TITLE:  Jim Marion Cherry

SOURCE:  The Post and Courier

SUBMITTED BY:  The Post and Courier

FORMATTED BY:  Kim Grissom, Jun 2003

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CHERRY, Jim
COLUMBIA - Services for Jim Marion Cherry, 93, will be held Thursday 
at 3 p.m., at First Baptist Church, Boyce Chapel, Columbia. Interment 
will be in Greenlawn Memorial Park. Visitation will be Thursday from 
1:30 to 2:30 p.m. at DUNBAR FUNERAL HOME, DEVINE STREET CHAPEL. 
Memorials may be made to the Baptist Foundation of South Carolina, 
190 Stoneridge Dr., Columbia, S.C. 29210, the Methodist Manor of the 
Pee Dee, 2100 Twin Church Road, Florence, S.C. 29501, or to the South 
Carolina Lions Eye Bank, 110 Medical Circle, West Columbia, S.C. 29169.
Mr. Cherry, husband of the late Anne Dyer Cherry, to whom he was 
married for 64 years, died October 8, 2001. Born July 2, 1908, in 
Sumter, S.C., he was the son of Martha Orilee Thomasson Cherry and 
Robert Stough Cherry. He was a graduate of Sumter High School and 
earned an A.B. Degree in English from Furman University in 1929. He 
later received the M.Ed. Degree from Teachers College, Columbia 
University, where he also pursued additional graduate study. He was a 
school administrator in Edgefield County and later was Superintendent 
of the John DeLa Howe School in McCormick, S.C. In 1945, he moved to 
Columbia, where he lived until 1992, when he and his wife entered a 
retirement home in Florence. He served as Director of Public Relations 
for the South Carolina Education Association, Superintendent and 
Business Manager of the South Carolina Area Trade Schools, Chief of 
the Division of the Blind for the S.C. Department of Public Welfare, 
and President of the Baptist Foundation of South Carolina. He was an 
active member of First Baptist Church of Columbia, where he was 
Chairman of the Board of Deacons, Sunday School Superintendent, and 
teacher of the Jim Cherry Bible Class. His civic activities included 
positions as District Governor of Lions International and as 
International Director from 1961 to 1963. He was also a Director of 
the South Carolina Cancer Society, President of the South Carolina 
State Employees Association, and a Director of the S.C. Rehabilitation 
Association. He was a member of the S.C. Lions Sigh Conservation 
Association Board, the YMCA Board, and Chairman of the Board of Ocean 
City Life Insurance Company. He is survived by four sons, Jim Marion 
Cherry, Jr., of Kingstree, George William Cherry and Robert Bernard 
Cherry of Sumter, and Charles Maurice Cherry of Greenville; one 
sister, Bleka Anita Cherry Kolb of Liberty, S.C.; nine grandchildren; 
five great-grandsons and three great-granddaughters. (Published Oct 
10, 2001)
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