Calder D. Ehrmann

He was born June 13, 1940 in St. Louis, Missouri and was the son of the late Carlos Royal Ehrmann and Ellen Thurman Ehrmann.

Calder graduated from Missouri Valley College with a degree in Economics and Business Administration. He worked at the Chevrolet Division of General Motors in St. Louis and White Truck in Cleveland before joining Michelin North America in 1977, and over the course of thirty years, held a wide variety of positions within the company. Following Calder’s retirement from Michelin, he worked as a Senior Associate in the Richard E. Riley Institute at Furman University, working with the Diversity Leaders Initiative in South Carolina. Calder is a graduate of Leadership Greenville, was on The Greenville Technical College Area Commission, was a Deacon at First Baptist Greenville and was on the Board of the American Church in Paris. He served on the Greenville University Center Board of Visitors, the Board of the Camperdown Academy, the Clemson University Board for Distance Learning and Continuing Education, the South Carolina Research Authority Board, the Board of the Urban League of the Upstate and Greater Greenville Chamber of Commerce Executive Committee. His recognitions include: The Greenville Chamber of Commerce’s Buck Mickel Award for Community Leadership, The Furman University Upstate Diversity Leadership Award, The Urban League’s Whitney M. Young Humanitarian Award and The South Carolina Research Authority’s Knowledge Economist Award.

He is survived by his wife of 50 years, Glenda Cantrell Ehrmann; two sons, Calder Ehrmann III (Lisa) of Atlanta, Georgia, and Jacob Ehrmann (Debra) of Asheville, North Carolina; three grandsons, Atticus, Orson and Ryan; one sister, Karolyn Ehrmann Hume (Charles); one first cousin, Millicent Mason Westerfield; one brother-in-law, Kenneth Cantrell (Melanie); and nieces and nephews.

A Celebration of Life Service will be held at First Baptist Greenville on Monday, February 16, 2015 at 11:00am with the Reverend Dr. Baxter Wynn officiating.

The family will receive friends from 9:30am – 11:00am prior to the service in the narthex of the church. A private family committal service will be held.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to First Baptist Greenville, 847 Cleveland Street, Greenville, SC 29601, for The Calder Ehrmann Diversity Fund; or to the McCall Hospice House, 1836 West Georgia Road, Simpsonville, SC 29680.