Lula Mae Keels Holliday Pace

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Lula Mae Keels Holliday Pace, 77, widow of Richard Holliday and Curtis Uyless Pace, died on Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2014, at Palmetto Health Richland, Columbia.

Born Oct. 22, 1936, in Summerton, she was a daughter of the late Johnny and Malvenia Clark Keels. She attended Clarendon County public schools. In her youth, she attended Taw Caw Baptist Church. After marriage, she moved to New York, where she was a homemaker and caregiver. After returning home, she joined Elizabeth Missionary Baptist Church and sang with the choir.

Survivors include four daughters, Luevennia (Winston) Anderson of Harlem, N.Y., and Geraldine Holliday, Ester Holliday and Myrtle (Harry) Bennett, all of Brooklyn, N.Y.; six grandchildren; and a great-grandchild.

The celebratory services for Lula Mae Keels Holliday Pace will be held 2 p.m. today at Elizabeth Missionary Baptist Church in Manning, with the Rev. Terry Johnson, pastor, officiating, and the Rev. Lillian Wright and Pastor Ashley B. Vaughn assisting. Burial will follow in the churchyard cemetery.

Mrs. Pace will lie in repose one hour prior to funeral time.

The family is receiving friends at the home, 1130 Hamilton Road in Hallietown community in Clarendon County.

These services have been entrusted to Samuels Funeral Home LLC of Manning.