Peggy Ann Peele Ballentine

Funeral service for Peggy Ann Peele Ballentine, 90, will be held at 1:00 p.m. on Friday, January 28, 2022, at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church with Rev. Dr. Tony A. Metze officiating. Burial will follow in Woodridge Memorial Park. The family will receive friends from 12:00 p.m. until 1:00 p.m. prior to the service at the church in the Good Shepherd Room. Dunbar Funeral Home, Dutch Fork Chapel, is assisting the family.

Mrs. Ballentine was a strong woman with a gentle spirit. She was a long-time member of St. Paul's and active in many of its ministries. She was a member of the Mary & Martha Circle and Mary Lou Martin Sewing Group for years. In 2016 she was awarded a Life Membership in the Women of the ELCA SC Synodical Organization for her “dedicated and joyful service” to her Lord and church. The Sewing Group that she headed at that time “brought comfort and love to so many through the prayer pillows" they made. She also enjoyed line dancing with other seniors at the Seven Oaks Community Center and performed regularly at area nursing homes. For many years she delivered Meals on Wheels and was often assisted by one or more of her grandchildren.

Mrs. Ballentine died in her home Sunday, January 23, 2022. She was born April 26, 1931, in St. Francis Xavier Hospital at the corner of Calhoun St. and Ashley Ave. in Charleston, S.C. to the late Joseph Herbert and Emma Adele Buck Peele. She was a graduate of Memminger High School and Newberry College. She is predeceased by her husband of 62 years, the late Jess Sidney Ballentine, Jr. She dearly loved her four children and their spouses, Sid “J. S., III” and Debbie Ballentine, David Edwin and Cheryl Ballentine, Lynn B. and Meyer Moore, Mark Alan and Ginger Ballentine. She was "Granny" to her seven grandchildren, Dana B. Coon (Jason) and Sara B. Jackson (Kyle), Brad Ballentine (Sara), Frederick and Caroline Moore, and Erin and William Ballentine; and her six great-grandchildren, Grayson and Abigail Coon, Reagan and Sydney Jackson, and Gavin and Keaton Ballentine.

The family wishes to extend special appreciation and gratitude to the caregivers and staff at Solutions for Living at Home and the first responders at the Irmo Fire District Headquarters on St. Andrews who responded regularly when Mrs. Ballentine needed assistance.

Memorials may be made to St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, 1715 Bull St., Columbia, SC 29201.

Memories may be shared at www.dunbarfunerals.com.