Sallie Coles Heyward Cathcart widow of Charles Dwight Cathcart, died at Lexington Memorial Hospital on Wednesday, May 14, 2003, after a ten-year residency at the South Carolina Episcopal Home at Still Hopes, West Columbia. She was 90 years old.
Born in Columbia, December 9, 1912, she was the daughter of Edmund Rhett Heyward and Sarah Jones Boykin Heyward. She attended Hollins College in Virginia and graduated from the University of South Carolina in 1934. She was a member of Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, the daughters of the Holy Cross, The Columbia Committee of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the state of S. C., The Assembly, the Junior League of Columbia, Delta Delta Delta Sorority, The Remnants Book Club, the English-Speaking Union and a charter member of the Crepe Myrtle Garden Club.
Mrs. Cathcart had a lifelong interest in children. In her youth she was instrumental in having the City of Columbia construct a Girl Scout cabin in Shandon Park, later Emily Douglas Park, using building materials that she secured herself. After her graduation from Columbia High School, she worked with mountain children at the Episcopal Appalachian Mission, Penland, North Carolina (later Penland School). These experiences greatly influenced her life and instilled in her an enduring love of the mountains and people of Western North Carolina and inspired her love of all living things.
Her long and varied career in teaching Columbia young people began at Heathwood Hall Episcopal School where she was the Director of Religious Education. There she taught Bible studies and conducted daily chapel services. She later taught fourth grade at A.C. Moore Elementary and Hammond School. Mrs. Cathcart volunteered and taught fourth grade at Gadsden Elementary in support of the Richland County School District's effort to integrate all school faculties. she was beloved by her students over her twenty-nine-year teaching career.
Mrs. Cathcart was a devoted, creative, and tireless for her church and for her community. Her generous and unselfish spirit and her deep, abiding love for her family, friends and neighbors were widely known.
Surviving is her daughter, Mrs. Coles Heyward Cathcart Jackson (Charles Reid Jackson Sr.) of Cheraw, S. C., two sons Charles Dwight Cathcart Jr. of Boston, Massachusetts and Edmund Heyward Cathcart Sr., of Columbia, her sisters, Mrs. Sarah Boykin Heyward (F. E. Hinnant), Mrs. Elizabeth Courtney Heyward Boykin (Bessie Robinson Boykin), nine grandchildren Mrs. Coles Heyward Jackson Lawton (Joseph James Lawton III), Mrs. Alice Dean Jackson Fort (George Hamlet Tatum Fort), Charles Reid Jackson Jr., Mrs. Mary Moore Cathcart Bishop, (Peter Bishop), Francis Dwight Cathcart, Mrs. Brooks Taber Cathcart Bruner (William Wallace Bruner III), Edmund Heyward Cathcart Jr., Charles Dwight Cathcart II, Thornwell Norwood Thomas Cathcart, twelve great-grandchildren, and sixteen nieces and nephews. Her brother, Albert Rhett Heyward II, predeceased her.
Services will be held Friday, May 16, 2003, at eleven o'clock in the morning at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Columbia, conducted by the Rev. Susan Heath. Burial will follow in Elmwood Cemetery. The family will receive friends on Thursday evening from five to seven o'clock at 143 Saluda Avenue, Columbia, S. C., the home of Dr. and Mrs. Joseph J. Lawton, III.
The family wishes to thank Mrs. Mamie Tillman and Mrs. Doris Tyler, and the staff of the South Carolina Episcopal Home at Still Hopes for their loving care of Mrs. Cathcart.
Published in The State Newspaper, Columbia, S. C., Thursday, June 15, 2003, page 4B col. 4.
Born in Columbia, December 9, 1912, she was the daughter of Edmund Rhett Heyward and Sarah Jones Boykin Heyward. She attended Hollins College in Virginia and graduated from the University of South Carolina in 1934. She was a member of Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, the daughters of the Holy Cross, The Columbia Committee of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the state of S. C., The Assembly, the Junior League of Columbia, Delta Delta Delta Sorority, The Remnants Book Club, the English-Speaking Union and a charter member of the Crepe Myrtle Garden Club.
Mrs. Cathcart had a lifelong interest in children. In her youth she was instrumental in having the City of Columbia construct a Girl Scout cabin in Shandon Park, later Emily Douglas Park, using building materials that she secured herself. After her graduation from Columbia High School, she worked with mountain children at the Episcopal Appalachian Mission, Penland, North Carolina (later Penland School). These experiences greatly influenced her life and instilled in her an enduring love of the mountains and people of Western North Carolina and inspired her love of all living things.
