Margaret Gantt Rawls

WEST COLUMBIA%%Services for Margaret Gantt Rawls, 81, will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday, January 9, 2007 at Holland Avenue Baptist Church. Officiating will be Rev. Charles Wilson, interment to follow in Berlin Baptist Church Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 6-8 p.m. Monday evening at Thompson Funeral Home of Lexington. Memorials may be made to Holland Avenue Baptist Church, 801 12 Street, Cayce, SC 29033.

Mrs. Rawls, widow of Haskell Hoyt Rawls, passed away on Saturday, January 6, 2007. Born in Lexington County, she was the daughter of the late Thomas Roston and Fairie Fable Jeffcoat Gantt. She was a faithful Christian woman and a caregiver to all who knew her, a member of Holland Avenue Baptist Church, since 1996, and a former member of 1st Baptist Church of Wagener. Prior to her illness, she was an active member of both Churches. She was a devoted and loving wife, mother, sister, grandmother, and great grandmother. She will be dearly missed by her family and friends.

Surviving are her daughter and son-in-law, Nancy R. and James Carter of West Columbia; son, Danny Gene Rawls of West Columbia; sisters, Mary Beulah Rucker of Lexington, Cora Lee Selman of Greenville; six grandchildren, eight great grandchildren, and a numerous extended family. Mrs. Rawls was preceded in death by two sons, Larry Hoyt Rawls and Carol Ray Rawls; two brothers, Raymond Alton Gantt and Charles L. Gantt; two sisters, Florrie Edith Boone and Thelma Alma Gates; and two grandchildren, Melissa Gail Rawls and Kevin Yancey Moore.

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