Joe Edwin Cutter

Joe E. Cutter, Jr., 80, died April 18 at his home in Columbia. Visitation will be at Oakes &Nichols on Thursday, April 20 from 5-7 pm. The funeral will be at 11 am on Friday, April 21 at Oakes & Nichols with Reverend Billy Brown.Mr. Cutter was a native of North Carolina and graduated from Seventy-First High School in Fayetteville, NC. He also attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He served four years in the Navy during WWII and received numerous medals and decorations, including the Silver Star. After the war, he was an announcer at WKRM in the early fifties. He went into television as a news anchor and weatherman at WNAO-TV, Raleigh, NC. Later, he worked at NBC in New York and KNBC in Burbank, CA as a writer and producer. The last show he wrote was Tennessee Ernie Ford Turns Gold in the mid-nineties. He retired to Columbia and was a business partner and Editor of Lumberman's Equipment Digest. He is survived by his wife Julie Hargrove Cutter; three children: Betsy (Jeff) Wenn, Barry (Robyn) Cutter, and Nanette (Chris) Jones; and five grandchildren: Leigh, Morgan and Julie Cutter, Andrew Hoehler and Ariana Jones. Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society and the American Lung Association.