BOYD DARBY GILPIN

DALZELL - Boyd Darby Gilpin, 50, husband of Jennifer Beauchamp Gilpin, died Saturday, June 29, 2019, at Prisma Health-Richland.

Born Oct. 13, 1968, in Columbia, he was a son of the late Albert T. Gilpin Sr. and Ann Witherspoon Bailey Gilpin. Mr. Gilpin loved his country. He served in the U.S. Army as a member of the 82nd Airborne Division and was a veteran of Operation Desert Storm. He was a member of the St. Andrew's Society and Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity. As a member of the Boy Scouts of America, he earned the title Eagle Scout and was also recognized by the Order of the Arrow with its highest honor, the Vigil Honor. Mr. Gilpin owned and operated PC Paramedics Computer Service.

Survivors include his wife of Dalzell; three brothers, Dr. Albert T. Gilpin Sr. (Lane) of Darlington, and Lewis B. Gilpin Sr. (Julie) and Dr. John W. Gilpin, both of Greenville; and six nieces and nephews, Thomas Gilpin, Laney Gilpin, Harriet Gilpin, Bailey Gilpin, Mason Gilpin and Amy Gilpin.

Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday at Springbank Baptist Church with the Rev. Steve Miller officiating. Burial with military honors will be in the church cemetery.

Honorary pallbearers will be members of the St. Andrew's Society.

The family will receive friends from noon to 1 p.m. Tuesday at Springbank Baptist Church.

Elmore-Cannon-Stephens Funeral Home and Crematorium of Sumter is in charge of the arrangements.