Carrie "Ting" Lavern (Kemmerlin) Mcalhany

Carrie Lavern “Ting” McAlhany, 91, of the Jamison Community in Orangeburg passed away on Tuesday, August 16, 2022, surrounded by her loving family.

Funeral services will be held at 11:00 A.M. on Friday, August 19, 2022, at Mt. Carmel Baptist Church, 727 Waterspring Rd, Orangeburg.  Rev. Justin Eshelman will be officiating.  Burial will follow at Crestlawn Memorial Gardens, 4830 Columbia Road, Orangeburg.

The family will receive friends from 6:00-8:00 P.M. on Thursday, August 18, 2022, at Thompson Funeral Home Chapel, 1012 Whitman Street Orangeburg.

Honored to serve as pallbearers are Jeremy Owens, Joseph Stanfield, Tim Stanfield, Robert Dannelly, Al Dannelly, Logan Watson, and Thomas Chavis.

Mrs. Carrie was born on October 18, 1930, in Cameron, S.C.  She was the daughter of the late Lewis A. Kemmerlin and the late Ruby L. Thompson Kemmerlin.  She was a former member of Garden City Baptist Church and a current member of Mt. Carmel Baptist Church.  Mrs. Carrie retired from KOYO in Orangeburg.  She enjoyed cooking, sewing and gardening, but her passion was her family.  She loved being a “Grandma” and “Nana.”  She was a very involved mother and grandmother.  She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, Furman McAlhany, son, Furman Roy “Weebody” Stanfield, grandson, John “Bubba” Stanfield, sisters, Fannie “Chick” Amaker, Thelma “Coot” Horger, Birdie Lucille Kemmerlin, and brothers, Lewis “Bubba” Kemmerlin, Jr., Chubby “Chub” Kemmerlin, Ashby “Son” Kemmerlin and Samuel "Sambo" Kemmerlin.

Survivors include her son, J. Lavern Stanfield (Norma); two grandchildren, Timothy Stanfield, Sr. (Kelly Hutson), Dianna Buchwalter (Chad); five great-grandchildren, Timothy Stanfield, Jr., Christine Nicole Stanfield, Joseph Roy Stanfield, Michael Jeremy Owens, Ava Grace Owens; great-great grandchildren, Abbygale Christine Furtick, Walker Ryan Randall, Coy Blaze Brown, sister, Ruby “Sis” Dannelly and a number of nieces and nephews.

Memorials may be made to the Alzheimer’s Association at 225 N. Michigan Ave. Floor 17 Chicago, IL 60601.