Susan Bumgarner Obituary

BUMGARNER, Susan Susan Wall Bumgarner, 56, of Granite Falls, North Carolina passed away March 26, 2008 at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. After an almost continuous battle against Inflammatory Breast Cancer, she now has peace with God. Mrs. Bumgarner was born June 22, 1951 in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. She returned to her ancestral south, and graduated Sylacauga High School in Sylacauga, Alabama, and the University of Montevallo in Montevallo, Alabama. Mrs. Bumgarner was a public school teacher and a weekly newspaper editor. In later years she was primarily a homemaker in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina where she was very active as a member of East Cooper Baptist Church. Her most regretted loss in her battle with cancer was her inability to sing in the church choir, which she dearly loved. Susan is survived by her husband, Warren Bumgarner of Granite Falls, North Carolina, two sons, Michael Svencicki of Aiken, South Carolina, Matthew Svencicki of Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, a step son, Brandon Bumgarner of Concord, North Carolina, and a step daughter, Ashley Hedrick of Brooklyn, New York. She is also survived by sisters Sandra (Rick) Dennard, of Kennesaw, Georgia, and Judi (Brett) Blatchley of Jacksonville, North Carolina, as well as numerous nieces and nephews. She is also survived by her parents, Bill and Barbara Wall, of Aiken, South Carolina. Visitation of family and friends will be conducted Sunday afternoon from 2 p.m. until 4 pm at Fox & Weeks Funeral Home Hodgson Chapel in Savannah, Georgia. Funeral Services will be Monday at 11 am at Fox and Weeks Funeral Directors Hodgson Chapel with interment in Forrest Lawn Cemetery in Savannah. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made in her name to The Morgan Welch Inflammatory Breast Cancer Clinic, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Boulevard, Houston Texas, 77030-4009. FOX AND WEEKS FUNERAL DIRECTORS HODGSON CHAPEL. Please sign our guestbook online at www.foxandweeks.com. Visit our guestbook at www.charleston.net/deaths.