Harry Douglas Hunter
Jan 18, 2018
LTC Harry Douglas Hunter, US Army (Ret.), 81, of Columbia, died Thursday, January 18, 2018. Born July 22, 1936 in Prosperity, SC he was a son of the late Elbert Hayne and Loudia Mae Boozer Hunter. Col. Hunter was raised in Elizabethton, TN and Monks Corner, SC. He graduated from Wofford College with a BA in Mathematics in 1958, and...
Douglas Davis Rowell
Jan 18, 2018
Douglas Davis Rowell, 86, of Columbia, died Thursday, January 18, 2018. Born in Trio, SC on March 16, 1931, he was the son of the late Doc Rhett Rowell and Gene Welchel Rowell. Mr. Rowell worked for Seaboard Air Line Railroad and it was his favorite topic to talk about. In 1963, he married Sara Beth Purvis. He was a...
Mary Griffith Savitz
Jan 17, 2018
Mary G. "Dollie" Savitz, 67, of Columbia, beloved wife of Isaac Savitz, Jr., died Wednesday, January 17, 2018. Born in Columbia, she was a daughter of the late Sheppard A. and Mary Ella Ehrlich Griffith. Dollie was a graduate of AC Flora High School, Class of 1969, and attended The University of South Carolina. She was a past President of...
Ronald Edward Barber, Sr.
Jan 16, 2018
Ronald Edward Barber, Sr. was born October 25, 1933, and died January 16, 2018 at the age of 84. He was the son of the late Hilda Bass Barber and Edward Barber. Mr.Barber grew up in the home of his maternal grandmother, Momma Bass in Clinton, NC where he was active in scouting and rose to the rank of Eagle...
Dewey Gene Wilson
Jan 16, 2018
Dewey Gene Wilson, 90, of Columbia, died peacefully Tuesday, January 16, 2018. Born April 13, 1927 in Electra, TX, he was a son of the late Robert Clark Wilson and Maude Meador Wilson. He was a graduate of Baylor University and served in the US Navy at the end of WWII. Mr. Wilson was a longtime member of First Baptist...
Thomas English Mccutchen, Jr.
Jan 15, 2018
Thomas English McCutchen, Jr. passed away at home on Monday, January 15, 2018. Born in Bishopville, SC on June 20, 1919, he was the son of Thomas English McCutchen and Cornelia Lavender McCutchen. He married the late Margaret Jane Perry of Columbia on September 25, 1943. Mr. McCutchen has been described as a Man's Man and a Lawyer's Lawyer. He...
Gerald P. "Gerry" Moosbrugger
Jan 14, 2018
Gerald Paul "Gerry" Moosbrugger, 59, longtime resident of Columbia, passed from this life on Sunday, January 14, 2018. He was born on August 28, 1958 in Milwaukee, WI, a son of Dora Mae Woerner Moosbrugger and the late Charles Moosbrugger, Jr. Growing up in Wisconsin, Gerry loved the outdoors and the natural world. He loved climbing trees, swimming, boating, and...
Frances Dean Mccall Miller
Jan 12, 2018
Frances Dean McCall Miller was born on July 28, 1922, to George Nelson McCall and Minnie Agnes McCall in Clover, South Carolina. Dean was a graduate of Clover High School and the South Carolina State Hospital School of Nursing. In addition to her parents, she was predeceased by her husband, Marvin H. Miller, Sr., and six brothers and three sisters....
Kevin Arthur Mcdonald
Jan 12, 2018
Kevin Arthur McDonald, 60, of Blythewood, died Friday, January 12, 2018. Born on November 28, 1957, in Fort Mead, MD, he was the son of Julia Patricia Johnson McDonald and the late Clarence Edward McDonald. Kevin played bass guitar in several rock bands and was an avid music lover. He was a train enthusiast and worked as a computer engineer....
Mabel Ann Williams
Jan 12, 2018
Mabel Ann Williams, 81, of Columbia, died Friday, January 12, 2018. She was a daughter of the late Shirley Pomroy and Jeannie Kendall Daniels. Mrs. Williams was the owner of Pontiac Thrift Store. She delighted in going to flea markets and yard sales, as well as, working crossword and jigsaw puzzles. Survivors include her children, Donald Reynolds, Nancy Blakely (Bobby),...
