Mrs. Eleanor Ely Arms

COLUMBIA - Memorial service for Eleanor Ely Arms, 85, will be 7:00 pm Saturday, April 4, 2009, at Dunbar Funeral Home, Devine Street Chapel. Mrs. Arms, wife of the late George Lyman Arms, died Monday, March 2, 2009. Born in Orwell, Ohio, she was a daughter of the late Joshua Caleb Ely and Hazel Bell. Mrs. Arms was a CPA since 1982 and was President and owner of Arms’ Business Services in Columbia. She was a member of the Columbia business community for 30 years. She enjoyed knitting, weaving and other yarn crafts. Surviving are daughters, Margaret Nalezny of Sauk Rapids, Minn., Helen Arms Lathrop of Columbia and Frances Nan Brozo and her husband, Ramon of White Bear Lake, Minn.; son, George Arms, III and his wife Adrienne of Albuquerque, N.M.; nine grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; and a brother, Edward Ely and his wife, Helen of Fla. She was predeceased by a sister, Marian Elizabeth Ely. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to SC ETV, ETV Endowment of S.C., 401 E. Kennedy Street, Suite B-1, Spartanburg, S.C. 29302 or Epworth Children’s Home, 2900 Milwood Ave., Columbia, S.C. 29205.