Georgia Herbert Hart

COLUMBIA - Georgia Hull Herbert Hart, most currently of Still Hopes, West Columbia, where she and her many friends made new friends every day, died Thursday, January 5, 2017. Georgia, a strong, smart, courageous Southern Lady, graduated from Columbia High School and Sweet Briar Collage. She was a daughter: Robt. Beverley and Georgia Hull Herbert; a wife: Dr. George C Hart; a mother: Becky (Bill) Smith – Birmingham, George (Christina) Hart – St. Paul, Frank (Lucy) Hart – Columbia; a grandmother: Bill (Emmie), Childs (Elizabeth), Jim (Eleanor) Smith; Alicia (Michael) Palmore; George Christian (Talaya) Hart; Rebecca (Bill) Warren, Jordan Hart; Treva (Casey) Williams; a great-grandmother: Will, Edie, Sarah Smith; Carlisle, Rucker Smith; Ann Milbray, Mary Coulbourne Smith; Henry, Georgia Palmore; O. Frank, Mary Bond Warren; Talley Kamea Hart; sister: Beverley (Heloise)(both deceased) Herbert; Jim (deceased) (Betty) Herbert; Mary (Edmund) Taylor. Georgia’s goals were to play golf and write. However, never wanting to miss an opportunity, she excelled in teaching, encouraging, befriending, bridge, golf, poetry, birding: Newspaper reporter (People and Things); TV star (Georgia Hart Show), writer (Life on a Virginia Farm), poet (Time and Tide; Lightly Spritely), golfer (SC Golf Hall of Fame), program speaker esp. on birds (Minn.Broadwing Hawk), Pawleys bridgeparty hostess, piano musician (Christmas Carol sherry parties), Annual Masters week hostess. Georgia was a reluctant female pioneer in leadership roles at Trinity Cathedral; a member of the Ex Libras Society; President of the Jr. League, the Sustainers Book Club, The Assembly, and Colonial Dames. In each of these she excelled, did honor to the name, and will be greatly missed but fondly remembered by her family and friends, collectively and individually. Of what she was particularly proud, was her involvement in the creation of the SC Environmental Stained Glass window in Trinity Church; helping start the poetry program at the Shepard Center; being part of the re-organizational committee of the SC Court System; and “owning a Botticelli” in the Herbert-Hart gallery of the Columbia Museum of Art. A memorial service for Georgia Hart will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, January 7, 2017 in the Chapel of the Holy Spirit at Still Hopes Episcopal Retirement Community with reception to follow the service. A private interment will be held at a later date in the Trinity Episcopal Cathedral Churchyard. Dunbar Funeral Home, Devine Street Chapel, is assisting the family. Memorials may be made to Still Hopes Episcopal Retirement Community, 1 Still Hopes Drive, West Columbia, SC 29169. Please sign the online guestbook at www.dunbarfunerals.com.