Funeral service for Mr. Warren Baxter Pollard, 69, of Columbia, will be held at 1 o'clock Saturday afternoon, August 31, 2002, at Harmony Baptist Church. Interment will be in Greenlawn Memorial Park, Northeast with Military Honors. The family will receive friends from 6 until 9 o'clock this (FRIDAY) evening in Shives Funeral Home, Colonial Chapel. Memorials may be made to Harmony Baptist Church, Route 1 , Elgin, SC 29045.

Mr. Pollard died Wednesday, August 28, 2002. Born in Booneville, Mississippi, he was a son of the late Marcus Browning and Letha Carpenter Pollard. Mr. Pollard served 22 years in the U.S. Army where he received the Bronze Star, National Defense Service Medal, 3 oak leaf clusters, the Vietnam Service Medal and a Campaign Medal. He was a mason for 38 years. Mr. Pollard was an ordained minister and had a ministry for 5 years at Tanglewood Nursing Home in Ridgeway; he was a Deacon and Sunday School Teacher at Harmony Baptist Church. Mr. Pollard was a Real Estate Broker and Real Estate Appraiser from 1972 until present. He was a devoted husband and father.

Survivors are: his wife of 48 years, Vernona (Nona) Pollard of Columbia, son, Larry Warren Pollard of Blythewood, daughters, Nona Theresa Wilson of Asheville, NC and Donna Ellen Williamson of Charleston, SC, grandchildren, LCPL Benjamin, Gregory and Lisa Covington, Kimberly and Steven Pollard, 1 great grandchild, Maddisonne Covington; sisters, Verlene Heady of Lake Jackson, TX, Frankie Burks of Horn Lake, MS, Luvene Turner of Memphis, TN, Palma English and Wanda Gahagan both of Booneville, MS, Mary Robinson of Rienzi, MS and Joann Myrcle of Hernando, MS, brothers, Robert L Pollard of Wichita Falls, TX, John Ray Pollard of Gonzales, LA, Dwayne Pollard of Booneville, MS. Mr. Pollard was predeceased by sister, Noralee Ward and brothers, Derward Pollard, Sidney Pollard and Q.D. Pollard.