Rosemary Kannaday , July 29, 1939 — October 10, 2018

OBITUARY Rosemary Kannaday July 29, 1939 – October 10, 2018 Rosemary Orr Kannaday July 29, 1939 – October 10, 2018 Rosemary was born in Gulfport, Mississippi and raised as a young child in the Panama Canal Zone before returning to the U.S. where she attended North Augusta High School and graduated 1957. She was elected “Miss Hi Miss” and Vice President of her senior class. With a passion for music learned from her father, Rosemary was a highly acclaimed church pianist and played for the school.

There she was a Girl State representative as well. She graduated with a B.S. in Pharmacy from the USC and was awarded the Merk Award for most outstanding in her pharmacy class. A member of Rho Chi-pharmacy honor society, and member of SC Pharmaceutical Assoc.

, she graduated second in her pharmacy class. She was a member of Pi Beta Phi sorority, member of St. Martin’s in the Fields Episcopal Church and altar guild. Rosemary and her husband (also a pharmacist) relieved each other in various pharmacies, as they were “professional partners” the ten years they were married.

She retired from Dorn Veterans Hospital as a Pharmacist after 22 years of service. Rosemary was preceded in death by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Garland Alexander Orr, her loving husband, Walter Carlisle Kannaday, Jr., and her son, Walter Carlisle “Trey” Kannaday, III. Rosemary is survived by her daughter, Kimberly Kannaday Long and her husband, Dr. Gary Winn Long; one sister, Charlotte Orr Neville and her husband Roy Neville; four grandchildren, Garrett Winn Long, Grayson Carlisle Long, Alaina Garland Long, and Ella Carlisle Kannaday; other family members and a host of friends.

Services will be held at St. Martin’s in the Fields Episcopal Church, 5220 Clemson Ave, Columbia, SC with a time of visitation beginning at 10:30am; funeral service at 11:00am followed by her interment in Greenlawn Memorial Park, Columbia, SC. In lieu of flowers, memorials made to the USC College of Pharmacy. Please make checks payable to the USC Educational Foundation, mail to, USC College of pharmacy, Attn: Kathy Keenan, 715 Sumter Street, Cola, SC 29208.

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