Ulden "Dean" Tucker Jennings, 86, of Columbia, died, Tuesday, May 22, 2018. Born December 1, 1931, in Columbia, SC, she was a daughter of the late Raymond Roy and Anna Turnipseed Tucker. Mrs. Jennings was happily married for 30 years to her late husband, Harbert C. Jennings. She was a typical career military wife and raised three children. She loved to cook for her family, who will miss her southern food, though not as much as they will miss her. Mrs. Jennings worked for more than 40 years at Ft. Jackson, where she made many lifelong friends before retiring. She was a wonderful wife, sister, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother.

Mrs. Jennings is survived by her daughters, Vicki Jennings Anderson (Gary) and Joyce Faye Jennings; grandchildren, Ginger Anderson Humphries (Michael), Lauren Ashleigh Anderson, Brandon Jennings, Kristen Jennings, and Kasey Dinkins; great-grandchildren, Grady Jackson Humphries and Allie Paige Humphries; as well as her siblings, Dorothy Tucker Hornsby, Richard R. Tucker (Brenda), and Robert "Eugene" Tucker (Judy). In addition to her parents and husband, she was preceded in death by her son, Claude Michael "Mike" Jennings; step-mother, Lizzie Mae Davis Tucker; and siblings, Emogene Tucker Johnson, J.C. "Jack" Tucker, Paul Tucker, Ronald D. Tucker, and S.V. "Vern" Tucker.

The service for Mrs. Jennings will be held at 1:30 o'clock, Saturday, May 26th at Shives Funeral Home, Trenholm Road Chapel, 7600 Trenholm Road Extension, Columbia. Entombment in Greenlawn Memorial Park Mausoleum will be private. The family will receive friends Friday evening from 5 until 7 o'clock at the funeral home.

Memorials may be made to the American Heart Association (Midlands Chapter), 190 Knox Abbott Drive, Suite 301, Cayce, SC 29033 or to Spring Valley Baptist Church, 91 Polo Road, Columbia, SC 29223.