Robert Trippett Boineau, Sr. of Columbia, South Carolina, formerly of Midfields Plantation, Boykin, South Carolina, passed away on August 16, 2023. Services will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday, August 22, 2023 at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Columbia, where he was a lay reader and a member for over 70 years. Burial will follow at Elmwood Cemetery. Visitation will be held on Monday, August 21 from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. at Dunbar Funeral Home, Devine Street.
Mr. Boineau was born in Columbia on August 16, 1926 to Bessie Trippett Boineau and Charles Evans Boineau, Sr. He was named for his grandfather, Dr. Robert Alexander Trippett.
The family later moved to his mother’s ancestral home, Midfields Plantation, home of his great grandfather, Ellerbe Crawford Bogan Cash. Colonel Cash is noted in South Carolina history as fighting the last legal duel in South Carolina.
In 1942, Mr. Boineau was enrolled in Riverside Military Academy in Hollywood, Florida, class of 1944, where he was a member of the varsity football team.
He attended the Citadel until he enlisted in the U.S. Navy Air Corp in 1947. He was assigned to Company E of the U.S. Navy Recruit Training Center for Combat Aircrews. After an honorable discharge from the Navy in 1947, he returned to the Citadel as a veteran. He later transferred to the University of South Carolina, where he was a member of the SAE fraternity and graduated from the School of Law.
Employed by Claud Creason and Co., he found his true calling was as a real estate broker. He founded Boineau Realty Company in 1953 and grew it to become one of the most successful real estate agencies in the area.
Mr. Boineau was a Life Member of the Columbia Museum of Art and the South Caroliniana Society, the Tarantella Club, Palmetto Club, Rockbridge Club, Home Builders Association, Columbia Sales Executive Club, Green Boundary Club, Springdale Hall Club and Camden Country Club.
A passionate lover of hunting, particularly quail, dove and duck, he, his wife and son hunted big game in Tanzania, East Africa over a number of years. They were collectors for the Maurice Stans African Exhibit Museum in Rock Hill. Trippett bagged the Big Five – elephant, lion, leopard, cape buffalo, and rhino. World travel appealed to his sense of adventure and the family traveled the world numerous times.
His other great passion was the sport of polo. A highlight of this passion was the restoration of the old Kirkwood Polo Field in Camden and the formation of the Midfields Polo Team in Camden. He played club and medium goal polo up and down the East coast and around the country until late in his life. No one cherished his chukkers more than Trippett.
Mr. Boineau is survived by his wife, Dotsy Lloyd Boineau of Mount Pleasant, son Robert Trippett Boineau, Jr. (Maggie Capozzola) of Murrells Inlet, daughter Elizabeth Lloyd Boineau (Jeffery C. Lapham, deceased) of Mount Pleasant, daughter Deveaux Boineau Franke (William), (Clarke Palmer, II, deceased), (James "Skip" Minyard, deceased) of N. Augusta.
Grandchildren: Robert Trippett Boineau, III (Lindsay Moore) of Columbia, Alexandra Boineau Moss (Michael) of Mount Pleasant, Carolina Boineau Thomas (Austin) of Murrells Inlet, Clarke Palmer, III (Jessica Lamback) of N. Augusta, Dr. Andrew Robert Palmer, MD, Emily Deveaux Palmer of Aiken.
Great grandchildren: Elizabeth Gibbes Boineau, Caroline Kaliher Boineau, Elinor Moore Boineau, all of Columbia, James Boden Thomas and Lola Ruth Thomas of Murrells Inlet, Clarke Daryl Palmer of North Augusta, and Walker David Moss of Mount Pleasant.
Mr. Boineau was predeceased by his brother, Charles Evans Boineau, Jr. and his sister Elizabeth (Betty) Boineau, Roland Whitesides.
Memorials may be made to University South Caroliniana Society, 1322 Greene St, Columbia, SC 29208.
Memories may be shared at www.dunbarfunerals.com.
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