COLUMBIA - A funeral service for Mrs. Ruth M. Kimble, 91, will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, November 19, 2022 at Dunbar Funeral Home, Northeast Chapel, with burial in Bush River Memorial Gardens. The family will receive friends from 3:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. Friday, November 18, 2022, at the funeral home.
Mrs. Kimble passed away on Friday, November 11, 2022. Born in Edgefield, SC, she was a daughter of the late Rev. Elbert Mims and Endie Thomas. She was a graduate of A&E College where she received her Bachelor’s degree in nursing and then her masters degree in nursing at the University of South Carolina. Ruth began her career as a Registered Nurse at Columbia Hospital and retired after 27 years at Richland Memorial Hospital. After retirement she worked as a private duty nurse at Still Hopes Episcopal Retirement Community. After forty-five years of nursing, she enjoyed her children and grandchildren, planting flowers, gardening, and cooking for the kids in the community.
Surviving are her sons, Tune Kimble (Veronica), Christopher Mims, Tony Kimble, and Nicholas Kimble (Kimberly); daughters, Mina Parks (Hensley), LaTashia Dodson (Thomas), and Gwendolyn Mims Brown; granddaughters, Mariea Daniels (Nathan); Queisha Rainer, Tina Mims, 20 other grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren.
In addition to her parents, she was predeceased by her daughters; Celeste Mims, Renta Mims, Christina Kimble, and her son, Lenzel Kimble.
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