Her long and varied career in teaching Columbia young people began at Heathwood Hall Episcopal School where she was the Director of Religious Education. There she taught Bible studies and conducted daily chapel services. She later taught fourth grade at A.C. Moore Elementary and Hammond School. Mrs. Cathcart volunteered and taught fourth grade at Gadsden Elementary in support of the Richland County School District's effort to integrate all school faculties. she was beloved by her students over her twenty-nine-year teaching career.
Mrs. Cathcart was a devoted, creative, and tireless for her church and for her community. Her generous and unselfish spirit and her deep, abiding love for her family, friends and neighbors were widely known.
Surviving is her daughter, Mrs. Coles Heyward Cathcart Jackson (Charles Reid Jackson Sr.) of Cheraw, S. C., two sons Charles Dwight Cathcart Jr. of Boston, Massachusetts and Edmund Heyward Cathcart Sr., of Columbia, her sisters, Mrs. Sarah Boykin Heyward (F. E. Hinnant), Mrs. Elizabeth Courtney Heyward Boykin (Bessie Robinson Boykin), nine grandchildren Mrs. Coles Heyward Jackson Lawton (Joseph James Lawton III), Mrs. Alice Dean Jackson Fort (George Hamlet Tatum Fort), Charles Reid Jackson Jr., Mrs. Mary Moore Cathcart Bishop, (Peter Bishop), Francis Dwight Cathcart, Mrs. Brooks Taber Cathcart Bruner (William Wallace Bruner III), Edmund Heyward Cathcart Jr., Charles Dwight Cathcart II, Thornwell Norwood Thomas Cathcart, twelve great-grandchildren, and sixteen nieces and nephews. Her brother, Albert Rhett Heyward II, predeceased her.
Services will be held Friday, May 16, 2003, at eleven o'clock in the morning at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Columbia, conducted by the Rev. Susan Heath. Burial will follow in Elmwood Cemetery. The family will receive friends on Thursday evening from five to seven o'clock at 143 Saluda Avenue, Columbia, S. C., the home of Dr. and Mrs. Joseph J. Lawton, III.
The family wishes to thank Mrs. Mamie Tillman and Mrs. Doris Tyler, and the staff of the South Carolina Episcopal Home at Still Hopes for their loving care of Mrs. Cathcart.
Published in The State Newspaper, Columbia, S. C., Thursday, June 15, 2003, page 4B col. 4.
Sallie Coles Heyward Cathcart widow of Charles Dwight Cathcart, died at Lexington Memorial Hospital on Wednesday, May 14, 2003, after a ten-year residency at the South Carolina Episcopal Home at Still Hopes, West Columbia. She was 90 years old.
Born in Columbia, December 9, 1912, she was the daughter of Edmund Rhett Heyward and Sarah Jones Boykin Heyward. She attended Hollins College in Virginia and graduated from the University of South Carolina in 1934. She was a member of Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, the daughters of the Holy Cross, The Columbia Committee of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the state of S. C., The Assembly, the Junior League of Columbia, Delta Delta Delta Sorority, The Remnants Book Club, the English-Speaking Union and a charter member of the Crepe Myrtle Garden Club.
Mrs. Cathcart had a lifelong interest in children. In her youth she was instrumental in having the City of Columbia construct a Girl Scout cabin in Shandon Park, later Emily Douglas Park, using building materials that she secured herself. After her graduation from Columbia High School, she worked with mountain children at the Episcopal Appalachian Mission, Penland, North Carolina (later Penland School). These experiences greatly influenced her life and instilled in her an enduring love of the mountains and people of Western North Carolina and inspired her love of all living things.
Her long and varied career in teaching Columbia young people began at Heathwood Hall Episcopal School where she was the Director of Religious Education. There she taught Bible studies and conducted daily chapel services. She later taught fourth grade at A.C. Moore Elementary and Hammond School. Mrs. Cathcart volunteered and taught fourth grade at Gadsden Elementary in support of the Richland County School District's effort to integrate all school faculties. she was beloved by her students over her twenty-nine-year teaching career.
Mrs. Cathcart was a devoted, creative, and tireless for her church and for her community. Her generous and unselfish spirit and her deep, abiding love for her family, friends and neighbors were widely known.