Ella Catherine Mclaughlin Teal
Jan 12, 2018
Funeral services for Ella Catherine Teal, 88, of Columbia, S.C. will be held 11 o'clock, Tuesday, January 16th, in Boyce Chapel, at First Baptist Church, 1306 Hampton Street, Columbia. The family will receive friends in Ellis Hall, prior to the service, beginning at 10 o'clock. Interment will be held at 3 o'clock at the Cassatt Baptist Church Cemetery, 2604 US-1,...
Betty Jean Randle
Jan 11, 2018
Betty Jean Randle, 82, went to be with the Lord, Thursday, January 11, 2018, after a recent battle with cancer. She was a daughter of the late John Robert Wright and Mary Wright and was born in Rock Hill, SC on October 23, 1935. Her life was a love of family whether raising her four children or spending time with...
Carmen Perez Nunez Schrall
Jan 10, 2018
Carmen Perez Schrall, 70, of Columbia, died Wednesday, January 10, 2018. The daughter of the late Rigoberto and Paulina Perez, she was married to the late CMSGT Richard Schrall, a veteran of the US Air Force. Carmen came to the United States from Cuba at the age of 14, where she later graduated from The Minneapolis School of Art and...
Edith Purvis Cross
Jan 10, 2018
Edith "Edie" Anthony Purvis Cross, 76, of Columbia, died Wednesday, January 10, 2018. Born in Gaffney, SC, on June 13, 1941, she was a daughter of the late Herndon Anthony and Edith Powell Anthony. Edie was a graduate of Dreher High School, where she served as the Student Body President her senior year. She graduated from the University of South...
Betty Jean Fagan
Jan 9, 2018
Betty Jean Fagan, 82, of Columbia, SC, went to meet her Lord on January 9, 2018. She was the wife of the late Charles Fagan, who passed away January of 2003. They were married for over 50 years. Betty is survived by a son, Charles "Charlie" Dennis Fagan; eight grandchildren; one great-grandchild; three sisters, Gladys (Joe) Cook, Sylvia (Bob) Baker,...
W. Tison Bowers
Jan 9, 2018
William Tison Bowers, 62, of Columbia, died January 9, 2018. Born December 30, 1955 in Varnville, SC, he was a son of the late Grover Ford Bowers, Jr, and Macie Tison Bowers. Mr. Bowers was a 1978 graduate of the Citadel and was a member of First Presbyterian Church. He will be forever remembered as a loyal friend, always putting...
Barbara Gowan Alley
Jan 9, 2018
Beloved Wife, Mother, Grandmother, and Trailblazer, Barbara Gowan Alley of Lexington, SC joined Home Eternal on Tuesday, January 9, 2018. Barbara was born on April 17, 1939 in Spartanburg, SC, to the late J.C. and Pauline Gowan. She has resided in the Midlands for the past 53 years. Barbara is survived by her adored husband, Rev. Joseph Walters Alley; as...
Pauline Branham
Jan 9, 2018
Alice Pauline Hawkins Branham, 97, of Blythewood, died Tuesday, January 9, 2018. Born June 30, 1920 in Prosperity, SC, she was a daughter of the late George Wilbur and Annie Alice Kunkle Hawkins. Mrs. Branham was a faithful member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She loved babies and children and, for a while along with her...
Patricia Ann Mitchum Carrigan
Jan 8, 2018
Patricia Ann Mitchum Carrigan, 58, of Columbia, died Monday, January 8, 2018. Born December 20, 1959 in Columbia, she was the daughter of the late Thomas Odell Mitchum and Corine Hussey Mitchum. Patty, as she was known by her family and friends, was the only daughter in a houseful of boys, and was spoiled rotten by them all. Her love...
Carolyn Ann Avery
Jan 8, 2018
Carolyn Ann Avery, 67, passed away at her home on January 9, 2018. Born in Augusta, Georgia to Robert Louis and Ilse Funning Avery, she moved with her family to Columbia, South Carolina in 1952 and made her home there for more than 65 years. Carol served in the United States Army for 20 years before retiring in 1990. In...
