JENNIE C. MOORE RHODES
Jennie Cornelia Moore Rhodes, wife of William David Rhodes Jr., died on Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2018, at The Village of Summerville.
She was born on Jan. 12, 1924, in Sumter, a daughter of Marion Lartigue and Jennie Patterson Richards Moore of Dalzell. Nine days later, her mother died. She was raised by her maternal grandmother, Lily McKain Richards. She grew up in Sumter County, attending a two-teacher Dubose School. She was a graduate of Edmunds High School in Sumter in 1940, the first year of co-education, where she was president of the student body. She attended Winthrop College for two years. During World War II, she was in the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps as a student of the Johns Hopkins Hospital School of Nursing. For her last six months there, she joined cadet nurses from Johns Hopkins Hospital and other schools at Newton Baker General Hospital in Martinsburg, West Virginia. They cared for wounded servicemen who had come directly there from field hospitals in the ETO and the Pacific. The war was over by her graduation in September of 1945. She returned to South Carolina, was married, and worked for the South Carolina State Board of Health while her husband completed his college years, a veteran student at University of South Carolina. Her husband's career in engineering took the family to Dover, Delaware; Kinston, North Carolina; Richmond, Virginia; Signal Mountain, Tennessee; and finally to Summerville in 1973. They bought a house at Edisto Beach in 1979 and had years of enjoyment there. They moved to The Village of Summerville in 1999, joining old friends and making new ones. She was a member of Summerville Presbyterian Church. In all churches where she lived, she was very active in the Women of the Church and taught kindergarten Sunday school for years. She was a charter board member of Help of Summerville and a former board member of the Red Cross, Carolina Lowcountry Chapter. She performed many hours of volunteer work. She was an avid reader, an enthusiastic world traveler, enjoyed playing bridge and was a supporter of USC sports - Go Gamecocks!
Surviving are husband, William David Rhodes Jr.; son, Stephen Mayes and his wife, Janice; grandsons, Richards "Rick" Morse and his wife, Casey, and William David IV and his wife, Rachel; great-grandson, Maverick "Mav" Callaway; great-granddaughter, Scarlet Cherie (Scout); two nephews; and several great- and great-great-nieces and nephews.
She was predeceased by sons, William David III and his wife, Judy Morse, Richards "Rick" Moore and Robert Lartigue; brothers, Marion Lartigue Jr., Stephen Richards, Elias Richard and baby boy Albert; sister, Lily McKain Moore Dorn and her son, Lt. Col. Y. Delgar "Del" Dorn Jr.; her only niece, Avis Moore Rupert; and also special cousins, Anna DuBose Lowe and Richards Dubose.
A private family memorial will be held at a later date.
Memorial contributions may be made to the S.C. Presbyterian Communities Foundation, 2817 Ashland Drive, Columbia, SC 29210-5009.
Arrangements by Palmetto Cremation Society.