John Mundy Jr.

John T. Mundy Jr., of Mt. Pleasant, a retired executive of South Carolina Electric and Gas Company, died on the evening of March 17, 2004.

Services will be held at J. Henry Stuhr, Inc., Downtown Chapel, Saturday, March 20, 2004, at ten o'clock. Burial will be at Elmwood Cemetery, Columbia, at two o'clock. Friends may call at Stuhr's Downtown Chapel today between four and six o'clock.

Mr. Mundy was born on April 29, 1906, in Columbia, the son of John T. Mundy Sr. and Carolyn Edward Hill Mundy. He was married to Marguerite Evelyn Wilson of Tuscaloosa, Ala., who died in 1997.

He attended Columbia public schools and was a 1928 graduate of Clemson College in electrical engineering. He played basketball and was captain of the tennis team. He was also the top honor graduate of Westinghouse Electric Graduate School.

He was an industrial sales engineer with Westinghouse and did consulting work in Georgia and South Carolina. He was Rate Engineer for SC Public Service Commission in Columbia. During the power shortage in 1941, he was appointed to the Federal Board in Atlanta, and was responsible for allocating the amount of power industrial plants in SC could receive.

He served four years in The Corps of Engineers during World War II and was a retired Lt. Colonel in the reserves.

He was sales manager for SCE&G where he popularized the use of electricity for heating. He was a member of Southeastern Electric Exchange that worked with and helped manufacturers develop and improve electric heat pumps.

He was a lifetime member of The Preservation Society and The Hibernian Society. He was a member of The Charleston Lions Club and SC Historical Society. He traveled extensively in Europe and this country.

Mr. Mundy was a member of Hibben United Methodist Church, and served on various boards, including chairman of the Building Committee when the new church was built in 1959.

He was interested in higher education and gave several scholarships and fellowships to the Engineering School at Clemson University, where he was a member of Board of Visitors and received The Clemson University's Presidents Award in 1988. He was also a member of the Board of Trustees at Columbia College, where he also gave several scholarships for teacher development.

Several nieces and nephews of Atlanta, Ga., and a sister-in-law, of Conyers, Ga., survive him.

Memorials may be made to Hibben United Methodist Church, 690 Coleman Blvd., Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464.