Ivy Easler Smith

Funeral services will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Friday, July 2, 2021 at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 4440 Fort Jackson Blvd. in Columbia, SC, with burial to follow in Greenlawn Memorial Gardens. The family will receive friends from 6-8pm on Thursday, July 1, 2021 at Dunbar Funeral Home, Devine Street Chapel.

A native of Columbia, Ivy was born on March 23, 1924 to Joseph David and Nellie Viola Brazell Easler. She grew up in the Olympia Mill Village, the seventh of seven sisters with one younger brother. She graduated from Olympia High School in 1941. Ivy was faithful, compassionate, strong, and a loving wife, mother and grandmother. She loved her family more than anything and she was a friend to everyone.

Ivy was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints where she held many callings. She most enjoyed working with the Young Women and loved going to Girl’s Camp with them. She was a leader and teacher in the Primary, Sunday School, and Relief Society organizations. She will be remembered as a woman of great faith.

Ivy was involved with her children’s schools, and served as Home Room Mother for every one of her children. If there was an event at school, Ivy was there. She also volunteered at Moncrief Army Hospital with her husband for several years.

Ivy loved to cook, bake, sew, and crochet for her family and friends. Her homemade biscuits were a favorite of all who had the opportunity to taste them. When Ivy was a young girl, she took dance lessons. She learned to toe dance and tap. She was so good she taught lessons to younger children to pay for her own lessons. Ivy loved to dance with her granddaughter, showing off her tap moves. They would dance together all over the house.

She was a voracious reader. She loved mysteries especially, sometimes reading three books in a week. Ivy enjoyed watching television with her family and would often be found watching mysteries and westerns. She loved to travel and spend vacations with her family.

In addition to her parents, she was predeceased by her husband of fifty-nine years, Robert Alan Smith; her sisters, Florence, Mildred, Maude, Martha, Mary, and Thelma; her brother, David; and sons, Gregory Alan and Lawrence Sheldon Smith; and daughter-in-law, Carol M. Smith.

Ivy is survived by her children, Allison Yvonne Glissmeyer (John) of Kennewick Washington, Michael Wayne of West Columbia, Peggy Elaine Whisenant (Marc) of Columbia; sixteen grandchildren; forty-four great-grandchildren; one great-great-grandchild and one on the way.

Memorials may be made to the Missionary Fund of the Hopkins Ward, Columbia SC Stake.

She is not gone forever, she’s just gone up the road a piece…

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