Ms. Shirley Elizabeth Benn

April 30, 1951 - May 11, 2022

Shirley Elizabeth Benn was born in Cayce, South Carolina, on April 30, 1951 to the late Lemuel and Elizabeth Freeman Benn. She was called to her heavenly home on May 11, 2022, at the age of 71. Shirley moved to New York and graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in Queens, New York. She later became a drug rehabilitation counselor. She then returned to Cayce, South Carolina and was a manager at Hardee's for many years. Shirley Benn enjoyed spending time with her family and loved to sew, cook, and travel. She was preceded in death by her parents, loving husband, Frison Emery Benn and a son, Easmel Mandrel Benn, three brothers, Isaac, Luther and Lawrence Golden and three sisters, Loretta Jordan, Deborah Fanning and Diane Miller. She is lovingly remembered by her children, Emery (Moneek) Benn, Isaac (April) Benn, Keith Benn, and James (Felicia) Benn; her grandchildren, Patrick, Asia, Mandrell, Kiara, Nicholas, Mya, Zachary, Jabari, and Daivion; her great grandchildren, A'yana, Princeton, and Mandell, Jr.; six brothers, Wayne, James, Robert, Randy, Donnell (Shirley) and Bernard (Nicole) Golden; a sister-in-law, Sandra Golden of New York and a host of other relatives and friends who will miss her dearly. Funeral services will be held 1:00 p.m., Tuesday, May 17, 2022 at Brookland Baptist Church, 1066 Sunset Boulevard, West Columbia, South Carolina 29169. Reverend Dr. James Jamison, officiating. Interment to follow in the Golden Cemetery. Public viewing will be held from 12 noon until 6:00 p.m., Monday, May 16, 2022 at A. A. Dicks Funeral Home, 2548 Main Street, Columbia, South Carolina 29201. To view the service for Ms. Shirley E. Benn, please click on the link below: https://www.facebook.com/A-A-Dicks-Funeral-Home-Sullivan-Chapel-115729839828313/. Please leave the Benn family your condolences and prayers. The Benn family acknowledges with grateful appreciation, all of your kind expressions of love and sympathy. Like our Facebook page: A. A. Dicks Funeral Home - Sullivan Chapel Add our Facebook Friend Page and leave a comment: A. A. Dicks FH Thank you for helping us serve our families: A. A. Dicks, Sr. and staff