In Memory of

Marilyn

Smith

Barnhill

Obituary for Marilyn Smith Barnhill

Marilyn Smith Barnhill, 84, widow of Pat Barnhill, died Friday, July 05, 2019, at Prisma Health Tuomey.

Born June 4, 1935, in Columbus County, NC, she a daughter of the late John James Smith and the late Lollie Virginia Edwards Smith. She was a member of Harmony Church and retired from the Shaw Air Force Base AAFES.

Survivors include a son, Lance Barnhill of Sumter; a daughter, Vanessa Reynolds (Jim) of Dalzell; five grandchildren, Justin Reynolds, Jessica Reynolds, Ryan Barnhill, Whitney Barnhill, and Matthew Pierce Berry; two great-grandsons, Jacob Reynolds and Benjamin Reynolds; a brother, Gayle Smith of NC; one sisters, Edith Matthews of Las Vegas, NV.

She was preceded in death by five brothers, Dallas Smith, Dewey Smith, J.B. Smith, Russell Smith, and J.W. Smith; and four sisters, Dorothy Robertson, Mary Ward, Grace Moser, and Linda Tolle.

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Monday at Harmony Church with the Rev. Drew Choate officiating. Burial will be in the Evergreen Memorial Park Cemetery.

Pallbearers will be her grandsons, Justin Reynolds, Ryan Barnhill, and Matthew Berry; and Steve Robertson, Harry Smith, and William Hayes.

The family will receive friends from 4 to 6 p.m. Sunday at her home and from 10 to 11 a.m. Monday at Harmony Church.

Memorials may be made to St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 501 St Jude Place Memphis, TN 38105.

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