Viola Taylor Boulware

CHESTER Mrs. Viola Taylor Boulware, 83, widow of William Thomas ?W.T.? Boulware died Monday, January 19, 2009 at Sterling House on Parklane in Columbia, SC. The funeral will be 11:00 AM Wednesday at First Baptist Church of Chester with Reverend Clay Waldrip officiating.Interment will be in Chester Memorial Gardens. Born January 21, 1925 in Leeds, SC, Mrs. Boulware was the daughter of the late John Simpson Taylor, Sr and Maybelle Wilks Taylor.She was a graduate of Monticello High School and a member of First Baptist Church of Chester where she was a former Sunday School Teacher, a member of the Women?s Missionary Union, Chairperson of the Kitchen Committee and the Library Committee and a member of the Dorcas Sunday School Class.She was retired from Belk Department Store after thirty-eight years of service.She was a volunteer for the Chester Regional Medical Center. Surviving are her daughter, Joyce B. Pundt and her husband G. C. of Columbia, SC; one son, William Thomas ?Tom? Boulware and his wife Jacqueline of Kimball, TN; four grandsons, Carl T. Pundt and his wife Carrie of Greenwood, SC, M. Alan Pundt of Conway, SC, William T. Boulware, IV and John M. Boulware both of Chattanooga, TN; three great granddaughters; two sisters, Essie T. McKee of Chester, SC and Barbara T. Wood of Hopewell, VA; one brother, James W. Taylor of Lugoff, SC.She was preceded in death by two sisters, Sadie T. Carter and Hazel T. Chafin and one brother, John S. Taylor. The family will receive friends from 6:00 ? 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Barron Funeral Home, 133 Wylie Street, Chester. Memorials may be made to First Baptist Church Library Fund, PO Box 518, Chester, SC 29706. Condolences to the family may be made at www.barronfuneralhome.com.