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Sumter, SC …. Judy Ann Lee Knotts, age 64, beloved wife of 49 years to Nathan Knotts, died on Friday, March 21st, 2025, at Prisma Health Tuomey Hospital.
Mrs. Knotts was born in Williamsburg County, SC, a daughter of the late Charlie Mitchell Lee and Virgie Welch Corbett. She loved watching the Andy Griffith show and was an avid Clemson fan. Judy was a loving wife, mother, and grandmother and will be dearly missed by her family.
Surviving in addition to her husband are: two sons, Nathan Knotts and his wife Hope, and Thomas Knotts; one daughter, Christy Belk and her husband Robert all of Sumter; one brother, William “Bubba” Lee and his wife Marie of Sumter, SC; four sisters, Susie Stinney and her husband George of Sumter, SC, Myrtle Teal and her partner Mike Stirwalt of Sumter, SC, Virginia Corbett of Rembert, SC, and Dorothy Boudreaux of Sumter, SC; and Six grandchildren, David Roland of Phoenix, AZ, Robert Weatherford of Sumter, SC, Matthew Weatherford of Sumter, SC, Morgan Knotts of Sumter, SC, Taylor Knotts of Sumter, SC, and Harper Rose of Camden, SC.
She was preceded in death by her parents and a sister, Annie Corean Floyd.
A funeral service will be held at 1:00pm, Thursday, March 27th, 2025, at the Bullock Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will follow at the Corbett Cemetery.
The family will receive friends from 6:00-8:00 pm, Wednesday, March 26th, 2025, at Bullock Funeral Home and earlier, from 2:00-4:00 pm, at the home of her daughter.
You may go to www.bullockfuneralhome.com to sign the family's guestbook.
The family has chosen Bullock Funeral Home for the arrangements.
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