Two Loris women, a church-going grandmother and a 20-year-old, died Saturday when their cars crashed into one another on a Longs roadway, authorities said.
EalerMae Butler Watson, 78, and Jaquinta T. Brown, 20, died of internal injuries after their cars collided head-on about 5 p.m., Horry County Coroner Robert Edge said. The two Loris women were dead when authorities arrived, and neither car had other passengers, Edge said.
Watson was driving north and Brown south on Red Bluff Road between S.C. 90 and S.C. 905 when the crash occurred, authorities said.
Brown's family members could not be reached Saturday evening.
Watson was a loving woman who spent most of her time with her family or at church, granddaughter Shermell Davis said.
Watson had a flare for getting dressed up, fellow churchgoer April Bellamy said. Bellamy said she saw Watson every Sunday at Mount Nebo Missionary Baptist Church in Loris.
"She wore a hat, she was dressy," Bellamy said. "She was a real fashionable older lady."
Watson was good-spirited and quiet, and everyone in the church thought highly of her, said Janice Smith, who has known Watson for about 15 years.
"Everybody in the church thought the world of her, she was like a mom to everybody," Smith said.
Smith last saw Watson on Friday, she said, the final day of a week-long convention at the church that Watson attended every day. Sitting with other women in the church's kitchen, Watson was humble as the other women paid her compliments, Smith said.
"We were saying [that] at her age we were hoping we'd look the way she looked, and she'd just smile and say, 'This old piece of clothes...'"
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