to Westminster Presbyterian Church in Greenville or the First Presbyterian Church of Highlands.

Bryant-Grant Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
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