Herbert "Herb" Otto Chambers Jr.

Funeral Service for Herbert O. Chambers, Jr. “Herb” will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, January 17, 2015 at Virginia Wingard United Methodist Church with burial to follow in Elmwood Cemetery. The family will receive friends Friday, January 16, 2015, from 5:00 until 7:00 p.m. at Dunbar Funeral Home, Dutch Fork Chapel, Irmo.

On Wednesday, January 14, 2015, Herbert O. Chambers, Jr. ("Herb") died peacefully at his home in Columbia surrounded by his five children. Herb was 92 years of age. He was preceded in death last March by his wife of 68 years, Doris Emily Gray Chambers. One of the many loves of his life was the Methodist Church and, in particular, Virginia Wingard Memorial United Methodist. He was a choir member for more than 50 years, taught Sunday school for more than 60 years, and was a volunteer in missions for more than 35 years. The son of a Methodist minister, Herb grew up in Fountain Inn, Clinton, Newberry, Abbeville, Greenville, Anderson, and his beloved Clemson. He was the son of Reverend Herbert O. Chambers, Sr. and Mrs. Jessie Timmons Speer Chambers and the brother of Evelyn Speer Hipp, Mary Glynn Simpson, and Jessie Louise Bishop, all of whom preceded him to heaven. He is survived by his children, Herbert O. Chambers, III ("Bing") (Susan), Emily Susan Chapman (Bernie), Jane Gray Andrews-Nicol, Frances Ann Benton (Charlie), and Harriet Virginia Malcom (Greg), 8 grandchildren and 8 great-grandchildren.

Herb was an all-state basketball player on Clemson-Calhoun High School's state championship team in 1939. He was stricken with polio between high school and college, which prevented him from attending Clemson, so he enrolled at Newberry College where he was president of the student body and a member of Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities as a math and chemistry major. He worked in Greenville as a chemist for several years before eventually settling in with Palmetto Wholesale in Columbia for 35 years as an architectural hardware consultant to the architectural and construction industries

Memorials may be made to Virginia Wingard Memorial United Methodist Church, 1500 Broad River Road, Columbia, SC 29210.