Hines Funeral Home

2025-2026 Bill 5381: Hines Funeral Home - South Carolina Legislature Online

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026
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H. 5381
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House Resolution
Sponsors: Reps. Williams, Alexander, Anderson, Atkinson, Bailey, Ballentine, Bamberg, Bannister, Bauer, Beach, Bernstein, Bowers, Bradley, Brewer, Brittain, Burns, Bustos, Calhoon, Caskey, Chapman, Chumley, Clyburn, Cobb-Hunter, Collins, Cox, Crawford, Cromer, Davis, Dillard, Duncan, Edgerton, Erickson, Ford, Forrest, Frank, Gagnon, Garvin, Gatch, Gibson, Gilliam, Gilliard, Gilreath, Govan, Grant, Guest, Guffey, Haddon, Hager, Hardee, Harris, Hart, Hartnett, Hartz, Hayes, Henderson-Myers, Herbkersman, Hewitt, Hiott, Hixon, Holman, Hosey, Howard, Huff, J.E. Johnson, J.L. Johnson, Jones, Jordan, Kilmartin, King, Kirby, Landing, Lastinger, Lawson, Ligon, Long, Lowe, Luck, Magnuson, Martin, McCabe, McCravy, McDaniel, McGinnis, C. Mitchell, D. Mitchell, Montgomery, J. Moore, T. Moore, Morgan, Moss, Neese, B. Newton, W. Newton, Oremus, Pace, Pedalino, Pope, Rankin, Reese, Rivers, Robbins, Rose, Rutherford, Sanders, Schuessler, Scott, Sessions, G.M. Smith, M.M. Smith, Spann-Wilder, Stavrinakis, Taylor, Teeple, Terribile, Vaughan, Waters, Weeks, Wetmore, White, Whitmire, Wickensimer, Willis, Wooten and Yow
Document Path: LC-0528CM-GM26.docx
Introduced in the House on March 24, 2026
Adopted by the House on March 24, 2026
Summary: Hines Funeral Home
HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS

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3/24/2026

House

Introduced and adopted (
House Journal-page 26
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VERSIONS OF THIS BILL
03/24/2026

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.

W
hereas, 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

W
hereas, 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

W
hereas, 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

W
hereas, 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

W
hereas, 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

W
hereas, 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

W
hereas, 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

W
hereas, 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

W
hereas, 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

W
hereas, 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,

B
e it resolved by the
House of Representatives
:

T
hat 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.

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

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