Josephine Myers Wylie Obituary - Visitation & Funeral Information

Josephine Andrea Myers Wylie was born in Lexington County, SC to the late Robert and Everlina Bouknight Myers. She was baptized at Zion Mill Creek Baptist Church in Hopkins, SC and served there for many years. She later moved her membership to the Friendship Baptist Church in Columbia, SC where she served as a member of the Senior Missionary Society, Senior Christian Ministry and Gospel Choir. *Mrs.Wylie was educated in the Richland County Public School System. After graduating from Booker T. Washington High School, she worked as a licensed beautician and then for National Linen Service from which she retired. As an active community member, Mrs. Wylie attended the Denny Terrace Community Center, worked with the Haskell Heights Community Association as well as the Booker T. Washington Class of 1947. When her health was better, she sang with the United Gospel Singers, a group of co-workers who performed throughout the city. Mrs. Wylie was well known for her skills in crocheting, flower making and other related crafts. *She was married to the late Green Wylie, Jr. and to this union, three children were born. Mrs. Wylie was preceded in death by her parents, husband, twelve siblings; eight brothers, Frank, John, Robert, Marion, Samuel, Isaac, Abraham and her twin brother James; four sisters, Maggie Cannon, Everlina Outen, Rebecca White and Elizabeth Galloway. *Mrs. Wylie was more than an aunt, she became a second mother and grandmother to her siblings' children after their passing. She believed in the unity of family and had a very strong influence on the Bouknight/Bauknight family reunion. *Left to cherish precious memories are; a daughter, Elizabeth (Willie) Pelzer; two sons, Larry (Luetta) and Ronald Lafayette Wylie, Sr. all of Columbia, SC; eight grandchildren; three granddaughters-in-law; seven great grandchildren; two great great grandchildren; three sisters-in-law, Pearl Myers of Akron, OH, Rosanna Woodard of Baltimore, MD and Mary Lee Clark of Columbia, SC; a daughter-in-law, Mary Wylie Aquil also of Columbia, SC; a host of loving nieces, nephews, cousins and other relatives who will miss her dearly.

Josephine Myers Wylie

February 12, 1927 - May 5, 2013