Chapin - Funeral service for Grace Folk Creech, 99, will be held at 2:00 p.m. Saturday, May 16, 2015, at St. Thomas Lutheran Church, with burial in the church cemetery. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service at the church in the Fellowship Hall. Dunbar Funeral Home, Dutch Fork Chapel, is assisting the family. Mrs. Creech, wife of the late Valma Eugene Creech, died Tuesday, May 12, 2015. Born in Bamberg, she was a daughter of the late Henry Lee Folk and Lillian Autry Folk. She was a bookkeeper for First National Bank and later retired from South Carolina Retirement Systems. Mrs. Creech volunteered at Lowman Home, was a member of EICA Missionary Circle and St. Thomas Lutheran Church where she was very active in her Sunday School Class. Grace has a legacy of five generations whom she loved dearly. She enjoyed cooking for her family and others and was a kind soul who always was giving of herself. Grace was known for walking in her neighborhood where she logged over 11,000 miles beginning at age 55 until 95. Everyone depended on her for neighborhood news as well as keeping Libby Arial Circle free of litter. Surviving are her son, Roland Creech (Lynda) of Columbia; daughter, Jean C. Harkey of Chapin; grandchildren, Debbie Truluck (Brian), Jim Tokunaga, Mike Creech (Judy), Amy Garner (Joe); great-grandchildren, Michael Wray, Savanna Tokunaga, Taylor, Maggie, Sarah Grace and Addy Creech and Evan Garner; and great-great-grandchildren, Natalie and Evan Wray. She was preceded in death by two brothers and five sisters. Memorials may be made to St. Thomas Lutheran Church, 215 Saint Thomas Church Road, Chapin, SC 29036. The family would like to extend a sincere thank you to longtime physician, Dr. Carroll A. Pinner III and his staff, and the staff at Generations of Chapin for the compassionate care shown to Grace and her family over the years. © The State, Columbia, SC, 14 May 2015