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Evelyn Roberts Bouknight
Sep 10, 2025
Mrs. Evelyn R. Bouknight, 95, passed away on Wednesday, September 10, 2025.
Funeral services will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, September 20, 2025, at Bush River Memorial Gardens Mausoleum Chapel, with entombment to follow.
Evelyn was born on August 8, 1930, in Elgin, to Lexie and Effie Nelson Roberts. She attended St. Andrews Presbyterian Church and was a talented gardener...
Margaret Jane Reierson
Sep 9, 2025
Margaret Jane Reierson, of Irmo, passed away on Tuesday, September 9, 2025. She was born in Ft. Wayne, IN on December 27, 1935. Jane, also known as Nana, was a beautiful soul inside and out; she never met a stranger and loved everyone’s daily gossip. The most important things to her were family, her cat Sadie, Gamecocks Football and sitting...
Nancy Dale Taber
Sep 6, 2025
Nancy Dale Taber of Irmo, SC, formerly of Dover, MA, passed away peacefully on Saturday, September 6, 2025. Born in Providence, RI, on May 18, 1932, she was the daughter of the late Owen and Susan Chatterton.
Nancy is survived by her son, Wesley D. Taber, and his wife, Elaine, of Columbia, SC; her daughter, Dale C. O’Keefe, and her husband,...

Anne Godwin Summerour
Aug 29, 2025
Little Mountain - Anne G. Summerour, 89, passed away on August 29, 2025. A more in-depth obituary is forthcoming. Temples-Halloran Funeral Home proudly serves the Summerour family in their time of grief.
Constance Lorick Bloom
Aug 28, 2025
Constance Lorick Bloom, 96, of Irmo, passed away on Thursday, August 28, 2025.
A memorial service will be held at 2:00 pm on Thursday September 4, 2025 at Temples-Halloran Funeral Home, with visitation beginning one hour prior to the service.
Born on March 12, 1929, in Irmo, she was the daughter of Theo William and Agnes Meetze Lorick. A devoted wife and...
Homer Emmitt Settle
Aug 27, 2025
Pelion – Homer Emmitt Settle, 78, passed away on Wednesday, August 27, 2025. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, August 30, 2025, at Temples-Halloran Funeral Home Chapel, officiated by Dr. Jeff Wright. Burial with Military Honors will follow at Bush River Memorial Gardens Mausoleum. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service at...
Mary Louise Taylor
Aug 21, 2025
Mary Louise Taylor was born on April 1,1936 in Long Branch, NJ and passed away on August 21, 2025, in Greenville, SC, she was 89 years old. Mary Lou’s family included father Frederick Neu, her mother and namesake Mary Louise Neu and her brother Frederick Conrad Neu. She graduated from Cooley High School in Detroit, MI, Michigan State University with...
Donna Lee Mahan
Aug 17, 2025
Donna Lee Mahan (née Wheelbarger) of Columbia, SC, passed away on August 17th, 2025. Born on November 25, 1942, in Cincinnati, Ohio, to Robert Charles and Laura Calder Holden Wheelbarger, Donna spent much of her childhood in Pensacola, Florida. There, she became an expert water skier, mastering slalom skiing and performing daring water pyramids with her friends. She was a...
Kristina Ann Graham
Aug 16, 2025
Kristina “LuLu” Ann Graham, 45, passed away on August 16, 2025. A Celebration of Life service will be held 5:00 pm on Friday, August 22, 2025, at East Lake Community Church, 10057 Broad River Rd, Irmo, SC 29063, with visitation beginning one hour prior to the service. Kristina will be remembered for her joyful spirit, happy disposition, and zest for...
Vickie Floyd Kempson
Aug 13, 2025
Vickie “Dee” Floyd Kempson, 65, passed away suddenly on Wednesday, August 13, 2025. A private service will be held. Dee was born on December 3, 1959, in Mullins, SC, to Tom Leach and Barbara Ann Stone Floyd. She was a 1978 graduate of Irmo High School and retired as a payroll administrator for various companies in the Columbia area. Dee...
Lillie Mae Leviner
Aug 12, 2025
A service commemorating the life of Lillie Mae Sellers Leviner, age 95, of Chapin, SC, will be held at Temples-Halloran Funeral Home, 5400 Bush River Road, Columbia, SC 29212, on Saturday, August 16, 2025, at Noon, with burial to follow at Cresent Hill Memorial Gardens. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service at the funeral home....
Betty R. Tripp
Aug 12, 2025
Betty Reece Tripp of Columbia went to her heavenly home on Tuesday, August 12 at the age of 92. Betty was born and raised in the upstate of South Carolina but moved to Columbia in 1967. She was the daughter of the late O.J. and Addie Reece, and she was the last surviving child of (8). She spent her life...

