Lexington - Services for M. K. Corley, 87, will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday, September 2, 2008, at Pilgrim Lutheran Church with interment to follow in the church cemetery. The family will receive friends from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Monday, September 1, 2008, at Caughman-Harman Funeral Home, Lexington Chapel. Memorials may be made to Lutheran Hospice, 1505 Blanding Street, Columbia, SC 29201, or to The Cholangiocarcinoma Foundation, 10 West Broadway, Suite 700, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84101, or visit cholangiocarcinoma.org. Michael Kaminer Corley, also affectionately know as "Shug," peacefully passed away at his Lexington home Saturday, August 30, 2008. His two sons were at his side. Born March 13, 1921, in Lexington County, he was a son of the late Walter Luther Corley and Ella Julia Kaminer Corley. One of thirteen children, he was raised in the old Lorick home on Corley Mill Road, and his family milled flour and corn, ran a cotton gin, and they farmed cotton, wheat, oats, sugar cane and livestock. He was a member of Zion Lutheran Church before joining Pilgrim Lutheran Church after marrying Doris Elizabeth Conner, also of Lexington County, in 1943. Mr. Corley was also a veteran of World War II, serving in the 83rd Infantry Division, landing on Normandy Beach in France, six days after D-Day. He served in the war from 1942 to 1945, and his outfit was nicknamed "The Thunderbolt Across Europe" because they moved faster and captured more enemies than any division at that time. For his service, he received the Bronze Star. Following the war, Mr. Corley returned to Lexington County where he raised a family and lived with his wife Doris on North Lake Drive until she passed away in December of 2005. After 50 years of service, he retired from Lonestar Industries, formerly Palmetto Quarries. He continued to enjoy farming and the blessings of his wide circle of family and friends. He was a loving husband, devoted father and wonderful grandfather. Mr. Corley is survived by his two sons and daughter-in-law, Michael C. Corley of Lexington, SC, and Mark R. and Brenda Corley of Taylors, SC; granddaughters and grandsons-in-law, Amy Corley and Joseph Woodley of Jersey City, NJ, and Michelle and Eric Omhart of Jackson Hole, WY; and one sister, Gladys Corley LeFevre of Columbia; and numerous loving nieces and nephews and sisters-in-law. The family would like to express their appreciation to family and friends for their love, kindness and support. © The State, Columbia, SC, 1 Sep 2008