COLUMBIA - A graveside service for Ruth McIntosh Shay, 91, will be held at 3:00 p.m. Sunday, February 10, 2019 in Greenlawn Memorial Park. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service at the graveside. Officiating the service will be her nephew, Rev. Kenny Nichols, minister of Marion Baptist Church, Williams, SC, and Rev. Ryan Howard, assistant pastor of Oak Grove Baptist Church, Landrum, SC. Dunbar Funeral Home, Devine Street Chapel, is assisting the family.
Mrs. Shay passed away on Wednesday, February 6, 2019, after a long battle with dementia. Born on January 6, 1928, she was a daughter of the late Bertie Martin Cook and Willie Cook. She was raised by her paternal grandmother, Ida Osteen Cook. She moved to Columbia in 1953 from Walterboro. Ruth retired from the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control in 1998.
She is survived by her four daughters, better known as the McIntosh sisters: Dianne McCarty (Terry Walkup), Cathy Davis (John), Donna Wagner (Ray), and Melinda Evans (Ricky); seven grandchildren, Michael Frazier, Tripp McCarty (Nicole Solano), Melissa Nicole Howard (Ryan), Jason Frazier, Drew Evans (Elizabeth), Ruthanne Pratt (Nevin), and Braden Robinson; nine great-grandchildren, Kaylee Frazier, Mason Robinson, Sam McCarty, Case Evans, Brooks Evans, Aiden Howard, Addison Howard, Gus McCarty, and Jaden Pratt; sister, Sadie Doggett; half-sisters, Patricia Schmidt, Billie Craven, and Sarah Herndon; one niece; and three nephews.
In addition to her parents, she was predeceased by her husbands, Laverne J. “Mac” McIntosh and Lt. Col. Daniel B. Shay, U.S. Army (Ret.); sister, Thelma Newton; step-mother, Lois Cook; half-sister, Mary Frances Hester; half-brother, Franklin Cook; and two great-grandchildren, Audra Lane McCarty and Kaiden Alexander Pratt.
Memorials may be made to the American Heart Association, 190 Knox Abbott Drive, Suite 301, Cayce, SC 29033.
Memories may be shared at www.dunbarfunerals.com.
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