WALTERBORO: Mrs. Lona Bell Ulmer Murdaugh, wife of the late Palmer Laurie Murdaugh, passed away Sunday morning at the Generations of Batesburg Hospice Center. She was 97, was a retired lunchroom manager for the Colleton County School District, and was a member of the First Christian Church of Walterboro.


She is survived by two grandchildren: Myra Counts of Leesville, and Andy Kuiper (Amanda) of Fort Mill. She has three great-grandchildren: Rodney and Heather Kirkland, and Eli Kuiper. She leaves behind one brother, Allen Ulmer of Florida, and she was preceded in death by a daughter, Elizabeth M. Kuiper.


Funeral services will be held Wednesday, June 28, 2017 at 12:00 PM in the Rice Patch Christian Church in Islandton, with burial following in the church cemetery. The family will receive friends in the church sanctuary beginning at 11:00 AM. Parker-Rhoden Funeral Home of Walterboro is in charge of arrangements.