Mrs. Rosa Mae Mayo

August 26, 1936 - January 9, 2016

Funeral services for Mrs. Rosa Mae Mayo 79, of Columbia, SC will be held 1:00 p.m. Saturday, January 16, 2016 at Central Baptist Church, 3625 Clement Road, Columbia, SC 29203. Interment will follow in The Promised Land Cemetery. Public viewing will be Friday, January 15, 2016 from 12-7 p.m. Mrs. Mayo entered into rest on Saturday, January 9, 2016 at Lexington Medical Center. A. A. Dicks Funeral Home Sullivan Chapel, 2548 Main St, Columbia, is in charge of these services. Mrs. Mayo was born to the late Mr. and Mrs. Allen and Leila Barnes on August 26, 1936. "Skeet", as she was affectionately called by her family, was educated in the public schools of Lexington and Richland Counties. Rosa was a homemaker until the year 2000 then she she worked for Hampton Inn Hotel until her health declined. Rosa was preceded in death by her parents, ten brothers and sisters, her husband, Thomas Mayo, Jr., a loving daughter, Dorothy L. Davis and a great grandson, Tervante 'D. Workman. Those left to celebrate Rosa 's home going are: her daughters, Mary Harper, Barbara (Bobby) Geter, Thomasina (Michael) Samuels - Mayo and Joyce Mayo all of Columbia, SC and Yvonne (Steve) Burrell of Killeen, TX; two sisters, Georgeianna Williams and Addie Ware; a brother, Sammy Barnes all of Columbia, SC; nineteen grandchildren; twenty-five great grandchildren; two great great grandchildren and a host of other loving relatives and friends.