Mr. Roosevelt Drummer Jr. Obituary - Visitation & Funeral Information

Roosevelt Drummer Jr. entered into rest on Saturday March 8, 2014. Funeral services will be held Saturday March 15, 2014 at 12 noon from A. A. Dicks Funeral Home Sullivan Chapel. Interment to follow in Promised Land Cemetery. He was born on July 22, 1939 in Columbia, South Carolina to the late Roosevelt and Rosa Mae Myers Drummer, Sr. Roosevelt was educated in the public schools of Richland County South Carolina and attended Howard Elementary and Booker T. Washington High schools. Mr. Drummer was a man of Baptist faith who retired from the former Richland Memorial Hospital. He also was a truck driver and painter. Roosevelt was married to the late Mildred Ruff Drummer who proceded him in death. His two brothers, Robert Lee and Arthur Scott also preceded him in death. Left to cherish memories are his four daughters, Rochelle Mayes of New York, Keisha Drummer of Trenton, New Jersey, Jazz Drummer of Bronx, New York and Shimeka Mayes of Atlanta, Georgia; son, Lumumba Drummer of Brooklyn, New York; two sisters, Bertha D. Irby and Bernice A. Crumpton; six grandchildren, six great grandchildren and a host of other relatives and friends. A. A. Dicks Funeral Home Sullivan Chapel, 2548 Main Street, Columbia, SC are in charge of these arrangements.

Mr. Roosevelt Drummer Jr.

July 22, 1936 - March 8, 2014