Marcellus Clowney "M.C." Cathcart, 74, former resident and Laurinburg businessman, died peacefully on Monday, June 17, 2013 at Grand Strand Regional hospital. M.C. was surrounded by his family and friends and has gone to be with his Lord and Savior A memorial service will be held at Trinity United Methodist Church in North Myrtle Beach at 11 a.m. on Thursday. The family will receive friends afterward at the church fellowship hall and then a family interment is planned for 2 p.m. at Southeastern Memorial Gardens at Barefoot Landing. MC was born on Sept. 23, 1938 in Winnsboro, S.C. to Moses Lee Cathcart and Tina Padgett Cathcart (Timms). His grandparents were Moses Clowney and Evelyn Kirkpatrick Cathcart and Rev. and Mrs. Marcellus Calvin Padgett. M.C.’s father was killed in action during WWII in Epinal, France and his mother remarried Frank Edsel Timms of Winnsboro. After his father’s death, M.C. continued to love and care for his grandmother Mrs. Evelyn and his great aunt Mrs. Lucille Kirkpatrick of Congress Street in Winnsboro. M.C. attended Greenbriar School and graduated from the University of South Carolina. He moved with his first wife, Annette Brooks to Laurinburg in 1963 as a buyer for Ingram Corporation, which later became Toastmaster. M.C. went into business for himself as a manufacturer’s representative in 1968. He also purchased Bill Evans Company in 1995 Cathcart and Associates and Bill Evans have been a part of the community for many years and M.C. was always grateful to the community for allowing him to be a part of it. He moved to Cherry Grove, S.C. in 1976 and married Carol Wayne (Black) Joseph but continued to hold an office here with in the building owned by Bill and Betty Smith as he enjoyed spending time with them and with his family and friends from Laurinburg. M. C. was preceded in death by his grandparents and parents and in 1981 by his only son, Marcellus Brooks Cathcart. He is survived by his wife Carol W. Cathcart of North Mytle Beach, his daughters Denise Cathcart Riggins and husband Ron of Laurinburg, Megan Cathcart Lynn and husband Chris of Rock Hill, S.C., and Claudine Joseph Rawl of North Myrtle Beach, and his grandchildren Ryan Cathcart Riggins and Katherine Alice Riggins of Laurinburg and Audra Beth Lynn and Alexander Payton Lynn of Rock Hill. M.C. will be remembered by a host of family and friends as a kind, loving, and generous soul who loved only the Lord more than he loved his family and friends. M.C. believed that charity began with your church and would want memorials to be made to the church of your choice. In his years in Laurinburg he was faithful to and attended Trinity Presbyterian Church. He has been a member and faithful to Trinity United Methodist in North Myrtle for over 30 years. Services by McDougald Funeral Home and Crematorium.