COLUMBIA - Funeral service for Eugene "Gene" Bernardo Knight, 95, of Columbia, will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday, April 24, 2014, at St. Andrews Evangelical Church, 2609 Seminole Road, Columbia, SC 29210. The Rev. Don Burnett, Jr. will officiate. Burial will follow with military honors and Masonic rites in Dutch Fork Baptist Church Cemetery, 3517 Dreher Shoals Road in Irmo. The family will receive friends from 6-8 p.m. Wednesday at Thompson Funeral Home of Lexington, 4720 Augusta Road, Lexington, SC 29073.
Mr. Knight died on Saturday, April 19, 2014. Born January 11, 1919, on a farm in Darlington County, SC, he was the oldest son and second child of the late Colie O. Knight and Grace Touchberry Knight. The family moved to Lykesland just outside of Columbia, SC, where his father was caretaker of the Epworth Orphanage Farm.
After the war, he married Elizabeth Brawley Cowart and made their home in Columbia with her daughter, Carol E. Cowart, and their son, Richard.
He worked as foreman of the Body Shop at Andrews Auto Service until he retired in 1984. His wife died a month later. He remarried later to Mable P. Johnson and they also made their home in Columbia.
He is survived by his son, Richard E. Knight and wife, Ann Key Knight; his grandson, Richard G. Knight and his children, Jessica Knight and Gavin Knight; also his stepdaughter, Carol Elizabeth Cowart Hall and her daughters, Casonya and Tina Hall. He is also survived by three sisters-in-law, Edith Poluzzi, Helen Knight, and Wenona Knight.
He was predeceased by his parents; and brothers, Otto, Earl, and Robert Knight; his sisters, Alice Campbell, Grace Stuckey, and Elma Knight.
Mr. Knight died on Saturday, April 19, 2014. Born January 11, 1919, on a farm in Darlington County, SC, he was the oldest son and second child of the late Colie O. Knight and Grace Touchberry Knight. The family moved to Lykesland just outside of Columbia, SC, where his father was caretaker of the Epworth Orphanage Farm.
After the war, he married Elizabeth Brawley Cowart and made their home in Columbia with her daughter, Carol E. Cowart, and their son, Richard.
He worked as foreman of the Body Shop at Andrews Auto Service until he retired in 1984. His wife died a month later. He remarried later to Mable P. Johnson and they also made their home in Columbia.
He is survived by his son, Richard E. Knight and wife, Ann Key Knight; his grandson, Richard G. Knight and his children, Jessica Knight and Gavin Knight; also his stepdaughter, Carol Elizabeth Cowart Hall and her daughters, Casonya and Tina Hall. He is also survived by three sisters-in-law, Edith Poluzzi, Helen Knight, and Wenona Knight.
He was predeceased by his parents; and brothers, Otto, Earl, and Robert Knight; his sisters, Alice Campbell, Grace Stuckey, and Elma Knight.
COLUMBIA - Funeral service for Eugene "Gene" Bernardo Knight, 95, of Columbia, will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday, April 24, 2014, at St. Andrews Evangelical Church, 2609 Seminole Road, Columbia, SC 29210. The Rev. Don Burnett, Jr. will officiate. Burial will follow with military honors and Masonic rites in Dutch Fork Baptist Church Cemetery, 3517 Dreher Shoals Road in Irmo. The family will receive friends from 6-8 p.m. Wednesday at Thompson Funeral Home of Lexington, 4720 Augusta Road, Lexington, SC 29073.
Mr. Knight died on Saturday, April 19, 2014. Born January 11, 1919, on a farm in Darlington County, SC, he was the oldest son and second child of the late Colie O. Knight and Grace Touchberry Knight. The family moved to Lykesland just outside of Columbia, SC, where his father was caretaker of the Epworth Orphanage Farm.
After the war, he married Elizabeth Brawley Cowart and made their home in Columbia with her daughter, Carol E. Cowart, and their son, Richard.
He worked as foreman of the Body Shop at Andrews Auto Service until he retired in 1984. His wife died a month later. He remarried later to Mable P. Johnson and they also made their home in Columbia.
He is survived by his son, Richard E. Knight and wife, Ann Key Knight; his grandson, Richard G. Knight and his children, Jessica Knight and Gavin Knight; also his stepdaughter, Carol Elizabeth Cowart Hall and her daughters, Casonya and Tina Hall. He is also survived by three sisters-in-law, Edith Poluzzi, Helen Knight, and Wenona Knight.
He was predeceased by his parents; and brothers, Otto, Earl, and Robert Knight; his sisters, Alice Campbell, Grace Stuckey, and Elma Knight.
Mr. Knight died on Saturday, April 19, 2014. Born January 11, 1919, on a farm in Darlington County, SC, he was the oldest son and second child of the late Colie O. Knight and Grace Touchberry Knight. The family moved to Lykesland just outside of Columbia, SC, where his father was caretaker of the Epworth Orphanage Farm.
After the war, he married Elizabeth Brawley Cowart and made their home in Columbia with her daughter, Carol E. Cowart, and their son, Richard.
He worked as foreman of the Body Shop at Andrews Auto Service until he retired in 1984. His wife died a month later. He remarried later to Mable P. Johnson and they also made their home in Columbia.
He is survived by his son, Richard E. Knight and wife, Ann Key Knight; his grandson, Richard G. Knight and his children, Jessica Knight and Gavin Knight; also his stepdaughter, Carol Elizabeth Cowart Hall and her daughters, Casonya and Tina Hall. He is also survived by three sisters-in-law, Edith Poluzzi, Helen Knight, and Wenona Knight.
He was predeceased by his parents; and brothers, Otto, Earl, and Robert Knight; his sisters, Alice Campbell, Grace Stuckey, and Elma Knight.
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