ELAINE KEYES

ADA-Services for Trudy Elaine Keyes, 52, Ada, formerly of Florence, South Carolina, are 10:00 Wednesday, November 11, 2009, at the Criswell Chapel, Rev. Harold Ware officiating. Burial will be at Evergreen Baptist Cemetery, Evergreen, South Carolina.

Mrs. Keyes died on Sunday, November 8, 2009, at her home. She was born January 5, 1957, in Anderson, South Carolina to Hubert Alvin and Dorothy Wanda Lee Lambert McElveen. She graduated from West Florence High School in Florence, South Carolina, and graduated from Betty Stevens Beauty College in 1982. She was a hair stylist at Ada Retirement and Care Center, and at Tracie's Family Hair Care, and previously owned and operated Family Hair Care in Florence, South Carolina. She moved to Ada in April 2004 from Florence, South Carolina and was a member of First Baptist Church in Ada and a former member of Southside Baptist Church in Florence, South Carolina.

Survivors include her mother, Dorothy McElveen, Ada; two sons, Adam Neil Blackman, Ada; and Anthony Wayne Blackman and wife Amanda, Norfolk, Virginia; a grandson, Xander Blackman, Norfolk, Virginia; two sisters, Jeanette Clarke and husband Doug, Alford, New York; and Wanda Barnes and husband Frank, Ada; two nephews, Ian Clarke, Alford, New York; and Kristopher Robb, Afghanistan; and two uncles, Clifton McElveen and wife Linda, Columbia, South Carolina; and Linwood McElveen and wife Mary, Columbia, South Carolina. She was preceded in death by her father and a brother, Johnny McElveen.

Criswell Funeral Home