Reverend Larry Michael Jarrell

Reverend Larry Michael Jarrell of Rock Hill, South Carolina, passed peacefully into the next life at Carolina Medical Center on Tuesday, October 21, 2025, with his wife and daughter at his side, after a valiant and courageous battle with cancer. Raised in Douglasville, Georgia, Michael pursued a degree in Religious Studies at Mercer University, earning a Bachelor of Arts in 1997. He continued his education, earned a Master's of Divinity in 2014, and was ordained an elder in the United Methodist Church in 2018. His life's work as a Methodist minister and servant of God carried him and his family from Georgia to Kentucky, Colorado, Wyoming, and eventually South Carolina, where he established a new method of community outreach ministry called The Circuit with Reverend Mallory Forte. He met the love of his life, Heather Jarrell (neé Conkle), in 1998, they married in 2001, and they had more than 24 joyous and faithful years together. They had two children, Ava and Donny Jarrell, to whom he was endlessly supportive and forever encouraging. He was a well of creativity and fearlessness for all who knew him, and embodied a great desire to make marginalized and outcast people feel included in God's love. Never one to stop asking questions and seeking answers, his search gave him several libraries' worth of books and several books' worth of writings, from religious essays of all faiths to fantasy fiction to journal musings. He was a writer, an artist, a philosopher, and a steward to his family, his God, and his community. He is survived by his wife, Heather, his children, Ava and Donny, his parents, Larry and Peggy Jarrell, his parents-in-law, Susan and Bill Byous, and Don Conkle, his sister, Karen Guy (Marty Guy), two nieces, Danielle and Hariana Guy, and two nephews, Alexander (Rachel) Guy and Preston (Sydney) Guy, and a great-niece, Josie Guy. He is beloved by a wealth of friends all across the world.