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Woodrow W. Long, Sr., age 91, died Friday, August 6, 2004 at Conway Medical Center. Mr. Long was born in Conway, a son of the late William Mack Bill Mack and Sallie Clayton Long who was from Moultrie, GA. He was a member of Maple Baptist Church, where he served as Royal Ambassador Leader, Sunday School teacher, Director of Sunday School and was a deacon. Mr Long was Moderator, Sunday School Director, and Brotherhood Director of the Waccamaw Baptist Association. At the state level he served as S.C. Brotherhood President and was on the McCall R.A. Camp Board. As a former member of North Conway Baptist Church, he served as Sunday School Director and chairman of the building committee for the auditorium. Mr. Long graduated from Conway High School with honors in 1931, where played on the basketball team. He was a member of the first boy scout troop in Conway and was scoutmaster for the Maple Community scout troop, which he organized. Mr. Long served on the Brown-Grier Watershed Commission, served on the Conway Area Board of Trustees, and served as trustee at North Greenville College. Mr. Long was employed twelve years in the hardware department of Jerry Cox Company often enjoying the delivery and installation of tobacco barn curers, a great replacement for wood burning furnaces. He retired from the Conway Post Office after 30 years as a carrier for Rural Route 4 and the National Rural Letters Association awarded him with Outstanding Carrier for 1971. After retirement he enjoyed his little farm on the edge of Conway, where he had one of the last milk cows in the county and was proud of his prize winning bull. His flowers and garden on the corner were a showpiece. He helped his father plant live oak trees on Lakeland Drive in 1928. Mr. Long was a US Army Air Corp Veteran of WWII and was discharged at Lowry Field in 1945. He served for 3 years in the Army Air Force Reserve and was discharged in 1949. Mr. Long was a member of American Legion Post III, where he had served as adjutant and was awarded the distinguished Service Award in 1995. He was predeceased by a son Russell William Long, who died at age 3 1/2 of cystic fibrosis; four brothers, Ben Ned Kingston and Charles Long; one sister, Edith Long Jordan and his first wife, Myrtle Lea Williamson. Surviving are his wife Dorethea Martin Long of Conway, one son Dr. Woodrow W. Long, Jr. Woody and his wife Bobbie of Greenville, SC; two daughters, Rosemary Long Jenrette ad her husband John W. Jenrette, Jr., of Myrtle Beach and Evangeline Edith Long of Aiken; three grandchildren, Susan Long Taylor and her husband John, Woodrow W. Long, III and his wife Jennifer and Michael Brooks Quickel and his wife Katherine; four great-grandchildren, Barrett Wynn Taylor, Estelle Humphries Taylor, Woodrow Wilson Long, IV and Martin McCain Quickel; one brother Clayton Long; four sisters, Lorraine Durant, Cecile Bell, Virginia Booth, and Georgia Ann Graham. Funeral services will be held 2:00 PM Sunday from Maple Baptist Church with Dr. Woodrow W. Long, Jr., Dr. Dalton Ward, Rev. Gary Reeves, and Rev. Gene Norris officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery, directed by Goldfinch Funeral Home, Conway Chapel. The family will receive friends from 1-2 PM Sunday at the church prior to the service. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be sent to the Thompson Cemetery Maintenance Fund or Woodrow W. Long Scholarship Fund, C/O Maple Baptist Church, 4500 Hwy 65, Conway, SC 29526.