Martin Terry Santangelo
Jun 2, 2018
Martin Terry Santangelo, 61, died Friday, June 2, 2018. Born March 17, 1957 in Buffalo, New York, he was a son of the late Jack and Irene Canfield Santangelo. Mr. Santangelo was a graduate of Cuba Central School and Alfred Ag Tech, both in New York. He was a master automotive technician having been employed for more than 30 years...
Man Jian Shan
Jun 1, 2018
Man Jian Shan, 71, of Elgin, died Friday, June 1, 2018. Shives Funeral Home, Trenholm Road Chapel is assisting the family.
Charlie Thomas Pham Nguyen
May 30, 2018
Charlie Thomas Pham Nguyen, 24, died Wednesday, May, 30, 2018. Shives Funeral Home, Trenholm Road Chapel, is assisting the family.
Larry M Stephens
May 29, 2018
Professor Larry Marion Stephens, age 70, died May 29, 2018. Born June 26, 1947 in Frankfurt, Germany, he was the son of the late Lawrence W. and Alice F. Stephens. He received a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of South Carolina and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Johns Hopkins University. He also served honorably as...
Melvin Patrick Walczak
May 29, 2018
Melvin Patrick Walczak, 68, of Columbia, died Tuesday, May 29, 2018 after a courageous battle with mesothelioma. Born on June 3, 1949, in Ludlow, Massachusetts, he was a son of the late Stanley J. Walczak, Sr. and Frances M. Piesyk Walczak. Melvin is survived by his wife of 35 years, Lonie Vieira Walczak; his son, Patrick Walczak; daughter, Lara Glenn;...
Scott "Gunny" Taubl
May 29, 2018
GySgt William Scott Taubl, USMC (Ret.) better known as "Gunny", 52, of Columbia, died Tuesday, May 29, 2018 after a short battle with colon cancer. Scott was the son of Ruth Tait Taubl of Darien, CT and William Johnson of Jacksonville, Florida. Scott was married to the love of his life Catherine Wilson Taubl for 32 short years. Together they...
Mimi Maddock
May 26, 2018
Mary "Mimi" Montgomery Maddock, 74, passed away May 26, 2018, after succumbing to pancreatic cancer. As always, she was surrounded by family and friends. Mimi graduated from Dreher High School in 1961, where she was selected as Homecoming Queen. She went on to graduate from the University of South Carolina with a Bachelors degree in Education and received her Masters...
George F. Rice, Sr.
May 25, 2018
George F. Rice, Sr., of Columbia, passed away on Friday, May 25, 2018. He was married to the late Eileen Scanlon and a son of the late Frank and Catherine Carrigan Rice. Born in Turtle Creek, PA, he was a graduate of Central Catholic High School and Carnegie Mellon University. He served in the US Army Signal Corps and later...
Betty B. Hoyt
May 25, 2018
Betty B. Hoyt, 90, a resident of the Washington area since 1951, died in Columbia on Friday, May 25, 2018. Mrs. Hoyt was a native of Matthews, North Carolina. She graduated from Mars Hill College with an Associate Degree and from Wake Forest University with a Bachelor of Arts. Upon graduation, she began her career as an English teacher at...
Arthur Buist Langley, Ii
May 24, 2018
Arthur Buist Langley II, husband of Janet Eaddy Langley, passed away on May 24, 2018 at home in Columbia, SC. Born in Charleston, SC, on April 12, 1927, he was the son of Claudia Seabrook Langley and Arthur Fernando Langley. He attended Columbia city schools and the Citadel in Charleston, SC . He and his class left the Citadel to...
Ursula Gerda Hunt
May 24, 2018
Ursula Gerda Hunt, 92, of Columbia, died Thursday, May 24, 2018. Born on February 22, 1926, she was a daughter of the late William Gebhardt and Johanna Elizabeth Kleist. Mrs. Hunt was born and raised in Berlin Germany, where she met and married her husband, Otis Lee Hunt. She worked in accounting at Columbia Bible College for many years, where...
Mary Pinckney Wendt
May 22, 2018
Mary Bull Pinckney Wendt, 90, of Columbia, died peacefully at her home Tuesday, May 22, 2018. Mrs. Wendt was born on December 14, 1927, in Orangeburg, South Carolina, a daughter of the late Major General Francis Douglas Pinckney and Mary Davie Bull Pinckney. She attended St. Mary's Junior College in Raleigh, North Carolina and graduated from the University of South...
Ulden Tucker Jennings
May 22, 2018
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...
Edith Tiller Seegars
May 21, 2018
Edith Tiller Seegars, 98, of Columbia, died Monday, May 21, 2018. Born in McBee, SC, on August 24, 1919, she was a daughter of the late Daniel Newton and Ethel Grant Tiller. She was a dedicated member of First Church of God of Columbia. Survivors include her grandchildren, Stanley Russell Seegars and Shelly Renee Hunt; great grandchildren, Aubrie, Aliah, and...
Robert J. Smith
May 19, 2018
Robert. J. Smith, 86, of Hopkins, died Saturday, May 19, 2018. Born August 16, 1931 in Chapin, he was a son of the late Julian G. and Mary Ellisor Smith. Mr. Smith was a member of the Beulah Baptist Church, the Cayce Moose Lodge, and enjoyed auto racing. Survivors include his daughters, Diane S. Fox (Richard), Sandi L. Smith; grandchildren,...
Louise Elizabeth "Betty" Harrison Spain
May 19, 2018
Louise Elizabeth "Betty" Harrison Spain, 92, of Columbia died Saturday, May 19, 2018. Born in Columbia on November 3, 1925, she was a daughter of the late William Benjamin Harrison and Eva Gaddy Harrison. A life-long resident of Columbia, Betty was a graduate of Dreher High School and later worked at Covenant Presbyterian Church. She was a member of First...
Ana Luisa Santiago
May 19, 2018
Ana Luisa Santiago, age 80, died Saturday, May 19, 2018. She was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador, a daughter of the late Nelson Gaston Chavez and Clara Moreira Chavez. Mrs. Santiago was a faithful parishioner of St. John Neumann Catholic Church in Columbia. She was loved by her Latin community and was the former owner of the Panarican Latin Club. Mrs....
Laurence Patrick Robnett
May 17, 2018
Laurence Patrick Robnett, 68,of Gaston, passed away peacefully, Friday, April 18, 2018. Mr. Robnett, affectionately known as Larry or Bucky, was born in Columbia, SC on March 17, 1950. His father, John Robnett was killed in action during the Korean War. He was later preceded in death by his mother, Edith Kathleen Lorenz Robnett and his older brother, John W....
Violet Grace Schork
May 16, 2018
Violet G. Schork, of Columbia, passed away on Wednesday, May 16, 2018 at the age of 78. She is survived by her husband of 45 years, and three siblings. The service for Violet will be held 2 o'clock, Thursday, May 24th, at Woodland Hills Community Church, 2626 Ashland Road Columbia. Interment will precede at 12:30 o'clock, Memorial Gardens of Columbia,...
Micah Benjamin Meisner
May 15, 2018
Micah Benjamin Meisner, age 20, died Tuesday, May 15, 2018. He was born in Columbia, South Carolina, a son of Grant Rolland and Rhonda Lewis Meisner. He was an honor graduate of Ben Lippen School where he was on the cross country and tennis teams. Micah also sang and played guitar in the school choir. He was identified as gifted...
