Barbara Franklin BrannenMyrtle Beach Funeral Home & Crematory NORTH MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. -- Barbara Franklin Brannen, age 85, died Tuesday, July 30, 2013, at Grand Strand Regional Medical Center. Monika LynchWhitfield Funeral Homes, North Chapel Monika Lynch, age 81, Athens, Georgia, passed away on July 29, 2013, following a courageous battle with cancer. Earlene S. PresseyThompson-Strickland-Waters Funeral Home ROCKY FORD -- Earlene Sasser Pressey, age 79, passed away on Wednesday, July 31, 2013, at Ogeechee Area Hospice in Statesboro.