B.C. Bolt

B.C. Berry Creamer Bolt, 91, of Greenville, went home to be with the Lord on Saturday, August 4, 2007. Born in Anderson, he was the son of the late Noah and Eleanor Creamer Bolt. He graduated from Boys? High School now T.L. Hanna and was a stand-out lineman on the football team. Mr. Bolt was a veteran of WWII, serving in the US Navy as a gunner?s mate on the USS Walter S. Brown in the Atlantic Theater. He resided for 60 years in Greenwood, where he was a furniture salesman and store manager for more than four decades and then turned a greenhouse hobby into a post-retirement business. In Greenwood, he was an active member of South Main Street Baptist Church, where he was formerly church treasurer and was named a Life Deacon in 1998. After his second retirement in 1997, he moved to Greenville to be near his children and grandchildren and became a faithful volunteer for Senior Action and member of First Baptist Church Simpsonville. He had been a master woodworker, crafting and restoring many pieces of beautiful furniture for his family, and until the end of his life was an avid reader and gardener known for his green thumb and his sweet, gentle spirit. Surviving are two sons, Berry Kenneth Bolt and wife Mary of Greenville and Rev. Richard Glenn Bolt and wife Gwen of Williamston; one daughter, Dr. Gayle Bolt Price of Greenville; seven grandchildren, Julie Bolt of Boston, Mass., Katie Bolt and husband Chres Rainey and Berry Bolt and husband Mike Guggenheimer, all of Greenville; Ben Bolt and wife Shelley of Easley, Ken Bolt of Fountain Inn, David Price, Jr. and Emily Price of Greenville; four great-grandchildren, Chrestman and Mary Price Rainey and Noah and Edward Guggenheimer; and numerous nieces and nephews. Mr. Bolt was predeceased by his wife, Helen Cockrell Bolt of Greenwood; two brothers, James Bolt and Noah Bolt, Jr.; and two sisters, Annie Belle Evans and Louise Hayes, all of Anderson. His life will be celebrated at services at First Baptist Simpsonville at 11:00 am on Tuesday, August 7, and graveside in Edgewood Cemetery in Greenwood at 2:00 pm, with Rev. Randy Harling and Rev. Ryan Eklund officiating. The family will receive friends at the home of Ken and Mary Bolt, 412 Hudson Rd., Greenville and at 10:15am on Tuesday at the church. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Senior Action, 50 Directors Dr., Greenville, SC 29615 and Hospice House, 1836 West Georgia Rd., Simpsonville, SC 29680. – Thomas McAfee Funeral Home, Downtown