LANCASTER, SC~ Bernice Wilson Hallman Faulkenberry, 89, of Lancaster, SC, passed away on Monday, August 26, 2019. Visitation will be 2:00 pm, Thursday, August 29, 2019 in the Fellowship Hall at Unity ARP Church, 3495 Unity Church Road, Lancaster, SC.

Funeral services will be held at 3:00 PM, August 29, 2019 at Unity ARP Presbyterian Church with the Reverend Charles Hammond officiating. Burial will follow at the Unity ARP Presbyterian Church Cemetery.

Bernice was born in Asheville, NC to Viola Steele Wilson and Walter Horace Wilson on December 15, 1929.  She attended Lancaster High School and the University of South Carolina Lancaster.  She worked as a supervisor for Springs Industries, and she was a member of the Lancaster Quilters Guild.  She was a devoted wife, mother, grandmother, great grandmother, and great-great grandmother, and she was a compassionate person full of empathy, seeing the good in everyone.

Bernice is preceded in death by her parents; her first husband Ambrose Hinkle Hallman; brothers Frank Wilson and Richard Wilson; nephew David Roland; and great-great grandson Carter William Fleener.

Bernice is survived by her husband, Marvin (Teet) Faulkenberry; a son,  Lindsey Hinkle Hallman; a daughter Carol Hallman Gunn, her husband Bobby; her son Brian Craig and wife Christie, Brian's two sons Ryan and Austin, Carol's daughter Cindy Fortune and her daughters, Savannah Guiver, Syler Lewis, and Lindsey Brooke Fleener and husband Chad and their two sons Cash and Beckett, and Bobby's daughter Julia Gunn, her husband Nikolaj Christensen and their son Felix; daughter-in-law Ginger Dove and her husband Brian, their daughters Natalie Dove and Jenny Lynn Whittington and her husband Ryan, their daughter Stella and son Kingston; sister Ruth Matthews and her daughter Pam Snead and son Danny Roland; sister Maggie Holbrook and her sons Rick and Richard Thompson, daughter Lin Barber; brother Don Wilson and his sons Donnie Wilson, Jr. and Dennis Wilson, daughter Kay Bell; children of the late Frank and Ruby Wilson, Gary, Stanley, and Jeff Wilson and daughter Lisa; and brother Hoyle Lee Hallman and his sons Clay and Keith Hallman, daughter Heather Brandenburg.

Pallbearers will be David Bell, Danny Roland, Richard Thompson, Bradley Wilson, Donnie Wilson, and Gary Wilson.  Memorials may be to Unity ARP Presbyterian Church, 3495 Unity Church Road, Lancaster, SC, 29720.  The family of Bernice wishes to extend our sincere thanks to Pastor Charles Hammond and the Unity ARP Church Community, Levine Cancer.

Burgess Funeral Home & Crematory, 1800 Charlotte Hwy., Lancaster is caring for the Family of Mrs. Faulkenberry.