Surviving is her daughter, Mrs. Coles Heyward Cathcart Jackson (Charles Reid Jackson Sr.) of Cheraw, S. C., two sons Charles Dwight Cathcart Jr. of Boston, Massachusetts and Edmund Heyward Cathcart Sr., of Columbia, her sisters, Mrs. Sarah Boykin Heyward (F. E. Hinnant), Mrs. Elizabeth Courtney Heyward Boykin (Bessie Robinson Boykin), nine grandchildren Mrs. Coles Heyward Jackson Lawton (Joseph James Lawton III), Mrs. Alice Dean Jackson Fort (George Hamlet Tatum Fort), Charles Reid Jackson Jr., Mrs. Mary Moore Cathcart Bishop, (Peter Bishop), Francis Dwight Cathcart, Mrs. Brooks Taber Cathcart Bruner (William Wallace Bruner III), Edmund Heyward Cathcart Jr., Charles Dwight Cathcart II, Thornwell Norwood Thomas Cathcart, twelve great-grandchildren, and sixteen nieces and nephews. Her brother, Albert Rhett Heyward II, predeceased her.
Services will be held Friday, May 16, 2003, at eleven o'clock in the morning at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Columbia, conducted by the Rev. Susan Heath. Burial will follow in Elmwood Cemetery. The family will receive friends on Thursday evening from five to seven o'clock at 143 Saluda Avenue, Columbia, S. C., the home of Dr. and Mrs. Joseph J. Lawton, III.
The family wishes to thank Mrs. Mamie Tillman and Mrs. Doris Tyler, and the staff of the South Carolina Episcopal Home at Still Hopes for their loving care of Mrs. Cathcart.
Published in The State Newspaper, Columbia, S. C., Thursday, June 15, 2003, page 4B col. 4.
Born in Columbia, December 9, 1912, she was the daughter of Edmund Rhett Heyward and Sarah Jones Boykin Heyward. She attended Hollins College in Virginia and graduated from the University of South Carolina in 1934. She was a member of Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, the daughters of the Holy Cross, The Columbia Committee of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the state of S. C., The Assembly, the Junior League of Columbia, Delta Delta Delta Sorority, The Remnants Book Club, the English-Speaking Union and a charter member of the Crepe Myrtle Garden Club.
Mrs. Cathcart had a lifelong interest in children. In her youth she was instrumental in having the City of Columbia construct a Girl Scout cabin in Shandon Park, later Emily Douglas Park, using building materials that she secured herself. After her graduation from Columbia High School, she worked with mountain children at the Episcopal Appalachian Mission, Penland, North Carolina (later Penland School). These experiences greatly influenced her life and instilled in her an enduring love of the mountains and people of Western North Carolina and inspired her love of all living things.
Her long and varied career in teaching Columbia young people began at Heathwood Hall Episcopal School where she was the Director of Religious Education. There she taught Bible studies and conducted daily chapel services. She later taught fourth grade at A.C. Moore Elementary and Hammond School. Mrs. Cathcart volunteered and taught fourth grade at Gadsden Elementary in support of the Richland County School District's effort to integrate all school faculties. she was beloved by her students over her twenty-nine-year teaching career.
Mrs. Cathcart was a devoted, creative, and tireless for her church and for her community. Her generous and unselfish spirit and her deep, abiding love for her family, friends and neighbors were widely known.
Surviving is her daughter, Mrs. Coles Heyward Cathcart Jackson (Charles Reid Jackson Sr.) of Cheraw, S. C., two sons Charles Dwight Cathcart Jr. of Boston, Massachusetts and Edmund Heyward Cathcart Sr., of Columbia, her sisters, Mrs. Sarah Boykin Heyward (F. E. Hinnant), Mrs. Elizabeth Courtney Heyward Boykin (Bessie Robinson Boykin), nine grandchildren Mrs. Coles Heyward Jackson Lawton (Joseph James Lawton III), Mrs. Alice Dean Jackson Fort (George Hamlet Tatum Fort), Charles Reid Jackson Jr., Mrs. Mary Moore Cathcart Bishop, (Peter Bishop), Francis Dwight Cathcart, Mrs. Brooks Taber Cathcart Bruner (William Wallace Bruner III), Edmund Heyward Cathcart Jr., Charles Dwight Cathcart II, Thornwell Norwood Thomas Cathcart, twelve great-grandchildren, and sixteen nieces and nephews. Her brother, Albert Rhett Heyward II, predeceased her.
Services will be held Friday, May 16, 2003, at eleven o'clock in the morning at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Columbia, conducted by the Rev. Susan Heath. Burial will follow in Elmwood Cemetery. The family will receive friends on Thursday evening from five to seven o'clock at 143 Saluda Avenue, Columbia, S. C., the home of Dr. and Mrs. Joseph J. Lawton, III.
The family wishes to thank Mrs. Mamie Tillman and Mrs. Doris Tyler, and the staff of the South Carolina Episcopal Home at Still Hopes for their loving care of Mrs. Cathcart.
Published in The State Newspaper, Columbia, S. C., Thursday, June 15, 2003, page 4B col. 4.
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