Columbia - Funeral service for Patricia Rivers Chaplin, of Columbia, will be held Sunday, November 22, 2009 at 3 p.m. at Dunbar Funeral Home, Northeast Chapel. The family will receive friends Sunday from 2 to 3 p.m. prior to the service. A graveside service will be held Monday at 11 a.m. at Bethany Cemetery, Charleston, SC. Dunbar Funeral Home Northeast Chapel is assisting the family with the arrangements.
Born in Florence, SC, she graduated from McClenaghan High School and McLeod Infirmary School of Nursing. She was a loving friend, mother, grandmother and a wonderful wife to her husband of 54 years, Edwin Marion Chaplin. She worked as a nurse at Columbia Hospital for several years until becoming a stay at home mother. In later years, she was a substitute teacher at Spring Valley High School and Richland Northeast High School, both in Columbia. She had a very special connection with the students and loved working with them. She was a member of Trenholm Road United Methodist Church for over 50 years.
Surviving are her daughters and sons-in-law, Cheryl and Tim Baucom of Dalton, GA; Robin and Billy Bullock of Columbia; Tricia and Tom Hirsch of Charlotte; her much beloved granddaughters, Bergen Baucom, Ashlan Hirsch and Carson Chaplin and her lifelong best friend Barbara Stroman of Florence, SC.