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2025-2026 Bill 5381 Text of Previous Version (Mar. 24, 2026) - South Carolina Legislature Online 

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026

Bill 5381

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A house RESOLUTION

TO RECOGNIZE AND HONOR HINES FUNERAL HOME Inc., A 
LEADER IN THE FUNERAL SERVICE INDUSTRY, FOR MORE THAN A CENTURY OF COMBINED 
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE IN CARING FOR THE FUNERAL NEEDS OF THE HARTSVILLE 
COMMUNITY.

Whereas, founded in 
1946, Hines Funeral Home Inc. began when brothers Gilbert and William Hines had 
a simple idea of providing unparalleled personal funeral service to families in 
Hartsville; and

Whereas, the original 
name of the business was Hines Brothers Mortuary, and the brothers operated as 
partners from 1946 until 1965, the year the partnership was dissolved. At that 
time, Gilbert Hines became the sole proprietor, and the name was changed to 
Hines Funeral Home; and

Whereas, after Gilbert 
Hines' death in 1972, Rheubell Hines, the widow of Gilbert Hines, and their 
son, Franklin Hines, assumed the operation of the business; and

Whereas, in 1975, the 
entire funeral home was remodeled with the addition of a completely new state 
of-the-art preparation room. In 1977, the business opened a new facility in 
Lamar; and 

Whereas, in 1986, the 
Gilbert Hines Memorial Chapel was built at the Hartsville facility in honor of 
one of the original founders. A similar chapel was built in 1991 at the Lamar 
facility to honor the memory of Barbra J. Hines, wife of Franklin Hines, called 
the Barbra J. Hines Memorial Chapel; and

Whereas, in 1995, the 
Hines family purchased Darlington Memory Gardens, an eighteen-acre perpetual 
care cemetery. The cemetery includes a mausoleum, a veteran's section, a pet 
cemetery, and a private estate section. The cemetery provides cemetery 
property, headstones and markers, and other memorial merchandise to all 
citizens of Darlington, Lee, and Florence counties, regardless of race, creed, 
color, or ethnic background; and

Whereas, in February 
1996, Hines Funeral Home Inc. was one of the first funeral homes in the State 
of South Carolina to offer pre-need burial products. This allows the funeral 
home to serve an additional segment of the community who would want to prepare for 
burial in ways that would be economical and less cumbersome than at the time of 
death; and

Whereas, in 2000, Hines 
Funeral Home Inc. was invited to join the prestigious funeral service 
organization, The International Order of the Golden Rule, which admonishes its 
members to operate using the Golden Rule as its credo, "Do unto others as you 
would have them do unto you"; and

Whereas, the current 
staff of Hines Funeral Home Inc. includes two licensed funeral directors, 
embalmers, and pre-need specialists. Always considered a leader in the funeral 
service industry, Hines Funeral Home Inc. has the use of advanced technology, 
adding dignity and personalization to funeral services. In 2008, Hines Funeral 
Home Inc. added a timeless hearse to its fleet of vehicles in an effort to 
provide a unique experience to the elegance of the funeral ceremony; and

Whereas, the South 
Carolina House of Representatives appreciates how Hines Funeral Home Inc. has 
served the community with the utmost professionalism through its dedicated 
personnel who have held to the ideals that have sustained the establishment 
since its inception and have carried its mission of compassion and dignity into 
the twenty-first century. Now, therefore,

Be it resolved by the House of Representatives:

That the members of the 
South Carolina House of Representatives, 
by this resolution, recognize and honor Hines Funeral Home Inc., a leader in 
the funeral service industry, for more than a century of combined professional 
experience in caring for the funeral needs of the Hartsville community.

Be it further resolved 
that a copy of this resolution be presented to Hines Funeral Home Inc.

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