William"Billy" Thomas Sweatt Sr.

William Thomas Sweatt, Sr, age 75, passed away Thursday, August 22 2019, at the Wayne T. Patrick Hospice House in Rock Hill.The visitation will be at 10:00 a.m. until 10:45 a.m. Saturday, August 24, 2019 at the Fort Mill Church of God. The funeral service will follow at 11:00 a.m. with Reverend Larry Nivens officiating. The burial will be at Grandview Memorial Gardens – Cherry Road in Rock Hill.A Fort Mill native, Billy was a son of the late Daniel Oscar and Katherine Milner Sweatt. As a youngster he set up pins in the Fort Mill Bowling Alley then went on to work at Springs Mills as a loom fixer. He later went to work for Westinghouse as a crane operator. He enjoyed hunting and fishing and was an active member of the Fort Mill Church of God where he was a Sunday school teacher and part of the “Young at Heart” group.Billy is survived by his only son, William “Tony” Thomas Sweatt, Jr., and his wife, Debbie; their sons, Anthony Sweatt and his wife, Bethany and Patrick Sweatt and his wife, Alexis; his sister, Joyce Williams and her children, Keith Williams and Sherry Fox; his sister-in-law, Debbie B. Hudspeth and her husband, Keith; his great-grandchildren Anthony Sweatt, Jr. and Blake Sweatt; and his niece, Christi Butler and her husband, William and their children, Lexi and Harleigh.Memorials may be made to the S.C. Church of God Home for Children, 1810 N.E. Main Street, Simpsonville, S.C. 29681Read Obituary