Bentley and Sons Funeral Home

Fishburne Jr., 74, husband of Susanne Ballard Fishburne, died on Sunday, May 13, 2018, at Palmetto Health Tuomey.Born in Sumter, he was a son of the late Bentley G. and Emily Hasell Fishburne. Mr. Fishburne was a member of Calvary Bible Church. He was a graduate of Edmunds High School and received a degree in forestry from Clemson University. He retired from the S.C. State Forestry Commission with 35 years of service.Surviving are his wife of Sumter; three sons, Andrew B. Fishburne (Tammy), Matthew W. Fishburne and Timothy W. Fishburne, all of Sumter; a daughter, Kristin F. Shumaker (David) of Sumter; a sister, Elaine Broadwell (Charles) of Sumter; a brother, William "Bill" Fishburne (Beth) of Ridgeland; four grandchildren, Alexandria Hardin (Wesley), Zackary F. Fishburne, Emily Fishburne and Micah Shumaker; a great-grandson, Spencer Hardin; and a number of nieces and nephews.Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. on Friday in the chapel of Elmore Hill McCreight Funeral Home with Pastor Richard Harris officiating. Burial will be at Sumter Cemetery.The family will receive friends from 1 to 2 p.m. on Friday at Elmore Hill McCreight Funeral Home prior to the service.Memorials may be made to Calvary Bible Church, 770 N. Wise Drive, Sumter, SC 29153; the Salvation Army, P.O. Box 2229, Sumter, SC 29151; or the American Cancer Society, 128 Stonemark Lane, Columbia, SC 29210.Online condolences may be sent to www.sumterfunerals.comElmore Hill McCreight Funeral Home & Crematory, 221 Broad St., Sumter, is in charge of the arrangements, (803) 775-9386. ...

There were two or three men in the truck. One of them, the watchman said, could be seen spray-painting the lens of a surveillance camera mounted beneath an awning. Another man in the truck got out and tried to pry open the funeral home’s front door. The break-in failed when the door didn’t budge. The would-be burglars drove off, and the watchman called the cops. He told a Bibb County sheriff’s deputy that he had been hired to keep an eye on the place “due to previous burglaries or thefts involving caskets,” an incident report of the May 26 episode said. Had they busted in, the bandits could have chosen from about 100 caskets. A woman’s seven-hour cab ride around Macon the morning of May 24 ended at a bank on Mulberry Street. According to a sheriff’s report, the passenger, 38, who had rung up a $120 fare, told her taxi driver she didn’t have the money to pay. The cabbie had driven the woman to the Wells Fargo downtown branch so the woman could withdraw cash. But her account was apparently overdrawn and the cabbie called the cops. The woman was charged with theft of services. Dispatches: Footage from a security camera at a Family Dollar store on Mercer University Drive in Macon showed a man in his mid-40s fleeing the store May 24 with an armful of women’s undergarments. The man’s loot: 16 bra and panty sets. . . . An allegedly intoxicated 23-year-old Macon man is said to have caused a stir while trying to fight people and the police outside the Rookery on Cherry Street the night of May 25. Before he was jailed on obstruction and disorderly conduct charges, the guy said he had just three be...