Barbara Ann Pearson

WEST COLUMBIA-Memorial service for Barbara Ann Pearson, of West Columbia, will be held at 2:00 p.m. Monday, June 23, 2014 at Thompson Funeral Home, West Columbia Chapel at 200 State Street, West Columbia, SC 29169. Pastors Grady Hendrix and Robert Reeves will officiate. The family will receive friends from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. prior to the service at the funeral home. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Trinity United Methodist Church, 1201 Mohawk Drive, West Columbia, SC 29169. Mrs. Pearson died on Thursday, June 19, 2014. She was born on November 8, 1934 in Columbia, SC, and was the daughter of the late William Heyward and Lillian White Farmer. She was a member of Trinity United Methodist Church of West Columbia. She was a loving wife and mother who enjoyed traveling to the beach and the mountains. She retired from the South Carolina Department of Social Services. She loved her family, and they will dearly miss her. Surviving is her husband of 62 years, Winford Pearson of West Columbia; daughter, Donna Marie Pearson of Columbia; son, Winford "Billy" Pearson, Jr. of West Columbia; cousin, Frances Hendrix of Summerville, SC; also survived by a large and loving extended family.