Richard Gribble Jr.

Richard Neal Gribble, Junior COLUMBIA - Richard Neal Gribble, Junior of Mount Pleasant, S.C. died Monday, December 10, 2018. Services will be held at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, 1100 Sumter Street, Columbia, S.C. at 2:00 p.m. on Friday, December 14, 2018. Interment in Elmwood Cemetery will follow the service. A Celebration of Life will be held at the Palmetto Club, 1231 Sumter Street, after interment. Pallbearers are Joseph Copley, Richard Desjardin, Chauncey Hawley, Emmet Howle, Will Huffman, Lan Lowery, Larry Marchant, Carlisle Oxner, John Sadler, Graham Smith, Harrison Thompson and David Wells. Dunbar Funeral Home, Devine Street Chapel, is assisting the family. Richard was born May 24, 1963 in Columbia, S.C. He was a natural born artist and muralist first recognized at age six. His murals are in private residences in St. Barts and St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands as well as in hotels in Mt. Pleasant, S.C. and businesses in the Charleston, S.C. area. His favorite medium was watercolor, mainly coastal South Carolina scenes of his beloved Pawleys Island and Charleston areas. Also his great fondness for the High Mountains of North Carolina in the Little Switzerland vicinity produced some of his best winter snow scenes. We will all miss his incredible artistic abilities, his admiration for the beauty of flowers and gardening, his impeccable fashion sense, his love of creative cuisine and his beautiful smile which shined from within until his last breath. Richard was a graduate of Hammond School and the University of South Carolina where he was a member of Kappa Alpha Order. He is survived by his parents, Carolina and Richard Gribble, sister, Mrs. William King Bryan Jr. (Carolina Lee Gribble), brother, George Wilmot Marshall Gribble and nephew, William King Bryan III. Memorials may be made to Harvest Hope Food Bank, 2220 Shop Road, Columbia, S.C. 29202 or Hammond School Arts Program, 854 Galway Lane, Columbia S.C. 29209 Memories may be shared at www.dunbarfunerals.com.