Melba Jean Blevins
Aug 8, 2025
Melba Jean Blevins, 95, of Chapin, passed away on August 8, 2025, at Generations of Irmo. Funeral Services will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday, August 12, 2025, at Temples-Halloran Funeral Home The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service at the chapel. Burial will be private at Ashelawn Gardens of Memory in Asheville, NC. Born...
Ellus B. Burns
Aug 8, 2025
Ellus B. “Tinker” Burns, 80, of Columbia, passed away on Friday, August 8, 2025. He was the son of the late Ellus Graham Burns and Nancy Vaughn Burns. Ellus was a 1963 graduate of Columbia High School and attended the University of South Carolina. He worked as a manufacturer’s representative for electrical supplies, traveling throughout South Carolina for Electric Products...
Mitchell P. Rozonkiewiecz Jr
Aug 8, 2025
Mitchell Rozonkiewiecz Jr., age 81, of Utica, NY passed away on Friday, August 08, 2025. Mitch was the son of the late Mitchell and Margaret (Waugh) Rozonkiewiecz. Mitch was predeceased by his brother Michael Rozonkiewiecz and his sister Katherine Mastrangelo. Surviving Mitch are his wife of 62 years Doris (Stasik), son and daughter-in-law Mitchell and Patti (Herrick) Rozonkiewiecz, son and...
Thomas Eugene Pilant
Aug 1, 2025
On August 1, 2025, Thomas Eugene Pilant (Tom) passed away at the age of 86. He was the son of Carl R. Pilant and Ella Mae Pilant. He was preceded in death by his wife Vivian Bowie Pilant and by his brother Carlos Raymond Pilant. He is survived by his daughter Carmilla Pilant and son Steven Andre Pilant and grandson...
Joseph "Joe" Martin DeBellis
Jul 28, 2025
Joseph “Joe” “Joey” Martin DeBellis
November 7, 1944 - July 28, 2025
They say the hardest part of losing someone you love is losing what was and the possibility of what could be. The unexpected nature of life never being the same. That’s certainly the case for those who knew and loved Joe DeBellis. Following an aggressive and unexpected illness that seemed...

Marilyn Norton Crolley
Jul 28, 2025
Marilyn Norton Crolley, passed away on Monday, July 28, 2025. Graveside services will be held at 2:00 pm on Monday, August 4, 2025, at Bush River Memorial Gardens. Temples-Halloran Funeral Home proudly assists the Crolley family in their time of grief. A more in-depth obituary is forthcoming.
William Arthur "BK" Kennedy, Jr.
Jul 25, 2025
“The best portion of a man’s life: his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.” Wm Wordsworth
Lexington – William A. Kennedy Jr., affectionately known as BK or Papa, died on July 25, 2025, with his girls by his side.
Born on November 22, 1935, in Salisbury, NC, he was the son of the late William A. Kennedy Sr. and Marie...
Peggy Causey Allen
Jul 15, 2025
Peggy L. Causey Allen of Blythewood, SC, peacefully entered her eternal home on July 15, 2025. Born in Hadley, Kentucky, to Erastus Morehead Causey and Ida Mae Gill Causey Graham, Peggy spent her early years in Bowling Green and Louisville, Kentucky. She and her late husband, Andrew Cole Allen, raised their two daughters, Becky Allen Ansley (the late Mickey Ansley)...
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