She was a licensed practical nurse, and had worked at the Saluda Nursing Center and J.F. Hawkins Health Care. She was a member of Pine Pleasant Baptist Church, the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Calvin Crozier Chapter, and was co-president of the Newberry High School Band Parents Association. Services will be at 3 Friday at Pine Pleasant Baptist Church, conducted by the Rev. Marion Ringer and the Rev. Grady Garris. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Honorary pallbearers are deacons of the church.
Visitation is at the church after the services.
Whitaker Funeral Home, Newberry, is in charge. Born in Newberry County, she was a daughter of the late Matthew Luke and Melissa Viola Schumpert Nichols. She was first married to the late James Rhett Morris and then to the late Quincy Epting Kunkle. She retired from Newberry Mills and was a member of St. Luke's Lutheran Church, the Faye Roof Circle and the Adult II Sunday School Class. Services will be at 2 today at St. Luke's Lutheran Church, Prosperity, with burial in the church cemetery.