Elihu Lloyd Fore passed away on Wednesday, November 16, 2011, at McLeod Hospice House in Florence after a brief illness.
Services will be held 11:00 A.M. Saturday in Cooper Funeral Home Chapel. Burial with military honors in Union Cemetery in Latta. Visitation will be 6:00-9:00 P.M. Friday at the funeral home.
Lloyd Fore was the third child of ten, born on February 19, 1915, in Oak Grove to William Kinlaw Fore and Carrie Lee Pearce Fore. He attended Oak Grove Shcool and graduated from Latta High School in 1932.
In 1933 he worked with the Civilian Conservation Corps and in 1936 with Duncan Dew hauling cotton and produce. He was working at the Baltimore Ship Yard when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor; he enlisted and joined the US Army Corps of Engineers and served in India, Burma and China helping build the Burma Road and Ledo Road (now called the Stilwell Road) linking India and China. These roads were the only means of driving the Japanese from Burma and re-establishing land communications with blockaded China for the first time since the Japanese invaded Burma. Mr. Fore’s story is one of living under rigorous conditions, toiling and sweating through monsoons, mud and blistering heat, fighting the Japanese, the jungle, malaria and monotony. He was awarded the Asiatic Pacific Theater Campaign Medal with 2 bronze stars and The World War II Victory Medal. On Veterans Day, November 11, 2011, Dillon County honored him with the World War II Victory Commemorative Medal. Mr. Fore’s uniform and notebooks with his story are part of the Dillon County Museum in Latta. After the war, Lloyd was a construction supervisor with C.D. Spangler, supervising over 200 men building apartments at Camp Lejeune and homes in Winston-Salem.
Lloyd married the late Marian Paschal in 1938, and had one child, the late Anne Fore Chiocco.
Lloyd was a resident of Thorn Retirement Home in Lake View and was a devoted father, grandfather and brother. He is survived by three sisters, Alyce Palmore of Madison, MS, Maxine Taber of Dillon and Carmen Allen of Swansea, SC; his granddaughter, Helen Elizabeth Shelton of Arlington, VA; and his son-in-law, Dennis Chiocco of Dillon.
The family request that memorials be sent to McLeod Hospice in Florence in lieu of flowers.