Gordon Dancy

Gordon Dancy, age 67 of North Ocean Blvd., Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, passed away December 20, 2006 at Georgetown Memorial Hospital. Born October 3, 1939 in Stamford, Connecticut, he was the son of the late North and Ethel Dancy. He started his career in New York City with Continental Can Company and later moved to Ohio where he was General Manager of Hoerner-Waldorf Corporation. Gordon then started DMS Packaging where he developed the first high-density plastic grocery bag. In 1982 he brought his grocery bag idea to Sonoco Products Company where he started their Polysack Division, thus introducing the first high-density plastic bag to the supermarket industry. This product became the universally used bag at checkout counters throughout the world. He retired in 1990 as a Sonoco Corporate Vice President and proceeded to start Phoenix Recycling in Pawleys Island, SC where he continued to be an innovator in the plastics industry. Mr. Dancy hosted a radio program called ¡§Let¡¦s Talk Trash¡¨ with Dr. Garba?V?Vge¡¨ and started a School Recycling Program, which benefits thousand of schools. In 2001 he started a bag manufacturing plant in Hemingway, SC which currently employs approximately 60 people. Mr. Dancy enjoyed playing golf, cards and life in general, which he lived to the fullest traveling the world, including over 80 countries and five continents. He was Past President of the Pawleys Island Lion¡¦s Club and an officer in several plastic industry associations throughout the years. Surviving are his wife, Marilyn of 45 years; daughter, Kristen and husband Roderick Brown of Murrells Inlet; a son, Mark and wife, Cam of Pawleys Island and five grandchildren, Logan and Peyton Brown and Lach, Lainie and Mary Campbell Dancy; sister, Deborah Reese of Garden City Beach, SC and brother, Dr. Barry Dancy of Verona, NJ. Memorial services will be held 3:00 p.m., Thursday, December 28, 2006 at Goldfinch Funeral Home, Murrells Inlets, SC. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to The Fathers House, PO Box 2081, Pawleys Island, SC 29585 or Camp Baskerville, PO Box 990, Pawleys Island, SC 29585. Please sign the guestbook at www.goldfinchfuneralhome.com Goldfinch Funeral Home, Beach Chapel is in charge of arrangements.

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Gordon Dancy

December 20, 2006