Virginia Culpepper

VIRGINIA CULPEPPER GREENVILLE, SC -Virginia Culpepper died in her home Sunday, December 2, 2007. Born in Columbia, SC September 26, 1951, Virginia "Ginger" Ruth Pusser Culpepper was the first child of Miriam Jeanelle Sowell and Henry William Pusser of Chesterfield, SC, both deceased. She lived with her son and caregivers Harry Estes Culpepper, Jr. and Jeremy Nathaniel Smith. As a deaf student, she graduated from the South Carolina School for Deaf and Blind. She attended Gallaudet University in Washington, DC. She was also the first totally deaf student to attend the University of South Carolina. She was the first female president of the South Carolina School for Deaf Alumni Association, and a past vice president of the S.C. Association of the Deaf where she also served in various leadership roles in that organization since 1979. Virginia is survived by her children Harry Estes Culpepper, Jr. of Greenville, Marshall Durrell Culpepper of Honea Path, and fiancée Stephanie Dawn Freeman, and Heath Charles Culpepper of Belton, one grand-child Sarah Nichole Culpepper of Honea Path and one step-grandchild Eric Brandon Freeman of Honea Path. She is also survived by one brother, Henry William Pusser of Leesburg, VA; and three sisters Amelia Ann Lewis of Huntsville, AL, Margie Elaine Davis of Fair Oaks Ranch, TX, and Miriam Patricia Boyer of Lexington, SC. She is also predeceased by a brother, Thomas Eugene Pusser. Graveside service will be held 3pm Wednesday at Belton City Cemetery with Rev. Dale Lynch officiating. Burial will follow at Belton Cemetery. The family will receive friends after the service Wednesday at the cemetery. In lieu of flowers, the family asks for donations to be sent to the Walker Foundation - Deaf Division on the campus of the South Carolina School for the Deaf and the Blind. The family will be at the home of Harry Culpepper, Jr., 329 Ridgecrest Dr. Greenville, SC 29609.