graveside service with full military honors and Masonic rites will be held for Darrel Richard Kunkle at Noon Monday, January 12, 2009 in Ft. Jackson National Cemetery, Columbia. Memorials may be made to Shriner's Crippled Children's Hospital, 950 Faris Road, Greenville, SC 29605. Mr. Kunkle, 85, died Tuesday, January 6, 2009, at his residence. He was born October 26, 1923, in Greenville, OH, to the late Jesse Henderson and Martha Ellen Hartman Kunkle. He was also preceded in death by his wife, Erlene Joy Kunkle in 2003, whose ashes will be buried with his at the same time. Mr. Kunkle served for 24 years in the U.S. Army, retiring in 1966 as a 1st Sgt. He then worked and later retired as Head of Maintenance at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, FL. He was a member of Boynton, Fl Lodge #236 AF & AM, a 32 degree Mason and a Shriner of Amara Temple. Surviving, are: daughter, Lisa Blakey; grandsons, Brandon and Jeremy Spitler, all of Timmonsville; and sister, Mary K. Birt of Greenville, OH.